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Posted: July 28 2006,06:28 by JoLofgren
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1. c) CYP meeting in Malta in November
resulted in a decision to prioritise working with youth on
tolerance, understanding and respect issues. In May, the Ministers
of Youth from the Commonwealth countries + a youth representative
from each country, met and decided to work on governance, conflict
and poverty as key issues. Funds would be used for projects and
continued youth participation in these areas.
2. a) Target
policy on two levels - look at youth policy (often unused document
on a shelf), but also at how we can "mainstream youth issues across
the board" (ok to quote) similar to how other issues are
mainstreamed into policy, e.g. gender. Look at agricultural policy,
economic policy, cultural policy and see how we can make youth
issues part of them, not only a separate youth policy.
The
CYP is also looking at developing a "Youth Development Index" to
monitor progress and see if youth policies and initiatives are
really becoming more participatory and if the situation for young
people around the world is improving.
3. There are many ways
of involving youth and other generations in the same process. Mr
Simmons is an expert at community outreach methods, such as using
cultural events at community level to discuss issues relevant for
the whole community that require intergenerational dialogue. He gave
many examples from India, Pakistan, Senegal and the Caribbean where
animation methods, popular theatre and music is used for dialogue
between local decision makers and communities.
The CYP also
has a diploma course called "Youth in Development Work". After
having completed a set number of modules, students can obtain a
diploma that makes them eligible to start university. This gives a
second chance to people who don't have enough formal education
background to attend university.
Contact
information:
Commonwealth Youth Programme
Commonwealth
Secretariat
Marlborough House
Pall Mall
London SW1Y
5HX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 6462/6456
Fax: +44
(0)20 7747 6549
Contact person: Andrew Simmons, Acting
Director
E-mail: a.simmons@commonwealth.int
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From:
jo@decade-culture-of-peace.org
To: mail@decade-culture-of-peace.org
Date: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 8:23:26 AM
Subject:
organisations to quote + international orgs + EU
presidency
Dear David,
1. These organisations
have agreed to being quoted so far:
AEGEE-Ankara
Belgian
Youth Council (French speaking)
British Youth Council
Greek
Youthnet
Commonwealth Youth Programme
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