"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages … variations in both individual and contextual characteristics of the targeted youth. The synthesized findings from this review are …

This policy note provides a view of the main challenges facing Ghana youth and proposes policy options to address them …. The note: (i) highlights youth key characteristics from the perspective of their skills and jobs and the constraints they … face, (ii) describes the institutional set up and strategy governing youth employment interventions in Ghana and what is …

Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …

documents patterns, trends, correlates, and the labor market effects of formal off-the-job training of youth, based on national …

stakeholder consultation processes to date. Given the focus of the 2007 WDR on youth, it was especially important to devise a … consultative process that will foster a dialogue not only about youth but also with young people themselves. At the same time, it … had to be made clear to the youth constituency that the report could not be written by youth. The consultations had three …

youth in peacebuilding. The report's recommendations postulate a comprehensive understanding of youth, peace, and conflict …

The analysis presented in this study points to persistent and high numbers in Georgia and Armenia of youth who are … among the highest in the ECA region. As many as 31 percent youth aged 15-29 in Georgia and 33 percent in Armenia are not in … urban. NEET rates are consistently higher among female than male youth, pointing to the fact that being female is a risk …

Supporting jobs for youth in Niger means addressing difficult questions of the right level of ambition, of reaching the … necessary scale, and of trade-offs with funding for poverty reduction. Jobs policy for youth in Niger faces a difficult … specifically for youth may mean forgoing other investments that may be more efficient in reducing poverty. to make informed choices …

conditions. In response, promoting youth employment has become a policy priority for the Government of Kosovo. Supporting young …-specific barriers in the labor market, such as lack of work experience and limited professional networks. Second, the youth years are a …. These realities need to be considered for program design and implementation. Youth employment policies and interventions …