Download or read book Engaging and Mainstreaming Youth in Development Agenda Youth Make it Happen written by Sana Zia and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan's youth population is one of the fastest growing in the world. Currently the proportion of people between 15 and 29 years of age is 27.63%. In UNDP Pakistan, inclusion of Youth is being recognized as an important feature in order to move from good to great (G2G). This paper is an attempt to recommend actionable policy recommendations to mainstream youth in the development agenda of UNDP Pakistan. This paper contains: Part I - Background and Overview of Youth affairs in Pakistan. The concepts of youth mainstreaming and youth engagement, and outlines a brief statistical profile of youth population in Pakistan. Part II - National Policies and Reforms on Youth Affairs in Pakistan. Background and overview of National Youth Policy in Pakistan. Part III - UN and UNDP's Focus on Youth. Analyzes the youth focused work of various UN agencies in Pakistan. By taking stock of their work, it enables the authors to identify UNDP's comparative advantage to engage with youth. This ensures that the recommendations to follow are more integrated with ONE UN approach and also avoid unnecessarily overlaps with other UN agencies. Part IV - Youth engagement and mainstreaming in UNDP Pakistan. This section identifies and builds its recommendations on the comparative advantage of UNDP Pakistan. The recommendations are kept in line with an integrated review of the 15 priority areas of The National Youth Policy of Pakistan (NYP), the World Programme Action for Youth (WPAY) and the role of other UN agencies working in Pakistan. Based on the comparative advantage of UNDP identified in this paper, three focus areas are recommended for youth mainstreaming and engagement efforts. These include enabling prospects of income generation for the youth, support for character building of the youth and encouragement of social volunteerism in youth. The unit specific recommendations provided under these three focus areas for UNDP ensure provision of support for youth on three levels: Strengthening of youth-focused/based institutions in the country, provision of support for policy, advocacy and awareness on youth affairs and support for youth focused pilot initiatives. These recommendations are followed by a plan of action for the country office in the short, medium and long term.

Download or read book Youth Mainstreaming in Development Planning written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Mainstreaming in Development Planning: Transforming Young Lives is a compendium of concepts to initiate dialogue and mobilise consensus around visions and strategies for young people and includes practical tools and techniques that will support initiatives to mainstream youth rights, voices and capabilities across government and other institutions. It is aimed policy-makers and practitioners in all sectors engaged in development planning at all levels.

Download or read book Youth At the Margins written by Sheri Bastien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comes at a critical juncture, as global commitments transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the wider post-2015 development agenda is being discussed and debated. In these discussions, children and youth have been recognized as one of the nine major groups of civil society whose participation in decision making is essential for achieving sustainable development. There is also a concomitant need for action – innovative, evidence-based approaches to addressing entrenched global challenges or ‘wicked problems’ and engaging youth in those efforts. Within academic discourse, the perspectives and active participation of youth in research has long been debated. It is widely believed that their participation can result in better policy responses and contribute to the development of more relevant and effective interventions and programs to address their needs. However, the engagement of youth in research processes is not without critique; issues such as how to move from tokenism towards authentic participation and empowerment have been critically discussed, and many question if youth can or should even be expected to make change happen. Youth ‘At the Margins’: Critical Perspectives and Experiences of Engaging Youth in Research Worldwide brings together a range of critical and empirical contributions from emerging scholars and seasoned academics alike. Each contribution provides a unique perspective on the potentialities and challenges associated with youth engaged research. The chapters presented in this volume strive to critically interrogate and debate important foundational issues to consider when engaging youth in the research process, such as epistemological and methodological considerations. Important insights into the ethical, pedagogical and practical aspects one must contend with can be gleaned from the selection of chapters here; some of which are primarily theoretical and descriptive, whilst others present empirical data with case examples from around the world. This volume is devoted to showcasing high quality contributions to the scholarly literature on youth engaged research in order to spur further critical debate on the various epistemological, methodological and ethical issues associated with engaging youth in research processes and in addressing intractable global issues. The audience for this volume includes students, researchers and academics within a broad range of fields who are interested in understanding the range of approaches being used worldwide to include youth in research endeavors on issues of global importance including poverty, social exclusion, structural violence, un- and under-employment, education and health.

Download or read book Youth Participation and Community Change written by Barry Checkoway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowered youth CAN and DO make a difference! Young people become empowered by their participation in the institutions and decisions that affect their lives—which in turn can lead to real positive change in the community. Youth Participation and Community Change presents leading authorities providing the latest research and effective approaches on how young people can be drawn to participate in organizations and communities. The diverse perspectives discuss youth participation in today’s society, the models and methods of its practice, the roles of youth and adults, and the future of youth participation and community in a diverse democracy. Approaches include those which promote participatory community-based research and evaluation, and involve youth groups in poor and racially segregated areas. The mainstream view of much of today’s youth is that of being victims of society rather than a being a possible positive influence on society as a whole. Youth Participation and Community Change seeks to shift the viewpoint from youth as being problems to empowering them to enact positive social change. The book explores community agency efforts to involve young people, and the process by which youth civic engagement promotes empowerment. Social work and public health approaches are examined, with cogent discussions on conceptual and theoretical issues. Empirically based case studies illustrate best practices and interdisciplinary work that draws upon psychology, sociology, social work, public health, education, and related academic disciplines and professional fields. Topics in Youth Participation and Community Change include: key dimensions of critical youth empowerment a case study of youth leadership development in Hawaii—the Sariling Gawa Youth Council the Lexington Youth Leadership Academy—a leadership development and community change program a new model for youth civic engagement in Hampton, Virginia three projects that engage urban youth in community change through participatory research youth engagement strategies and the benefits of youth participation in health research ten projects which used photovoice to represent, advocate, and enhance community health a participatory action research process with youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina the Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO training students as facilitators for the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project four characteristics of engagement in the research literature and a school-community-university project differences in developmental outcomes among youth organizing, identity-support, and traditional youth development agencies Youth Participation and Community Change is thought-provoking, enlightening reading that is perfect for organizers, planners, policymakers, advocates, youth service workers, agency administrators, educators, students, and professionals in psychology, sociology, social work, urban planning, public policy, and public health.

Download or read book World Youth Report written by United Nations and published by UN. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Youth Report: Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a biennial flagship report prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, examines the mutually supportive roles of the new agenda and youth development efforts. This Report provides insight into the role of young people in sustainable development in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and related frameworks, including the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) and considers the role the 2030 Agenda can play in enhancing youth development efforts including how evidence-based youth policies can help accelerate youth-related objectives. The Report includes an annex with youth-related data at global and regional levels for SDG indicators as well as WPAY indicators.

Download or read book Reconnecting Youth Community written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement in Youth written by Lonnie R. Sherrod and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging youth in civic life has become a central concern to a broad array of researchers in a variety of academic fields as well to policy makers and practitioners globally. This book is both international and multidisciplinary, consisting of three sections that respectively cover conceptual issues, developmental and educational topics, and methodological and measurement issues. Broad in its coverage of topics, this book supports scholars, philanthropists, business leaders, government officials, teachers, parents, and community practitioners in their drive to engage more young people in community and civic actions.

Download or read book World Youth Report written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report highlights how youth social entrepreneurship can support young people's employment and development while helping to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs. It presents social entrepreneurship and anchors it in the context of the 2030 Agenda. It examines how social entrepreneurship of young people can offer not only employment opportunities, but also support other elements of youth development such as their participation. It assesses challenges to young people's social entrepreneurship and examines the synergies between technologies and youth social entrepreneurship. Policy guidance is offered to enable ecosystems for young social entrepreneurs.

Download or read book Engaging Children and Young People in Planning written by Teresa Strachan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners’ skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing several projects delivered or supported by planning students to young people in the Northeast of England. Urban or town and country planning is a largely unfamiliar concept to children and young people. Moreover, in England, the environment in which young people live, play and go to school is shaped by a local planning process which lacks their input. This book explores the nature of the gap between that planning process and the voice of the younger members of the community, as well as the barriers that impede this engagement. It highlights why an engagement process is beneficial for those young people, for the wider community and for the planning process itself. At a time when our relationship with and impact on, the environment is being re-examined, this book challenges the planning professional to identify, develop and reflect upon the engagement skills that will help to transform planning into a more inclusive practice. It will be of use to scholars and practitioners in urban planning, community planning, engagement and children’s rights, whilst supporting their academic and professional development pathways.

Download or read book Toward Positive Youth Development written by Marybeth Shinn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools and programs for youth that affect development, but much less about how to transform settings to bring about these desirable features. This book shows how to harness the power of settings. It shifts the debate from simply enhancing youth outcomes at the individual level to improving the settings of youths' daily lives. The book offers researchers and practitioners blueprints for creating and changing influential settings including classrooms, schools, universities, out-of-school time programs, ethnic systems of supplementary education, and other community-based programs. Leading scholars in psychology, education, human development, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and public policy discuss a wide array of social change strategies, and describe how to measure key features of settings as a target and guide for change. The authors also demonstrate how larger social structures - such as school districts, community coalitions, community data resources - can support change. Many of the chapters describe ways to make settings work for all youth, including those marginalized by reason of race, ethnicity, social class, or sexual orientation. Toward Positive Youth Development will guide researchers, educators, administrators and policy makers to improve schools and youth programs for all of America's youth.

Download or read book Youth Participation Improving Institutions and Communities written by Benjamin Kirshner and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth participation is a key piece of positive youth development. It pushes against long-held, culturally specific ideas about adolescence, as well as institutional barriers to youth involvement. This volume offers an assessment of the field. Specific chapters chronicle efforts to achieve youth participation across a variety of settings.

Download or read book Toward Making Good on All Youth written by Nancy Erbstein and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth who are most vulnerable to challenging community conditions, more limited opportunities and poor health, educational and economic trajectories derive especially strong benefits from engagement in community youth development efforts (Gambone, Yu, et al. 2004). Like many community youth development efforts, the REACH Youth Program called upon grantees to address the needs of all youth. While grantees were selected to reflect the diversity of communities in the region and were encouraged to recruit youth reflecting the diversity within those communities, they were not asked in particular to reach out to their most vulnerable youth populations. Across REACH, involvement of previously un/underengaged youth was limited, albeit with important variation across places and times. Grantees that did engage such youth over time offer important lessons about how to create the types of safe, supportive and meaningful settings that promoted young people's ongoing participation and leadership. Key elements of their success included: (1) Intentionality and Commitment; (2) Local Knowledge of Vulnerable Populations; (3) Adult Allies with Key Capacities; (4) Meaningful Focus; (5) Resources for Intensive Outreach, Relationship-building and Youth Support; and (6) Continuity of Key Adults. This brief describes each of these elements and offers some overarching lessons learned about engaging vulnerable youth populations in community youth development. Examples are drawn from two grantees that tapped the knowledge and insights of underrepresented youth over an extended period of time. [This paper was written with Lisceth Cruz Carrasco and David Campbell.].

Download or read book Engaging Wales Disengaged Youth written by Stevie Upton and published by Institute of Welsh Affairs. This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the challenges to the Welsh Government in devising policies for young people who are currently not in education, employment or training.

Download or read book Career Programming Linking Youth to the World of Work written by Kathryn Hynes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across education, out-of-school-time programming, and workforce development, researchers and practitioners are seeking ways to bolster the career readiness of our nation’s youth, particularly low-income youth. This issue brings together information from a variety of disciplines and fields to help researchers, practitioners, and policymakers understand what we know and need to learn to provide youth with effective, engaging career-related programming. The articles highlight key findings about how youth learn about careers and develop a vocational identity, whether adolescent employment is beneficial for youth, and how to align our various systems to promote positive youth development. Models of career programming from education, afterschool, and workforce development are highlighted, as are strategies for collaborating with businesses. The volume emphasizes the practical implications of research findings, keeping the focus on how to develop evidence-based practices to support career development for youth. This is the 134th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.

Download or read book Informal Learning in Youth Work written by Janet R Batsleer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal Learning in Youth Work offers fresh perspectives on all aspects of informal education in the youth work setting. Designed to develop the reader′s knowledge and skills, this comprehensive textbook explores key issues such as communication, power relations, ethics, gender exclusion, sexuality, race discrimination and social class. The author places particular emphasis on conversation as a key means of promoting informal learning and engaging effectively with young people. Other key features include: " case studies that illustrate the application of theory to `real-life′ practice " an emphasis on critical reflection, including reflective questions " an easily accessible style, with key terms and tips for further reading " a four-part structure guiding the reader through different stages of conversations and relationships in informal education. Informal Learning in Youth Work provides a unique combination of theoretical analysis and practice tips. Satisfying training and course requirements in the area, it will be essential reading for all students on youth and community work courses, as well as those in allied fields such as education and social work. It will also be a valuable reference for practitioners working with young people on a daily basis.

Download or read book Transforming Societies Changing Lives written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report covers the work of the 53-nation Commonwealth and its principal intergovernmental organization, the Commonwealth Secretariat, from July 2005 to June 2007. Over these two years, the Commonwealth Secretariat has carried out its mandate of democracy and development in a robust manner. It has delivered expertise to governments and delivered projects with high added value. The report is divided into five sections covering all aspects of the Commonwealth Secretariat's work: building a democratic culture; sustainable development; meeting social development goals; empowering young people; and multiplying the Commonwealth's impact and reach. The report includes a foreword by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon and was presented to Commonwealth leaders before their biennial summit in Uganda in November 2007.

Download or read book Engaging Youth Through Community Driven Development Objectives written by Sarah G. Adam and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: