Essays about: "unemployed young people"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words unemployed young people.

  1. 1. Education, Employability and Imagining the Future: A Minor Field Study of Goals and Motivations in a South African Small-Scale Development Programme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Melina Pettersson; Julia Rönnbäck Finocchio; [2023]
    Keywords : Youth unemployment; Development; Education; Inequality; South Africa; Employability; Horizons of opportunity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, and that shows in the distribution of opportunities amongst South Africans. In the face of political failures to deliver improvements for unemployed youth NGO projects become more important avenues for young people to acquire resources needed to improve their lives. READ MORE

  3. 2. The potential future travelers on the North Bothnia Line : Sävar, Robertsfors and Bureå

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Johanna Mikkola Bouvin; [2023]
    Keywords : North Bothnia Line; Sustainable transport; Sustainable travel; Social sustainability; Socially sustainable travel; Socially sustainable public transport; Transport justice; Transport poverty; Travel mode choice; Travel behavior; Sävar; Robertsfors; Bureå; Norrbotniabanans noder 2;

    Abstract : With a foundation in social sustainability, and with the theoretical framework of transport justice and transport poverty, the aim of this thesis is to create a profile picture of the future potential travelers on the North Bothnia Line in Sävar, Robertsfors and Bureå. Both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis are performed. READ MORE

  4. 3. Youth civic engagement in Bhutan: Obedient citizens or social activists?

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Riikka Suhonen; [2014]
    Keywords : youth participation; civic engagement; democratisation; Bhutan; active citizenship;

    Abstract : People’s participation in their own development is at the core of Communication forDevelopment. This study explores the potential and barriers for youth civic engagementespecially among the urban youth in Bhutan, a newly democratised country in theEastern Himalayas. READ MORE

  5. 4. Nayapalli Pallavi : An Urban Village Development Project in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Edith Humble; [2014]
    Keywords : Women; India; Odisha; Bhubaneswar; Community Centre; Launderette; Alcoholism; Social Sustainable; Urban development; Public Space; village; square; Kvinnor; Indien; Odisha; Bhubaneswar; Community center; tvätteri; alkoholism; socialt hållbar; stadsutveckling; offentliga rummet; torg; by;

    Abstract : With a grant from Sida I went to Odisha, to learn about women’s local conditions and try to find out how a building could somehow ameliorate it. Through Architects Sans Frontières I got in touch with Urban and Development Resource Centre, working with upgrading slum areas. READ MORE

  6. 5. Benefits of the Vocational Education - Perceptions of the Young Female Students of a Vocational Training Center in Addis Ababa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Ulla-Kaisa Pihlaja; [2014]
    Keywords : education; youth; developing countries; Ethiopia; vocational education and training VET ; capabilities approach; gender; changing urban space; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The importance of education in development is generally acknowledged, but in the discussions and practice, this usually includes only basic education. However, during recent years, the growing number of urban unemployed youth in cities of developing countries has raised the question of the role of vocational education and training (VET). READ MORE