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Title: The Role of Canadian Youth in Achieving the MDGs
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Categories: Human Rights & Equity
Technology & Innovation
Children’s Rights
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
At the end of 2004, the United Nations Millennium Campaign and TakingITGlobal formed a partnership, aimed at empowering young people to join the global fight against poverty and the campaign around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in their local and national communities encouraging youth participation in global efforts to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
“The Role of Canadian Youth in Achieving the MDGs” project aims at empowering young people in Canada to contribute, locally and globally, to addressing issues such as HIV/AIDS, the environment, poverty, etc.
The goals of the project are:
• Run 16 open forums across Canada to help youth form their own action plans based around the MDG goals
• To engage and educate Canadian youth on best practices for peer motivated and directed local level efforts towards achieving the MDGs.
• To encourage and inform Canadian youth about opportunities for hands-on, cross-cultural experience in working with youth agencies in developing nations.
• To provide inspiration and practical tools to young people working towards the MDGs.
Objectives:
TakingITGlobal will co-host 16 Open Forums on the MDGs for youth leaders across Canada.
At the Open Forums, Canadian youth will receive information and view presentations on placements in developing nations as facilitated through various non-governmental organizations within TakingITGlobal’s network.
Distribute the following materials in French and English: Millennium Development Goals Youth Campaign Kit, the TakingITGlobal Guide to Action; and Panorama: The Role of Youth in Achieving the MDGs by 2015, a written forum for youth participants to express their ideas around creating change and the MDGs.
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