Friday, March 25, 2011

[EQ] The State of the World's Children 2011 - Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity

The State of the World’s Children 2011

Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity

 

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

February 2011

 

Available online PDF [148p.] at: http://bit.ly/fhOKRW

 

“………..Adolescence is an age of opportunity for children, and a pivotal time for us to build on their development in the first decade of life, to help them navigate risks

and vulnerabilities, and to set them on the path to fulfilling their potential.

 

Today, 1.2 billion adolescents stand at the challenging crossroads between childhood and the adult world. Nine out of ten of these young people live in the developing world and face especially profound challenges, from obtaining an education to simply staying alive – challenges that are even more magnified for girls and young women.

In the global effort to save children’s lives, we hear too little about adolescence. Given the magnitude of the threats to children under the age of five, it makes sense to focus investment there – and that attention has produced stunning success. …………..”

 

Content

1 The Emerging Generation

The complexities of defining adolescence

Adolescents and adolescence in the international arena

2 Realizing the Rights of Adolescents

Health in adolescence

Survival and general health risks

Nutritional status

Sexual and reproductive health matters

HIV and AIDS

Adolescent-friendly health services

Education in adolescence

Gender and protection in adolescence

Violence and abuse

Adolescent marriage

Female genital mutilation/cutting

Child labour

Initiatives on gender and protection

3 Global Challenges for Adolescents

Climate change and the environment

Poverty, unemployment and globalization

Juvenile crime and violence

Conflict and emergency settings

4 Investing in Adolescents

Improve data collection and analysis

Invest in education and training

Institutionalize mechanisms for youth participation

A supportive environment

Addressing poverty and inequity

Working together for adolescents

Panels

Country

Haiti: Building back better together with young people

Jordan: Ensuring productive work for youth

India: Risks and opportunities for the world’s largest national cohort of adolescents

Ethiopia: Gender, poverty and the challenge for adolescents

Mexico: Protecting unaccompanied migrant adolescents

Ukraine: Establishing a protective environment for vulnerable children

The Philippines: Strengthening the participation rights of adolescents

United States: The Campus Initiative – Advocating for children’s rights at colleges and universities

Côte d’Ivoire: Violent conflict and the vulnerability of adolescents

Technology

Digital natives and the three divides to bridge,

Young people, mobile phones and the rights of adolescents,

Digital safety for young people: Gathering information, creating new models and understanding existing efforts

Focus ON

Early and late adolescence

Demographic trends for adolescents: Ten key facts

Adolescent mental health: An urgent challenge for investigation and investment


Inequality in childhood and adolescence in rich countries –

Innocenti Report Card 9: The children left behind  http://bit.ly/fJaywk

Migration and children: A cause for urgent attention

Preparing adolescents for adulthood and citizenship

Working together for adolescent girls: The United Nations

Adolescent Girls Task Force



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[EQ] Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

Editors: Don de Savigny; Taghreed Adam

ISBN: 978 924 156389 5 World Health Organization
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

English: http://bit.ly/gMN2Bv

French: http://bit.ly/e6D8MP

Spanish: http://bit.ly/A9iHZ



“……Despite strong global consensus on the need to strengthen health systems, there is no established framework for doing so in developing countries, and no formula to apply or package of interventions to implement. Many health systems simply lack the capacity to measure or understand their own weaknesses and constraints, which effectively leaves policy-makers without scientifically sound ideas of what they can and should actually strengthen. Within such unmapped and misunderstood systems, interventions – even the very simplest – often fail to achieve their goals. This is not necessarily due to any inherent flaw in the intervention itself but rather to the often unpredictable behaviour of the system around it….”

 

Content

Executive Summary

Chapter 1 Systems thinking for health systems strengthening: An introduction

Chapter 2 Systems thinking: What it is and what it means for health systems

Chapter 3 Systems thinking: Applying a systems perspective to design and evaluate health systems interventions .

Chapter 4 Systems thinking for health systems: Challenges and opportunities in real-world settings

Chapter 3 Systems thinking for health systems strengthening: Moving forward

Reference List

 

Web Annex. Evaluation of interventions with system-wide effects in developing countries: Exploratory review

http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/en

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