More than 70 percent of the population in Jordan is under age 30. We engage youth while fostering a culture of hope through positive alternatives, affirmative civic action and civil society efforts:Reaching more than 50,000 Jordanian students age 12–24 each year, INJAZ ('Achievement' in Arabic) seeks to enhance youths' knowledge and awareness of the world of work and build their skills to enter and succeed in the labor market.
The NAJAH ('Success' in Arabic) program increases the employab more...
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Save the Children has welcomed renewed commitments by G8 leaders to improve health, education and child nutrition programs in developing countries, but cautioned that the world's eight leading economies need to back up their promises with additional resources. 'The lives of millions of the world's poorest children will be affected, for better or worse, depending on how the G8 lives up to its promises,' said Save the Children President and CEO Charles MacCormack.
MacCormack noted that G8 lead more...
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In July, Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, one of the world's largest apparel companies, will run its annual PVH Cares initiative. This year's initiative will benefit Save the Children's US Programs and will be undertaken in the Company's approximately 700 outlet stores nationwide. Customers of PVH's Van Heusen, Bass, IZOD, Geoffrey Beene and Calvin Klein outlet stores will be asked to donate to the campaign at the point of sale and a logo will be hung near the register to recognize their contrib more...
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Suresh is only 12 but he remembers his first incident of discrimination years ago as a searing and humiliating experience: other villagers in his Kanchanpur district forbade him from using the public water tap. 'That was the first time I realized I was being treated differently because of my caste,' he says. A member of Nepal's 'untouchable' Dalit caste group, Suresh faced a future of constant humiliation, restricted to the most menial and unpleasant jobs, because protective government legislati more...
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The Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) will be developed at the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness conducted by OECD in Ghana on Sept. 2-4, 2008. The purpose of the AAA is to deepen implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness with a view to achieving the targets that were agreed in 2005. The AAA will also need to respond to emerging aid effectiveness issued identified since 2005.
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New Report from IFPRI Examines Priorities for Agricultural R&D Investment in East and Central Africa
Agriculture plays a dominant role in most of East and Central Africa, and many countries face similar agroecological, climatic, and development challenges. As a result, significant scale economies can be realized by approaching research and development (R&D) regionally. The challenge for such networks is to determine regional and national research priorities with the highest potential rates of economic return, and methodology to assess regional research priorities is a critical input into this p more...
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'AIDS has gotten special treatment because of its emergency status; that view is no longer valid because the epidemic has peaked,' John Bongaarts told IRIN/PlusNews on the phone from the New York headquarters of the Population Council. 'My own feeling is that the amount that's devoted to AIDS treatment is out of proportion to other health problems.'
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