The World Bank's children and youth development portfolio grew five-fold over the past decade, from $949 million in fiscal year 2000 (FY00), defined as from July 1st 1999 to June 30th 2000, to over $4.8...
This note discusses the under-explored phenomenon of the relationship among conflict and violence, psycho-social wellbeing and youth employment and the implications for policy and intervention. The persistence...
This note argues that investing in Children and Youth (C&Y) is smart economics. Countries that produce a skilled, healthy, and productive workforce are better positioned in the global economy to achieve...
This note provides a summary of the World Bank projects targeting youth during Fiscal Years 1995-2007 (FY95-07). The purpose is to identify trends in lending and grants in terms of loan amounts, the number...
This note presents the evidence on the role that simple early childhood stimulation inputs can play when they accompany nutrition inputs, and how the joint intervention is crucial to the development of...
Youth development projects aim to improve the lives and livelihoods of young people around the world. Interventions for youth are often multi-sectoral in nature, ranging from job- and life-skills development...
Youth development projects aim to improve the lives and livelihoods of young people around the world. Interventions for youth are often multi-sectoral in nature, ranging from job- and life-skills development...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become a preferred tool for investing in human development in many countries. The first generation of these programs focused on helping poor families invest...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become a preferred tool for investing in human development in many countries. The first generation of these programs focused on helping poor families invest...
Faith and faith institutions can be a powerful force in the lives of young people. In light of increasing engagement between faith institutions and global development programs, this note highlights both...
The Entra 21 program demonstrates that youth from low income families in Latin America benefit from short-term job training, especially when combined with life skills, internships and job placement services...
The Entra 21 program demonstrates that youth from low income families in Latin America benefit from short-term job training, especially when combined with life skills, internships and job placement services...
Young people are at the heart of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Not only are they disproportionately represented in terms of new infections, but they are also key to overcoming the disease. Effective HIV prevention...
Young people are at the heart of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Not only are they disproportionately represented in terms of new infections, but they are also key to overcoming the disease. Effective HIV prevention...
Poverty traps youth with insufficient education, life skills or job skills, making the transition from school dropout to the workplace difficult, and perpetuating the cycle as their children are then raised...
Engaging young people in environmental service projects is an innovative way of achieving several priority objectives through one single intervention. A well-designed Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) can...
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Youth outcomes are directly affected by a range of risk and protective factors. If properly identified, these factors can be used as a signal for policy interventions to increase the likelihood of a positive...
Investing in early child development (ECD) - and the parenting skills that necessarily accompany it - may be one of the most effective means for policymakers to reduce youth risk-taking behavior. While...
Investing in early child development (ECD) - and the parenting skills that necessarily accompany it - may be one of the most effective means for policymakers to reduce youth risk-taking behavior. While...