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INVITE YOU TO A JOINT LAUNCH OF TWO YOUTH-FOCUSED PUBLICATIONS
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| Youth at Risk | Supporting Youth at Risk |
| in Latin America and the | A Policy Toolkit for |
| Caribbean | Middle-Income Countries |
| Understanding the Causes, | |
| Realizing the Potential | In response to a growing |
| | demand from government clients |
| Young people are often | and partners for advice on how |
| perceived as the source of | to create and implement |
| many problems plaguing the | effective policies for at-risk |
| Latin America and Caribbean | youth, Supporting Youth at |
| (LAC) region today. However | Risk highlights numerous |
| , there is little | policies and strategies that |
| understanding of the | have been effective in |
| extent, nature, or policy | addressing key risk areas for |
| response to these problems. | young people around the world, |
| Youth at Risk attempts to | including: |
| fill 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 | |
| problematic behavior. Based | The objective of the Toolkit |
| on this information, the | is to serve as a practical |
| book 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. | |
| | Please click here for more |
| | information. |
| Please click here for more | |
| information and to order | |
| the book. | |
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 PM
A lunch buffet will be served at noon
Auditorium I2-250
World Bank I Building
1850 I Street, N.W.
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
OPENING REMARKS BY,
Pamela Cox
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Cox is a development economist and has held several management
positions in various countries and regions since joining the World
Bank in 1980. Most recently, she was Director of Strategy and
Operations for the Africa Region, where she oversaw the increase of
Bank lending to the poorest African countries. Ms. Cox also served
as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and
Swaziland. She was Chief of the Country Operations Division in East
Asia, and served as Chief of the Agriculture and Environment
Operations in the same region.
CLOSING REMARKS 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.
MODERATED BY
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Fiszbein joined the World Bank in 1991 and has held several
positions that include coordinator of the poverty reduction team at
the World Bank Institute, coordinator of the World Bank?s program in
human development for the southern cone countries in Latin America,
Lead Economist in the Human Development Department for Latin America
and the Caribbean, and Adviser to the Bank?s Chief Economist and
senior vice-President for Development Economics. In the latter
position, he coordinated the Bank?s Development Impact Evaluation
initiative. He has published extensively on issues of social
policy, taught at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires, and
was the secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic
Association (LACEA) between 1998 and 2005.
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. As 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.
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