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"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 …
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. Poverty and ethnic minority status can further magnify gender discrepancies for youth worldwide, as reductions in household …
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Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …
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. Poverty and ethnic minority status can further magnify gender discrepancies for youth worldwide, as reductions in household …
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causing high population growth but also creating a large share of youth dependents, giving way to higher dependency ratios …
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. Poverty and ethnic minority status can further magnify gender discrepancies for youth worldwide, as reductions in household …
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The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to data from the latest publicly available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) implemented in 2011. Yet despite progress, more than one third of girls still marry as children, and...
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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 …
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Adolescents are among the age groups most vulnerable to malnutrition and their situation requires priority attention. However, information on adolescent nutrition in Bangladesh is limited. Using data from the Food Security and Nutrition Surveillance Project (FSNSP), we examined the nutritional...
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Violent conflict and instability affect men and women in heterogeneous ways, including differentiated impacts on economic, social, physical, and mental well-being. This study assesses the impact of the post-2013 conflict in South Sudan on adolescent girls and young women. The analysis uses data...
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