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Research report

Youth Participation and Global Citizenship: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Youth School Forums

08/11/2016

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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National analyses show that youth participation is often diminished within the policy and practice of education. In both formal and informal education there are few opportunities for developing skills in leadership, motivation, engagement, self-expression, creativity, or entrepreneurship. It is also noticeable in a number of countries that there are no opportunities for teacher training on […]

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Annual report

My Rights My Voice Completion Report 2011-2016

13/10/2016

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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My Rights My Voiice is an innovative programme which aims to unlock young people’s potential by giving them the knowledge, skills and confidence to become ‘active citizens’, able to voice their rights to education and healthcare, and to hold duty bearers to account. Through the MRMV programme, Oxfam and its partners aimed to demonstrate that […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of the My Rights My Voice Programme: Synthesis report

25/08/2016

3 documents

91 pages long

Languages: English, French

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‘My Rights, My Voice’ (MRMV) is a multi-country programme implemented by Oxfam GB, Oxfam Novib, Oxfam Quebec and their partners with the aim of engaging marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services. The programme has been implemented in eight countries: Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Vietnam. This […]

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Briefing paper

Youth and Inequality: Time to support youth as agents of their own future

12/08/2016

3 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Young women and men today must grapple with serious social, political and environmental problems inherited from their elders. Yet they are systematically excluded from policy decisions, even though young people make up one quarter of humanity. By marshalling the energy, creativity and talents of youth to address the multiple inequalities they face, we will all […]

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Case study

Preventing Cattle Raiding Violence in South Sudan: Local level peace building focusing on young people

04/08/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Within and Without the State (WWS), a programme funded by the UK Department for International Development, has been working in South Sudan since 2012 to improve the relationship between citizen and state. This case study describes the efforts of Community Empowerment and Progress Organization, a WWS partner, to work with young people in cattle raiding […]

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Journal article

‘Two months of marriage were sufficient to turn my life upside down’: early marriage as a form of gender-based violence

20/07/2016

11 pages long

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‘Two months of marriage were sufficient to turn my life upside down’: early marriage as a form of gender-based violence

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In Morocco, as elsewhere, early marriage of young women and girls below the age of 18 exposes them to different forms of social, sexual, physical, psychological, and financial violence. This article focuses on the experience of Moroccan women married under the age of 18 and proposes an analytical framework to support better understanding of the […]

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Research report

Menstruation and Menstrual Hygiene Management in Selected KwaZulu-Natal Schools

01/05/2016

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Working on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has been a core component of Oxfam Australia’s work in South Africa. The focus of this study was on the impact of menstruation and menstrual hygiene management on girl learners in schools in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Issues related to cultural practices, teachings about menstruation, access to […]

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Research report

Global Citizenship and Youth Participation in Europe

10/01/2016

1 documents

87 pages long

Languages: English

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Global Citizenship has been recognized as an important component of education by UNESCO through the Sustainable Development Goals launched in 2015 and the recent Global Education Congress in Croatia. While there has been considerable activity across Europe in encouraging youth engagement in democratic institutions, this report suggests that insufficient attention has been given to the […]

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Case study

Active Citizenship of Women and Youth in Nicaragua

30/11/2015

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reviews the construction of intersectional strategies for active citizenship that have contributed to the Active Citizenship Program for Women and Youth (2011-2016) led by Oxfam in Nicaragua. The document seeks to highlight the intersecting forms of violence and subordination that women and youth identities in Nicaragua face in different ways, and underscore how […]

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Research report

Nurturing Through Nature: The socio-economic impact of Umzi Wethu on rural Eastern Cape communities

01/10/2015

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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This study seeks to determine and document the socio-economic impact of the Umzi Wethu programme, which uses nature as a basis to nurture, educate and prepare young, vulnerable people for employment. Umzi Wethu, a programme conceptualized, managed and implemented by the Wilderness Foundation, is actively using biodiversity conservation as a basis for educating and nurturing […]

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