Dreams Deferred: Educational and Skills-building Needs and Opportunities for Youth in Liberia
As part of a global, multi-year research and advocacy project focused on strengthening educational and job training programs for displaced, conflict-affected young people, the Women’s Refugee Commission undertook a field mission to the Republic of Liberia to look at young people’s education and skills-building needs and opportunities. With the demobilization, disarmament, rehabilitation and reintegration process over as of July 2009, it is now an opportune time to take stock of the youth employment training that has been ongoing since the end of Liberia’s 14-year civil war in 2003—and to find better ways forward.