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Posted: Aug. 02 2006,21:45 by mterano from INTERNATIONAL - Mayumi Terano
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(note: this response came in two parts, so be sure to read both of them below)
1. a) If funds were available, what youth activities related to a CoP would you like to do as an individual?
Education for a culture of peace
Respect for human rights
Sustainable development
Democratic participation
Equality between women and men
b) What non-financial support do you need to do these activities?
Frequent flow of information, making linkages with other like-minded groups and highlighting our initiatives internationally
c) If funds were available, what youth activities related to a CoP would your organization like to do?
Youth
Action Nepal can operate the activities like training and education,
lobby, advocacy and campaign as well as building partnership and
collaborative action with like-minded organization could be done from
local to international level
d) What non-financial support does your organization need for CoP activities?
Frequent flow of information, making linkages with other like-minded groups and highlighting our initiatives internationally
2. a) What changes in youth policies do you think the government/leadership in your country should make to promote a CoP?
Nepal
still does have National Youth Policy, so the first step need to be
taken to formulate the national youth policy. The second can be the
initiatives from government as well as NGO sectors for enhancing youth
activism for peace and the third one youth need to have opportunity to
engage in community projects for the promotion of culture of peace
b) What CoP youth activities/initiatives do you think the UN should do?
• Funding as well as technical support for youth led and youth focused initiatives
• Trying to influence national government to develop COP friendly youth policy in the national level
• Exchange of information and collaborative efforts need to be promoted and should make it effective
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS
3.
Do you have any suggestions or recommendations for improving youth
participation in CoP activities on any levels (UN, government, civil
society)?
4. What could be done to improve/ensure transparency and flow of information in promoting the CoP?
5. To ensure the best possible benefit of a UN Voluntary Fund for youth and CoP, how should it be managed/administered?
• National and local youth led and youth focused NGOs should be in priority for support
• Regions with affected from conflict should be in high priority
6. How can youth not yet involved in CoP activities be reached and motivated?
• Lack of encouragement
• Lack of appropriate forums
• Lack of proper education and awareness
• They are not really valued and recognized in the society
7. a) Which other organizations do you know of, that work for a CoP?
HRERLIC-Nepal (www.humanrights.org.np )
Collective Campaign for peace (www.cocap.org.np )
b) Would you be willing to contact them or may we contact them with the questionnaire? Please specify.
8. My response to this questionnaire is my personal opinion organisation’s opinion
Name of organization: Youth Action Nepal
Address:
91/71, Sahayog Marga, Anamnagar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Prakash Bhattarai
E-mail: youthactionnepal@gmail.com /youthactionnepal@ntc.net.np
Telephone and fax: 00977-01-621 5580
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From: Youth Action Nepal
To: ycp@decade-culture-of-peace.org
Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:13:59 PM
Subject: Survey Form
Dear Dr. David Adams,
Though I have already submitted this application but I am sending it again with additional information
With Regards,
Prakash Bhattarai
Firstly) Is your organization youth-led or primarily youth-serving? Please explain briefly
Youth
Action Nepal (YOAC) came in existence in the year 2003 with the
initiation of Nepalese university students considering the vulnerable
social, economic and political situation of Nepal after the origination
of armed conflict and the existing structural forms of human rights
violations. There are considerable numbers of NGOs and community based
organisations and their activities have also reached through out the
country but there was still the lack of organisation that had purely
focused their activities for the active involvement of youth in
community development process. There was also the lack of organisation
that could represent the voice of youth from grassroots to national
level to influence the state policies, which has made rigorous impact
in the life of youth. Thus, YOAC came in existence with a new vision to
address the burning social and human rights issues of the country with
the active participation of youth from local to international level
with due consideration about the power of youth for social
transformation.
YOAC is youth led and youth focused
organisation dedicated to youth development and human rights action. It
has been carrying out research and study, training and education and
lobby advocacy and campaign related activities to address the burning
social issues of the country. All YOAC's activities are focused on the
establishment of justifiable society through the active youth
involvement. YOAC has been reaching out from conflict affected region
to the vulnerable youth community of Nepal.
Human rights and
conflict management training, youth work camp for personal development,
peace conference and rallies, gender and women rights training and
advocacy on national youth policy are some YOAC's activities organised
in the past.
1. INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
a) If funds were available, what youth activities related to a culture of peace (CoP) would you like to do as an individual?
I
would like to carry out educational as well as action research oriented
activities to promote the culture of peace. The activities will be
human rights and peace education, youth participation on development
initiatives, combatting gender and caste based discrimination and the
collection and dissemination of information for building the COP.
b) What non-financial support would you need to do these activities?
I need information and partnership opportunities with other like-minded organisation from all over the world
c) If funds were available, what youth activities related to a CoP would your organization like to do?
We
can carry out local to national level educational and advoacy based
activities. We also have the capability to carry out direct action
project that gives opportunity to the young people and their
organisations to operate community based project under the theme of
culture of peace and the themese might be the same what I have
previously mentioned
d) What non-financial support would your organization need to do these activities?
Information and linkages with like-minded organisations from all over the world
My response to this questionnaire is my personal opinion ? (Both)
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Prakash Bhattarai
Chairperson
Youth Action Nepal (YOAC)
G.P.O. Box-9776, Siphal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Website- www.youthaction.org.np
Email- youthactionnepal@gmail.com
youthactionnepal@ntc.net.np
Tel- ++977-1-6215580
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