Publication: Engaging Youth through Community-Driven Development Objectives : Experiences, Findings, and Opportunities
Date
2014-07
ISSN
Published
2014-07
Author(s)
Adam, Sarah G.
Kaori Oshima
Abstract
Community-driven development (CDD) is
an approach emphasizing local control over planning and an
investment resource offers important advantages for engaging
young people. The World Bank's portfolio of CDD
projects provides a rich repository of experiences of how
this approach is being adapted to enhance the inclusion of
young people. This paper synthesizes the findings of a
global stocktaking on CDD and youth. The study draws from a
universe of over 60 active, planned, or recently closed CDD
youth projects across all regions in which the Bank
operates. Significant diversity exists among these projects
in terms of the extent of youth focus; size, scale, and
scope; contexts and conditions to which they respond; and
objectives and desired outcomes. Youth engagement is
examined through three interlinked dimensions of youth
development: (1) endowments or the accumulation of human
capital assets; (2) employment and economic opportunities;
and (3) empowerment, encompassing the concepts of
participation, voice, and agency. The framework links each
dimension to a domain of inclusion services, markets, and
spaces within which individuals and groups take part in
society. The stocktake reveals that CDD projects are
contributing in significant and innovative ways to the youth
development agenda in all three spheres, and offers
reflections and opportunities for each dimension.
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Citation
“Adam, Sarah G.; Kaori Oshima. 2014. Engaging Youth through Community-Driven Development Objectives : Experiences, Findings, and Opportunities. © World Bank Group, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20405 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”