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Title: Southeast Asia Youth Partnership for Development
Location:
Global
Categories: Human Rights & Equity
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
This is a Southeast Asian youth initiative to mobilise Youth-Led Development (YLD) strategies towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the region.
(Note that this is a working site for the formative stage of this network and thus continues to be frequently updated.)
Background:
There are 3 components of this initiative:
Pre-forum: E-consultation to identify priorities and inform collaborative framework document on Asean youth engagement in MDGs. See e-consultation site here
Forum: The Asean Youth Leadership Forum will finalise and adopt the outcome framework document, by consensus of participants of the forum
Post-forum: The framework document to be submitted to the 13th Asean Summit in Nov Singapore, for endorsement by Asean leaders and for implementation.
Mission:
To provide a platform for greater synergy between the Asean process and MDG process through the mechanism of youth engagement, and foster ownerhip of the youth demographic towards achievement of the MDGs and the broader human development agenda, in the ASEAN region.
Nature of SEAYPAD:
SEAYPAD is simultaneously a network, coalition, and peak body of youth organizations involved in working towards the MDGs and broader development across the 10 ASEAN member states: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
Objectives:
i) Facilitating consultation for SEA Youth representation on development issues at regional (eg. ASEAN) and international (eg. UNESCO) levels; providing policy recommendations to regional fora on development issues; promoting investment in YLD; and advancing youth as a priority agenda at various levels of governance.
ii) Mobilising youth organizations for raising awareness of, and advancing progress for, the MDGs in the ASEAN region towards the target of 2015 – and beyond.
iii) Serving as a network for sharing and exchange of information; facilitating organisational capacity-building through various skills share training activities; catalysing inter-agency and inter-organisational collaboration on joint projects and partnerships; shaping and sharing best practice in YLD.
iv) Facilitating a clearinghouse mechanism for SEA youth organizations and various stakeholders, providing resources and information on YLD projects and initiatives, funding and project opportunities, and relevant regional and international conferences and activities.
Management:
The NGO shall be governed by a Governing Council comprising member organizations from each ASEAN member state, as well as key global youth partners. The Council shall convene quarterly online meetings and hold a SEA Youth Summit every 3 years, or as the frequency of ASEAN Ministerial Meetings on Youth (AMMY) determines. The location of the Summit will rotate among ASEAN member countries, based on a bidding process by member organizations, or by location of corresponding AMMY's, or otherwise determined by the Council.
For the first 3 years following SEAYPAD's establishment, a Virtual Secretariat will function through the utilisation of ICTs for communications between Council members.
At the 2nd SEA Youth Summit, a Regional Secretariat may be established, the function and management of which shall be decided by consensus, failing which 75% majority vote, by the Governing Council.
Connections established:
Since the inception of the idea of SEAYPAD, we have made contact with extensive youth NGO networks working in development in the region and globally. This is in addition to development and/or youth civil society networks we already have established relationships with. Some of our key networks include:
• Millennium+5 NGO network
• Oxfam International Youth Parliament (OIYP) network
• Network for Asia Pacific Youth (NAPY)
• NGO Committee on Youth at the UN (NGO Youth Com)
• International Student Network
• UNEP TUNZA Youth Advisory Council Asia & Pacific
• World Youth Peace Summit Online Network
• International Youth Development Agency network
• Youth Action for Change network
• Taking IT Global
• Global Youth Action Network
Identified potential partners / sponsors:
• UNDP Millennium Campaign
• World Bank East Asia & Pacific
• Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR)
• International Youth Foundation (IYF)
• Asia Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• Nippon Foundation
• McKnight Foundation
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