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Search by Keywords: Advanced Search Sign-up here! Subscription is free and allows you to receive email newsletters, alerts, and to access a comprehensive member directory and network with other development professionals. Sign-up here About this Report This Special Report provides a forum about the involvement of youth in development activities. Participating in this Special Report are our dgCommunities focused on: Afghanistan Reconstruction Capacity Development Civil Society Culture & Development E-Learning Gender and Development Glocalization Governance HIV/AIDS ICT for Development Knowledge Economy Microfinance Open Educational Resources Population and Reproductive Health Poverty Urban Development Youth for Development     Become a Development Gateway member, and you will be notified of our upcoming reports. Sign-up! See previous Special Reports here. Special Report Contributors The Development Gateway Foundation would like to thank the people whose interviews have contributed to this Special Report on "Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World." They represent a range of stakeholders who are working to ensure that, in today's developing nations, the next generation will live in a world without poverty. Andrea Argintariu Andrea Argintariu, a 2006 YouthAction Net Fellow, is founder of Career Development Center, the first of its kind in Timisoara, Romania. The center serves over 10,000 students and graduates, helping them to identify employment opportunities and providing them with career counseling and information about the labor market. The project also developed "The Career Guide" one of the most comprehensive career guides in Romania. Two editions have been published with a readership of over 5,000. "The Career Guide" provides young people with valuable tools related to securing employment, internships, volunteering, starting a business and investing in the stock market. It also contains advice from leading business executives on sought-after skills and tips for success. One of the signature programs of the Career Development Center is the Student Development Program. Each year, 60 students are trained on particular employment skills, then volunteer for three weeks in a community development project at a local NGO. Sari Bashi Sari Bashi, a 2006 Fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation, is the Founder and Director of Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement. A not-for-profit organization based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Gisha seeks to protect the fundamental rights of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories by imposing human rights law as a limitation on the behavior of Israel's military. An attorney licensed in Israel and the U.S., Sari clerked on the Israeli Supreme Court for Justice Edmond Levi. She assisted the former president of Israel's Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, in a variety of academic projects including translating his book Purposive Interpretation in Law into English. Sari is a graduate of the Yale University School of Law where she received a Robert L. Bernstein Human Rights fellowship. Prior to studying law, she worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Jerusalem and conducted research on ethnic identity among Ethiopian immigrants to Israel as part of a Fulbright Scholarship. Djibril Diallo Djibril Diallo is Director of the United Nations New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace which coordinated the first ever United Nations Global Youth Leadership Summit in New York in October 2006. He also chairs the UN inter-agency Working Group on Sport for Development and Peace, dedicated to building cooperation and coordination across the UN system. Previously, he was Director of the Communications Office of the Administrator (COA) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), tasked with mobilizing political, popular and financial support for UNDP. Prior to joining UNDP, he was a senior official of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), acting both as Special Advisor to the Executive Director and as Deputy Director of Public Affairs. A citizen of Senegal, he holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Communication from the University of London, United Kingdom. Emmanuel Y. Jimenez Emmanuel Jimenez, Director of Human Development in the World Bank's East Asia and the Pacific Department, was team lead on the 2007 World Development Report (WDR) "Development and the Next Generation." Released in September 2006, this report conducted one of the largest consultations on record for a WDR, involving 3,000 young people in focus groups from 26 developing countries. It contains graphs, charts, and detailed information about youth ages 12 to 24 in developing countries. A native of the Philippines, Mr. Jimenez manages World Bank staff working in the field on education and health issues. Before joining the World Bank, he was on the faculty of the economics department at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Vikram Laishram Vikram Laishram, a 2006 YouthAction Net Fellow, founded Better Treatment Equals Better Life to improve the health of the people of Manipur, a region of India that borders the country of Myanmar (Burma) and is a major route for Burmese drug trade. The rates of drug addiction in Manipur are among the highest in India. Young people are overwhelmingly affected, increasing their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection. With a program developed entirely by recovering drug users and tailored to meet the needs of young people, Better Treatment Equals Better Life creates an enabling environment at its Youth Center for young people to access health services. At the center, youth receive drug counseling, education on reducing high-risk behaviors and are trained to be peer educators for other affected youth. To date, over 300 youth have been trained as peer educators and the project has received support from the state government for its efforts. Pablo Ezequiel Winokur Pablo Ezequiel Winokur, a 2006 YouthAction Net Fellow, is the founder of Opinion Sur Joven, a free online monthly magazine based in Argentina to promote youth political participation, entrepreneurship and leadership. The magazine encourages its readers to be engaged in their communities and think critically about the issues they deal with on a daily basis at school, work and in their personal lives. Most of the articles are written by young volunteers, occasionally supplemented by pieces from experts in the field. Most importantly, articles always contain steps for action around the issue discussed. Topics covered include youth employment, fighting poverty, strengthening democracy, volunteerism and the effect of cell phones on youth culture. Opinion Sur Joven currently reaches over 1,000 subscribers across Latin America and is in the process of expanding its network. YMCA Computer Training Centre, The Gambia Awa Bah, Therese Elizabeth Dalliah, Aminata Jarju, Aminatta Koita, Mariama Loum, Philomena Prierra, Faton Saine, Nyima Sanneh, Fatou Trawally and Sarjo Wallou are teenage young women who participate in the YMCA Computer Training Centre in Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa. The Center, founded in 2002 with support from the British Volunteer Organisation (VSO), trains youths in the Vocational Training Centre to use simple Word - Processing skills. Email this page Sign-up Learn about AMP...   From Our Members What did Development Gateway members have to say in our Youth Survey? Should Youth Try to Influence Policy Change? How Are Countries Promoting Youth Employment? What Steps Sustain Health and Well-Being for Youths? Partners Key Resources 2007 World Development Report "Development and the Next Generation" 2006 Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO UN World Youth Report 2007 UNICEF Voices of Youth Global Youth Network Glocal Youth Parliament Staying Alive Our Time Is Now: Young People Changing the World Employability, Leadership and Engagement, Health and Education Global Events Sept. 13-16: 3rd Global Youth Employment Summit, Nairobi, Kenya Oct. 29 - 31: UN Global Youth Leadership Summit Nov. 14-20: Youth and ICT Week: Making ICTs Available for African Youth Dec. 2-10: BBC: Generation Next Dec. 4-6: ITU Telecom World Youth Forum, Hong Kong Jan. 21-25, 2007. Brightest Young Minds Annual Conference, Australia Feb. 22-25, 2007: International Youth Volunteerism Summit, Chicago, USA

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