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Enhancing Youth Skills and Economic Opportunities to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in ColombiaThe Government of Colombia (GoC) has identified teenage pregnancy as a priority issue. The current strategic framework to address teenage pregnancy in Colombia is outlined in the CONPES 147, effective from February 2012 until March 2014. The CONPES 147 establishes a multi-sectoral framework that aims to address the determining factors of teenage pregnancy within Colombia (Box 1). The national strategy outlined in the CONPES 147 was piloted in 192 municipalities for youth ages 10 through 19. Building on this strategy, the Commission for the Guarantee of Sexual and Reproductive Rights is developing a new framework to guide the government’s policy and activities to address this important policy issue in the coming years. Parallel to its work on teenage pregnancy, the GoC released a national strategic framework to generate opportunities for Colombian youth in July 2014. The note includes an overview of the WDR 2012 gender equality framework and World Bank regional study on teenage pregnancy; outlines the Colombian country context with regard to gender equality and youth labor market outcomes; reviews interventions that develop life skills; and highlights how these interventions might be relevant to the GoC policies and programs related to teenage pregnancy prevention (CONPES 147) and youth labor (CONPES 173).
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Supporting Youth at RiskThe World Bank has produced this policy
 Toolkit in response to a growing demand from our government
 clients and partners for advice on how to create and
 implement effective policies for at-risk youth. The author
 has highlighted 22 policies (six core policies, nine
 promising policies, and seven general policies) that have
 been effective in addressing the following five key risk
 areas for young people around the world: (i) youth
 unemployment, underemployment, and lack of formal sector
 employment; (ii) early school leaving; (iii) risky sexual
 behavior leading to early childbearing and HIV/AIDS; (iv)
 crime and violence; and (v) substance abuse. The objective
 of this Toolkit is to serve as a practical guide for policy
 makers in middle-income countries as well as professionals
 working within the area of youth development on how to
 develop and implement an effective policy portfolio to
 foster healthy and positive youth development.
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Empowering Adolescent Girls : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in UgandaNearly 60 percent of Uganda's
 population is aged below twenty. This generation faces
 health and economic challenges associated with human
 immunodeficiency virus (HIV), early pregnancy, and
 unemployment. Whether these challenges are due to a lack of
 information and or vocational skills is however uncertain. A
 programme was conducted to provide: (i) vocational training
 to run small-scale enterprises; and (ii) information on
 health and risky behaviors. The programme conducted,
 positively impacts behaviors on both economic and health
 margins. On economic margins, the intervention raises the
 likelihood that girls engage in income generating activities
 by 32 percent mainly driven by increased participation in
 self-employment. On health related margins, self-reported
 routine condom usage increases by 50 percent among the
 sexually active, and the probability of having a child
 decreases by 26 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls
 reporting sex against their will drops from 21 percent to
 almost zero. The findings suggest combined interventions
 might be more effective among adolescent girls than
 single-pronged interventions aiming to improve labor market
 outcomes solely through vocational training, or to change
 risky behaviors solely through education programmes.