Programme Three: Adolescent Participation and Empowerment
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Programme objectives:
1. Contribute to the improvement of adolescent boys & girls’ development, participation and leadership.
Indicators of programme success:
Existence of an officially endorsed national youth strategy.
Existence of plans of action based on the endorsed strategy in the Higher Council for Youth, the Ministries of Education, Health and Social Development.
Percentage of trained young boys and girls aged 10-19 years who have knowledge about a minimum of 10 out of 15 key areas of basic life skills and healthy lifestyles.
Percentage of trained service providers who are implementing youth projects that meet a set criteria for participatory gender-sensitive projects.
Percentage of young boys and girls aged 10-19 years who are actively involved in participation structures.
Percentage of identified at-risk children in three governorates who are involved in innovative home, school and community-based interventions for adolescent development and participation.
Number and percentage of articles, programmes by five media institutions that promote a positive image of adolescents
Number of programmes developed by the media that are directed towards adolescents.
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Programme components:
Components of the Adolescent Participation and Development Programme
Project One: National Policy Development
Ensure the development & adoption of a national gender-sensitive youth strategy by end 2004 & its integration in the implementation plans of the Higher Council for Youth, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Development & … etc
Project Two: Adolescent Knowledge and Development
Ensure that the percentage of young boys & girls having knowledge of a minimum of ten key areas of basic life skills & healthy lifestyles, including smoke-free behaviour will increase from less than 10% to 25% for both boys & girls by the end of 2007.
Project Three: Society for Adolescents
Ensure that the percentage of young girls and young boys in three governorates actively involved in participation structures increase from less than 10% to 25% by the end of 2007.
