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Abuja, Nigeria
April 27-29, 2008
(Optional Workshops, April 27, 30) Home | Program | Presentations | Call to Action | News | Resources (www.infoforhealth.org/youthwg/) The Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) seeks to provide global technical leadership to advance the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS outcomes of young people ages 10-24 in developing countries by: sharing research and programmatic results and lessons on youth reproductive health and HIV/AIDS with the reproductive health, HIV and youth development communities promoting strategies that move promising research findings and best practices into programs and policies advocating for greater focus on youth within reproductive health and HIV programs
The IYWG is a network of nongovernmental agencies, donors and cooperating agencies. IYWG partner organizations are funded by USAID through the Global Leadership Priority (GLP) for Youth. The GLP for Youth strategic plan focuses on knowledge management and dissemination, policy analysis and development, operations and evaluation research, service delivery and behavior change communication (BCC), as well as the thematic areas of married youth, very young adolescents and gender.
(www.measuredhs.com/topics/Youth/)
Youth Corner is an important new part of the MEASURE DHS website. It highlights DHS findings about youth and features in-depth profiles of young adults ages 15-24 from more than 30 countries worldwide. The data comes from surveys conducted in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe since 2000. MEASURE DHS has interviewed thousands of young people and gathered valuable information about their education, employment, media exposure, nutrition, sexual activity, fertility, unions and general reproductive health, including HIV prevalence. The data can be found under Country Profiles in two formats: QuickStats and Key Indicators. “QuickStats” features 12 important indicators, such as the percentage of young women and men who have sexual intercourse before age 18. For a more in-depth look at youth in a particular country, “Key Indicators” offers data for more than 25 indicators, reproductive health and women’s empowerment, where available.
(www.youth-policy.com)
The Health Policy Initiative strives to foster an improved enabling environment for health—especially for family planning/reproductive health, HIV and maternal health programs. Youth-policy.com is an online resource for improving youth reproductive health (YRH) and HIV/AIDS policy worldwide. This site features a searchable database containing more than 100 full-text policies addressing YRH from over 40 countries.
This report describes why and how to initiate effective investments that will give adolescent girls in developing countries a full and equal chance for rewarding lives and livelihoods. The report provides specific recommendations for civil society, governments, private-sector leaders, and donor agencies to create mechanisms for the meaningful participation of young women and adolescent girls in their programs and policy, helping to foster youth leadership and gender-sensitive ideology. At the global level, while these priorities by no means constitute an exhaustive list, they should inform donor and technical agencies and private charities of where gains can be made.
The report was co-authored by CGD vice president for programs and operations Ruth Levine; Cynthia Lloyd, senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program and chair of the Bixby Fellowship program at the Population Council; Margaret Greene, director of the Population and Social Transitions Team at the International Center for Research on Women; and Caren Grown, economist-in-residence in the Department of Economics at American University.
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