Since the mid-1990s, the proportion of Governments that viewed adolescent fertility as a major concern has risen steadily in all major world regions, except in Northern America. Such programmes also include innovative educational approaches, including peer counselling for young people and orientation for parents, as well as strengthening education on reproductive and sexual health in non-formal settings, vocational training programmes and youth clubs (United Nations Population Fund, 2007). In 2013, 94 per cent of Governments in less developed regions had policies and programmes to reduce adolescent fertility, compared with 77 per cent of Governments in more developed regions. All Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania, and all but one Government in Africa, had policies and programmes to reduce adolescent fertility in 2013, whereas 23 per cent of Governments in Europe and 19 per cent in Asia did not have such policies or programmes.