The joint World Bank - Commonwealth Secretariat’s Regional Caribbean Initiative on Keeping Boys Out of Risk seeks to address the cross-cutting problem of boys at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean as a gender issue related to development challenges such as alienation of boys from education and drop-out from schools, crime and violence, male marginalization, access to the labor market, and poverty alleviation. This initiative includes a contest to identify and promote initiatives to keep keeping boys out of risk, a high level conference, a best-practices fair, adoption of a common platform for action and the development of dissemination materials.  | The Caribbean Contest: Keeping Boys Out of Risk served to identify and promote existing best practices that target youth-at-risk, highlight the importance of human development and focus on empowerment of youth. Submissions from 11 Caribbean countries show a remarkable diversity in approaches and activities focusing on youth at risk in the region. Read more. |
 | The high-level Regional Caribbean Conference on Keeping Boys Out of Risk, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica on May 5 to 7, 2009, provided stakeholders from 15 Caribbean countries with the opportunity to share and analyze experiences that focus on boys' underachievement in education, skills development and response to labor market challenges within a wider youth at risk framework. Read more. |
 | The key outcome of the Conference was the Common Platform for Action to Keep Boys Out of Risk. This Platform for Action includes the identification of individual priorities for keeping boys out of risk in the region, country level priorities, actions and committed first steps developed by each individual country delegation, as well as | | opportunities for further cooperation and synergies recognized by the international cooperation. Read more. |
 | Parallel to the Conference, a Best Practices Fair was held to show case the finalist initiatives identified through the Regional Contest. The objective of the Fair was to provide an opportunity to share innovative experiences and ideas from and among a range of stakeholders on best practices that target at-risk youth. Read more. |
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