The premise is relatively simple: 75 million youth in the world are unemployed, and while macroeconomic factors take some of the blame for insufficient job creation, many youth remain incapable of taking advantage of existing job vacancies due to a lack of desired skills.

The Innovative Secondary Education for Skills Enhancement (ISESE) Competition blog series features the winners, runners-up and five additional models that have been selected due to their innovation, impact, sustainability and potential for replication in Africa and Asia. This is Part 2 of our 10-part series.

R4D’s #101Wednesday blog series aims to put complex issues arising in international development into plain English. Have a question for us? Email us at communications@resultsfordevelopment.org and we’ll be more than happy to answer it for you.

What is governance? More importantly, what is good governance?

A collection of links that caught the attention of R4D staff in last week.  

From Aaron Ausland's "A Cautionary Tale in Charts."

The following guest blog post comes from Jennifer Lentfer (@intldogooder), founder and editor at How-Matters.org and recently named one of the top 100 women tweeting in the foreign affairs space.

A collection of links that caught the attention of R4D staff in last week. 

Uganda has made great strides in the past few years building up the "hardware" of its public distribution system for medicines – central warehouses and staffed distribution points – but the "software" isn’t quite right. Many health centers run out of medicines in the 2-3 months between deliveries, meanwhile central warehouses are chock-full of supplies.

The New York Times recently published an article on “32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow”, one of which includes analytical underwear. In a few years, your underwear will be embedded with electromyographic sensors that analyze how hard you work your muscles.

Uganda made education a human right for its citizens. In one typical rural district of Uganda almost half of all teachers were absent on any given school day, denying children their right to an education.

Given the way that UNESCO has handled the cut in United States funding, the potential implications for UNESCO’s future – and thus for education worldwide – are discouraging indeed. So discouraging in fact that the United States should think carefully about the terms on which it might re-engage financially.