A monthly magazine representing more than 160 development organizations has dedicated a recent issue to global themes that impact today’s youth -- from unemployment to new technologies to global trafficking. Monday Developments is published by Interaction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian NGOs in the United States.

 

Contributors to the issue include William Reese, CEO and President of the International Youth Foundation, who authored an article entitled “Global Youth Employment: Crisis or Opportunity?” about the importance of helping today’s youth make the critical transition to the workplace. “Preparing young people to join the global economy is increasingly viewed as a vital element in the fight to combat poverty, particularly in developing countries,” says Reese.  K. David Boyer, Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Public-Private Partnerships at USAID, underscores in his article the benefits of building multi-sector alliances to achieve real progress around the development agenda.  Best practices in job training for underserved youth, with a focus on learnings from the entra21 employability training and job placement initiative in Latin America, are highlighted in a piece by Susan Pezzullo, IYF’s Director of Learning.

 

Readers will also learn more about the growing spirit of volunteerism on college campuses and the establishment of a global initiative that uses sports as a cost-effective tool to contribute to progress in such areas as gender equality, HIV/AIDS prevention, and peace building.     

 

Please click here for a PDF file of the entire August 2008 issue of Monday Developments, which is entitled “Youth Realize Their Potential.”