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Special issue on India launching of   World Bank’s World Development Report 2007: ‘Development and the Next Generation’ November 2006 - V

 

Release in India on 13^th November 2003

Development and the Next Generation: World Development Report 2007

 

The World Banks flagship publication ‘World Development Report’ titled "Development and the Next Generation" was released in September 2006 in Singapore during the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting.  Now WDR 07 report is launching in India on November 13, 2006. The report will officially release by Francois J. Bourguignon, Sr. Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank in a seminar on “Development for the Next General”. 

 

According the WDR 07, in next five years, the world's population of 1.3 billion youth will be competing for 300 million jobs. The world's demographic makeup was changing rapidly, with population statistics showing more young people entering the workforce in the next five years than ever before, but without a corresponding increase in the number of jobs.

 

Systemic youth unemployment exacerbates the problem of poverty, which is a perennial problem afflicting many in our world. Youth from developing nations, especially those already toeing the poverty line, would be particularly vulnerable to structural unemployment.

 

According the World Bank's officials, the solution to this problem is the engagement of the youth sector when crafting policies and programmes for the future. It is critical to invest in young people in order to reduce poverty and boost growth, as a result, youth empowerment in partnership and participatory action has been selected as the key focus for the World Development Report 2007.

 

According report, the development of youth as "Agents of Change" within their own communities, giving youth access to education, healthcare and job opportunities are some of the ways, which the global community can help to ensure that youth today can be prevented from falling into the poverty trap.

 

South Asia in WDR07

According the Report, the WB’s investment climate surveys show that over a fifth of firms in developing countries rate inadequate skills and education of workers as a major or severe obstacle to their operation.

 

The most of the countries in the region focus on quantity in the education field like increase the number of enrollment, now WDR 07 strongly recommends for quality basic education. The resulted the young people are in school but performing poorly. The young people from poor families need help to finance their education and to offset opportunity costs; report recommends incentive-based schemes that the focus be on quality as well as quantity.

 

Among the other recommendations includes investment in maternal health care and family planning education; family planning and reproductive health campaigns should also target men; increase youth access to information; capacity building to make and act on decisions;

 

The report highlighted the need to improve opportunities for civic engagement among young people, to reduce the young peoples’ frustration which lead become violent which further lead to social and economic instability.

 

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ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of
over 356 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Our goal:
To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth Organizations;
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
To promote effective youth programmmes;
To organize network of civil society organizations working towards the development of youth work;
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
To maintain international relation with organizations promoting young people in their programmes and activities

Affiliation: 

Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC);
Youth for Habitat International Network (YFHIN); CRIN, South Asia Youth
Environment Network (SAYEN), Affiliate group of ECPAT International, Thailand;
ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO);
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD);
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.