Transcript Much In Common: The World Programme of Action for Youth and the

Summary of findings:
Young people in the Arab states and
the MDGs
2 reminders
A final look at the MDGs
Reminder 1: 15 priorities of the
World Programme of Action for Youth:
Elements for National Youth Strategies
- Education
- Globalization
- Employment
- ICTs
- Poverty
- Conflict
- Health
- HIV/AIDS
- Environment
- Intergenerational issues
- Drug abuse
- Juvenile delinquency
- Leisure
- Girls and young women
- Participation in decision-making and society
Reminder 2: Governance and Freedom
Good governance and genuine freedoms
are requirements to reach the MDGs –
not only for young people but for all people
in society.
Youth and the MDGs
Goal 1: To reduce poverty by half in 2015
(Poverty, Employment)
Issues included:
• Lack of data on youth employment
• Need for increased commitment to youth
employment and better links to the education
system
• Effects of globalization on labour market
• Use of ICTs to empower young people
Youth and the MDGs
Goal 2: To achieve universal primary education
(Education, girls and young women)
Some of the issues include:
– Provide better quality of education to all young
people, especially girls and young women
– reviewing curriculum development
– role of education system to prepare young people
better for the enormous challenges of the labour
market
Youth and the MDGs
Goal 3: To promote gender equality and
empower women (girls and young women,
participation)
Issues include:
– Gender considerations need to be integrated into
education, employment, health, poverty, participation
in decision-making…
Youth and the MDGs
Goal 4: To reduce child mortality AND
Goal 5: To improve maternal health (Health, HIV/AIDS, girls and
young women)
Goal 6: To combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
(HIV/AIDS, Health)
Some issues include:
– Strengthening the protective factors while reducing the risk factors of
young people’s sexual and reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS
– Prevention and awareness raising on HIV/AIDS among youth is
CRUCIAL
– But also more need for awareness among parents, Governments and
religious clerics
– Opportunities for youth as peer educators and agents of change
– Use of ICT for awareness raising AND discussion sensitive issues
Youth and the MDGs
Goal 7: To ensure environmental stability
Goal 8: To develop partnerships for
development, particularly youth employment
Some issues include:
– Youth participation in decision making, youth as
agents for better governance and greater freedoms
– Young people increasingly engaging Governments in
their own societies as equal partners for their
development
Presentations on this workshop
will be at:
www.un.org/youth
>> Meetings and Workshops
>> Rabat
Shukran shukran!