ICP Publications
Policy Scans
ICP has conducted four policy-scans in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Eastern Europe (EE), the East Asia and Pacific Region (EAPRO) and South Asia. Policy-scans are designed to develop a greater understanding of the available opportunities for youth civic engagement in a given region. Specifically our research seeks to identify the nature of the policy environment in countries throughout a region and the impact of that policy environment on opportunities for youth civic engagement.
Policy Scan: An Exploratory Study of National Youth Service Policy in 19 Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
Policy Scan: An Explanation of Movements Towards Youth Service In Eastern Europe
Young People's Civic Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific
Youth Development through Civic Engagement: Mapping Assets in South Asia
Service as a Strategy
ICP has published a Service As Strategy series that highlight the positive role that service can play as a strategy for addressing a variety of social issues. Updated versions of the papers in the series are available below. Forthcoming papers in the series include Service as a Strategy for Social Inclusion and Service as a Strategy for Climate Change Mitigation.
Service as a Strategy: Promoting Democracy
Service as a Strategy: Combating Youth Unemployment
Service as a Strategy: Youth and Community Development
Service as a Strategy for Post-Conflict Recovery
Service as a Strategy: Addressing Critical National Needs
Other Reports
What Works: Adolescent Participation in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010)
Innovations in Civic Participation and the Adolescent Development and Participation Unit of UNICEF´s Regional Office in the Latin America and the Caribbean developed this handbook which addresses the link between participation and citizenship and serves as a guide to some of the most promising practices in the field to assist practitioners in developing programs to engage adolescents through participation.
Available in English and Spanish.
Transforming Communities through Service: A Collection of 52 of the Most Innovative AmeriCorps*State Programs in the United States (2010)
Created in collaboration with America's Service Commissions, this publication showcases innovative AmeriCorps*State programs throughout the United States
Innovations in International Youth Volunteering: An Analysis of 22 Innovative Youth Volunteer Programs from Around the World (2008)
This report was commissioned by v, an independent charity championing youth volunteering in England. Identifies and analyzes innovation in youth volunteering through 22 case studies and makes recommendations for fostering similar innovation in England and elsewhere.
Youth
Service: A Strategy for Youth And National
Development (2007)
This Development Note was published by the
World Bank in the 2007 World Development Report
and is based on the
Service As a
Strategy for Development paper published
by ICP.
Summer
of Service (2006)
Outlines
the potential for a new type of service program
directed at middle-school aged young
people.
Pathways
to a New Future (2005)
Examines
the links between the service and conservation
corps experience, higher education, and
employment.
Transforming
Communities Through Service (2005)
Showcases
51 of the most innovative AmeriCorps programs
from around the country.
Service to Civics
(2003)
Describes national and
community service programs that have civic
engagement as an explicit objective or
goal.
A
Global Perspective
Chapter by Susan Stroud
from, The Americorps Experiment and the
Future of National Service Edited By Will
Marshall and Marc Porter Magee
Country/Program Profiles
Zimbabwe's
National Youth Service Program