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  The disconnect between education, job growth and employment in Jordan

  Jordan Center for Public Policy Research and Dialogue, 2009

  The economic volatility evident in Jordan has been driven largely by Jordan’s dependence on workers’ remittances and foreign aid. Furthermore, conflict in the region has fundamentally changed the economy and demography of Jordan.
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  Towards effective programming for WASH in schools: a manual on scaling up programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene in schools

  IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2007

  To be successful, water, sanitation and hygiene education (WASH) programmes in schools should focus on providing both effective facilities and effective education.
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  Risk factors, pathways and outcomes for youth released from juvenile detention centres in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and interviews to investigate the experiences of over 300 young people aged 12 to 17 who had been incarcerated in juvenile detention centres in São Paulo.
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  Skills development for rural people: a renewed challenge

  Network for Policy Review Research and Advice on Education and Training, 2005

  With seventy percent of the world’s poor living in rural areas, it is essential that poverty strategies consider the issue of skills development in rural areas.
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  Youth livelihood toolkit: preparing out-of-school youth for livelihood

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2005

  This toolkit is designed to identify effective policies that support the preparation of livelihood opportunities for out-of-school youth in terms of earning, learning, and skill development opportunities.
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  Back to a future: youth pack 2003-2005, Sierra Leone

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This document reports on the evaluation, and suggests recommendations for improvement, on one of the components of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) education programme in Sierra Leone, the Youth Pack. This pilot programme for 400 youth in four different centres, provides a combination of vocational skills training with basic academic and life skills education for 14-22 year olds.
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  Stories from an African learning village

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This paper is a collection of stories and reflections on the learning centre called Kufunda Village in Zimbabwe. The centre is a learning community of those people who are working with and for the most disadvantaged. The paper is a contribution to the thinking around development, community building, and to new ways of working with people, groups and communities.
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  Life skills-based education for HIV prevention: a critical analysis

  UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, 2004

  This paper looks at some of the challenges in implementing life skills education, and also offers recommendations to overcome these problems.The problems discussed include:difficulties in the definition of life skills: which skills should be taught, and how they should be understood and taught in terms of pedagogythe introduction of life skills into the formal education system frequ
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  Building citizenship and life skills

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  This brief article asks whether enough is being done to help displaced people to acquire the life and survival skills to enable a future based on reconciliation, human rights and democratic governance, and discusses how to integrate life skills into education.The author argues that all emergency-affected children must be educated in conflict resolution, tolerance, human rights and citizenship a
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  The better life options program for adolescent boys in India

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2002

  The Better Life Options Program for adolescent boys is a holistically designed program that guides adolescent boys towards better life skills, education, relationships, values etc.

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