1.3 Billion Youth: Is the Research and Policy Community Prepared?
21st November, 2006
Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Description
A roundtable discussion, made up of a mixture of researchers, policy activists and young people, all with a passionate concern about young lives, lived well. The discussions will focus on how well prepared the research and policy community are for coping with the 1.3 billion youth there are in developing countries. Three questions were suggested to frame the roundtable discussion:
- Are the analytical frameworks employed by WDR2007 adequate? Do they capture all the key issues (e.g. survival, dynamism and power/ powerlessness, as well as human development)?
- What are the key research gaps (and strengths)? (Relatedly, is there a need for a more coherent community of researchers looking at broad issues of youth and development, rather only than on particular aspects?)
- How is the understanding of youth presented in WDR2007 translatable into policy?
Speakers and schedule
- Mattias Lundberg (World Bank)
- Tom Burke (Peace Child International; Carnegie Young People’s Initiative)
- Alpha Barry Bacar (youth development activist and founder of Guinean Young University Association [AJUG])
- Sir Richard Jolly (CUNY Graduate Center)
- David Woollcombe (Peace Child International)
- Caroline Harper (CPRC/ODI)
Event website
For more information, please contact the ODI
Meeting reports
1.3 billion Youth: Is the research and policy community prepared? (conference report)
Papers
Links to presentations are available in the Conference Report (above)
Resources and links
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty theme page