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| Year 2004 |
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Experienced
NGOs and CBOs with expertise and working extensively with and for
young people felt a need for a National Alliance to advocate young
people’s issues (policy and programmes) at the state, national
and international levels. In December 2004, a group of organizations
came together to advocate the formation of an Alliance in collaboration
with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Culture and Sports and the Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (GOI) to take
the initiatives ahead. |
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| State Level Consultations |
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Using the bottom
up approach, the Alliance is able to create a vibrant network to
address the issues of youth. Consultations were initiated at the
local level and were followed by a series of state and later a National
level consultation.
Over 10,000 young people across 13 states of India, participated
in 16 state level consultations. This provided an enabling platform
for interactive discussions between various stakeholders from different
socio-economic backgrounds. Ample scope and opportunities were provided
to young people to express, articulate and analyze their views on
various issues which included livelihood and careers, reproductive
and sexual health, education and violence. |
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| National Level Consultation |
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The Alliance,
in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (GoI)
organized a National Level Consultation between May 21-23 2004 in
New Delhi. The objective was to provide an opportunity for interactive
discussions on health and development issues of young people to
voice their concerns, hopes and aspirations. Around 500 persons
from 20 states actively participated at the consultation. The majority
of participants were young people.
National and state level consultations were a platform
to share the current situation and needs of young people. Various
programmes and policies were reviewed and critical suggestions on
youth related programmes and policies were forwarded. Dialogues
with different ministries and networks for formulating state youth
policy in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand
were the outcome of the consultation. |
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| International Youth Day |
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Alliance members
organized and celebrated International Youth Day at New Delhi on
August 12, 2004 with about 300 young people and representatives
of GOs/NGOs. Young participants from 12 states along with representatives
of the Alliance presented the recommendations of National Consultation
held in May 2004 to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in
an effort to establish an interactive dialogue with policy makers. |
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| Sharing at International Level |
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The recommendations
of the National Consultation were shared at the international level
at an international conference organised by the Global Health Council
in mid 2004. |
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| Year 2006 |
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| Sharing Responsibility and Enriching
the Process |
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The Population
Foundation of India (PFI), New Delhi, which was Secretariat for
the Alliance for the first two years, handed over the reins to CHETNA,
Ahmedabad in May 2006 for the years 2006-07. |
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| Collective Action to Formulate State
Youth Policy |
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In 2003 the
National Youth Policy released was a milestone. In this policy the
adolescents have been recognized as an important group for the first
time. Following this, the two core members of the Alliance, CHETNA
and PFI took an initiative to draft State Youth Policy of Gujarat,
Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand. During May-June 2006 in collaboration
with a Department of Sports, Youth and Cultural Activity the state
consultations were organized for collective action to formulate
state youth policy. The objectives of the consultation were to jointly
discuss the issue and the concerns of young people and bring forward
the recommendations to develop state specific youth policy. |
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| Interactive Dialogue on Voices of
Young People |
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The theme of
World Population Day 2006 was “Young People” (aged 10
to 24), which was meaningful to share the experiences of state process
of formulating State Youth Policy of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar and
Jharkhand at the national level to initiate a similar process in
other states. It was organized on 11th July 2006 at New Delhi. Over
75 participants remained present in the programme. Young people
from different states shared their concerns and needs with the Government
representatives, NGOs and media representatives. All the concerned
issues were discussed to plan the programmes and policies for the
overall development of young people and to reach out to them widely.
A special session was organised to discuss strategies needed to
reach out to youth for the control of HIV/AIDS.
During the programme, about 25 young people were
exposed to media advocacy strategies. The session helped them to
develop an understanding of the importance of media in advocating
their own concerns and strategies through which media can be involved
in listening to them and to take their concerns forward and influence
policies and programmes at national level. |
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| Year 2007 |
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| Contribution to XI Five-Year Plan |
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Government of
India (GoI) is in the process of formulating the XI Five Year plan.
In order to forward the recommendations for Adolescents’ Development
and Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports formed a
working group.
As a part of sub-group and drafting committee, CHETNA on behalf
of National Alliance contributed by drafting a paper on ‘Youth
Development Perspective’. The working group took into consideration
the gender, caste and class and geographical difference of adolescents
and young people while formulating the recommendations. The group
also recognized the importance of rights based and comprehensive
approach to address the concerns of the adolescents. Five schemes
have been suggested in the recommendations, which have been forwarded
to planning commission for approval are Participation for development,
Career counselling, Life useful skills, Regional resource centre
for research and Capacity building |
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