January 2016

Feature Article



Inter-Agency Update

Inter-Agency Update

At its last meeting members of the Inter-agency Network on Youth Development elected UN WOMEN as its rotating co-chair for 2016-2017. UN WOMEN will take over the role from UNDP (2015-2016) at the next Annual Meeting of the Network to be held at the end of March. UN DESA remains permanent co-chair. To learn more about the Network and its members, click here.


UN Entities Highlighted News

ILO: Supporting Livelihoods and Job Opportunities in the Fishery Sector in Gaza

ILO: Supporting Livelihoods and Job Opportunities in the Fishery Sector in Gaza

The ILO project Supporting Livelihoods and Job Opportunities in the Fishery Sector in Gaza gives young unemployed Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory a chance to develop technical skills and improve their chances of future employment through an instruction and on-the-job training scheme designed to support the vital fishing sector in the Palestinian enclave. The ILO is supporting the post-conflict recovery of fisheries in the occupied Palestinian territory through capacity building, training and value chain analysis. More

 

 

 

IOM & UNAOC: PLURAL+ Youth Video Competition

IOM & UNAOC: PLURAL+ Youth Video Competition

The winning mediamakers, representing youth from around the world, travelled to New York for the seventh annual PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival and International Jury Awards. Featuring workshops led by UNICEF Voices of Youth and hitRECord, the all-day festival was open to the public with a roundtable event on youth-produced media in migrant and refugee communities, an expert panel on the role of media in shaping perspectives on youth incarceration, and an afternoon of partner award-winning video screenings. The evening’s International Jury Awards featured a performance by NYC Youth Poet Laureate, Crystal Valentine. The three International Jury Award winners – Breech Asher Harani, Haylee Nottaway and Camera-etc – were present to accept their awards following screenings of their videos. For more information and to see how you can be involved in PLURAL+ next year, please visit pluralplus.unaoc.org.

UNDP: Practice Note: Young People's Participation in Peacebuilding

UNDP: Practice Note: Young People's Participation in Peacebuilding

The Working Group on Youth and Peacebuilding of the Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development has published the first Practice Note on Young People’s Participation in Peacebuilding. The primary objective of this Practice Note is to inform policymakers and donors of key strategic and programming considerations for supporting young people’s participation to peacebuilding. The publication will be formally launched in February, at an event on Security Council Resolution 2250 (2015) on youth, peace and security, hosted at IPI in New York. More

 

UNDP: International Anti-Corruption Day South-East Asia Video Contest

UNDP: International Anti-Corruption Day South-East Asia Video Contest

A video contest for youth in South-East Asia was launched at the International Anti-Corruption Day Event on 9 December 2015. The contest requires participants to make a short video clip showing the negative impacts of corruption. The award ceremony will be held at the “Governance & Social Responsibility” Forum in Singapore in July 2016. The contest is co-organised by UNDP’s Global Anti-Corruption Initiative (GAIN), the ASEAN CSR Network, and the Global Compact Network, Singapore. Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2016. More

UNESCO: Engaging youth in building learning cities

UNESCO: Engaging youth in building learning cities

The Youth Statement on Learning Cities was developed by youth delegates of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Cities that took place 28-30 September 2015 in Mexico City. The Statement consists of three recognitions of the importance of building learning cities and the involvement of youth in this regard; three calls for action directed at UNESCO; three expressions of encouragement directed at local and national governments; and three commitments from youth to contribute to the building of learning cities. The statement is now available in English, French and Spanish. More

 

UNFPA Albania: Giving voice to vulnerable girls in Albania

UNFPA Albania: Giving voice to vulnerable girls in Albania

Gina became engaged at 15 and married soon afterward. By 19 years old, she was a mother. Unlike many girls in her situation, she finished high school and went on to university. Today, Gina works for Roma Active Albania and the UNFPA-supported Youth Voice campaign. She meets and works with young people who are facing the same issues she fought to overcome: entrenched poverty, gender inequality, child marriage, early pregnancy and pressure to drop out of school. More

UNFPA: A glimpse of Youth Voice achievements

UNFPA: A glimpse of Youth Voice achievements

During the Youth Voice regional camping roll-out, 23,334 young people from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and marginalized communities were mobilized and engaged in a variety of consultative processes. The youth vision developed in each participating country was presented to a broad range of stakeholders, calling for the inclusion of youth priorities in local and national development plans and in the new Development Agenda. In 14 countries from the region, 438 decision-makers were reached in national advocacy actions. More

 

UNFPA Jordan: Bringing Syrian and Jordanian Youth Together

UNFPA Jordan: Bringing Syrian and Jordanian Youth Together

UNFPA Jordan is piloting a social cohesion through sports project with Syrian and Jordanian youth in Irbid Governorate with the Princess Basma Youth Resource Center. Success stories have emerged about youth’s resourcefulness. One example is of the inspiring young Syrian refugee who lost his leg in Syria when going to buy bread. He eagerly joined the football team as an assistant coach, then as a referee and is now a player. He was awarded a trophy as the “Perfect Team Player”. More

UNFPA Lebanon: 72 Hours Movie Challenge 2015

UNFPA Lebanon: 72 Hours Movie Challenge 2015

Within its 72 Hours Film Challenge annual activity, UNFPA Lebanon partnered with Visual and Performing Arts Association(VAPA), an NGO, and the Y-PEER network to encourage young people to compete to develop a movie within 72 hours. The theme of the year centered on “Youth involvement for social change” and more specifically on “Conflict prevention”. Three winning movies were selected by a renowned jury and provided with valuable gifts. More on the Challenge and the movies here.

UNFPA Palestine: Y-Peer Challenge: an innovative approach towards learning and peer education

UNFPA Palestine: Y-Peer Challenge: an innovative approach towards learning and peer education

Y-Peer Challenge is an innovative activity organized by Y-Peer Palestine towards learning and peer education for youth and adolescents. The "Challenge” was organized at the Environmental Educational Youth Village located near Ramallah and it aimed to expose participants to various experiences and values including team building, competition, adventure and education. The participants engaged in outdoor activities and games that lead to further deepening of Y-Peer values together with addressing topics related to civic, engagement, volunteerism, and health. More

 

 

 


Youth in Action

Green Hope UAE: Youth Conference on the Sustainable Development Goals – The Way Forward

Green Hope UAE: Youth Conference on the Sustainable Development Goals – The Way Forward

Green Hope, a youth sustainability organisation, conducted a day-long conference titled “SDG2030 – The First Steps” in Dubai with the overarching objective of creating awareness among the local youth fraternity about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and engage them in their implementation. Two hundred and fifty youth environmentalists from schools across the United Arab Emirates and Oman attended this conference and called for greater youth empowerment and involvement in the implementation process since it is their future that is at stake. Three hundred trees were planted at this event. More

Publications

ILO: Access to Finance and Enterprise growth: Evidence from an experiment in Uganda

ILO: Access to Finance and Enterprise growth: Evidence from an experiment in Uganda

This ILO working paper "Access to Finance and Enterprise growth: Evidence from an experiment in Uganda" was authored by Nathan Fiala and sets out to understand the challenges to business growth in Uganda, relying on a sample of 1,550 micro-enterprise owners from the Northern and Central regions.

ILO: Differences in the effects of vocational training on men and women: Constraints on women and drop-out behaviour

ILO: Differences in the effects of vocational training on men and women: Constraints on women and drop-out behaviour

This ILO working paper “Differences in the effects of vocational training on men and women: Constraints on women and drop-out behaviour” was authored by the World Bank, Yale University and the Malawi National AIDS Commission, and evaluates the impact of the “Technical and Vocational Skills Training pilot programme (TVST)” for vulnerable youth, the first study of its kind to experimentally evaluate vocational training in Africa.

 

 

 

ILO: Does the work-study combination among youth improve the transition path?

ILO: Does the work-study combination among youth improve the transition path?

Can working while studying act as a stepping stone to good labour market opportunities or is it rather a necessity-driven constraint of more vulnerable youth, taking focus away from studying? The objective of this ILO technical brief is to reflect on the role played by the work-study combination in the transition to stable and satisfactory employment.

ILO: Enhancing women’s entrepreneurship in Kenya: Initial qualitative assessment of the ILO’s GET Ahead business training programme

ILO: Enhancing women’s entrepreneurship in Kenya: Initial qualitative assessment of the ILO’s GET Ahead business training programme

This ILO working paper, titled "Enhancing Women’s Entrepreneurship in Kenya: Initial Qualitative Assessment of the ILO’s GET Ahead Business Training Programme", reports the results from the initial qualitative data collection exercise. The qualitative evaluation relies on focus group discussions and key informant interviews with stakeholders and beneficiaries. It shows that business training leads to a broad range of positive outcomes among women, from improved business practices to increased skills and higher empowerment.

 

 

 

ILO: It runs in the family: Intra-household correlations in labour market outcomes

ILO: It runs in the family: Intra-household correlations in labour market outcomes

This ILO report explores the degree to which young people’s labour market and schooling outcomes are affected by those of their siblings. Based on School-to-work Transitions Surveys (SWTS) from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia, the report studies the links between different household members’ transitions to the labour market using alternatively logistic regression and a survival analysis framework.

ILO: Labour market entry in Tunisia: The gender gap

ILO: Labour market entry in Tunisia: The gender gap

This ILO report explores how gender issues interact with elements such as type of education and years of labour market experience, to determine young people’s transition outcomes in Tunisia. Based on the School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) run in 2013, the analysis concludes that labour market experience provides a strong protection against unemployment.

 

 

 

ILO: Women business training programme in Kenya: Impact of incentives

ILO: Women business training programme in Kenya: Impact of incentives

This ILO working paper “Women business training programme in Kenya: Impact of incentives” explores the issue of how to increase the take-up of ILO business training in Kenya, the Gender and Enterprise Together (GET) Ahead training programme. The researchers test three different types of invitations to the training, offering the participants different choices of accepting or declining participation.

ILO: Women’s economic empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa

ILO: Women’s economic empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa

This ILO working paper “Women’s economic empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa” by Oriana Bandiera et al. evaluates a programme delivered by the international NGO, BRAC called “Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents”. The programme offered a comprehensive package of life skills, vocational training and microloans to Ugandan adolescent girls aged 14 to 20.

 

 

 


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