United Nations Population Fund organizes a workshop to analyze the Iraq youth and Adolescence survey results

  

   In cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation / Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology and the Ministry of Sports and Youth in the Kurdistan region, and in association with the League of Arab States, the United Nations Population Fund has  organized a specialized workshop in Amman, 21-22 October 2009 to discuss the results of the youth and adolescence survey. The survey has been conducted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the COSIT, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund and Family Health Project of the Arab League.

The workshop was attended by representatives of the United Nations Population Fund, in addition to researchers and specialists from Iraqi universities, American University of Beirut, and a number of regional experts and the Iraqi experts who designed and implemented the survey.

The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Abbas Kadhim, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports ,Dr. Mehdi Al-Alaq Deputy Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation, and Dr. George Georgey, representative of the United Nations Population Fund / Iraq Office. The importance of the survey has been focused on, and the significance of the  subjects addressed by the survey for the development of the actuality of Iraqi youth to take advantage of them as a great human wealth in Iraq; particularly concerning the social and economic aspects, issues of identity and belonging, science, culture and needs of youth as a part of social, security and health issues.

The workshop lasts for two days during which the report of initial results will be discussed, and the main features of the statistical report will be determined in addition to the primary axes of the deeply planned for researches which are expected to be performed during the next six months.

Experts, scholars, and specialists will debate. And at the end of workshop, the research teams, which will implement the research studies, will be identified.