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INVITE YOU TO A JOINT LAUNCH OF TWO RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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| Youth at Risk in Latin | Supporting Youth at Risk |
| America and the Caribbean | A Policy Toolkit for |
| Understanding the Causes, | Middle-Income Countries |
| Realizing the Potential | |
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| | In response to a growing |
| Young people are often | demand from government clients |
| perceived as the source of | and partners for advice on how |
| many problems plaguing the | to create and implement |
| Latin America and Caribbean | effective policies for at-risk |
| (LAC) region today, but | youth, Supporting Youth at |
| there is little | Risk highlights 27 policies |
| understanding of the | and strategies that have been |
| extent, nature, or policy | effective in addressing key |
| response to the problems. | risk areas for young people |
| The book attempts to fill | around the world: |
| this knowledge gap by | Youth unemployment and |
| estimating the size of the | underemployment |
| at-risk youth population in | Early school leaving |
| LAC, measuring the impact | Risky sexual behavior |
| of negative youth behaviors | leading to early |
| on the region's economic | childbearing and HIV/AIDS |
| growth, and identifying a | Crime and violence |
| small set of factors that | Substance abuse |
| are responsible for at-risk | |
| behavior. Based on this | The objective of the Toolkit |
| information, the book | is to serve as a practical |
| presents policies and | guide for policy makers in |
| programs that world | middle-income countries?as |
| renowned youth development | well as professionals working |
| experts deem to be the | within the area of youth |
| basis of a quality youth | development?on how to develop |
| development portfolio in | and implement an effective |
| LAC countries and several | policy portfolio to foster |
| strategies to create such a | healthy and positive youth |
| portfolio within a | development. |
| budget-constrained | |
| environment. | |
| | Click here for more |
| | information |
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Thursday, June 19
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Light refreshments will be served
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
INTRODUCED BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi is Vice President for Human Development at the World
Bank. Before joining the Bank, she worked at the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally.
Ms. Phumaphi also served as Minister for Health in Botswana where
she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into
action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. She is in the Board
of GAVI and has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on
Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is
a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa and the AAI.
PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Wendy Cunningham
Lead Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Cunningham is the Coordinator of the Children and Youth (C&Y)
Unit at the World Bank. Before joining C&Y, she was a Senior
Economist in the Human Development Department and Poverty Reduction
and Economic Management Department in the World Bank's Latin America
and Caribbean Region where she led projects and research in the
areas of social protection and labor markets and worked to develop
the region's agenda for youth development and gender. A labor
economist, her published works are in the areas of labor market
programs, informal sector employment, gender, and youth development.
Sophie Naudeau
Human Development Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human
Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Naudeau is a Child and Youth Development Specialist. Since
joining the World Bank in 2005, her work has focused on analyzing
the opportunities and challenges that children and youth face in
various regions, developing tools and implementing projects that
respond to the specific needs of this population, and designing
impact evaluations of early childhood programs. Her recent work has
focused on Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique, Morocco, and Cambodia.
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Naudeau was the coordinator for
programs targeting refugee children and youth in post conflict
societies, including Bosnia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.
DISCUSSED BY
Chingboon Lee
Sector Leader, Caribbean Country Management Unit, World Bank
Ms. Lee is the Sector Leader for the Human Development program in
the Caribbean Country Management Unit at the World Bank. Prior to
joining the Bank?s Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Ms. Lee?s
work focused on education issues in China and Bangladesh. She also
served as Deputy Resident Representative for the United Nations
Development Program from 1994 ? 1998, and was a teaching and
research fellow at Harvard University.
MODERATED BY
Makhtar Diop
Director of Strategy and Operations, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Mr. Diop is the Director for Strategy and Operations of the Latin
America and the Caribbean Region. Prior to that he was the Sector
Director for Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure in the Latin
America Region and held the position of Country Director of Kenya,
Eritrea, and Somalia for the World Bank. Before joining the World
Bank, Mr. Diop worked at the IMF, served as Minister of Economy and
Finance in Senegal, and held various positions in banking and
finance.
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