 | Investments to improve young people’s lives depend on a conducive enabling environment, which the C&Y conceptual framework breaks down in three broad categories: |
1) Policies and institutions which enable C&Y investments to succeed, both at the sectoral and macro level. This includes, inter alia: economic growth strategies which are pro-poor (and therefore necessarily pro-young). policies which improve service delivery, particularly in education and health sectors as well as targeted infrastructure development. protected expenditure categories. specific attention paid to supply-side bottlenecks such as service delivery (public, private, NGO), human capacity, and governance as well as institutional champions to ensure/strengthen the multisectoral dimension of children and youth policies and investments.
2) Families and communities which support, benefit from, and thereby have ownership of the strategies and interventions with a specific focus on demand-side bottlenecks, tackling incentive problems to increase effective demand for needed services. 3) Gender-equitable participation and empowerment of youth (and children, where possible) at all levels of development - from strategy to design, from implementation to evaluation – to enable them to be agents of their own development, particularly as it relates to policies and interventions that directly affect their lives. Top |
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