Adolescent Health and Development (AHD) : A Resource Guide for World Bank Operations Staff and Government Counterparts
This resource guide begins with an overview of AHD issues, laying out the case for governments to direct attention and resources to AHD. It discusses good practices to improve a range of youth health outcomes. The next section focuses on the relati...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/5180281/adolescent-health-development-ahd-resource-guide-world-bank-operations-staff-government-counterparts http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13635 |
| Summary: | This resource guide begins with an
overview of AHD issues, laying out the case for governments
to direct attention and resources to AHD. It discusses good
practices to improve a range of youth health outcomes. The
next section focuses on the relationship between poverty and
young people's health and outlines strategies to
provide health services to poor youth. The final section of
the guide examines the current efforts of the World Bank to
promote AHD. Technical appendixes provide further examples
and concrete information for use in project design and
analysis. More information will be found on the Bank's
AHD website, which is currently under development. The guide
supports the effort to better integrate adolescent health
and development (AHD) concerns into the analytic and lending
work of the World Bank. It also has been created to give
Bank staff members essential information with which to
engage their counterparts in policy dialogue on AHD and to
advocate for greater government attention to the needs of
youth. Increasing the effectiveness of Bank efforts directed
at AHD will help the Bank to improve the health and
well-being of youth in developing countries. The main
audience for the guide is Bank operations staff members and
government counterparts associated with poverty reduction
strategies and human development sector projects. External
Bank partners and other organizations interested in youth
may also find the guide useful. |
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