CYP RCA/Meeting Notes March17 09 DRAFT2

Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.

DRAFT 2

Africa

• Where are some of the conflict issues for young people in Africa
• Lives in Nigeria, but now in Ethiopia

• personal experience
• biggest problem, is the issue of "education"
• people having correct set of values, and principles of citizenship, and responsibilities of what citzenship are
• the number of young people involved with the militia, based on specific 'agenda'
• political discussions about resource allocation

"education is the biggest problem...

• trying to address conflict situation
• seriously invest in citizenship education....what it means to be a citizen, in a country....what are the responsibilities are....?
• lots o challenges
• free services, but other actual costs - transportation, etc., mitigates access

• when people are adequately schooled, then people are very likely to get a job; then the chances that they will want to be involved in negative activity are seriously diminished.

Canada

• youth frustrated, but high rates of suicide
• free schooling, free lunch
• kids didn't come to school
• Tanyss & husband would go into school....what we would do....youth drink, and sniff chemicals to get high, don't come to school, and violent with each other
  • we turned things over to them - an issue of empowerment....these young people had NO control over anything.
• we started to put them in charge of things in the school, give them a sense of empowerment,
• they ended up taking charge of the communities in which they worked.... "Empowerment"

• Education - long-term advocacy
• Education - st - access education online

An Empowering Experience

• help people have an
• empowerment is linked to responsibility
  • creating alternative learning.... emphasize education in different forms...
  • and allow people to develop the confidence....to participate, or take on the responsibilities
  • developing relationships? between people?

• try to reach the mainstream youth, and marginalised youth....
• ways to engage the peer group (tipping points)
• change their behaviour, and change their behaviour....

• give people a greater sense of their own power.....engage their own peers, and start to change their identity, and their
• empower

• move out of the mainstream youth

• how do we use online to support offline
• how do we ensure that young people are in a vulnerable situation, can benefit from these online resources
• online activites
• action learning, integrated processes
• look for ways to move forward
• Solomon Islands, and Jamaica - doing audio, radio (church radio stations, community radio stations)
• Jameaica 12-15 years

• Solomon Islands, late teens - 30
• FN in Canada (17-30 years old) - fairly new in the startup, too early....

Concept Paper?

• what are we doing and what we want to achieve (Dabeski)
• feeding in CYP strategy,
• where are we going, and what we want to achieve (Nellie), plug into CYPs agenda (Nellie)
• Keep in mind the LT goals (Tanyss)
• Key Objectives (CYP) ....keep in mind, for workshop
• ST - what will we do for now and June... keep in LT strategy

Workshop

• we engage some key youth who will help to move this forward
• reach youth who are more marginalised, or don't have Internet access
• support each other
• come out of it as a mapping exercise

Concerns

• Victor...
• difficult to create a roadmap for the whole programme

1. - would it only include Zambia, consider inclusion of youth from Zambia
2. - what role will this workshop have in the whole context; would the roadmap be premature
3. focus on thematic areas
4. include f2f workshops
5. 1 day or regional workshop....some discussions with young people ...define workshops

• set up a plan, to focus activities (Nellie)

Roundtable vs. Workshop

• easier to sell (Roundtable)

Tanyss

• free, afternoon, Thursday, April 2
• free on Friday April 3
• April 4, 5, open
• 6-8, then doing a workshop at Open University of Zambia

Ideas

• identifying themes
• roundtable
• welcome from James, CYP - signal, to peer group
• start online meetings, discussions
• online
• model the process to the trainers, just aw we are doing....
• create timeframe for developing themes (do ti ASAP) - Nellie

Travel & Logistics

• costs, etc
• travel of key people

• identify leading organizations, to be cable to attend roundtable discussions....
• working in more than one country...

"Roundtable Discussion" - informal

• wiki discussions this week
• Tanyss comes, refine the ideas, and initial roadmap - Roundtable discussions
• themes
• Roundtable, builds a regional roadmap (April)

Step I

• further strategize how we move forward...
• Identifying their thoughts, for themes.... 1st one....
  • help for Tanyss and Dabeski -

1. ideas
2. plan of future meetings to take place

- adding to by Nellie and Victor - not to look for partners yet... - make it a weekday, Friday April 3

• take forward on the wiki, theme identification

Step II

• themes
• organization
  • find people on the ground
  • find people outside of Lusaka
• criteria to invite organizations...

Step IV

• included to a Roadmap