Working Paper 17 - Youth and capability development: Domain report - Olha Homonchuk, Elizabeth Dessie,

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Table of Contents

• Acronyms 3
• Executive summary 5
• Context 5
• Methods 5
• Figure 1: Youth and capability development domain cities 6
• Key findings 6
• Limited access to quality education, secure work, and mental and reproductive health services hinders the capabilities of youth 6
• Implications for urban policy reform 7
• Integrated and multisectoral approaches to promoting youth capabilities 7
• Protection and support for young people in informal labour markets 7
• Meaningful inclusion of youth in decisionmaking 8
• 1. Introduction 9
• 2. Research approach 11
• 2.1. Research questions 11
• 2.2. Selection of case studies 12
• Table 1: Key characteristics of ACRC youth domain cities 12
• 2.3. Data collection and limitations 13
• Table 2: Number of respondents in each city 13
• 3. Prior knowledge 14
• 3.1. Conceptual frameworks 14
• Figure 2: ACRC’s conceptual framework 15
• Figure 3: World Bank youth transitions framework 17
• Figure 4: ACRC youth and capability development domain framework 17
• 3.2. Literature review 19
• 3.2.1. Politics of youth and power imbalances in political settlements 19
• 3.2.2. Youth capabilities within cities of systems 21
• 4. Cross-city findings 25
• 4.1. The political economy of youth inclusion and programmes 25
• 4.2. City systems’ constraints on key youth transitions 28
• 4.2.1. Education and skills training 28
• Table 2 2022 learning outcomes based on harmonised learning assessment scores16F 29
• Box 1: Story of Zuri, an 18-year-old female migrant in Addis Ababa 33
• 4.2.2. Work 33
• 4.2.3. Physical and mental health 37
• Table 3 National policies to prevent harmful use of alcohol 39
• 4.2.4. Citizenship 40
• 5. Implications 41
• 5.1. Contributions to theory 41
• 5.2. Reflections on merits of domain-level analysis 42
• 5.3. Strategic and policy implications 43
• 6. Conclusion 44
• References 47
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• 1. Introduction -1
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• Covid Collective_community responses synthesis report 060622.pdf -1
• 1. Background and introduction: Understanding Covid-19’s impacts and responses to it in East African cities -1
• 2. Methodology -1
• 3. Key findings -1
• 3.1. Violence and insecurity -1
• 3.2. Emergency relief -1
• Mogadishu -1
• 3.3. Countering misinformation and tackling the Covid ‘infodemic’ -1
• 3.4. Coalitions, collaboration and grassroots-led responses -1
• Kampala -1
• Figure 1: Overview of the top-down formal structure of Uganda’s Covid-19 response led by the NTF -1
• Mogadishu -1
• Figure 2: Overview of the formal structure of Somalia’s Covid-19 response, including the Mogadishu Incident Management System -1
• Nairobi -1
• Mathare -1
• 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations -1
• Table 1. Summary of key Covid-19 responses (top) and different cross-cutting modalities of interaction between actors in the three cities (below) -1
• Figure 3: Modalities of interaction across scales in response to the Covid-19 pandemic -1
• 4.1 Key Recommendations -1
• References -1