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Development Gateway Foundation dgCommunities: Poverty http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty?intcmp=923 December 5, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: "Self-employment Programs: a Policy Response to Youth Unemployment, Underemployment and Informal Employment in Latin American Countries"   2. RESOURCES 3. NEW dgSPECIAL REPORT LAUNCHED 4. dgCommunities Member Survey, Fall 2006        5. PARTNERSHIPS: Become a dgPOVERTY COOPERATING ORGANIZATION!   6. INTRODUCING NEW dgPoverty GUIDES: Mr. Anura Widanapathirana and Mr. Agyemang Koforobour Amo               7. MEMBER DIRECTORY: Update Your Profile for Networking & Collaboration        8. DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT        9. VIRTUAL CONSULTATION FOR INTER-AMERICAN MINISTERIAL MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear dgPoverty Member, Welcome to your newsletter from the Poverty Community of the Development Gateway. Carmen V. Caballero dgPoverty Content Coordinator ccaballero@dgfoundation.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: "Self-employment Programs: a Policy Response to Youth Unemployment,Underemployment and Informal Employment in Latin American Countries"    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contributed by Miguel Jaramillo, dgPoverty Advisor Latin American countries face important labor market problems, the labor situation being particularly critical for youth, whose unemployment rates are more than double those of adults. Self-employment programs constitute a relatively recent and appealing policy option. Their principal aim is to develop the abilities of entrepreneurial youth to run their own businesses. In the Latin American context, where wage-earning labor demand is insufficient to absorb the increasing labor supply; the principal advantage of this type of program over other policy options is that they are less likely to produce crowding-out effects, that is, to transfer unemployment from policy beneficiaries to non-beneficiaries. Impact evaluations of two Peruvian self-employment programs targeted at disadvantaged youth find positive effects of these programs on the probability of business creation and on beneficiaries' earnings. However, empirical evidence of the impacts of self-employment programs is still incipient and much has to be done in this area. Nevertheless, self-employment programs appear as an attractive policy response to youth unemployment, especially taking into account the Latin American context; and therefore they must be regarded as an important component of the global employment creation strategy in these countries. Read this highlight visiting: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/highlights/viewHighlight.do~activeHighlightId=111313?intcmp=923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. RESOURCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Youth Unemployment is A Persistent Problem in Latin America   http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1080609?intcmp=923 - The Global Challenge of Youth Unemployment   http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1072379?intcmp=923 - CEPAL. 2005. Panorama Social de América Latina 2005   http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1052785?intcmp=923 - CINTERFOR-OIT. Sección jóvenes, formación y empleo.    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1081989?intcmp=923 - The challenge of youth unemployment   http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1009776?intcmp=923 - Latin American youth in transition: a policy paper on youth unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean   http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~309916?intcmp=923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.  NEW dgSPECIAL REPORT LAUNCHED ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW dgSPECIAL REPORT LAUNCHED: 'Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World' The new dgSpecial Report 'Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World' has launched.  With 1.3 billion young people between the ages of 12 and 24 in the developing world, the Report builds on the claim that a window of opportunity is now open for developing countries to adopt policies for long-term benefit. The Report includes interviews with policy-makers and youth leaders, as well as results of the DG survey, where key issues for youth are discussed.  Because ICT will play an important role in the lives of this generation, the Report also highlights the winner and finalists of the 2006 Development Gateway Award, focused this year on ICT projects that empower youth.  Read 'Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World' at http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/youth?intcmp=923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. dgCommunities Member Survey, Fall 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You're invited to participate in our first survey of the entire dgCommunities membership! Our aim is to obtain invaluable feedback from the community as a whole. You are part of a worldwide practitioner community that is well over 36,000 strong - won't you add your voice by taking just a few minutes to complete our multiple choice survey questions at (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=458122624514)? We know there is much more we can do to provide a platform that facilitates your work and assists you in achieving a greater impact. With this survey, you can play an integral role in the decision making process regarding enhancements to the dgCommunities platform going forward. This is your platform and your community. We look forward to your advice, guidance, and suggestions! Please access the survey at (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=458122624514). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. PARTNERSHIPS: Become a dgPOVERTY COOPERATING ORGANIZATION! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Members, Are you looking for a way to increase your organizations or your own web presence and leverage the Internet for greater development impact? Would you like to play a leading role in facilitating online knowledge exchange & collaboration among development practitioners? If so, we invite you to consider becoming a Cooperating Organization Guide on the Development Gateway! If interested in knowing more about this collaborative opportunity with the Development Gateway, please contact us at ccaballero@dgfoundation.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. INTRODUCING NEW dgPoverty GUIDES: Mr. Anura Widanapathirana and Mr. Agyemang Koforobour Amo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The dgPoverty Community welcomes Mr. Anura Widanapathirana as a new Guide! Mr. Widanapathirana is a researcher, practitioner and team leader in community based resource management initiatives for livelihood enhancement and poverty reduction. Experienced in 12 countries from Africa, Asia and the Pacific during my 25 years of professional career. By training, possess B Sc in agriculture, agricultural economics (at Masters) and social development (Doctoral). Currently working on a poverty reduction project in Asia. His priority areas include: accountability, empowerment, participatory systems and methods, capacity development and, an enabling environment for the civil organisations, in particular community based organisations directly involved in production, management; empowering people of rural based organisations to work effectively in achieving community development with accountability, responsibility and sustainability. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/UserProfile.do~userId=10070024?intcmp=923 The dgPoverty Community welcomes Mr. Agyemang Koforobour Amo as a new Guide! Mr. Amo holds a BA (Economics and Geography) Hons. Degree and an MSc. Degree in Development Policy and Planning. He has worked as a Development Planning Officer of a District Assembly in Ghana, As a Senior Programme Officer of Environmental Protection Agency and currently a Senior Advisor of SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) Ghana. His areas of interest include research and programmes in areas as environmental impact assessment, poverty and empowerment, participatory learning action, rural and urban development and governance. Currently activities include; providing advisory services in the preparation of medium-term development plans for one District Assembly and one Metropolitan Assembly in Ghana. Mr. Amo is also co-ordinating the MDGs localisation project in a District Assembly. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/UserProfile.do~userId=96081?intcmp=923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.  NEW MEMBER DIRECTORY - UPDATE YOUR MEMBER PROFILE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With over 30,000 registered dgCommunities members, the Member Directory provides a one-stop shop for key contacts and collaboration worldwide. We invite you to take advantage of this unprecedented collaborative tool and add your profile today! Our new Member Directory enables you to more easily contact fellow professionals in the international development community for expert advice, information, and collaboration. You will be able to find development practitioners from over 200 countries, with interests and expertise in dozens of areas, including your own!  We invite you to update your member profile to let your colleagues in development know more about your interests and expertise. You'll find the profiles very useful when using the Member Directory to communicate and collaborate with fellow members on your next program or project. From http://www.developmentgateway.org?intcmp=923  simply click on "My Gateway" in the upper right corner, log in, scroll down to "My Member Profile" and click "edit this information." Quick Start - 4 Easy Steps: -ESTABLISH YOUR PROFILE Let your colleagues in development know more about your interests and expertise through your dgCommunities profile. Simply log in, go to My Gateway, scroll down to "My Member Profile", and click "Edit this information". http://www.developmentgateway.org/topics/um/user/showUserAccount.do?intcmp=923 -SEARCH FOR MEMBERS Log in to the Development Gateway, and click the Member Directory link located in the right column on any dgCommunity home page. You can search by: name, country, interest, expertise, organization, organization type, or by keywords in member bios. Search Results will show you a list of members with a link to their profiles. You can also reach the Member Directory when you log in, go to My Gateway and click on "Add Members to My Contacts". http://topics.developmentgateway.org/um~user/showMemberDirectory.do?intcmp=923 -COMMUNICATE WITH MEMBERS When viewing a member's profile, click "Contact this user". This will open a message box in which you can type and send a message through our message forwarding system. -CREATE OWN CONTACT LIST OF MEMBERS You can build a list of key contacts and form your own network of members. Searching for members will produce a results list; you can then select members to be added to your "My Contacts" list by clicking on the plus sign under "Status" for each desired contact. Or, when viewing a particular member's profile, click "Add this member to My Contacts". Your full "My Contacts" list can be viewed when you log in, go to My Gateway, scroll down to "My Contacts" and click "View My Contacts." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have knowledge resources you want to share with the community, such as websites, reports or presentations? Want to raise awareness AND drive traffic to your website? You can accomplish both of them by adding content to the Development Gateway in dgCommunities. It's easy: simply go to http://topics.developmentgateway.org?intcmp=923  , click on the topic most related to your content, and click "Add Content Here" located in the middle of the page. Links to approved content are sent by e-mail alerts to registered members--an effective way to share knowledge and direct traffic to your website! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. VIRTUAL CONSULTATION FOR INTER-AMERICAN MINISTERIAL MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ dgCommunities members are invited to share their views in a virtual consultation forum with civil society and indigenous peoples sponsored by the Government of Bolivia and the Organization of American States, and in cooperation with the Development Gateway Foundation. The forum will address sustainable development issues. A summary of comments will be presented by the OAS to the First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities on Sustainable Development, to be held in Bolivia on October 5-6. To participate in the consultation in English: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/discussion/showDiscussion.do~id=1441?intcmp=923 To participate in the consultation in Spanish: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/discussion/showDiscussion.do~id=1461?intcmp=923 To explore similar collaborative opportunities with the Development Gateway, please contact us at partners@dgfoundation.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DID YOU KNOW?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As a member of the dgCommunity on Poverty you can share your knowledge resources (e.g., websites, papers, reports, presentations, images, news, events, etc) in just about any format including streaming audio and video. Each resource will be described on a unique interactive page that will acknowledge you as the contributor and link to your profile. To view full text of knowledge resources, users will follow links to host websites, which will benefit from increased traffic from the Development Gateway community! Simply click on the "Add content here" hyperlink at:  http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/Contribute.do~flag=url~from=SampleLayout?intcmp=923 Thank you! Camen Caballero, Managing Editor Email: poverty@dgfoundation.org http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty?intcmp=923

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