Status of Youth in Africa : 2009

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Draft Annotated Outline

Executive Summary

Introduction

Chapters 1:     Africa’s Youthful Population

  • Overview: Population Reduction and Youth right
  • Defining Youth in Africa: Programming gap

Chapter 2:      Youth Rights

  •  Moving from concept to practice
  •  Youth rights in the Human Freedom Index
  •  Youth Rights as a Constitutional guarantee: milestones in Africa’s legal and judicial framewor
  •  The law enforcement and youth rights: reinforcing a benchmark of fairness in power relationships

Chapter 3:      Gender

  •  Integrating the Gender perspective in development programming targeting youth
  • Reducing Maternal Mortality in Africa: a focus on young women
  • Generational gap in the women’s movement
  •  Involving young men: Gender discourse amongst young people

Chapter 4:      Education and Skills Development

  •   Curriculum ‘Reform'
  •   Critical thinking and cognitive dissonance in African Culture
  •   Infrastructure development
  •   Science and Technology

Chapter 5:      Socio-economic empowerment

  • Inequity in economic participation
  • The informal economy and Africa’s growth and development strategies
  • Demographic ‘bulge’ as an asset
  • Youth driven incentives for Agro-business and finance
  • Loan facilities and young entrepreneurs in Africa

Chapter 6:      Partnerships and Resource mobilization

  • Data and Resource requirement for Strengthening and Monitoring Progress in youth development and implementation of the African Youth Charter
  •  Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility through the African Youth Charter
  • The International Development Aid and Effectiveness Arguments with a Youth Lens
  • National Accounts and Youth related public expenditure and spending

Chapter 7:      Health Outcomes

  •  Accelerating Universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment and care
  • Emerging issues in HIV/AIDS Prevention amongst young people
  • Contraceptive options and regulatory policy framework
  • Spirituality and actual health related-behaviors  

Chapter 8:      Peace and Security

  • The Youth and African Conflicts: An overview
  • Youth in Peace Building and Conflict Prevention
  •   Why the Youth Involve in Violence?/ The Youth  and Culture  of Violence
  •   The Role of Peace Education Among the Youth 
  • Youth in Post Conflict Reconstruction and DDR Processes

Chapter 9:      The Diaspora

  • Cultural Heritage versus Foreign Direct Investment
  • US-Africa Policy: a focus on youth developmen
  • European Union and Youth-related investment for Africa                     

Chapter 10:    Cross Cutting Issues

  • Political and Democratic Participation of youth in Africa
  • Civic liberties and Sustainability of Development projects
  • Civil society and Youth participation
  • Navigating gerontocracy and Policy advocacy

Annexes:

  1. Country Profiles
  2. Statistical Annex
  3. Technical Notes
  4. About the Authors
  5. Youth Empowerment Measure and Development Index

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