Transcript The World Programme of Action for Youth and the MDGs

Summary of findings:
Young people in the Gulf 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 living in poverty and of
employment
• Youth Employment Network - a part of the
MDG Goal 8
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 non-formal education, leisure activities to
stimulate critical thinking and innovation
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:
– Underscores devastating effect that poor health and these
diseases have on young people (more than other groups)
– Prevention and awareness raising among youth is CRUCIAL
– But also more need for awareness among parents and
Governments
– Opportunities for youth as peer educators and agents of change
Youth and the MDGs
Goal 7: To ensure environmental stability
Goal 8: To develop partnerships for development
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
An opportunity and a challenge
Youth = effective dividend towards building the
long-term social capital to achieve and
sustaining the MDGs of each individual country.
Challenge: devising specific ways in which young
people can contribute to the design and
implementation of strategies that help achieve
the MDGs.
Opportunities at national
and local levels
Initiate dialogue between youth groups,
other elements of civil society, and
Government
National MDG campaigns
Strengthen current models of youth
participation - create new mechanisms
where needed (Sharjah, Bahrain models)
Set verifiable indicators for youth
participation
Thank You!