ICP Publications
Policy Scans
ICP has conducted three policy-scans in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Eastern Europe (EE), and the East Asia and Pacific Region (EAPRO). 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. Both the LAC and EE reports are available below. The EAPRO report was commissioned by UNICEF and its public release is subject to agency approval.
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
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 Post Conflict Reconstruction, 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
Other Reports
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