 | August 2009 Joint Statement on Child-Sensitive Social Protection by DFID, HelpAge International, Hope & Homes for Children, Institute of Development Studies, International Labour Organization, Overseas Development Institute, Save the Children UK, UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank. |
 | July 2009 | Report Number: 49242 Designed to respond to needs for assessment of the quality of the system, specifically for the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program which delivers ECE through a pre-school center referred to as Anganwadi. However, it can be adapted for other programs as well. |
 | By Saroj K. Adhikari
June 2009 | Report Number: 49483 Focusing on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), India's largest nutrition and early child development program, this paper describes the political, organizational, and technical challenges in building and sustaining an outcomes-oriented approach to nutrition program monitoring. |
 | By Amina Semlali, Teresa Osicka
June 2009 Provides a summary of World Bank projects targeting youth during Fiscal Years 1995-2007 (FY95-07) and identifies trends in lending and grants in terms of loan amounts, the number of projects, sectoral emphasis, and regional distribution. |
 | By Lia C. H. Fernald, Patricia Kariger, Patrice Engle, Abbie Raikes
April 2009 The toolkit aims to: (i) provide an overview of issues affecting early development and its measurement; (ii) discuss the types of tests typically used with children under five years; (iii) provide guidelines for selecting and adapting tests for use in developing countries, and (iv) make recommendations for planning successful assessment strategies. |
 | March 2009 | Report Number: 48460 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-7924-0 Argentina's youth cohort is the country's largest ever, and 46 percent of the youth are at some form of risk today. This report applies the framework of the WDR 2007 and examines the five life-changing transitions that all youth confront: leaving school and continuing to learn, starting to work, developing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, forming a family, and exercising citizenship. |
 | By Sophie Naudeau
March 2009 This note presents the evidence on the role that simple early childhood stimulation inputs can play when they accompany nutrition inputs, and how the joint intervention is crucial to the development of young children. This note also provides examples of how early childhood stimulation can easily be integrated into current policies and programs at relatively low marginal costs. |
 | By Pia Peeters, Wendy Cunningham, Gayatri Acharya, Arvil Van Adams
February 2009 | Report Number: 47609 | ISBN: 0-8213-7822-8
Download available for Staff Only Assesses the challenges and options for improving sustainable livelihood opportunities for youth in post-conflict Sierra Leone by analyzing the supply and demand sides of the labor market. |
 | By Minna Mattero, Charmagne Campbell-Patton
February 2009 Captures the presentations and discussion that took place in the meeting while also providing more general information about evaluating youth service programs. It is intended as a learning tool for organizations that are planning on evaluating their youth projects by providing information about the options and challenges related to impact evaluations. More » |
 | Identifies the extent of and causes of risky-behavior by youth and presents a concrete set of policies and interventions to address key challenges facing youth at risk in the region. |
 | By Rebekka Grun
December 2008 There is a variety of options to finance pre-school provision. Financing models differ in the extent to which they fund via the supply (premises, staff) side or the demand (parent) side, and according to the role which public, private and voluntary sector partners play in delivery and funding. This note will study the real cases of five quite distinct financing models, which range from pure public supply side funding to pure demand side funding, and are present in France, Sweden, the USA, England and New Zealand. |
 | 2008 | Report Number: 42315 Provides an overview of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in India and recommendations for change. |
 | December 2008 | Report Number: 46951 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-7787-1
Also available in Portuguese and French Argues for the need of an integrated approach should governments want to tackle youth employment issues in a sustainable manner. |
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