Key websites

Search the complete websites of key organisations working on children and young people. More...

Children and young people

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.

Previous feature: Children's participation in responses to HIV and AIDS

Latest Additions

Children’s vulnerability to climate change and disaster impacts in East Asia and the Pacific: J. Lawler / United Nations Children's Fund, 2011; In 2011, UNICEF commissioned field research in Indonesia, Kiribati, Mongolia, Philippines and Vanuatu to determine if there were noticeable patterns and trends of climate change and disaster impacts o...
Getting to the Hardest to Reach: A strategy to provide education to nomadic communities in Kenya through distance learning: J. Swift / 2010; Kenya has committed itself to the Millennium Development Goals, Education for All, and other education targets, but despite its achievement, Kenya is unlikely to achieve these goals on present perform...
Mobile Pastoralists and Education: Strategic Options: S. Kraetli / 2009; Educating nomadic peoples in the context of rapid global socio-economic change is a challenge of massive proportions. This paper sets out to address this challenge in two ways: firstly by mapping the ...
Nutrition in the first 1,000 days: State of the world's mothers 2012: Save the Children Fund , 2012; This year’s report shows which countries are succeeding – and which are failing – to provide good nutrition during the critical 1,000-day window. It examines how investments in nutri...
School Drop Out in Bangladesh: New Insights from Longitudinal Evidence: R. Sabates / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity , 2010; This report provides new evidence into the factors that predict school drop out for children in Bangladesh. It also examines similarities and differences between children who enter late into primary s...
Changing Patterns of Access to Education in Anglophone and Francophone Countries in Sub Saharan Africa: Is Education for All Pro-Poor?: K. M. Lewin / 2011; This paper explores patterns of growth in participation in six Anglophone and seven Francophone countries in SSA with Universal Primary Education programmes. The results show that progress has been pa...
Dropping Out of School in Southern Ghana: The Push-out and Pull-out Factors: E. Ananga / 2011; Addressing school dropout has been one of the most controversial elements of policy since the introduction of free compulsory universal basic education (FCUBE) in Ghana. This document argues that in o...
Fosterage and Access to Schooling in Savelugu-Nanton, Ghana: C. Rolleston / 2011; Fosterage is an important cultural institution in Ghana. Its effects on education are ambiguous. This study examines fostering as a possible contributor to the low levels of educational access and pro...
South Asian Nomads - A Literature Review: A. Sharma / 2011; In the context of India, most recent work has focused on access to the education system for the poor. This monograph focuses on nomadic communities and offers insights into how educational access can ...
Re-engineering Education and Training for Economic and Social Development in the 21st Century: A Focus on Technology and Skills Development in National Education and Training Systems in Africa: P. Swarts / Global E-Schools and Communities Initiative , 2011; This paper argues for the re-engineering of education and training systems for sustainable socio-economic development in Africa and looks at the role of ICTs in this context. African youth face very h...