United Nations System Projects on Youth:
UNESCO had undertaken a project entitled "international programme of education against drug abuse (IPED) - phase I (RLA/736)", which lasted from October 1992 to December 1996. The project is the preparatory phase of a broader UNESCO/UNDCP preventive education programme in the Andean region (total budget of US$ 1.4 million), aimed at reducing demand for drugs and at promoting regional cooperation and coordination. The project covers five countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The preparatory phase consists of the initial review and preparation of preventive education activities and the identification of pr priorities and development of an action plan for in-school and out-of-school populations. The exercise will serve as the basis for the design of national and/or sub-regionai project proposals in the field of educational drug prevention.
There are several projects of the UN system which have components concerned with youth in Ecuador in such sectors as: agriculture, education, environment, health, population and social development. Executing agencies of such projects are: UNOPS, IBRD and UNCHS. One example of such a project is in the social development sector. UNDP allocated US$473,700 for projects in 1995-1996 in Ecuador concerned with the promotion of a programme of human rights education and community action for human settlements. Those activities included a component on the role of youth in those human rights education programmes and in the community action for human settlements in Ecuador
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