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Investing in the Next Generation - CEDPA’s Youth Development Program
Date Published: 13 November 2007 Document Type: Briefs & Fact Sheets Issue: Education (including Non-formal), Youth Languages: English Purchase Method: Download |
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Nearly three billion people under the age of 25—the largest generation of youth ever—live in developing countries and face tremendous barriers in realizing their full worth and value. Over the past two decades, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) has reached hundreds of thousands of youth to equip them with specific skills, knowledge, and attitudes to be able to exercise informed decision-making regarding their futures. Formal assessments have found that young people who have completed CEDPA’s youth development programs go on to achieve a higher level of education; demonstrate greater HIV/AIDS awareness; show greater ability to make decisions about marriage, spending income, and education; earn and save more; and travel more outside of their villages . Youth have expressed new-found confidence and skills by starting their own businesses, running local youth centers in their villages, and becoming advocates of women’s rights within their governments.