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TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grant Award Recipients Announced

IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition for the Fall 2010 cycle.

Posted on September 20, 2010 - in Conflict Resolution, Youth
Woman searches through debris where her house once stood, Banda Aceh, Sumatra

I’m in Indonesia this week, and through conversations with representatives of NGOs, multilateral institutions, and random taxi drivers, I have been thinking a lot about the line between...

School feeding program sponsored by WFP; photo by Julien Harneis

The message of the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign is particularly suited to the current American obesity crisis. Yet she is also following in the footsteps of other...

Posted on September 16, 2010 - in Youth
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We invite you to a panel discussion that addresses the issue of vulnerable children and youth and the different approaches that are currently being used by the development community to reach...

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Ukrainian Teacher Launches Anti-Drug Campaign

Ukrainian English teacher Oleksandr Korotkov developed a month-long anti-drug campaign to combat drug use among youth in the Kyievo-Sviatoshynskyiregion of Ukraine.

Bob Pearson with the new IREX website

Whether we currently work together, our paths crossed years ago, or we have yet to form a partnership, we hope this website will be valuable to you and provide better understanding about the...

Posted on September 5, 2010 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Conflict Resolution, Youth
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Elected government of the YIPP Youth Leadership Camp

Youth develop leadership skills and increase cross-cultural understanding through camp organized as part of the USAID-funded, IREX-implemented Youth Initiative for the...

Posted on August 26, 2010 - Susie Armitage in Conflict Resolution, Youth
Rehearsing a scene about domestic violence

Firdavs thinks I can’t see his mouth moving. I’ve asked him and the other teachers not to tell the youth at our theater camp in Tajikistan what to say, and to let the campers create...

Posted on August 11, 2010 - Susie Armitage in Youth
Youth Theater for Peace participants at a summer camp in Tajikistan.

From time to time since I started focusing on youth development projects at IREX, I’ve thought back to my first day of ninth grade. I went to a big public high school with around 2,000...

Posted on July 7, 2010 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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On May 20, representatives of more than 60 NGOs from around Kazakhstan converged to discuss, develop, and accelerate solutions to improve the effectiveness of organizations providing social...