Reflections on Young Women and the Youth Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

There has been an upsurge in academic studies on youth in Sub-Saharan Africa since the last decade of the 20th century, underlining the growing importance that generational cleavages seem to play in today’s societies. However, gender has been neglected in research and policies bearing on youth, unveiling a rather negative and limited approach to Sub-Saharan African youth: limit situations are those most focused on (as the role of youth in conflicts), young males being perceived as the most active in those contexts and who therefore shall be the focus of political (and academic) attention. Acknowledging the need to integrate gender in the approaches to youth, this paper tries to grasp, through a preliminary literature review, how the predicaments of the so-called “youth crisis” are lived and perceived by young girls, and identify the main themes and theoretical perspectives of the literature that has tried to explore this thematic.

‘A tiger that wants to become a lion’: Violent forms of agency among youth in Cape Verde

Cape Verdean prison population raised 100% in the last ten years: in this paper I offer an interpretation of this disturbing figure, addressing the issue of young offenders and children in conflict with the law, the perception of youth crime in Cape Verde, and how the government has recently dealt with these issues. Cape Verde currently deploys a repressive approach to the issue of youth crime: in this draconian context, I will follow the application of policies and laws targeting juvenile delinquents as well as the public and media discourse on the issue. At the same time, through interviews with younger inmates in prisons and institutions, I will relocate young offenders’ behavior and activity within their wider social context, providing urgently needed data on the cultural and social dimensions of juvenile offending and violence.

Agriculture et Peche: Strategie de Developpement a L’Horizon 2015 & Plan D’Action 2005-2008

stratégiques importants, le programme national de sécurité alimentaire du Cap-Vert, avec une orientation marquée pour la réduction de la pauvreté le PANA II en cours d’élaboration, le document UNDAF2 pour le Cap-Vert élaboré en septembre 2002, avec quatre axes d’intervention prioritaire et cinq dimensions transversales. la dimension genre, pour favoriser la participation effective de toutes les couches de la société (notamment les femmes) au processus de développement socio-économique du pays, particulièrement dans les politiques, stratégies et programmes du MAAP en cohérence avec la politique de décentralisation du Gouvernement. les dynamiques d’intégration sous-régionale en cours dans le cadre de la CEDEAO3, et du CILSS4, et continentales dans le cadre du NEPAD5. C'est en tenant compte de l’ensemble du cadre contextuel évoqué et de la complexité des tâches à accomplir que le Gouvernement a sollicité l'assistance de la FAO, au titre du programme de coopération technique, pour l’aider à élaborer une stratégie de développement agricole à long terme (horizon 2015) et préparer un Plan d’actions prioritaires à moyen terme.