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International Water Management Institute (IWMI) named 2012 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), with headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has been named the 2012 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for their pioneering research that has served to improve agriculture water management, enhance food security, protect environmental health and alleviate poverty in developing countries.


Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa Calls for Secretariat and Volunteer Applicants

The African Union has declared the year 2008 the Year of African Youth, also called YAY 2008.


Brazilian Football Great Ronaldinho Kicks-Off Institute to Help Poor Youth Through Sport

The UN is cooperating with the institute and will provide technical advice and assist in recruiting professional staff before the programme begins next March, as it shows the power of sport to help countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets to slash poverty and other global ills by 2015, the world body said.


YouthNet Provides Youth Participation Guide

The Youth Participation Guide seeks to increase the level of meaningful youth participation in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programming at an institutional and programmatic level.


Reducing the Risk High School Programs: Building Skills to Prevent Pregnancy, STD and HIV

"Reducing the Risk" (RTR) is a 17-lesson curriculum developed by Richard Barth, MSW, PhD, with the help of staff from ETR Associates in Santa Cruz, California, a nonprofit health education organization founded in 1981. In use since the early 1990's, RTR is specifically designed to delay the onset of sexual intercourse and to increase knowledge about pregnancy risk, contraceptive use, and protection against sexually transmissible infections.


The Plain Talk Initiative for Teens

Launched in 1993, the Plain Talk initiative is aimed at helping communities develop and implement locally acceptable plans to protect sexually active youth from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmissible infections.


The Growing Together program of Girls Inc.,

Girls Inc. is a national youth organization dedicated to helping girls achieve their full potential as human beings. Since 1981, Girls Inc. has been on record as supporting age-appropriate sexuality education and, in the late 1980s, developed a series of programs on Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy for young women aged 9-18.


Valley Community Clinic

The VCC Teen Clinic maintains the philosophy that teens tend to better understand and place more value on information about sexuality issues if it is presented to them by their peers. Designed with the help of a Teen Advisory Committee, the clinic is run by teen staff under professional supervision. The staff are graduates of the VCC's AIDS Education and Prevention Peer Health Educator Project with forty hours of training that covers birth control and pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmissible infections, skills for dealing with peer pressure, and effective communication.


Action Health Incorporated

AHI is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of adolescent health and development. It serves as a leading advocate and catalyst for change in the present poor status of adolescents’ well-being by increasing public awareness and implementing innovative education, healthcare and youth development programmes. T


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