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Standards for change? ISO 26000 and sustainable development

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pubs.iied.org –

This report looks at what has happened so far and what the potential could be. The paper argues that unlike some of the best-known ISO standards on other subjects, ISO 26000 does not address how to manage sustainable development issues in a systematic way. And it does not provide for independent certification of its application. This limits its appeal to many companies and makes it difficult to measure accurately its rate of adoption and impact. However, the worldwide reach of ISO and its more...

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D C on May 01, 2012

Inclusive Wealth Report

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ihdp.unu.edu –

There have been recent advances in addressing the weaknesses in contemporary measures of welfare that are used to judge the progress and regress of nations. In this realm, a prominent indicator of well-being is ‘wealth’. The wealth indicator relies on the stocks of and ecosystem services, etc.); Produced Capital (machinery, buildings, etc); Human Capital (education, health, skills, etc.); and Social Capital (institutions, networks among people, etc.).While considerable progress has been made more...

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D C on May 02, 2012

Quantitative indicators for the World Programme of Action for Youth

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unstats.un.org –

The expert group meeting “Quantitative indicators for the World Programme of Action for Youth” was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 13 December 2011, organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DSPD/DESA) of the United Nations Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division and the United Nations Population Division of DESA.Several experts expressed their desire for an more...

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D C on May 03, 2012

Political Participation of Africa’s Youth: Turnout, Partisanship and Protest

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afrobarometer.org –

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Yet, despite their numerical importance and the historical relevance of generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa’s youth. In order to address this issue, we combine country-level variables for 19 of Africa’s more democratic countries with individual-level public opinion data from Afrobarometer survey data. A series of binomial more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

Does international aid need a 12-step program?

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how-matters.org –

“Let go and let God.” It’s a mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous. And after the last week or so, I’m wondering if it’s time for international aid to adopt the same approach to recovery (with more politically correct secular references of course).***This post originally appeared at: http://www.how-matters.org/2012/05/05/aid-12-step-program/***Related PostsDevelopment Aid 2.0Logframes…errrgh!Grassroots = No Brains?The elephant hasn’t left the room: Racism, power & international more...

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Jennifer Lentfer on May 05, 2012

The 8th Australian and New Zealand adolescent health congress report

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youthhealth2011.com.au –

Co-convened by The NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health and the Department of Adolescent Medicine, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, in collaboration with The International Association for Adolescent Health, the conference was attended by 510 delegates from 15 countries in the Region. More than 100 talented and articulate young people contributed to the sense of energy and excitement over the three conference days, and feedback received confirmed that the quality of the more...

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D C on March 15, 2012

Searching for Closure: A Kony2012 Postscript

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how-matters.org –

Solome Lemma (@InnovateAfrica) and I hosted a live discussion today to reflect together on the issues that came up from our posts on #StopKony. Sharing an excerpt below. Photo below by Joop Rubens.Jennifer: I had thought about not writing [a follow-up post] myself, but creating a respository of Ugandan responses to Kony2012. @whydev has theirs (see it here) but people have been visiting the How Matters Facebook page specifically more...

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Jennifer Lentfer on March 12, 2012

Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity, In Service Training Trust (ISTT), NRDC Campus, Chelstone, Lusaka, Zambia, July 16-20, 2012

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web2fordev.net –

The In Service Training Trust (ISTT), in collaboration with CTA will host a 5-day Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity on July 16-20, 2012. Participants will be introduced to selected web 2.0 applications and will learn how to use them hands-on. The Learning Opportunity will cover advanced online searching, getting information served via alerts and RSS, collaborating remotely using wikis & Google Docs, using VoIP, online mapping and social networking

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Worlali Senyo on May 07, 2012

A civil society counter-brief on the Ghana-EU VPA

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loggingoff.info –

On 3 September 2008, Ghana and the European Union (EU) initialled a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). The VPA is a trade agreement between Ghana and EU that seeks to regulate the trade in timber between the two. It also aims to promote good governance in the forestry sector and combat illegal logging and associated trades. It will achieve this by reforming the policy and legal framework by which the forest resource is managed - including promoting the rights of communities.This briefing more...

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D C on April 19, 2012

Fighting Youth Unemployment

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ftp.iza.org –

A substantial number of young unemployed participate in active labor market programs (ALMP) in Germany each year. While the aims of these programs are clear – a fast reintegration into employment or enrollment in further education – a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness has yet to be conducted. The authors fill this gap using administrative data on youth unemployment entries in 2002 and analyze the short- and long-term impacts for a variety of different programs. The results indicate more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 26, 2012

OECD Global Youth Competition 2012

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Make a short video (no more than 3 minutes) on the theme of Education and Skills. ThemeEducation and Skills - what are the big issues today?• Learning the right skills to get a job,• Bridging the 'digital divide',• Tackling inequality in access to education and training,• Inspiring creativity and innovation,• ... or something else?

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D C on January 29, 2012

Youth unemployment in Spain: causes and solutions

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bbvaresearch.com –

Youth unemployment in Spain is a persistent phenomenon that has worsened during the current crisis. And at the levels now being registered (46.1% in 2Q11), the measures to fight it can be delayed no longer. The evidence presented in this document indicates that there are serious shortcomings in Spain's education system and labor market, which explain the country's relatively high level of youth unemployment. The former include early school leaving and the imbalance between job supply and demand more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 26, 2012

The rise of intermarriage

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pewsocialtrends.org –

About 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than double the share in 1980 (6.7%). Among all newlyweds in 2010, 9% of whites, 17% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 28% of Asians married out. Looking at all married couples in 2010, regardless of when they married, the share of intermarriages reached an all-time high of 8.4%. In 1980, that share was just 3.2%.About 24% of all black male newlyweds in 2010 more...

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D C on April 05, 2012

Getting The Measure of Youth Unemployment

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A fall in unemployment is always welcome. But it might not convey such good news if associated with a fall in employment and more jobless people simply opting out of looking for work. This Work Audit considers how interpretation of currently available official statistics shapes public perception of youth unemployment, a subject which has emerged as one of the most talked about economic and social problems since the start of the recession in 2008.

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Sonia Hossain on April 26, 2012

World Youth Report 2010: Youth and Climate Change

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un.org –

The World Youth Report focus on youth and climate change, and is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people might be more effectively integrated as individuals and collective agents of change within the realm of climate change adaptation and mitigation. The Report is designated to assist youth and youth organizations in educating themselves and to become more actively involved in combating the threat of more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 02, 2011

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