Resources on: Out of School Youth
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HIV/AIDS Impacts Orphans and Out-of-School Youth in Zambia
“This is the heart of the matter. Education is a way forward, a way of breaking the cycle, a way towards greater safety, and a way towards a future. Education is not mere subtraction … education is about the addition of hope to a hard and difficult life.”
Reaching Out-of-School Youth With Life-Planning Skills Education: The African Youth Alliance’s Behaviour Change Communication Efforts in Arusha, Tanzania, September 2005.
The African Youth Alliance (AYA) was a partnership among the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Pathfinder International, and PATH funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in four African countries: Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Reaching Out-of-School Youth with Reproductive Health and HIV Information and Services
By A. August Burns, Claudia Daileader Ruland, and William Finger – with Erin Murphy-Graham, Rosemary McCarney, and Jane Schueller
Worldwide, some 120 million school-aged children are out of school, and slightly more than half of these are girls, according to UNICEF. Fortunately, some of theseyoung people receive health information through innovative programs. One program brings education to rural youth in conjunction with agricultural training. Another uses radio to teach youth about HIV and reproductive health.
The National Qualifications Framework in South Africa and "out-of-School Youth": Problems and Possibilities
Over the past few years, an initiative called the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) has been unfolding in South Africa. The NQF has as its vision the integration of education and training and the creation of mechanisms through which all learners can receive accreditation for their learning, irrespective of where such learning takes place, and can progress through the education and training system.
Uses of ICTs for Out of School Youth & Adults in Developing Countries: A view from Southern Africa
NCAL- OECD International Roundtable, University of Pennsylvania, Thematic Session V
08h30, Friday, 14th November, 2003, Rod Grewan, CEO SchoolNet SA, Bob Day, ICT4Development, CSIR.
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Adult Learning South Africa!
Adult education plays a vital role in developing people, reducing poverty and building our democracy. Yet, after 10 years of freedom, over 13 million adult South Africans are still in need of an education. Adult Learning South Africa aims to promote adult learning and to stimulate information sharing and debate within the broad adult education and training sector in South Africa.
AYA Partners and Projects
The Diocese will focus on out-of-school youth in the Busoga region by grafting youth-friendly services onto their existing adult reproductive health services offered at 40 clinics. In addition, it will establish 80 outreach sites and 220 social marketing outlets in the rural communities located in the three region's districts. It will also conduct youth-friendly assessments and continuous quality improvement activities to improve, monitor, measure and maintain the quality of youth services.
Integration of population education into programmes for out-of-school rural ...
The purpose of this report is to review a series of pilot activities in population education in nine countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia under the inter-regional project: "Integration of Population Education into Programmes for Out-of-School Rural Youth".
Out-of-School Youth
Non-formal networks have proven to be one of the most effective ways to reach young people with reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention messages and services, especially for youth who are not in school. Out-of-school youth are a diverse group, including those who have completed school, those who have dropped out, those who have jobs, and girls who are married or have been forced to quit school because they are pregnant or have babies.
