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Empowerment of adolescents in Bangladesh

This brochure presents highlights of the primary findings of the baseline survey of the second phase of the Kishori Abhijan - Empowerment of Adolescents - project. The project informs girls, boys and their parents about gender roles, discrimination, health, hygiene, nutrition and their legal rights, and offers adolescent girls the opportunity to acquire life, livelihood and leadership skills.

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Climate change - take action now! A guide to supporting the local actions of children and young people with special emphasis on girls and young women: ( Earth Child Institute , 2011); A guide to supporting the local actions of children and young people, with special emphasis on girls and young women. This guide was developed by ECI in cooperation with UNICEF, FAO and the Big 6 yout...
Norwegian and Swedish child rights support in Mozambique: ( K. Halvorsen (ed);C. Rosario (ed);M. Tuominen (ed) / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2011); Marking the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and Swedish International Development Cooperati...
Norwegian and Swedish child rights support in Sudan: ( S. al-Nagar (ed);L. Tønnessen (ed) / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2011); The Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed by Sudan in July 1991. This report evaluates Norway’s and Sweden’s aid interventions with regards to the right of the child durin...
Is the state of education in Malawi any better after the introduction of free primary education?: ( C. Jeke / Eldis Document Store , 2006); Under the current political dispensation in Malawi, education is naturally perceived and observed as a human right. As a way of improving literacy levels and more particularly in response to the socia...
Aid support for child rights in Kenya: ( J. Amiri (ed);A. Tostesen (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2011); The Kenya country case study examines 12 project interventions as part of a broader evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish aid interventions in support of child rights. The report finds an impro...
Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty: ( Young Lives , 2011); Working papers from the Young Lives study....
Resources from Young Lives study: ( Young Lives , 2011); Policy papers from the Young Lives study:
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Norwegian and Swedish agencies should cooperate more to promote child rights in Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique and Sudan: ( A. Tostensen;H. Stokke;S. Trygged / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2011); Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique and Sudan have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and are bound to take legislative, policy, and administrative action to honour their legal oblig...
Awareness of sexual and reproductive health amongst youth in Malawi: ( A. Munthali;A. Chimbiri;E. Zulu / Alan Guttmacher Institute , 2004); Although the definition of adolescence varies across cultures and different studies use various age-groups, the common understanding of this concept is that it is a period in which children make the t...
How bad is the growth rate of orphans in Malawi?: ( D. Maluwa-Banda;C. Bandawe / Chancellor College, University of Malawi , 2005); The HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a very serious social, health, and economic problem around the world, and is especially serious in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost all families in Malawi have lost a loved one t...