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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


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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http://www.yesweb.org/about/coll_inst.html

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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http://www.edc.org/

http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/publication_8.html


• 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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http://www.yesweb.org/mexico

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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http://www.yesweb.org/

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:


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:


ation_11.html

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Youth Employment Summit: YES Country Networks Report URL:


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


Youth Programme

PROJECT 9:

Partnership in mentoring Young

Entrepreneurs


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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http://www.yesweb.org/YES-networks/

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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.


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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