YRTEP

Evaluates the impact of the Youth Reintegration Training and Education for Peace (YRTEP) program in Sierra Leone (2000-2001), designed to provide ex-combatant and other war- affected youth with non-formal education (NFE) activities in reintegration, livelihood skills development, remedial education, and basic literacy and numeracy skills. Management Systems International (MSI) implemented the project. The YRTEP program accomplished what it set out to do and did so extraordinarily well. The program has made a significant difference in the lives of the participants, who have done things they would otherwise not have done and gained information they would otherwise not had the opportunity to acquire. They have learned to read and write and to work with numbers in ways they can use in their day-to-day lives. Their physical health has benefitted from the information they have been exposed to and they are better able to manage health concerns. They have learned about democracy and good governance and are prepared to participate more fully in the electoral process and in the governance of their communities. They have learned a variety of ways to manage stress and conflict and have be

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABT-950 (2001). The source's own text.