Education for Competitiveness (E4C)
Mesurer le climat disciplinaire à l’école
Evidence from MENA on the Negative Impacts of Disciplinary Climates on Academic Achievement (FR)
Conditions socio économiques, Education et Extrémisme violent
Addressing Negative School Disciplinary Climates to Counter Violence and Radicalization and the Case of Tunisia
Addressing Negative School Disciplinary Climates to Counter Violence and Radicalization and the Case of Tunisia
Education, Innovation, Employability
CMI, Five Themes, Clear Vision
Education for Competitiveness (E4C): Technical Workshop on School Disciplinary Climates in MENA
Apr 10, 2017 / Highlight
Background
The Education for Competitiveness (E4C) initiative was launched to support MENA countries improve their education systems to achieve higher productivity, inclusive growth, and global competitiveness. The E4C 21st Century Skills team and their partners aim to shed light on the critical importance of promoting not only cognitive but...
How do Education and Unemployment Affect Support for Violent Extremism? Evidence from Eight Arab Countries
How do Education and Unemployment Affect Support for Violent Extremism? Evidence from Eight Arab Countries
Apr 03, 2017 / Blog entry
The year 2016 saw a spate of global terrorist attacks in United States, Ivory Coast, Belgium, France, Pakistan, Turkey and Nigeria, which has led to an increased focus on ways to combat terrorism and specifically, the threat of Daesh (Arabic acronym for ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
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The 2016 Global Millennial Viewpoints Survey
SAHWA National Case Studies
Mar 07, 2017 / Library
In line with SAHWA’s methodology -based on a mixed method- these National Case Studies (NCS) summarise the main findings coming from the Ethnographic Fieldwork and SAHWA Youth Survey with a focus on the national level (Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia). Basically, every National Case Studies are structured following the clusters...
Strengthening Human Resources for Health: Integration of Refugees into Host Community Health Systems
Mar 06, 2017 / Highlight
Rationale
Over the past six years, nearly 5 million people have fled the conflict in Syria and sought refuge in neighboring countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) such as Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, and OECD countries such as Turkey, Germany, Sweden or Austria.
The consequences of this mass exodus have been particularly profound...
Egyptian Youth Speak their Minds in Essays: We Need Better Skills for More Jobs
Feb 22, 2017 / Blog entry
In a country with high youth unemployment—such as Egypt—could it be that young people can develop new solutions? Can young, creative minds come up with new ideas that have never been considered or tested? Are young people themselves the answer to solving the unemployment challenge?
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Analysis of Youth Approaches in the MENA Region: Challenges and Opportunities of Youth Participation
The Educational and Mental Health Needs of Syrian Refugee Children
Access to Higher Education for Refugees in Jordan
Preventing A Lost Generation: Jordan “We’re Afraid for Their Future” Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
A Future in The Balance How the Conflict in Syria Is Impacting on the Needs, Concerns and Aspirations of Young People Across the Middle East
No Lost Generation: Holding to the Promise of Education for All Syrian Refugees
Europes' New Refugees: A Road Map for Better Integration Outcomes
Session Overview: Promoting Creativity and Innovation in Education to Foster Youth Inclusion in the Mediterranean
Promoting Creativity and Innovation in Education to Foster Youth Inclusion in the Mediterranean
Dec 14, 2016 / Highlight
Context and Rationale
Cities and regions in the Mediterranean are facing numerous challenges linked to an exacerbation of social spatial inequalities such as increasing migration and high youth unemployment. Cities can be a catalyst for social, economic and cultural development. While they represent engines of growth offering a range of...
Education, Innovation, Employability
Nov 29, 2016 / Program
Countries Targeted
Countries of the southern Mediterranean.
Partners
AFD; CMI; EIB; Islamic Development Bank (IsDB); Union for the Mediterranean (UfM); and the World Bank.
Regional Context
The quality of education remains the number one challenge to building inclusive Arab societies that are cohesive and stable. The pattern is...
Can Entrepreneurship Education Improve Work Opportunities for College Graduates?
Oct 18, 2016 / Library
Education is usually seen as a route for improving people’s employment opportunities, but this hasn’t proven the case in many developing countries. As the World Bank’s 2013 World Development Report highlighted.
Counting the Invisible Girls: Using Data to Transform the Lives of Women and Girls by 2030
Oct 18, 2016 / Library
Counting the Invisible' explores the current state of gender data and exposes the gaps: we don’t count how many girls leave school because of early marriage, pregnancy or violence, exactly how many give birth before they turn 15, how many hours a day they spend working, what kind of work they do and whether they get paid for it.
The Emancipation Gap in Arab Education
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Discussion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores. This is unfortunate, because educated citizens of Arab countries tend to be much less emancipated politically and socially, on average, than their peers in other parts of the world. If Arab societies are ever to become...