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Welcome to Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign’s media kit – YES Media Kit ver.2
YES Media Kit is your one stop destination for all information about the YES Campaign, the people behind the movement, the collaborating agencies of YES and our parent body, Education Development Center (EDC) Inc. EDC Inc. is one of the leading not-for-profit research organization of world with over 300 projects currently underway.
The YES Campaign was launched in Alexandria, Egypt in 2002. Alexandria Declaration was adopted under the banner of the 6Es- Employability, Employment Creation, Equity, Entrepreneurships, Environmental Sustainability and Empowerment. The Alexandria Summit hosted at the historical library of Bibliotheca Alexandria witnessed participation by over 2000 delegates from 120 countries. The co-chairs of the Summit were the Former President of US, Bill Clinton and the First Lady of Egypt, Susanne Mubarak.
More recently the overwhelming response to the Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003 re-enforced our commitment to work harder towards our mission- empowering youth to create sustainable livelihoods. The Forum co-hosted with the state government of Andhra Pradesh saw over 1000 delegates from 48 countries deliberating on themes identified by the YES Campaign viz. Water & Sanitation, ICT, HIV/AIDS, Renewable Energy and On & Off Farm Technologies.
The launch of the International YES Academy - a center of excellence on jobs, training and research, will go a long way in addressing the problem of youth unemployment through its innovative projects and more. The powerful Hyderabad Blueprint adopted by the Ministers, participating at the Forum, is yet another milestone of our enterprise. A decision of the SAARC Network YES members to come out with a framework of action is yet another significant achievement of the Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003.
The YES Media Kit will give you a wide range of information, including the achievements briefed above, to assist you to write stories on youth employment for your newspapers, magazine or radio or television station. There is much more to youth than you may know! And there is much more to employment than you may think!
It’s a pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you again to the world of information on youth employment as seen by YES Campaign and EDC Inc.
Anshuman Atroley Media & Communications Coordinator YES Campaign [email protected]
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Contents
1. YES Factsheet- Fast facts about us!
2. Youth Employment Summit Campaign
3. Who runs YES?
4. YES Mexico Global Summit 2004
5. YES Hyderabad Regional Forum 2003
6. YES Academy
7. YES Initiatives/Achievements
8. YES Country Networks
9. YES Campaign Committee – Profiles
10. Abbreviations and Glossary
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Who are we? Youth Employment Summit, YES, is an international project of Boston based Education Development Center, Inc., a not-for-profit research organisation, which is managing over 325 projects globally.
YES launched a decade long programme termed - YES Campaign in September 2002 at Alexandria, Egypt, to address the growing problem of youth unemployment worldwide. Over 2000 delegates, from more than 120 countries, attended the five-day event. The Summit was co-chaired by Former President of USA, Bill Clinton and First Lady of Egypt, Mrs. Susanne Mubarak.
Together, they launched the Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign (2002-2012) under the banner of the 6Es: Employability, Employment Creation, Equity, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Sustainability, and Empowerment.
Where are we? We are working globally- from Zambia to Honduras, from India to Georgia; YES Campaign has presence in over 60 countries through its well-networked YES Country Networks. Through our Boston office, we guide and advise youth to work towards our mission – empowering youth to create sustainable livelihoods.
What do we do? YES supports the country efforts for youth employment by focussing on three key strategies: Outreach and engagement, Knowledge building and Capacity building.
YES initiatives like the YES Academy, Global Knowledge Resource (GKR), Renewable Energy Fellowships have attracted the attention of experts and youth alike the world over.
What are we doing now? Through the YES Academy launched at the Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003, we are identifying multi-stakeholders beneficiaries- engaging and involving them to develop an entrepreneurial culture and building their capacity. We are doing this through various innovative projects that we are launching in assistance with various international donor bodies.
What are we doing next? Hosted by the government of Mexico, YES Mexico 2004 will be the second global summit where employment strategies will be reviewed within the context of the YES Framework for Action; successful programs, policies, and projects will be highlighted and shared among the delegates.
Who is our Funding Body/ Parent? Education Development Centre Inc. [www.edc.org]
What type of institution are we? Not-for-profit, Social
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What is the scope of our activity? Encouraging the youth all over the world to become proactive members and leaders of the process of creating sustainable livelihoods.
What are our areas of activities? ICT, Renewable Energy, Water and Sanitation, HIV/AIDS, On and Off Farm technologies
What is our special focus group? Women
Who are our YES Campaign Committee members? Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director, UN-HABITAT Carlos Magariños, Director General UNIDO, Co-Chair YES
Esteban González, President Fundación E, Co-Chair YES
Hafsat Abiola, Director Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
Ismail Serageldin, Director-General, Library of Alexandria
Janet Whitla, President and CEO Education Development Center, Inc
Jennifer Corriero, Director TakingITGlobal
José-María Figueres, Managing Director World Economic Forum
Nahas Angula, Minister Employment Creation, Namibia
Prof. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman MSS Research Foundation
Sithembiso Nyoni, Founder ORAP, Zimbabwe
Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA
Our Addresses YES Campaign YES Academy 55 Chapel Street c/o Dr. MCR HRD Institute of AP Newton MA USA 02458 Road No. 25, Jubilee Hills [email protected] Hyderabad, AP India 500 080 [email protected]
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Youth Employment Summit Campaign - An Introduction
WHAT IS YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SUMMIT?
In September 2002, Egypt hosted the first
global Youth Employment Summit (YES).
The Summit was chaired by Former US
president Bill Clinton and First lady of
Egypt, Mrs. Susanne Mubarak. Over 2000
delegates from 120 countries, including 45
ministers, met during the five conferences
to develop a concerted response to the
problems faced by unemployed youth.
Together, they launched the Youth
Employment Summit (YES) Campaign
(2002-2012) under the banner of the 6Es:
Employability, Employment Creation,
Equity, Entrepreneurship, Environmental
Sustainability, and Empowerment. Boston
based, not-for-profit organisation,
Education Development Center (EDC)
organized this Summit after a four-year
preparatory phase of 40 consultations
worldwide.
What is YES Campaign?
YES is a global campaign to promote youth-
led development which recognises that no
one organisation can do it alone and take
another look at current development
challenges as opportunities for youth
employment, engagement and
empowerment.
The YES Campaign focuses on building
awareness among the governments, NGOs,
the private sector and the donors
regarding the gravity of the crisis of youth
employment and to spur them to action.
Although many exceptional efforts are
underway all over the world to deal with
poverty eradication, until now no
coordinated global effort has focused on
the needs of the world’s unemployed
youth.
What is the mission of YES?
The mission of the global YES Campaign is
to work towards fulfilling target number
eight of the United Nations Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate
poverty by 2015. Target number eight
intends to enable young people to be
involved in productive and decent work.
The goals of the YES Campaign are to build
the capacity of young people to be leaders
& to build an entrepreneurial culture to
promote youth employment.
What is unique to the YES Campaign?
At the global level, the YES Campaign is a
powerful platform reminding the world’s
leaders and institutions of the need to
work proactively to generate enough
employment opportunities to address the
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problem of youth employment. It is a
unique campaign because no other
initiative offers the following combination
of commitments
5. Maintaining the web based Global
Knowledge Resource, a universal free
technology platform disseminating
labour market knowledge and effective
practices for individuals, networks and
partners. The YES Campaign employs a
range of traditional and new media
technologies (print publications,
conferences, e-groups, CD ROMs and
videos) to achieve this goal.
1. Working with the youth as true
partners in development and not
treating them as beneficiaries; a
commitment born out by the
participation of young people as active
drivers of the YES Campaign in their
countries.
6. Providing youth with opportunities to
build leadership, management and
entrepreneurial skills in the context of
sustainable development.
2. Encouraging young people to lead
efforts for youth employment in their
countries by organizing multi-
stakeholder YES country Networks. The
YES team has been successful in
helping launch these networks in 60
countries.
What are the six Es?
Employability,
Employment Creation
Equity
Entrepreneurship 3. Building the commitment of world
leaders and institutions to confront the
challenge of youth unemployment. YES
develops strategic partnerships, hosts
capacity building workshop, makes
presentation and encourages new
emerging sectors for employment to
achieve this goal.
Environmental Sustainability and
Empowerment
These six Es are the “pillars” of the
Alexandria Declaration and guide the
signatories to work towards the mission of
youth employment with these in mind.
What is the Alexandria Declaration? 4. Translating leadership commitment
into investment in innovative
employment generation strategies in
sectors such as renewable energy and
water and sanitation.
The delegates of the Alexandria Summit
2002 reaffirmed their commitment to a
decade long global campaign for the
creation of jobs worldwide. This was done
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through a declaration, referred as the
Alexandria Declaration. The Alexandria
Declaration is reproduced here:
ALEXANDRIA DECLARATION
We the participants in the first Youth
Employment Summit (YES 2002), meeting
at the Bibliotheca Alexandrine in
Alexandria Egypt, hereby reaffirm our
profound commitment to a decade-long
global campaign for the creation of
hundreds of millions of additional
opportunities for sustainable livelihoods
for youth all over the world. A paradigm
shift on Employment is needed. Quality is
as important as the quantity of jobs
created. The poor, living on less than a
dollar a day, cannot be locked into a life
of deprivation. We must move from
unskilled to skilled occupations, from low
paying to high paying jobs, from
subsidized public employment to
sustainable productive livelihoods.
We recognize that these goals can only be
met if all actors agree to address a
number of important issues: peace, fair
trade, market access, technology transfer,
capital flows and poverty eradication. This
will require redoubled efforts from the
entire international community and donors
must meet their commitments and give
special attention to projects and
programmes for youth employment.
Convergence and greater synergies
between different initiatives and
programmes dealing with youth
employment will benefit youth.
While national governments have a special
responsibility for according overriding
priority to youth employment and for
creating the necessary policy framework,
we recognize that all segments of society
must collaborate to empower youth to
become the artisans of their own future.
To that end, we engage ourselves to
support vigorous action in each of the
following areas:
Employability: To ensure access for all
youth to appropriate education and
training followed by adequate support
during the transition to work, regardless
of their location or background. We
cannot confront the challenges of
tomorrow with yesterday's skills.
Educational institutions must show
unprecedented imagination and vision,
using new tools for new times. They must
impart marketable skills, promote self-
esteem and shape a worldview that
embraces the new, opens up to the other
and rises to the challenge of the untried.
Employment Creation: To adopt those
policies that will encourage job-led
economic growth, reduce the bias towards
capital, foster the institutional structures
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that can provide the advantages of scale
at both the production and marketing
phases of micro-enterprises supported by
micro-credit. The corporate sector has a
major responsibility in supporting micro-
enterprises and self-employed youth
through mechanisms of franchising,
outsourcing and buy-back arrangements.
Equity: To provide equal opportunities for
all to realise their full potential.
Education, health and nutrition are
fundamental rights for all. Special
attention must be given to the needs of
the disabled, the rural, and the
marginalized groups in society and above
all, to young women, whether in
education or when entering the labour
force for the first time and who, in many
parts of the world still suffer from
discriminatory barriers. No society has
truly advanced by depriving itself of the
talents and abilities of half of its
population.
Entrepreneurship: To engender the
special creativity of youthful
entrepreneurs, who see social and
economic opportunities where others only
see problems? Entrepreneurs, whether
they are working in the villages or in the
capital markets, are the visionaries who
generate livelihoods for themselves and
for others. We need to encourage, nurture
and support their quest for the new and
the untried.
Environmental Sustainability: To seek
sustainable employment opportunities
based on attention to water, land, energy,
the atmosphere, and biodiversity and eco-
system management. It would be
shortsighted to destroy our environment in
the quest for transient employment
opportunities.
Empowerment: To harness the uncommon
opportunities of the ICT revolution to
include the excluded and reach the
unreached in terms of knowledge and skill
empowerment. The whole constellation of
institutional arrangements from credit to
resource-use, from marketing to
connectivity and content, must be
structured in a way that empower youth in
their quest for sustainable livelihoods.
We recognize that solutions to problems
must be home-grown and responsive to the
particular socio-cultural and economic
context. But we can all learn from the
experiences of others and derive strength
from our common purpose. Thus national
campaigns through the YES Country
Networks must be embedded into a global
campaign that will help share knowledge
and experience. The Global Knowledge
Resource of the campaign should help
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make the best practices of the few into
the common practices of the many.
The cost of inaction on the issues of youth
employment is too dreadful to
contemplate. We must act now to start
the process of creating this better future.
We shall act now and in the future.
The goals are inspiring, but the tasks are
enormous. To those who ask, can it be
done? We say with youth organisations and
networks spearheading this global
campaign... YES!
“It can be done. It must be done. It will be
done!”
What is the structure of YES?
A strong structure and process has been
established to ensure that the programme
is constantly driven by the needs of the
country networks. This process is not just
in theory; in reality stakeholders,
especially youth, are continuously engaged
in determining campaign priorities. This
process and structure is described more
specifically below.
Leading up to the Alexandria Summit, the
YES Campaign organised and participated
in over 40 consultations on youth
employment, all with the intention of
collecting varied inputs into the design of
the YES Campaign. These consultations
helped to highlight the themes for the
Summit and led directly to the
development of the YES Framework for
Action. These consultations also
highlighted common barriers to youth
employment that young people face,
especially in developing countries. This
input assisted the YES Campaign in
defining the structure of the web based
Global Knowledge Resource to share
effective practices in over-coming these
various barriers.
The YES Campaign's voluntary advisory
group, the Campaign Committee, is
instrumental in guiding the YES Campaign
on key strategic decisions. The YES
Campaign Committee holds a monthly
telephone conference call coordinated by
the project staff in Boston. In addition, an
Annual Meeting sets strategic direction and
operational targets. Campaign Committee
are kept regularly updated via electronic
newsletters, participation in particular
initiatives and regular contact. The
Campaign Committee members are:
Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director, UN-HABITAT Carlos Magariños, Director General UNIDO, Co-Chair YES
Esteban González, President Fundación E, Co-Chair YES
Hafsat Abiola, Director Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
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Ismail Serageldin, Director-General, Library of Alexandria
Janet Whitla, President and CEO Education Development Center, Inc
Jennifer Corriero, Director TakingITGlobal
José-María Figueres, Managing Director World Economic Forum
Nahas Angula, Minister Employment Creation, Namibia
Prof. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman MSS Research Foundation
Sithembiso Nyoni, Founder ORAP, Zimbabwe
Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA
In addition to the Campaign Committee, is
an International Advisory Committee
comprised of leaders in different sectors
from various countries and geographic
regions. Members of this committee give
advice to the YES Campaign on several
issues relating to youth employment and
they support the YES Campaign in their
different capacities. Included in the
international advisory committee are
youth advisors through a group known as
the International Youth Leaders for
Employment that act as youth advisors to
the YES Campaign. These young people are
leaders in their communities and
institutions and ensure that the interests
of young people remain central to the
agenda of the YES Campaign. The
International Youth Leaders for
Employment will play a special advisory
role to the proposed programme.
International Advisory Committee
Adele Simmons
Andrew Fiddaman
Cheryl Vince Whitman
Chief Bisi Ogunleye
Commander (Retd.) David RN Newing
David Bell
Göran Hultin
Hanns Michael Holz
Hon. Gov. Michael S Dukakis
Jeffrey Sachs
Leticia Shanani
Lord William Brett
Mahnaz Afkhami
Margaret Catley-Carlson
Prof. Muhammad Yunus
Prof. William Julius Wilson
Robert J. Berg
International Youth Leaders for
Employment
Abdallah Sobeih (Egypt)
Alexander Grashow (USA)
Bremley Lyngdoh (India)
Cameron Neil (Australia)
Clayton Peters (South Africa)
Donald Charumbira (Zimbabwe)
Katherine Kamping (The Philippines)
Kenroy Roach (Guyana) and
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Maurise Maclou (Australia) 2. Programme implementation and in
taking on specific actions to meet the
goals of the YES Country Networks.
Tatiana Glad (Canada)
Valeriu Popovici (Moldova)
More significantly, the YES Campaign
ensures that its strategy and approach
reflect the needs and vision of young
people themselves in their countries. YES
Country Network Coordinators are
constantly consulted for their input,
especially in programme development and
agenda issues for YES global and regional
events.
3. Through sharing effective practices in
youth employment through the online
YES Global Knowledge Resource or the
GKR
4. Global Alliance members also
collaborate with YES on specific
activities that have a direct influence
on the outcomes of the YES Campaign.
Who are the accrediting agencies of YES
Campaign?
The YES Campaign works with these Global
Alliance members and aims to facilitate a
process whereby southern Global Alliance
members can interact with those of the
north to achieve concrete outcomes. An
example is Global Alliance member, the
International Young Professionals
Foundation (IYPF), based in Australia, with
members in many of the countries where
YES Country Networks have been
established.
Since its inception, YES Campaign sought
to build a worldwide coalition of
organisations working to promote youth
employment. This constantly growing
network of organisations is known as the
Global Alliance for Youth Employment.
Within the Global Alliance are
organisations from every continent
representing civil society, governments
and business.
Another example is that of a German
based Global Alliance member, the
Incept/Consult/Organise/Navigate (ICON)
institute, which is working on a GTZ
programme to promote youth employment.
ICON has connected with YES Country
Networks in five countries viz. Bulgaria,
Romania, Egypt, Macedonia and El
Global Alliance members are effective in
the YES Campaign in several ways:
1. Through joining a YES Country Network
and playing an explicit role in the
development of a National Action Plan
for youth employment.
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Salvador to develop effective youth
employment strategies and programmes.
Yet another example of a Global Alliance
member making an impact on the YES
Campaign is that of the M.S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation (MSSRF) Chennai,
India.
The YES Campaign is also currently
collaborating with several leading global
agencies, including the United Nations
Industrial Development Organizations
(UNIDO), United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and the Global
Environment Facility (GEF).
UNIDO has committed to promoting the
goals of the YES Campaign and to working
closely with YES to implement renewable
energy and energy efficiency projects and
to include entrepreneurship curricula in
secondary schools through the
International YES Academy based in
Hyderabad.
The Global Environment Facility has
funded an $800,000 renewable energy
project entitled "Global Promotion of
Youth-Led Enterprises in Off-Grid
Renewable Energy." GEF has committed to
supporting the YES Campaign address the
youth employment challenge through
innovative projects that also create
sustainable responses to global
environmental challenges.
Who are the other collaborating agencies
of YES?
The other agencies supporting the YES
Campaign in various capacities are:
Agence intergouvernementale de la
Francophonie CIDA Commonwealth Secretariat Corporate Social Responsibility Forum Deutsche Bank FAO GEF IADB ILO NIIT Ltd OECD OAS SIDA SDC/DEZA TakingITGlobal The Synergos Institute United Nations UNDP UNIDO UNFPA USAID UNESCO-UNEVOC
To know more about our collaborating
organisations please visit:
www.yesweb.org/about/coll_inst.html
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Who runs YES?
A word about Education Development
Center (EDC), Inc.
For more than four decades EDC has been
a pioneer organisation, building bridges
between research, policy and practice. It
has created numerous award-winning
programmes and products, developed in
collaboration with partners around the
globe, and the institution has consistently
advanced learning and healthy
development for individuals of all ages.
Today, EDC manages more than 350
programmes in 50 countries that focus on
strengthening nearly every facet of
society, including early childhood
development, entrepreneurship, youth
livelihoods, sustainable development,
workforce preparation, community
development, learning technologies, basic
and adult education, institutional reform
and social justice.
EDC's innovative solutions combine the
creativity and rigors of research with the
realities of practical experience. Each
programme grows out of current
knowledge in the field and each new tool
or approach is informed by extensive pilot
testing and evaluation. EDC has specialized
in fostering collaboration among people
with diverse skills and viewpoints based on
the belief that people working effectively
in groups are often capable of greater
vision and creativity than individuals
working alone. Internally, EDC is a
community of economists,
entrepreneurship trainers, workforce
development experts, health professionals
and health educators, scientists and
mathematicians, teachers, administrators,
community organizers, social marketing
specialists, learning technology specialists,
artists, writers and researchers.
Externally, it builds collaborations across
countries, cultures, generations, classes
and professions.
EDC currently has several programmes
related to economic development and
poverty reduction ranging from a global
programme that fosters public private
collaboration for enterprise development,
funded by U.S.AID to a programme that
increases the involvement of information
technology employers in school to work
transition programmes. The latter program
is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.
As EDC grows in the 21st century, projects
continue to build on the collaborative
approach used in our earliest work. EDC
programmes are never designed solely by
researchers; they reflect the ideas and
work of practitioners and the interests and
concerns of learners. EDC develops
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programmes in partnership with the people
who will use them and balance their
diverse viewpoints and expertise. While
EDC maintains a strong tradition of
creating innovative curricula and resources
for students, teachers and practitioners,
we have learned that good materials
cannot succeed in isolation. Now more
than ever, we are contributing to
comprehensive solutions to complex
problems.
EDC's work is supported through grants and
contracts from a variety of sources,
including U.S. and foreign government
agencies, private foundations, non-profit
organisations, universities and
corporations.
For more details about EDC, please visit:
www.edc.org , also refer to the
publication EDC’s work in South East Asia
available online at,
http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/public
ation_8.html, for details about EDC work
in the region
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• Progress reports from Summit
delegates on Action Plans they
created at the Alexandria Summit
with results of their achievements
over a two-year period. YES Mexico Global Summit
2004
In the past, the global community has
highlighted critical problems in the world
through such Forums and draw attention
and action to issues such as women’s
rights, protecting the environment,
children’s rights and issues relating to
social development. This Summit will
continue in the trend set by the first global
Alexandria Summit- a forum where
innovative policies, practices and ideas
and tools will be shared and used for
initiating committed action. It is expected
that up to 1200 participants will attend
the Summit, made up of governments,
intergovernmental agencies, civil society,
youth organisations, private sector, donor
agencies, mass media and youth. Fifty-
percent of the participants are expected
to be young people from around the world.
It is very important to facilitate the
participation of youth, especially those
without the resources to attend. Their
contribution will be essential to support
the outcomes of the Summit.
The YES Mexico 2004 will be held in, Boca
del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico, in October 4th
8th, 2004. YES Mexico will be an important
milestone for evaluating global progress on
youth employment. National Strategies will
be reviewed within the context of the YES
Framework for Action and successful
programs, policies, and projects will be
highlighted and shared among Summit
delegates.
The “State of the YES Campaign Report
2004,” will be released assessing the
impact of the YES Campaign.
Other highlights of the Summit include:
• Presentations by the YES Country
Networks on their achievement
over the first two years of the YES
Campaign
• Reports from YES Conferences of
Ministers responsible for youth
employment on policies and
programs that have been launched
by their respective governments
since the Alexandria Summit 2002.
The Mexico Summit will be a “working
summit”. There will be very few panel
discussions, and primarily the agenda will
revolve around interactive workshops.
Through these smaller sessions,
participants will be led through the
process of understanding the issues around
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youth employment, how they pertain to
their communities, and will be supported
• Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG) through
Organising Committee of YES Mexico Global Summit 2004 Miguel Carrillo Dean, Graduate School in Administration of the Monterrey Tec. Cristian Castaño Director of the Mexican Youth Institute Ramó de la Peña President of the National council of Education for Life and Labor Jaime Domingo López Under Secretary of Employment and Labor Policy, Secretary of Labor Sergio Garciá de Alba Under Secretary of Small and Medium Enterprise, Secretary of Economy Esteban González President, E Foundation Isabel Guerrero Director, World Bank, Mexico Office Marthy Juy Dominguez Public Policy Advisor, of the Mexican Presidency Ary Kahan President, KASO Consulting Jorge Vergara President, Omnilife Group
in developing action plans that they will
implement in their communities.
• youth employment an engagement-
role of different actors and need
for collaborative action
The YES Mexico 2004 will include the
following:
• Building an Entrepreneurial
Culture- the role of different actors
1. Four Plenary sessions
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3. Parallel Workshops and the need for collaborative
action Renewable Energy –enterprise
development an idea whose time has
come
• The YES Campaign- working with
different actors and encouraging
collaborative action • Water and Sanitation-integrated
development-employment in this growing
sector
• Investing in Youth Employment: The
many ways- direct funding,
introducing innovative policies,
developing workable programs and
partnerships and empowering youth
• Eco-technology Enterprise- to explore
natural resources based enterprise
development
• Young Women Entrepreneurs- a special
gender based strategy for success 2. Parallel Sessions Skill Building
Workshops
• Identifying employment
opportunities in the emerging
sectors- presenting a mapping tool
• ICT based solutions- for rural
development and education
• HIV/AIDS- youth advocates ad workers
in the health sector.
• Developing a business plan- You can
do it.
To know more about the Mexico YES Global
Summit, please visit:
www.yesweb.org/mexico
• Marketing your product- creating
goodwill in the market place
• Networking: why is it essential for
your Business? • How to find a Mentor?
• How to be a mentor- just what you
mentee needs!
• How to build your advocacy
arsenal- moving the YES Campaign
forward
• Team building, problem solving and
moving ahead against all the odds-
it is about commitment and a
desire to success- Life Skill Tool kit
• How to launch a successful YES
Network in your country
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Hyderabad YES Regional
Forum 2003
INTRODUCTION
The “Hyderabad YES Regional Forum
2003” was a regional meeting for South
and South East Asia Countries, hosted by
the Government of Andhra Pradesh in
partnership with the EDC Inc. The Forum
held from December 14-18, 2003 in
Hyderabad brought together over 1000
delegates from 48 countries.
The “Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003”
was the first regional event of the YES
Decade Campaign of Action launched at
the YES Campaign in Alexandria last year.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003
was significant in many ways to the YES
Campaign. The tremendous response it got
from the leading UN bodies, corporates,
youth delegates, government and media is
a testimony of our concern of the problem.
The Forum highlighted the issue of youth
unemployment in the Asian region
especially in the South Asia, probably for
the first time on such a huge scale.
The biggest achievement of the Hyderabad
YES Regional Forum 2003 was the
launching of the International YES
Academy on the valedictory day of the
Forum by the Chief Minister of the host
state of Andhra Pradesh. The YES Academy
launched in partnership with the
Government of Andhra Pradesh, MSSRF and
EDC Inc. is a unique instance of not just
strong public-private partnership but also
is a manifestation of the changing attitude
of the governments worldwide. ( For more
details about the YES Academy, please
refer to the following chapter)
Another milestone accomplishment of the
Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003 was
the signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) by the
representatives from YES Networks in the
SAARC countries (South Asian Association
for Regional Cooperation).
The MOU outlines the following areas of
focus for cooperation:
• Development of collaborative
projects related to Employability,
Employment Creation, Equity,
Entrepreneurship, Environmental
Sustainability and Empowerment of
the youth.
• Information and materials
exchange, exchange visits, jointly
hosted events, international
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business networking, mutual
promotion and fund raising for
projects.
To focus attention on training youth for
livelihood opportunities in Information and
Communication Technology, Rural
Development, Water and Sanitation,
Renewable Energy, HIV/AIDS and
Enhancing opportunities for young women.
The SAARC MoU is reproduced below:
• To place youth employment on the
regional agenda and encourage key
stakeholders to work
collaboratively on youth
employment programs, projects
and policies.
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Inspired by the
we are pleased to sign this
MMEEMMOORRAANNDDUUMM OOFF UUNNDDEERRSSTTAANNDDIINNGG Among the YES SAARC Networks:
YES Bangladesh Country Network YES Bhutan Country Network YES India Country Network
YES Maldives Country Network YES Nepal Country Network
YES Pakistan Country Network
ARTICLE 1: PARTIES
The document constitutes an informal agreement between the above-mentioned YESNetworks of seven countries under the auspices of the decade long Youth Employment Summit(YES) Campaign, which is a project of Education Development Center (EDC), Inc. Boston,Massachusetts, USA.
ARTICLE II: PURPOSE
The purposes of this general agreement include, but are not limited to the following:
A. Development of collaborative projects related to Employability, Employment Creation,Equity, Entrepreneurship, Environmental sustainability & Empowerment of the youth.
B. Information and technical exchange, visits to each other’s Network, training programs
and worships, jointly hosted events, international business networking, mutualpromotion and fund-raising for projects and the like. Cooperative projects under this general agreement may include any of the areas in which
these YES Networks may benefit.
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ARTICLE III: LETTER OF AGREEMENT
In order to carry out and fulfil the aims of this agreement, these seven YES Country
Networks will appoint an appropriate person representing each organization to coordinate thedevelopment and the conducting of joint activities. Through these contact persons, eitherorganization may initiate proposals of activities under the agreement. Specific details of anyactivity will be set forth in a Letter of Agreement, which, upon signing by appropriateauthorities at These Seven YES Country Networks and subsequent approval. Letters ofAgreement will include such items as:
1. Elaboration of the responsibilities of each organization for the agreed upon activity. 2. Schedules for the specific activities. 3. Budgets and sources of financing of each activity. 4. Any other items necessary for the smooth and efficient conduct of the activity.
The contact persons will additionally be responsible for the valuation of activitiesunder this agreement according to the practices of their respective organizations. Letters ofAgreement will be approved at each organization according to the normal proceduresgoverning the types of activities proposed therein.
These seven YES Country Networks agree to first communicate then cooperate and
finally collaborate to undertake projects, which are going to the mutually beneficial land, takethese seven YES Country Networks towards fulfilling the YES Campaign objectives and theAlexandria Declaration.
ARTICLE IV: POTENTIAL AVENUES OF COLLABORATION
[A] Information, materials and technical exchanges: These seven YES Country Networks
plan to share information and knowledge on their own activities and activities so otherorganization in their respective nations as requested by these seven YES CountryNetworks signing this MOU.
1. Certainly neither organization can expect the other to divulge information that
may be strategically confidential or extremely difficult to obtain. 2. Regular communication needs to be maintained and sufficient lead time be given
for obtaining information that may require some groundwork and which may not bereadily available in hand.
[B] Exchange Visits : Members of these seven YES Country Networks will attempt
within their financial limitations to visit each other’s countries and observe theprojects in action. 1. Each organization plan to share its best practices with the other during the
visits in order to enhance ach other’s activities to generate greater synergy infulfilling the YES Campaign goals as set out in the Alexandria Declaration.
2. Each organization will hold discussion seminars during the visit to share the
learning. 3. There is no obligation on the part of the host organization to bear the cost of
travel and accommodation for the members of other visiting team. However,they will at least try and procure some discounts on travel fare and otherfacilities to make the visit more convenient for the other party. All partieswill try and raise sponsorships to make such visit more feasible if it is toocostly for the organization to bear the expense of such a visit.
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The host organization takes responsibility for making arrangements for visiting project sites anddiscussion seminars etc, on their own expense, but cot of accommodation will be borne by visitors,unless sponsors can be found among d0onor agencies and or the private sector. Bookings andreservations may be done by the host organization according to visiting team’s preferences. [C] Training programs and workshops: These seven YES Country Networks agree to jointly
arrange for training programs and workshops in various fields in various different way sandforms as follows:
1. Sending trainers over to the other country to impart training at training workshops
organized by the other organization if invited to do so by that organization. The trainershall be remunerated at a reasonable fee for the time dedicated. Cost of travel may beborne by host organization, or organization sending the trainer or can be raised throughexternal sponsorships. Which option will apply will be determined on a case-by-casebasis.
2. Inviting participants from the other Network in seminars and training workshops and
events where it may be relevant to have members of the other organization present andalso beneficial for them.
[D] Joint program undertaking: These seven YES Country Networks agree to embark upon joint
projects part of which can be implemented in one country and the remaining part in theother(s).
1. The specifics of such programs will be discussed and ascertained through separate
agreements. 2. The programs may take the shape of training workshops and seminars where part of the
training requires participants to visit the other organization projects in implementation.
[E] International business networking for budding entrepreneurs: These seven YES CountryNetwork agree to assist each other’s nation’s youthful and budding entrepreneurs whom theypatronize, by helping to carry out market studies to assess demand and scopes forinternational trade in certain items.
1. Each organization agrees to assist the youth of the other organization’s country to make
useful business contacts in their won country with chamber bodies etc. 2. Each organization can charge a certain fee for the service rendered if it’s a very complex
or time-consuming request or a commission from the proceeds of the trade if it can besuccessfully initiated through the mediation of the organization.
3. The organizations shall only provide the assistance for internationally legal commodities,
which are not restricted in their own countries. 4. The organizations commit to provide accurate information to the best possible extent
and suggest ways to ease barriers to entry and would share cultural and otherknowledge, which could assist the endeavours of the entrepreneurs.
[F] Mutual promotion: These seven YES Country Networks agree to promote each other in theirown countries.
Yet another major accomplishment of the
Hyderabad YES Regional Forum was the
adoption of the powerful Hyderabad
Blueprint by the participating Ministers of
the Forum. The Blueprint is:
Hyderabad Blueprint
Last year, representatives from
over 140 countries, mostly young people,
met in Alexandria, Egypt, and launched a
world-wide movement, the Youth
Employment Summit (YES) Campaign,
dedicated to a decade-long global effort
for the creation of hundreds of millions of
additional opportunities for sustainable
livelihoods for youth all over the world.
In what was to become known as
the “Alexandria Declaration” they called
for a paradigm shift on Employment,
giving quality and skills as much attention
as sheer numbers. They said: “We must
move from unskilled to skilled
occupations, from low paying to high
paying jobs, from subsidized public
employment to sustainable productive
livelihoods.”
The Campaign adopted the “6Es”,
as its overarching theme: Employment,
Employability, Equity, Entrepreneurship,
Environmental Sustainability and
Empowerment. The Campaign has been
supporting processes that seek the
networking of youth throughout the
world, and the sharing of information to
empower youth to take charge of their
own destinies. YES is promoting coalitions
of the caring to support the youth
initiatives, for self-employment and
employment generation.
Building on the Alexandria
Declaration, and on the enormous efforts
deployed by the YES Country Networks,
the Hyderabad YES Regional Forum met to
channel the knowledge gained by the YES
Country Networks, and focused on six
important areas of concern: renewable
energy; rural development (on and off
farm); water and sanitation; ICT (bridging
the digital divide); HIV/AIDS; and
enhancing opportunities for young women.
Over 1000 delegates from 48
countries comprising mainly of young
people, representatives from UN agencies,
international organizations, the private
sector and NGOs met to exchange views
and review experiences in small groups,
detailed workshops and large plenaries.
The Hyderabad Blueprint emerging
from these sessions is one that calls for all
the actors to work hand in hand to achieve
meaningful results in each of these areas.
To make the best practices of the few the
standard practices of many. However, we
recognize that there can be no single
recipe that will work for vastly differing
country and local situations. Thus we hope
that the delegates will follow the
methodologies and explore the ideas
broached at the forum to act decisively on
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these issues in their home surroundings. In
so doing, they will draw on the continuing
record of success stories being monitored
and reported by the YES Process.
The achievements of the
Hyderabad YES Regional Forum include the
formal coming into being of the first
regional Memorandum of Understanding
among the seven YES Country Networks of
South Asia, linking their efforts to bring
about more effective results.
In Hyderabad itself, the
Government of Andhra Pradesh in
collaboration with the M.S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the
Education Development Center (EDC), has
decided to ensure action on these issues
by creating a YES Academy, which would
act to launch projects with key agencies,
and incubate income-generating
enterprises in the areas of renewable
energies, ICT, water and sanitation and
rural development (on farm and off farm),
including addressing the issue of rural
infrastructure. The projects will address
particularly the needs of disadvantaged
and tribal communities.
Let the Hyderabad Blueprint stand
for joining actions to words. To move from
local to national to regional
collaborations, as the seven YES Country
Net works of South Asia have done. We
recognize the responsibility of all actors
and agencies to work together to ensure
that an enabling environment exists to
nurture the ideas of youth. Let us ensure
that economic growth is working for the
welfare of people, and that the
established private sector brings its talent
and energy to work with the young.
Through the incubator function of
the YES Academy, we will also promote
the empowerment of young people
throughout India and inspire others around
the world. Empowerment starts with the
awareness that one has the responsibility
to make a difference, and grows with
participation, voice and choice. It is
promoted by increased skills and access to
resources .Youth empowerment must be a
central priority for our actions. Youth
empowerment and employment issues
must be carefully addressed in the design
of economic reforms.
Actions for youth empowerment
will serve not just individuals but entire
communities. In these actions we are
motivated by our belief in the importance
of functional communities, driven by
ethical and moral values that promote the
social good. The costs of inaction on the
issues of youth employment are too
dreadful to contemplate. The enormous
waste implied is unconscionable. Two
great sins in our time are: unfulfilled
potential and avoidable suffering.
At the Hyderabad YES Regional
Forum we have moved from visions to
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actions, and commit ourselves to do more
and to give Youth Employment the high
priority that it deserves.
To review and take concrete actions on
the commitments and action plans
pledged at the Alexandria Summit for a
decade long campaign of action at
regional and country levels. There are those who look at the
world as it is and ask “Why?” We look at
the world as it could be and ask “Why
not?”
Develop publications highlighting
principles, recommendations, action
plans and effective practices to form
the basis of learning and knowledge
exchange in the YES Regional Forum.
Adopted on the 18th of December 2003
by
The representatives of the Governments
attending the Hyderabad YES Regional
Forum
AREAS OF FOCUS OF HYDERABAD FORUM
The focus areas of the Hyderabad YES
Regional Forum 2003 were the five
sectors identified by the YES
Campaign. These are
The objectives of the Hyderabad YES
Regional Forum 2003 were:
To set regional stage for engaging keys
stakeholders to promote, create and
support employment and youth
livelihood programmes in the region.
Information & Communication
Technology (ICT)
On-farm & Off –farm Enterprises
Water and Sanitation
Put youth employment issues on the
regional development agenda to
facilitate better policy decisions
affecting stakeholder commitment and
action.
Renewable Energy
HIV/AIDS
These five themes were identified with
special focal on engagement and
involvement of women. Provide a platform for networking
among participants, to learn from one
another and build partnerships for
tackling youth unemployment.
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES &
PARTICIPANTS OF HYDERABAD YES
REGIONAL FORUM 2003 Showcase the effective practice and
promising strategies that help guide
the policy makers, development
practitioners and youth to collaborate
and act effectively.
The Forum brought together over 1000
high-level representatives from the
government, multilateral and bilateral
agencies, civil society, business,
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international donors and youth delegates
from 48 countries from the world over. A
high level Ministerial Delegation from
these countries also attended the Forum
and adopted the Hyderabad Blueprint. The
following countries participated in the
Forum:
Afghanistan Germany Namibia South Africa
Austria Ghana Nepal Sri Lanka Bangladesh Guyana Nigeria Sudan Belgium India Pakistan Syria Bhutan Indonesia Palestine Tanzania Brunei Darussalam Iran Philippines Thailand Cambodia Kenya Qatar United Kingdom Canada Malawi Romania USA China Malaysia Rwanda Uzbekistan Egypt Maldives Sierra Leone Vietnam Ethiopia Mauritius Singapore Yemen Fiji Mexico Somalia Zimbabwe
SPEAKERS AT THE HYDERABAD YES REGIONAL FORUM 2003The Hyderabad YES Regional Forum 2003 had an unparalleled representation from all the
stakeholders of the civil society with strong and powerful delegations from almost all the UN
bodies like UNIDO, UNFPA, UNESCO-UNEVOC, UNDP,UN-Habitat; other multilateral agencies
like Commonwealth Secretariat, ILO, FAO etc. India Inc. also had a sizeable presence and
voiced their concern over the lack of employment opportunities. Equally diverse was the
representation from various not for profit bodies, research organisations, governments media
etc. The following eminent speakers attended the Hyderabad YES Regional Forum.
Hon. Bandaru Dattatreya Union Minister for State for Railways Government of India
Hon. Nara Chandrababu Naidu Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India
Hon. Sahib Singh Verma
Union Minister for Labour Government of India
Hon. T. Devender Goud Minister for Home & Cinematography Andhra Pradesh, India
Hon. Vijay Goel Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports Government of India
Hon. Dr. N. Janardhan Reddy Minister for Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Andhra Pradesh, India
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Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson Chair, Global Water Partnership ICARDA, Canada
Hon. Gopala Krishna Reddy Minister for Employment Generation Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Mr. N. Chandramohan Executive Editor Financial Express, India
Hon. P. Ramulu Minister of Sports and Youth Services Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Ms. Michelle Chawla YES Renewable Energy Fellow, India
Hon. Dr. M. A. Kuttappan Minister for Welfare of Backward and Scheduled Communities and Youth Affairs Government of Kerala, India
Ms. Kang Wai Chin ICT Project Consultant, Malaysia
Ms. Hafsat Abiola Director Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
Ms. Jennifer Corriero Founder and Director TakingITGlobal, Canada
En. Abdullah Deputy President, MBM Malaysia
Mrs. K. Damayanthi Project Director, AP AIDS Control Society, India Ms. Poonam Ahluwalia
Executive Director YES Campaign, USA
Mr. Erik Dauwen Director, NFTE Belgium
Mr. Rudy Edirisingh Mandate the Future, Sri Lanka
Dr. George Assaf Country Representative, UNIDO India
Ms. Cynthia Alvarez Enriquez Presidential Staff Officer and Programme Manager Youth Entrepreneurship Programme
Ms. Nancy Ames VP, Education Development Center USA
Dr. Vijitha Mahdevan Eyango Senior Advisor, Education and Gender USAID, USA
Mr. Madhur Bajaj Vice Chairman and Director Bajaj Auto Ltd
Ms. Nasha Fitter Program Associate Digital Partners, India
Mr. Harsha Bhargava President, I Create Inc USA
Mr. Trideep Bhattacharya
Associate Director UBS
Ms. Nalini Gangadharan Executive Director Dr. Reddy's Foundation
Mr. Ananda Bose Principal Secretary Government of Kerala, India
Mr. M. G. Gopal Managing Director Hyderabad Metro Water Works Board, India
Mr. Maurizio Bussi Deputy Director of the ILO Sub regional Office for South Asia India
Mr. A.M. Gokhale Secretary, MNES Government of India
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Ms. Monir Kolghi YES Country Network Representative, Iran
Mr. Esteban González President E Fundacion
Mr. Subu M. Kota Chairman/CEO The Boston Group
Dr. Malcolm Peter Hazelman Senior Extension, Education and Communications Officer FAO Regional Office Bangkok
Mr. Rohit Kumar Vice-President, Energy & Utilities Wipro Technologies
Ms. Astrid Hollander Project Associate, UNEVOC, Germany Mr. P. K. Madhav
Director, Byrraju Foundation, India Ms. Doris Hribernigg
Civil Society Focal Point UNIDO, Vienna
Dr. Aruna Mankekar Program Director, I Create Inc USA
Mr. David Miller Director, Southern New Hampshire University, USA
Ms. Parimala Inamdar Head, Design Lab, India
Dr. Sudha Iyer
Director, Globarena, India Dr. Sugata Mitra Chief Scientist Center for Research in Cognitive Sciences NIIT Ltd
Mr. Mohan Kanda, IAS Chief Secretary Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Mr. Nilmadhab Mohanty Principal Adviser to the Director-General UNIDO
Ms. Nomito Kamdar Regional Representative Ashoka Innovators, South India
Dr. Pradeep Monga Senior Technical Advisor UNIDO
Ms. Shobana Kamineni Deputy Chairperson Apollo Hospitals, India
Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan Loksatta
Ms. Catherine Kamping YES Country Network Coordinator Philippines
S. Nath Hon.Chairman & Medical Director Sulabh International Institute of Health & Hygiene
Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai Vice Chairperson and Managing Director HSBC, India
Dumisani Nyoni Coordinator YES Country Networks
Dr. Aliya H. Khan Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Hon. Sithembiso Nyoni Founder, Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress Zimbabwe
Smt. Chandana Khan, IAS Principal Secretary, Youth Advancement Tourism and Culture Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Maxine Olson UNDP Resident Representative and UN
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Mr. I.V. Subba Rao Secretary, Department of School Education Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Resident Coordinator Designate India
Dr Hafiz Pasha
UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Mr. Kamal Vardhan Rao, IAS Director, Youth Services Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Ms. Raka Rashid Regional Director Commonwealth Youth Program
Ms. Yamuna Pathak Student, St. Francis College, India
Mr. Praveen Kumar Prithvi
YES Country Network Coordinator, India Mr. V. Nagi Reddy Secretary, Panchayati Raj & Rural Development Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Mr. R. Rajamani Retd. Secretary Ministry of Environment and Forestry
Mr. Jorge Miguel Carrillo Rivera Dean, Graduate School of Business & Enterprise Development Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico
Mr. P. Rajendran COO, NIIT Ltd
Mr. B. Ramalinga Raju
Chairman Satyam Computers
Mr. Michael J. Rosati Director of HHD's South East Asia Initiative Bangkok
Mrs. C. S. Ramalakshmi IFS, Commissioner Employment Generation Mission, India
Prof. Martha Juy Daminguez. S Presidencia de la Republica, Mexico
Dr. Bernard D' Sami Director Migrant Forum
Mr. P. Raghuveer IFS, Additional Secretary IT & Communications
Ms. Wendy Santis Research Associate HHD, EDC Inc.
Mr. N. Rangachari Former Head Insurance Regulatory Development Authority
Dr. Mridula Seth Technical Adviser (Adolescents & Youth) Technical Support Group UNFPA New Delhi
Mr. Bhale Rao IAS, Principal Secretary, Health, Medical & Family Welfare Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Ismail Serageldin Director General Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Prof. G. Subba Rao OSD to Chief Minister Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Chetan Sharma Founder Datamation Foundation Charitable
Mr. I. Venkat Rao Chairman, AP Press Academy, India
Ms. Geeta Sharma Editor, Learning Channel, India
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Mr. Pravesh Sharma World Food Programme
Dr. Kamal Taori Adviser, Planning Commission, India
Ms. Shireen Shetty Head, Sahara Television, India
Dr. Emelia Timpo Team Leader UNAIDS Inter-country Team for South Asia
Dr. Shanta Sinha M. Venkatarangaiya Foundation
Mr. Pervaiz Tufail National Youth Technical Adviser, Pakistan En. Mohd. Sori
Head IT Division Ministry of Youth & Sports, Malaysia
Mr. Basanta Bikram Timilsina Chairperson Bee and Environment Development Co-operative Ltd
Dr. Leena Srivastava Executive Director TERI
Prof. M.S. Swaminathan Chairman MSS Research Foundation
Prof. S. P. Srivastava Advisor Sulabh International Social Service Organization
Hyderabad YES Regional Forum
2003 Publications
Dr. Madhu Subramanian Partner SAPNA, Sri Lanka
Each day of the Hyderabad YES Regional
Forum 2003 saw release of Forum
publications on the five sectors of the YES
Campaign. These specially commissioned
publications were written by leading
subject specialists of world. These
publications were given to all the
participating delegates and their online
versions are made available on our website
at www.yesweb.org
Mr. Subramanion Anantha Krishnan Chief, Partners and Youth Section
En. Suroya Suleiman Deputy DG of Ministry of Youth & Sports, Malaysia Dr. Mariappan Velayutham Executive Director MSS Research Foundation Mr. Sridhar Venkatapuram Consultant for Health & Human Development Programs EDC Inc., USA
Here, some details about the key
publications of the Forum are outlined. Dr. Ponna Wignaraja Chairman SAPNA
Ms. Janet Whitla President and CEO Education Development Center, Inc
Ms. Yohani Yusof President-Project Manager Representing Ministry of Youth And Sports Malaysia.
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Rethinking The Future: Meeting the
Challenges of Youth Employment in the
Asian Region: Innovative Thinking and
Action for Youth in Search of Work and
Dignity
Rethinking The Future: Youth
Employment Opportunities In HIV/AIDS
URL:
http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/publi
cation_1.html
URL:http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/
publication_2.html
Rethinking The Future: Youth Employment Opportunities In Renewable Energy Rethinking The Future: Youth
Involvement in Bridging the Digital Divide http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/publication_4.html
URL:
http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/public
ation_3.html
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Rethinking The Future: Youth
Employment Opportunities In Water and
Sanitation
URL:http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/
publication_7.html
Rethinking The Future: Youth Employment Opportunities in Rural Development URL: http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/publication_5.html
EDC's Work in Southeast Asia URL: http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/publication_8.html
Rethinking The Future: Service Learning: A Way to Social Entrepreneurship URL: http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/publication_6.html
Compendium of YES Network Reports 2003
URL:
http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/public
ation_11.html
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Youth Employment Summit: YES Country Networks Report URL:
http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/public
ation_9.html
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YES ACADEMY • Engagement of diverse stakeholders
• Development of demand driven
curriculum and training
A collaborative initiative of the
Government of Andhra Pradesh,
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation,
Chennai and EDC Inc., Boston
• Capacity building training to youth
development and employment
practitioners
A mix of these offerings will bridge the
many gaps in the support services offered
by the diverse stakeholders who help youth
build sustainable livelihoods. The YES
Academy will empower youth leaders to
advocated and promote youth employment
activities in their communities
The YES Academy follows the principle of
the YES Campaign: provide the right
policy, appropriate programs, and credit
and market linkages, and young people can
be empowered and motivated to seek
employment opportunities and develop
into entrepreneurs
However, to do this successfully and have
wide impact needed, the gaps need to be
identified, networks need to be built and
training and other support service need to
be given to make them ready for jobs
(where available) and self employment
(where possible).
It will also work on public policies that
generate confidence in the economic and
social viability of self-help groups
Research and Development
The YES Academy will focus, in the initial
three years, on research and development
activities, with a firm conviction that the
scope of research will lead to a significant
reduction in the youth unemployment.
The YES Academy will provide the much-
needed technical a development support
for youth all over the world.
Surveys and studies will be conducted on
the “emerging sectors for youth
employment in the rural and urban areas”.
The Academy will look at the current
markets trends and identify the services
needed to support the current and growing
consumer goods market, infrastructure,
housing and IT sector; evaluate selected
curriculum; interview graduates and their
employer; and continuously have dialogues
The YES Academy will provide and
facilitate:
• Technical Expertise
• Incubation support for new
enterprises
• Identification of sectors for
employment
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and obtain feedback from consumers-the
youth-that they have provided and intend
to provide services to.
Annual workshops will conducted for all
key stakeholders-including youth- to
network and share knowledge.
Building a Network of Institutions
A network of youth organizations will be
formed so that they may have more
leverage. As a unified group, the Network
will request existing ministries,
departments, and institutions for inclusion
of youth employment and engagement in
their mandate; additionally private sector
institutions and governments’ agencies will
be asked to be more youth friendly by
including youth-especially young women-
on the boards of different organizations
The Academy will create an enabling
environment where a new cluster for
industrial development can be envisaged
for youth employment
Yellow Pages for Youth employment
The Yellow Pages for Youth Employment
will identify and map existing research and
development institutions under the
services that they provide
These institutions will be asked to join
their local YES Network so that can work
together, and provide youth with a
discernible and unified front for their
support.
PROJECTS BEING LAUNCHED UNDER YES
ACADEMY
PROJECT 1:
CMEY Micro enterprise: Preparing young
leaders of Andhra Pradesh to promote
healthy business, workers, and
communities by tackling HIV/AIDS
Sponsor: Health and Human Development,
EDC, Inc.
PROJECT 2:
Lifelong learning and skills development
for sustainable livelihoods and
environments
Sponsor: UNESCO-UNEVOC
PROJECT 3:
Service Learning: Promoting employability
and social entrepreneurship among rural
youth.
Sponsor: Center for Family, School and
Communities, EDC Inc.
PROJECT 4:
Building an Entrepreneurial Culture: A
Curriculum for Secondary Schools
Sponsor: UNIDO
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PROJECT 5:
Enhancing Employment Opportunities for
Rural Youth based on Renewable Energy
Technologies.
Sponsor: UNIDO
PROJECT 6:
Leadership and Employability Skills for
Youth in Urban Slums in Hyderabad
Sponsor: UN HABITAT
PROJECT 7:
Internship Programs
Sponsor: Common Wealth of Secretariat
Youth Programme
PROJECT 8:
Eco- Entrepreneurship Skills Training
Programs
Sponsor: Common Wealth of Secretariat
Youth Programme
PROJECT 9:
Partnership in mentoring Young
Entrepreneurs
Sponsor: Common Wealth of Secretariat
Youth Programme
PROJECT 10:
HIV/AIDS and Youth Employment (Regional
Program)
Sponsor: UNDP
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YES Initiatives
GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE (GKR)
RENEWABLE ENERGY FELLOWSHIPS
In this chapter, we mention some of our
initiatives including the GKR and the
Annual Renewable Energy Fellowships
being awarded since last year.
WHAT IS GKR?
The GKR which holds over 500 policies and
programmes from around the world, are
currently searchable under themes, lessons
learned, area of focus and barriers to
overcome. In other words, GKR is an online
library. The first of its kind that houses
vast information gathered from various
sources to assist all stakeholders in their
quest for information about sustainable
practices.
Each thematic area focuses on ‘what
works’ and brings together case studies of
good practices, toolkits required for
implementation and the last research
available in that area. The GKR is open to
everyone to share his or her expertise.
Through the GKR users can learn from the
experiences gained and shared by others
from all over the world.
Of particular note in regard to the
resources available through the YES
Campaign to commission and gather the
latest thinking in youth development issue
pertaining to youth employment. Over
three years a wide range of scholars and
development experts have responded to
request for research, analysis and
comparative case studies.
In the YES Resource section of the GKR are
gathered an exciting range of research
papers, world-class analysis and practical
toolkits developed exclusively for the YES
Campaign.
WHAT IS AN EFFECTIVE PRACTICE?
Throughout the world, there are
organisations that have proven their ability
to help meet the challenges of youth
employment in their communities. The
primary goal of the Effective Practices
section of the GKR is to formally recognize
and share the successful initiatives. Given
below are some of the criteria against
which the practice is measured:
Outreach
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Sustainability
WHAT IS THE NEED FOR THE GKR?
The YES Campaign strongly believes that
much of the knowledge and the innovative
strategies needed to confront today’s
youth employment challenges are already
within our grasp. What is sorely lacking,
are mechanisms to share, distribute and
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adapt this knowledge to local challenges.
The GKR is an initiative to bridge this gap.
Over the last five years YES campaign has
learnt that developing a knowledge base
and gathering a multitude of youth
employment practices together in a freely
available database is resources greatly
needed by youth, educators, policy makers
and the development sectors. The GKR is a
response to this need.
The YES Campaign recognises the value of
information and relationship building in
promoting sustainable development and
youth employment. A medium for sharing
knowledge can be a powerful tool for
youth and key to sustaining livelihoods.
Efforts to address the challenge of youth
employment are often hindered by a lack
of information surrounding effective,
strategies, education and training
programmes and opportunities for
collaboration.
RENEWABLE ENERGY FELLOWSHIPS
Last year, YES Campaign awarded five YES
Renewable Energy Fellowships to
exceptionally bright youth leaders. With
almost 40 applications from 23 countries,
the response to the Fellowship Programme
was overwhelming.
These fellowships have been awarded as
part of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) and the World Bank funded YES
Renewable Energy project. This project
focuses on linking renewable energy
production and service with employment
opportunities for youth.
The five Fellowship awardees along with a
brief about their “business plans”:
Michelle Chawla (India)
Michelle’s application proposes to supply
tribal village households and indigenous
fisher-folk with solar lanterns and solar
cookers and to supply solar fruit dryers to
the local orchard industry in the Indian
State of Maharashtra.
Emmanuel Korbla Edudzie (Ghana)
His application intends to install micro-
hydro power generating equipment in
mountainous off-grid areas and to train
local youth in their operation.
Levan Kobakhidze (Georgia)
This application plans to sell portable
photovoltaic (solar) panels to small
businesses alongside a public awareness
campaign about climate change and
alternatives sources of energy.
Jane Tawina Kopa (Malawi)
This application plans to introduce wind-
powered technology to power a well pump
to provide water for a community
vegetable farm. Alongside will be a
training program for rural youth in how to
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utilize alternative energy sources in other
rural activities and management skill to
operate a commercial vegetable garden.
Ursula Carrascal Vizarreta (Peru)
Ursula’s application foresees application of
biomass gas power generation in semi-
urban areas and to introduce solar kitchens
into areas of Peru with year round
radiation.
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YES Country Networks Such a process of constant consultation
with diverse stakeholders is followed by
the YES Campaign to ensure that youth and
their interests remain at the fore of the
work and mission of the YES Campaign.
This process is central to all YES activities,
including those proposed in this
programme.
WHAT IS YES COUNTRY NETWORKS?
In 60 countries youth led Country Networks
comprising of diverse stakeholders –
governments, educators, practitioners,
NGOs, the business community and youth,
provide a sustainable and powerful
infrastructure to promote policy,
programmes and action for youth
employment.
WHAT DO THE YCN DO?
The YES Country Networks lead the YES
Campaign in their countries, initiating
action in:
YES Country Networks are also often
invited to share their input with regard to
the progress of the Campaign. The YES
Campaign works with the Networks to
identify needs of the network
coordinators. They have to help build their
capacity and their responses are fed
directly into the YES Strategic and
operational approaches. For example, a
key barrier for most country networks has
been that of having a technology platform
from which to display their progress,
Action Plans and achievements. In
response, the YES Campaign builds web
pages for each YES Country Network,
managed and updated by the YES Country
Network coordinators themselves. This has
proved to be one of the most successful
results of the constant feedback and
communication with the Country
Networks. The web pages can be viewed at
www.yesweb.org/YES-networks/
Organizing national consultant to
understand the local youth
employment scenario and work to
place the issue on the country agenda.
Bringing together youth-led and youth
serving organisations to focus on the
issue employment.
Developing partnership between youth
organisations, government, private
sector, NGOs and educational
institutions for promoting youth
employment.
Disseminating information on youth
employment to diverse stakeholders
nationwide.
Developing National Action Plans for
youth employment.
Identifying and mobilizing resource
locally to support YES Network
activities.
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Developing and implementing youth
employment project within the YES
Framework for Action.
WHAT ARE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF YES
COUNTRY NETWORKS?
Some of the achievements of YES Country
Networks are listed here. For a more
comprehensive list please refer to D:\YES
papers\Accompls.htm
Probably, the biggest achievement of
the YES Country networks has been the
inking of the MoU between SAARC YES
Network Countries.
YES Mexico in partnership with the
Government of Mexico and YES
Campaign will host YES 2004 in October
2004, the second global Summit after
the Alexandria Summit.
YES Honduras launched a US $80,000
project funded by the USAID in
February 2003.
YES Pakistan initiated the Pakistani
National Youth Service (PNYS) to
promote the participation of youth in
societal change and development.
YES Romania set up a Youth
Employment Center that offers office
skills training, career guidance, peer
mentoring, job search support and
internships with local businesses.
WHERE ALL IS YCN PRESENT AND WHO
RUNS IT?
YES Country Networks are active across the
world and their number is fast increasing.
The list of the YCN with the contact details
of the coordinators is:
Country First Name Last Name Email Albania Floriana Hima [email protected] Argentina Dacil Acevedo Riquelme [email protected] Armenia Ruben Markosyan [email protected] Australia Cameron Neil [email protected] Azerbaijan Samir Tagiyev [email protected] Bangladesh Dulal Biswas [email protected] Benin Honvou Toussaint [email protected] Bhutan Dechen Wangmo [email protected] Bolivia Joel Vargas [email protected] Brazil Augusto Cuginotti [email protected] Burkina Faso A. Kader Ourdraogo [email protected] Burundi Prosper Ndabishuriye [email protected] Cameroon Thomas Tchetmi [email protected] Canada Nikki Whaites [email protected] Chile Gabriel Pozo [email protected]
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Colombia Adriana Valenzuela [email protected] Cote D'Ivoire KiuassiI Kouakou Jean Claude [email protected] DR of Congo Jules Ramazani [email protected] Ecuador Oswaldo Garcia [email protected] Egypt Abdallah Salem Sobeih [email protected] El Salvador Daniel Barrientos [email protected] Georgia Nugzar Meladze [email protected] Germany Rhonda Staudt [email protected] Ghana Emmanuel Edudzie [email protected] Guinea Bissau Algassimo Ba [email protected] Guyana Arlene Dinally [email protected] Haiti Frantz-Harold Seide [email protected] Honduras Norma Carias [email protected] Iran Hamideh Tabatabaie [email protected] Jordan Khaled Shorman [email protected] Kenya Gathecha Kamau [email protected] Liberia Segbe Nyanfor [email protected] Malawi Kondwani Munthali [email protected] Malaysia Lavannia Rajalingam [email protected] Mali Moussa Yattara [email protected] Mauritius Kailash Busgopaul [email protected] Mexico Ricardo Perret [email protected] Moldova Eugeniu Graur [email protected] Mozambique Helder Martins [email protected] Namibia Calista Schwartz [email protected] Nepal Rajendra Mulmi [email protected] Netherlands Lydia El Afi [email protected] Nigeria Ajani Olawale James [email protected] Pakistan Ali Raza Khan [email protected] Paraguay Upej Rodolfo Moran [email protected] Peru Ursula Carrascal Vizzareta [email protected] Phillipines Catherine Kamping [email protected] Panamá Rose Mary Reyes [email protected] Romania Rodica Silvia Pop [email protected] Russia Natalia Ivanova [email protected] Senegal Cheikhou Thiome [email protected] Serbia Goran Mitrovic [email protected] Sierra Leone James Hallowell [email protected] Slovenia Ziga Vavpotic [email protected] Somalia Faiza Abdi Nor [email protected] South Africa Clayton Peters [email protected] The Gambia Alfusainey Gano [email protected] Togo Kossi Ogoubi [email protected]
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Turkey Ercan Ozgur [email protected] Uganda Tumwine Yasin [email protected] Tanzania Kaanaeli Kaale [email protected] Uruguay Fernando Traversa [email protected] Zambia Lubunda Mabwe [email protected] Zimbabwe Memezi Nyoni [email protected]
YES Campaign Committee –
Executive Profiles Mr. Carlos Magariños - Director General,
UN Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO). Mrs. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka
Mr. Carlos Magariños
Joining UNIDO as Director General in 1997,
Carlos Magarinos became the first
Argentine to hold a UN position of such
prestige. Currently the youngest Director
General in the history of the UN, over the
last two years, he has implemented an
aggressive reform programme that has
earned widespread esteem from the
international community for its
accomplishments and foresight.
Mr. Esteban González
Ms. Hafsat Abiola
Hon. Nahas Angula
Ms. Jennifer Corriero
Mr. José-Maria Figueres
Hon. Sithembiso Nyoni
Ms. Thoraya Obaid
Dr. Ismail Serageldin
Mr. Swaminathan
Ms. Janet Whitla
Ms. Poonam Ahluwalia – Executive
Director, YES Campaign Mr. Esteban González - President, Nexus
Group International (youth member)
President of the Nexus Executive Group's
Entrepreneurial Program in the ITESM in
Mexico, Esteban Gonzalez Guzman’s
organization is dedicated to promoting
collaboration between national and
international organisations for economic
development and entrepreneurship. A
partner and founder of two companies, he
also organizes workshops, seminars and
courses in Strategic Planning,
Entrepreneurship Development and Social
and Economic Growth.
Gonzalez was awarded Entrepreneur of the
Year in 1999 by ITESM for the development
of CREDIPAISA. He has served as advisor for
Mrs. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka- Executive
Director, UN-HABITAT
Mrs. Tibaijuka is the highest-ranking
African woman in the United Nations
system. A Tanzanian national, she holds a
Doctorate of Science in Agricultural
Economics from the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. During
her tenure Mrs. Tibaijuka, oversaw major
reforms that led the UN General Assembly
to upgrade the United Nations Centre for
Human Settlements to a fully-fledged UN
program, now called UN-HABITAT - the
United Nations Human Settlements
Programs.
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the Construction Materials Distribution
Association of the National Chamber Of
Commerce and is also the recipient of the
Smurfit J. Center for Entrepreneurial
Studies School of Business Administration's
North American Collegiate Entrepreneur
Award for 1999. Esteban has also
contributed to the development of services
for the rural community by creating the
Entrepreneurial Community Program.
Ms. Hafsat Abiola - Director, Kudirat
Initiative for Democracy (youth member)
A young human rights and democracy
activist from Nigeria, Hafsat Abiola has
founded and directs an organization called
the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
(KIND). Recording several achievements in
the struggle to restore democracy, with
the end of military rule, KIND now offers
organizational support and training
opportunities to women and youth to
strengthen Nigeria's civil society so as to
secure lasting democracy for its people.
She travels around the world to speak
about justice issues and writes articles
featured in the international and Nigerian
press including the International Herald
Tribune, the New York Times, Tell, Time,
and Newsweek. She frequently appears on
CNN, BBC, and WorldNet.
Honours received include the Youth Peace
and Justice Award from the Cambridge
Peace Commission in 1997, the State of
the World Forum Changemaker Award in
1998, the Association for Women in
Development's "Woman to Watch for"
Award in 1999, a and the World Economic
Forum's Global Leader of Tomorrow in
2000. She has been chosen as a Fetzer
Fellow for 1998-2001, also a member of
the State of the World Forum's Emerging
Leaders Program and serves on the Board
of the International Development
Conference and the Global Youth Connect.
Hon. Nahas Angula - Minister of Higher
Education, Training and Employment
Creation
Having completed his BA in Education from
the University of Zambia, Nahas Angula
went on to earn his MA from Columbia
Teachers' College, New York and is a
candidate for his Ph.D. at the University of
Manchester in the UK.
He is the founder of and a teacher at the
Namibia Education Centre in Lusaka. Mr.
Angula served both as SWAPO Secretary for
Information and Publicity and SWAPO
Secretary for Education and Culture.
Having served as a member of the National
Assembly and Minister of Education,
Culture, Youth, and Sport, Mr Angula was
also a member of the Peace Research
Association and of the Senate of the
Former United Nations Institute for
Namibia. At present, Mr. Angula serves as
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Minister of Higher Education, Training and
Employment Creation.
Ms. Jennifer Corriero - Co-Founder and
Director, TakingITGlobal (youth member)
Co-founder of Taking IT Global, a non-
profit organization with the aim of using
communication, collaboration and
community to allow youth from around the
world to realize the potential of
technology, Jennifer was recently selected
by the World Economic Forum as one of
the Global Leaders of Tomorrow for 2002.
She has recently spent some time advising
Microsoft on the various aspects of the
next generation of workers (often referred
to as the "Net Generation") and has shared
her perspectives with thousands of people
at several conferences, including "Digital
Dimensions of Time" (Vanguard), "Anytime,
Anytime Learning" (Microsoft), the
Expanding Learning Horizons conference in
Australia, the State of the World Forum in
New York, the Youth Empowerment Event.
Mr. José-Maria Figueres - Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Serving as the President of Costa Rica from
1994-98, Jose-Maria was the youngest
president of any Central American country
in modern times. Currently the Managing
Director, Centre for the Global Agenda,
World Economic Forum. Diverse
international groups have recognized Jose
Maria for his notable achievements in
favour of sustainable development
policies. These include the 1998 Global
Environmental Leadership Award by the
Climate Institute and the Leadership award
from the Global Environment Facility. He
serves on a number of non-profit
organizations including the Board of the
World Resources Institute, the World
Wildlife Fund, FUNDES International, and
the Stockholm Environmental Institute. In
Costa Rica, Figures presides over the Costa
Rican Foundation for Sustainable
Development and the Entebbe Corporate
Group.
Hon. Sithembiso Nyoni - Founder,
Organization of Rural Associations for
Progress, Zimbabwe
Sithembiso Nyoni is the Founder of the
Organisation of Rural Associations for
Progress (ORAP) and served as its
Executive Coordinator. Nyoni is a winner of
the 1993 Right Livelihood award for
outstanding leadership in grassroots
mobilization against hunger, the 1995
United Nations 50 Communities award on
behalf of ORAP for effective mobilization
of communities around environmental
issues & forestry and the 1999
Humanitarian Award from InterAction for
her extraordinary leadership in support of
NGOs
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Having served in the Zimbabwean Cabinet
in various portfolios since 1995, currently,
she is the Minister of State in the
President's Office responsible for the
development of the informal sector and
small enterprises.
Ms. Thoraya Obaid - UNFPA Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary General
Taking office in January 2001, she became
the first Saudi Arabian national to head a
United Nations agency, having previously
served for two years as the Director of the
Division for Arab States and Europe at
UNFPA. Prior to joining the Fund, she was
Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) from
1993 to 1998. Helping governments
establish programmes to empower women
has been a central focus of Obaid’s work,
both at ESCWA and UNFPA. At ESCWA, she
was responsible for providing technical
assistance aimed at countering gender
inequality, as an integral part of social
development programmes.
She established the first women’s
development programme in the Western
Asia region to provide technical assistance
to governments to establish national
organizational units for women. The
programme was instrumental in building
partnerships between the United Nations
and regional non-governmental
organizations.
Ms. Obaid chaired the United Nations
Inter-Agency Task Force on Gender in
Amman, Jordan, in 1996 and in November
1997, she was part of an inter-agency
mission to Afghanistan.
Dr. Ismail Serageldin - Director-General, Library of Alexandria
Special Advisor to The World Bank,
Distinguished Visiting Professor, American
University in Cairo (AUC) and Distinguished
University Professor, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands are some of
the posts that Dr Serageldin holds. He also
serves as chair and member of a number of
advisory committees for academic,
research, scientific and international
institutions and civil society efforts. From
1972 to 2000, while at the World Bank, Dr.
Serageldin designed and managed a wide
range of poverty-focused projects in
developing countries. He has published
widely on economic development, human
resource issues, the environment, and
other topics. Among his recent
publications are Sustainability and the
Wealth of Nations (1996), Architecture of
Empowerment (1997), Rural Well-Being:
From Vision to Action (1997, with David
Steeds), The Modernity of Shakespeare
(1998), Biotechnology and Biosafety (1999,
with Wanda Collins), Very Special Places
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(1999) and Promethean Science (2000,
with G. Persley).
M S Swaminathan - World Food Prize Laureate
Claimed by TIME magazine as one of the
twenty most influential Asians of the 20th
century, Prof M S Swaminathan was
Chairman of the UN Science Advisory
Committee set up in 1980 to take
follow-up action on the Vienna Plan of
Action. He has also served as Independent
Chairman of the FAO Council and President
of the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources.
A plant geneticist by training, Prof
Swaminathan’s advocacy of sustainable
agriculture leading to an ever-green
revolution makes him an acknowledged
world leader in the field of sustainable
food security. The International
Association of Women and Development
conferred on him the first international
award for significant contributions to
promoting the knowledge, skill and
technological empowerment of women in
agriculture and for his pioneering role in
main streaming gender considerations in
agriculture and rural development. Prof
Swaminathan was awarded the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Community
Leadership in 1971, the Albert Einstein
World Science Award in 1986, the first
World Food Prize in 1987, Volvo
Environment Prize in 1999 and the Franklin
D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award in 2000.
Prof Swaninathan is a Fellow of many of
the leading scientific academies of India
and the world, including the Royal Society
of London and the US National Academy of
Sciences. He has received 43 honorary
doctorate degrees from universities around
the world. Recently, he has been elected
as the President of Pugwash Conferences
on Science and World Affairs. He currently
holds the UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology
at the MSSRF.
Janet Whitla - President and CEO,
Education Development Centre, Inc.
Janet Whitla has been President and CEO
of Education Development Centre, Inc.,
and a member of its Board of Trustees
since 1981. EDC is one of the nation's
leading non-profit research and
development organizations operating at
approximately 80 million dollars of activity
a year and working around the world. She
has been active in leading EDC's worldwide
efforts to increase opportunities for
sustainable livelihoods for young people
and to address the range of development
issues related to this global challenge.
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In the 1990s, Ms. Whitla served a three-
year term as president of the U.S.
Coalition for Education for All, and is a
founding Board member of the Coalition
for Basic Education. She is also a member
of the Steering Committee for ATLAS
Communities, a New American Schools
Reform Program, and of the Advisory Board
for the Adult Literacy Media Alliance. As
part of her community service, Ms. Whitla
currently is President of the Board of
Governors of the Handel and Haydn
Society, Chair of the South Coast Learning
Center, and serves on the boards of various
other national and local organizations
including the New Bedford Whaling
Museum and Young Audiences of
Massachusetts.
Poonam Ahluwalia - International ambassador of the youth
Poonam Ahluwalia is seen as the
torchbearer of hope by the unemployed
youth of over 60 countries. The California
Legislature and the Indian-American Trade
and Commerce Council have honoured
Ahluwalia for her work as “an outstanding
youth community leader.”
The real highlight of YES is that it provides
a unique opportunity for youth -- who
constituted 60 percent of the delegates --
to work collaboratively with policymakers
and researchers. "YES believes in the
involvement of youth as proactive planners
and partners, not beneficiaries." India,
which has a massive, youth unemployment
problem, is high on Ahluwalia's agenda.
Under Ahluwalia's stewardship, in addition
to working towards attaining its primary
objective of creating productive
employment, YES is actively pursuing its
objective of mainstreaming the world's
youth by creating opportunities for them
to become “architects of their own
future". Young people the world over have
an able ambassador to champion their
cause.
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UNESCO: United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization Abbreviations and Glossary
UNESCWA: United Nations Social and
Economic Commission for West Asia
UNECLAC: United Nations Economic
Commission for Caribbean and Latin
America
UNFIP: United Nations Fund for
International Partnerships
A.I.F: Agence intergouvernementale de la
Fancophonie
CIDA: Canadian International Development
Agency
EDC: Education Development Center
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization
G.E.F: Global Environment Facility UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund
GYSD: Global Youth Service Day UNHCR: United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees ILO: International Labor Organization
IYF: International Youth Foundation UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund
OECD: Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development UNIDO: United Nations Industrial
Development Organization OHCHR: Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights UNIFEM: United Nations Development
Fund for Women SIDA: Swedish International Development
Agency USAID: United States Agency for
International Development
WAY: World Assembly of Youth TIG: TakingITGlobal
UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV/AIDS WEF: World Economic Forum.
WHO: World Health Organization UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development WSIS: World Summit on the Information
Society UNDP: United Nations Development
Program WSSD: World Forum on Sustainable
Development UNHABITAT: United Nations Humans
Settlements Program
GLOSSARY UNECA: United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa Youth
The definition of youth followed varies
from country to country as is specific. In
India, the definition of youth is all persons
in the age group of 18 to 35.
UNECE: United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe
UNEP: United Nations Environment
Programme
UNESCAP: United Nations Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and Pacific Action Plan
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Diverse Stakeholders: Organizations,
Groups and Individuals from different
sectors of society with an interest or role
to play in a particular issue.
An organised and informed way to set out
goals and responsibilities in a project, but
not necessarily the manner in which it will
be completed.
Innovation Marketplace: The Innovation
Marketplace is a component of the Forum
that allows governments, NGOs,
foundations, donors, civic leaders and
business an opportunity to showcase their
"effective practices" or innovations that
promote youth employment. Booths and
tables at the Innovation Marketplace will
enable exhibitors to display their
practices, projects and literature in the
field of youth employment to a wide and
diverse audience committed to youth
employment and livelihoods.
Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs):
Organizations that primarily deal with
government to government relationships,
such as ILO, UN, etc. These organizations
in recent years have begun to look at other
groups and have started forming
relationships/partnerships with other
stakeholders.
Iterative Process: Achieving a goal or
reaching a position / policy, etc through a
series of experiences that build on each
other. These experiences may be in the
form of consultations, meetings, briefings.
An iterative process should be a learning
experience.
International Youth Leaders for
Employment (IYLE): This is the youth unit
of the International Advisory Group. It
consists of youth leaders from different
regions of the world that have shown
leadership in youth employment issues.
Their commitment is to ensuring that the
YES Campaign has the input and
perspectives of young people.
Least Developed Countries: Countries
designated by the WB/UN/ILO as the less
developed countries in the world.
Micro-credit: Micro-credit refers to small
loans made to low-income individuals to
sustain self-employment or to start up very
small businesses. Although there is no
standard definition of micro-credit, in
practice such loans are quite small,
amounting to a few thousand dollars.
Civil Society: The sphere of institutions,
organizations and individuals located
among the family, the state and the
market, in which people associate
voluntarily to advance common interests.
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Global Alliance for Youth Employment:
The Global Alliance for Youth Employment
is a membership of diverse stakeholders
including governments, NGOs, the private
sector, youth organizations, and education
and training institutions, who are
committed to promoting youth
employment. The actions that the Alliance
members take to promote employment for
the world's youth will form the building
blocks for the Forum and Campaign.
New Partnership for African
Development (NEPAD): The New
Partnership for Africa’s Development is a
pledge by African leaders, based on a
common vision and a firm and shared
conviction, that they have a pressing duty
to eradicate poverty and to place their
countries, both individually and
collectively, on a path of sustainable
growth and development and, at the same
time, to participate actively in the world
economy and body politic.
National Consultations: National
Consultations on Youth Employment are
multi-stakeholder meetings convened by
YES Country Network to focus national
attention on the youth employment
challenge. The National Consultation raises
awareness about the YES Campaign and its
activities
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs):
An organisation, which works for the
common good of society, without being
affiliated with any department or arm of
government. These organizations tend to
be not for profit, but not always.
Sustainable Development: Sustainable
development should show the true social,
ethical, environmental and economical
costs of production, use and disposal of
goods and services. Sustainable
development should meet the needs of
today's generation without damaging the
needs of the future. It should be equitable
to all members and groups in society. It
should have a strong focus on
communications and partnership, and it
should encourage a sense of ownership
among the immediate beneficiaries.
YES Country Networks: YES Country
Networks are a network of diverse
stakeholders that address the issue of
youth employment in their country. These
stakeholders are made up of varying
organizations and institutions within a
country ranging from government
agencies, businesses, NGOs and youth
organizations.
YES Global Knowledge Resource (GKR):
The GKR is a one-stop-shop on information
relevant to youth employment. It provides
access to comprehensive effective
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practices and innovative information on
youth employment initiatives, as well as
ongoing pilot projects to demonstrate and
test what works in the field. The GKR
supports the work of members of the
Global Alliance and YES Country Networks
around the world.
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Media Contacts
Please feel free to direct your media queries to:
Anshuman Atroley Media & Communications Coordinator YES Campaign [email protected]
For all other queries, please write to: [email protected]
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