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The impact of an adolescent girls employment program: the EPAG Project in Liberia
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2014Fourteen years of civil war in Liberia devastated the country’s infrastructure and institutions, and left a generation of young people with very low levels of education and training.DocumentWorld population ageing 2013
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2013If current projections are realised, ageing will become a virtually universal phenomenon during the twenty-first century, although it will progress with different intensity and speed across countries and regions.DocumentCommunity matters: fulfilling learning potentials for young men and women
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013The scale of the youth illiteracy problem calls for critical and targeted responses. It is important to help young people in developing countries gain basic literacy skills so that they can contribute to the development of productive, peaceful and democratic societies.DocumentYouth matters: equipping vulnerable young people with literacy and life skills
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013Young people who have never been to school or those who have dropped out (or been “pushed out”) are among the most vulnerable. Being excluded from basic education puts a wide range of opportunities beyond their reach.DocumentQuality matters: improving the status of literacy teaching personnel
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013If governments are serious about empowering their citizens to become agents of positive social and economic change, they need to make the quality provision of basic literacy skills a priority.DocumentParents’ perspectives on quality of schooling in Andhra Pradesh, India
Young Lives, 2014The post-MDG development agenda recognises that simply getting children enrolled in school does not equate with better learning outcomes for children.DocumentSocial Panorama of Latin America 2013
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America discusses poverty from different angles, and in particular from amultidimensional perspective.DocumentSchool-related gender-based violence in the Asia-Pacific region
UNESCO Bangkok, 2014For some children in Asia-Pacific, particularly girls, the mere walk to school is menacing and comes with the daily threat of violence. Once at school, they might also be subject to physical, psychosocial and sexual abuse – bullied by teachers and peers or abused in the name of discipline.DocumentNot made by Chidren - a toolkit for understanding the realities, responses and responsibilities of stakeholders in the garment supply chain
Global March Against Child Labour, 2014This Toolkit is designed with the intent to present the conceptual, factual and actual understanding of child labour in a simple, short and systematic manner.DocumentTackling child domestic labour and protecting young domestic workers: a global resource manual
Global March Against Child Labour, 2014The Resource Manual is a comprehensive document on the issue of engagement of children in domestic work that is intended to provide support to organisations ranging from trade unions, child rights organisations and others to take action against child domestic labour and to protect young domestic workers of legal working age.Pages