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Narrowing the Gaps to Meet the Goals

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A special report on a new study by UNICEF shows that an equity-focused approach to child survival and development is the most practical and cost-effective way of meeting the health Millennium Development Goals for children.

Added by Zunia on September 09, 2010

Narrowing the gaps to meet the goals

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UNICEF’s flagship report 'Progress for Children no. 9: Achieving the MDGs with Equity' presents new data revealing that while considerable progress has been made in reducing child mortality and other critical development objectives, gaps between the poorest and the richest households remain wide and in some cases have grown.The study also showed that national burdens of disease, ill health and illiteracy are concentrated in the most impoverished child populations. Providing these children with more...

Added by John Daly on September 08, 2010

Progress for Children: Achieving the MDGs with Equity

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The past decade has seen considerable progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the fulfillment of children’s rights to survival, development and protection. But with the MDG deadline only five years away, it is becoming ever clearer that reaching the poorest and most marginalized children is pivotal to the full realization of the goals. Progress for Children: Achieving the MDGs with Equity reports what has been accomplished so far, but it also reveals the more...

Added by John Daly on September 08, 2010

Starting from scratch - the challenges of including youth in rebuilding southern Sudan

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The report is based on an assessment in Southern Sudan in June 2010 to identify young women and men's skills-building needs, challenges and opportunities; extract lessons learned from existing training programmes; and document current and emerging demand for skills in the Southern Sudanese labour market. The assessment sought to establish how vocational training and alternative education programmes could be designed to better suit the demands of the Southern Sudanese economy and accommodate the more...

Added by Zunia on September 08, 2010

JOB: Deputy Program Technical Manager (International), Tonga, TVET Support Program Phase 1 / Ministry of Training, Employment, Youth and Sport (MoTEYS)

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Deputy Program Technical Manager (International /National) TVET Support Program Phase 1 / Ministry of Training, Employment, Youth and Sport (MoTEYS) Location: Tongatapu with regular travel to other islands of Vava’u, Ha’apai and ‘Eua. Last Date: September 17, 2010 Deputy Program Technical Manager (International /National)Program DescriptionThe TVET Support Program Phase 1 (TSP 1) is a four year program jointly funded by AusAID and NZ Aid to assist the Government of Tonga to promote the more...

Added by Jessica Matthews on September 07, 2010

Textbook on Children's Rights for Adult Learners

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This report details best practices and policy approaches in the field of children’s rights education for adults. It provides educational materials such as ideas for teacher trainings and a toolbox for practitioners. The book also suggests methods and strategies as well as a vision of current and future European Union and United Nations policies. Country reports and case studies include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

Added by Zunia on September 04, 2010

YOUth Magazine - Summer 2010 Edition

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This edition of YOUth takes a hard look at young people’s prospects, particularly in light of the global economic downturn, and offers a range of solutions to improve them. The young man on the cover represents the millions of young people who are on the threshold of adulthood. They are eager to learn, work, and lead to help build a better society but know they can’t do it alone. In the following pages, you will learn how leaders from every sector, including youth themselves, are reaching out more...

Added by Zunia on September 02, 2010

Children of Immigrants in the Labour Markets of EU and OECD Countries

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This document provides a first comparative overview of the presence and outcomes of the children of immigrants in the labour markets of OECD countries, based on a collection of data from 16 OECD countries with large immigrant populations. It contrasts the situation for the children of immigrants compared with the children of natives in European and non-European OECD countries along a number of key outcomes (educational attainment, employment and unemployment rates, occupations and sectors).

Added by Zunia on August 31, 2010

Pakistan’s most vulnerable will pay the price for slow flowing aid

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Water has swept away both the homes and livelihoods of over 6 million people in Pakistan. With nearly 1,500 lives lost in the initial flood, officials now fear that the barrage of water will bear a second wave of deaths in the form of waterborne diseases.Farhan Haq, Acting Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, stated, “It’s a very large task ahead, and people have only begun to grasp how large the challenge is. On the one hand, this hasn’t necessarily caused as many deaths as other more...

Added by Zunia on August 30, 2010

Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2010

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The report presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and specifically explores how the global economic crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of young people around the world. In developed economies, the crisis has led to the highest youth unemployment rates on record, while in developing economies – where 90 per cent of the world’s youth live – the crisis threatens to exacerbates the challenges of rampant decent work deficits, adding to the number of young people more...

Added by Zunia on August 30, 2010

Young People Most at Risk of HIV

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A new report from the Interagency Youth Working Group, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People, and FHI calls attention to young people ages 10–24 within the populations considered most at risk of HIV infection: young men who have sex with men, young people who sell sex, and young people who inject drugs.

Added by Zunia on August 30, 2010

Conference underscores young people’s leadership in HIV prevention

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The role of young people in improving the state of the world took centre stage at this week’s World Youth Conference in Leon, Mexico. Over five days, delegates from 112 countries—including 25 000 youth and representatives from government, civil society and the United Nations—shared ideas on young people’s involvement in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Added by Zunia on August 29, 2010

Childhood Poverty in Tanzania: Disparities in Child Well-Being

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The Tanzania Study Childhood Poverty in Tanzania: Disparities in Child Well-Being demonstrates that approximately 34% of Tanzanians live below the basic needs poverty line, and approximately 17% of the population live below the food poverty line. At the same time, roughly six million children aged 0-14 years are living below the basic needs poverty line, and around three million children fall below the food poverty line. Yet, 70.8 % of Tanzanian children are reported to live in absolute more...

Added by Zunia on August 29, 2010

Review of Three Recent Randomized Trials of School-Based Mentoring

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Between 2007 and 2009, reports were released on the results of three separate large-scale random assignment studies of the effectiveness of schoolbased mentoring programs for youth. The studies evaluated programs implemented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) affiliates (Herrera et al., 2007), Communities In Schools of San Antonio, Texas (Karcher, 2008), and grantees of the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Mentoring Program (Bernstein et al., 2009). In this report, the authors more...

Added by Zunia on August 29, 2010

Protecting Children from Violence in Sport

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unicef-irc.org –

This report. ‘Protecting Children from Violence in Sport: A review with a focus on industrialized countries’ provides examples of both good and poor practice, and makes suggestions for sport organizations to assist them in their violence prevention work. In particular, the study recommends improvements in:• Data collection and knowledge generation about violence to children in sport• Development of structures and systems for eliminating and preventing violence to children in sport• Education, more...

Added by Zunia on August 29, 2010

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