This Report, prepared by the World Bank, examines five pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within each of these transitions, governments need not only to increase investments directly but also to cultivate an environment for young people and their families to invest in themselves. The Report identifies three policy directions for helping youth develop themselves and contribute to society: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances.
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Working with local and institutional actors, the Project will promote the participation of the private sector, local governments, Congress, civilian police, government institutions, community and youth leaders and other actors in the implementation and oversight of key prevention policy reforms and youth-oriented prevention programs. The emphasis of this project is to strengthen community and public sector institutions by ensuring the replication of successful initiatives and the development and implementation of new ones. With this effort, USAID seeks to promote coordinated action and broad participation in crime prevention, while developing effective and comprehensive community-based strategies involving the private sector.
Over a period of five years, the Project aims to achieve the following results:
- Reduce the incidence of crime through crime prevention activities;
- Prevent and reduce the risk of youth entering into or continuing in a life of crime by improving and expanding services provided to at-risk youth;
- Promote collaborative interventions among young people, parents, community institutions, and business leaders coming together to address and meet the needs of at-risk youth;
- Strengthen and consolidate the Youth Alliance Association and other local institutions;
- Improve and expand the existing job placement network through private sector alliances, such that it remains useful and self-sustaining;
- Provide market-driven skills enhancement to youth in neighborhoods with high crime incidence and gang activity;
- Spur municipal economic development and security infrastructure development through a community action fund;
- Assist key national-level institutions and local governments to improve crime prevention services;
- Expand community-based policing; and
- Implement Mérida crime prevention-related activities for a three-year period.
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The RTP (Rural Technology Program) will make grants available for technology development, applied research, and/or training, with a focus on rural communities, to aid in the development of a workforce for bioenergy, pulp and paper manufacturing, or agriculture-based renewable energy.
The RTP addresses the following goals:
- To increase the number of students encouraged to pursue and complete a 2-year postsecondary degree, or a certificate of completion, within an occupational focus of this grant program;
- To assist rural communities by helping students achieve their career goals to develop a viable workforce for bioenergy, pulp and paper manufacturing, or agriculture-based renewable energy.
This is a United States Department of Agriculture grant for domestic programs implemented by educational and training organizations in the United States. See link below for details.
The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, will award up to USD 18.45 million through 4 or more cooperative agreements to one or more qualifying organizations and/or Associations to combat exploitive child labor in the following 4 countries: Guatemala (up to USD 4.2 million), Indonesia (up to USD 5.5 million), Nepal (up to USD 4.25 million) and Rwanda (up to USD 4.5 million). Projects funded under this solicitation will seek to ensure children’s long-term withdrawal and prevention from exploitive child labor, including through the provision of direct educational services, and build capacity in target countries to eliminate exploitive child labor. Eligible Applicants must respond to the entire scope of work outlined in this solicitation for each country for which an application is submitted.
In this report, the Middle East Youth Initiative cautions that a new jobs crisis may damage future prospects for the region's young people. For Middle Eastern economies, the global downturn coincides with a historically high share of 15- to 29-year-olds in the total population. This report shows that, even during the “boom” years of 2002 to 2008, young people in the Middle East did not benefit from high-quality education and struggled to find decent jobs. Now, with labor markets already under pressure to generate employment for record numbers of graduates, the region faces a new set of challenges due to the global downturn and its affects on oil prices, exports, remittances, and foreign investment. For Middle Eastern economies to emerge stronger, policies forged during the downturn must be consistent with long-term goals of cultivating a skilled workforce, expanding the role of the private sector, and reducing the appeal of government employment.
