Newsletter 3: Volunteering for Post-2015

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Youth in the post-2015

agenda

Young people in all countries are both a major

human resource for development and key

agents for social change, economic develop-ment and technological innovation.

Your generation is already making a mark

on history, from politics to social media.

said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Feb-

ruary 20, 2013.The SG Youth Action plan re-

flects the awareness that youth are among the

most vulnerable of all persons tackled by the

eight Millennium Development Goals but at the

same time, the greatest resource towards theirachievement. Their participation and inclusion

in shaping the new sustainable development

goals are crucial to ensure the success of the

MDGs successor framework.

Civil Society andyouth-led organiza-tions are calling for abottom-up process toensure that young

peoples voices areincluded in the newagenda.

The post-2015 pro-cess must includeyouth as stakehold-ers, since they cru-cially strengthen le-gitimacy, momentumand awareness forthe new agenda that,

at its core, is aboutsecuring their future.

Volunteering for post-

2015NEWSLETTER 3 | MAY 2013

NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL UNVYOUTH VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME

The United Naons Volunteers (UNV) programme has

been promong the role of youth in development since

1976.

Through his Five-Year Acon Agenda the UN Sec-

retary-General Ban Ki-moon called on UNV to create a

specic youth volunteers programme. Since then, UNV

has been working closely with youth-led organizaons,

civil society organizaons, the UN Inter-Agency Network

on Youth Development and others to develop a mul-

faceted programme, which is expected to be launched

mid-2013. A dedicated trust fund has also been set up by

UNDP and UNV. Member States from around the world

have expressed their interest in the programme during

the recent Brieng on the Five-year Acon Agenda to

ECOSOC in New York. The UNV global youth programme

will contribute to the facilitaon of youth parcipaon

and voice in peace and sustainable development pro-

grammes through volunteering, towards realizaon of

their full social, economic and human potenal, as also

commented by Mr. Ahmad Al

Hindawi during his latest

visit to UNV HQ,on May 9. For two decades young people tried to catch upwith the MDGs that were set up by experts and

diplomats. Now it is different: we are going to

have a new development framework for the whole

globe. In this sense, it is like writing a constitution.

If we are world citizens, then this is our constitu-

tion for development and we are practicing our

right to shape the development framework that

will lead this globe for the coming 15 years.

Ahmad Al Hindawi, UN Secretary-General Envoy for

Youth on his views about the post-2015.

Source My World Blog
http://webtv.un.org/search/policies-and-programmes-involving-youth-briefing-on-the-secretary-general%E2%80%99s-five-year-action-agenda/2337850432001?term=youthhttp://webtv.un.org/search/policies-and-programmes-involving-youth-briefing-on-the-secretary-general%E2%80%99s-five-year-action-agenda/2337850432001?term=youthhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=196822880466125&set=a.160898094058604.36747.158611130953967&type=1&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=196822880466125&set=a.160898094058604.36747.158611130953967&type=1&theaterhttp://blog.myworld2015.org/2013/02/15/interview-with-mr-ahmad-al-hindawi-un-secretary-general-envoy-for-youth-in-jordan-on-his-views-about-the-post-2015-national-consultations/http://blog.myworld2015.org/2013/02/15/interview-with-mr-ahmad-al-hindawi-un-secretary-general-envoy-for-youth-in-jordan-on-his-views-about-the-post-2015-national-consultations/http://blog.myworld2015.org/2013/02/15/interview-with-mr-ahmad-al-hindawi-un-secretary-general-envoy-for-youth-in-jordan-on-his-views-about-the-post-2015-national-consultations/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=196822880466125&set=a.160898094058604.36747.158611130953967&type=1&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=196822880466125&set=a.160898094058604.36747.158611130953967&type=1&theaterhttp://webtv.un.org/search/policies-and-programmes-involving-youth-briefing-on-the-secretary-general%E2%80%99s-five-year-action-agenda/2337850432001?term=youth


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Page 2 Volunteering for post-2015

Post-

2015 Voices from the field

Merel, Volunteer for post-2015: Bangladesh

We decided to focus on youngpeople, since youth representone-third of the population ofBangladesh. With support ofUN Online Volunteers, the sur-vey was translated into Bangla.

Other UN agencies and NGOs supported the initiative bydistributing the offline survey among young people withoutinternet access and promoting the online survey amongtheir networks.Within a week, over 40 people from across the world re-sponded to the online volunteer opportunity. Withinthree weeks we translated the survey, and distributed

nearly 10,000 copies among participating organizations.To me it is really inspiring to see volunteers from Colombia, the USA, DRC, Czech Republic, India, Australia and ofcourse Bangladesh commit their time and energy to turn My World into a youth success in Bangladesh. Last butnot least, of course, is the active interest of UN agencies, NGOs and local volunteers in administering the surveyswho are the driving force of My World in Bangladesh. By May 10th we will receive the results and enter the offline rollouts data into the global survey. The results will also be published to show youths development priorities in Bangla-

desh.Merel Fuchs, UNV, international post-2015 volunteer, [email protected]

As I joined the UNV Field Unit in Bangladesh,

UNRCO and UNV were already thinking about

ways to increase participation to the My

World survey. I joined the discussion address-

ing many questions: Can we translate the sur-

vey into Bangla? How do we reach out to the

rural and urban poor? And most importantly:

whom do we want to target?

In 2012, UNV has assiged 966volunteers under the age of 30working with dierent agen-cies, projects and missions.

Amita, Volunteer for post-2015: India

The UNV Field Unit in India has reached out to thousands of Indians to engage them in the post -2015 processthrough the MYWorld Offline Survey. Since March, more than 1,200 offline votes have been submitted from the

states of Karnataka and Kerala in the south, Assam in the east and Maharashtra in the west.In Karnataka, the students of Social Work of BSW College run by

the Belgaum Integrated Rural Development Society translated thesurvey in the local dialect, Kannada, and reached out to more than1,000 indigenous, marginalized people and poor households inBelgaums remote areas.

In April, about 30 school principals and teachers participated in theoffline roll out in the city of Mumbai during the launch of the YouthEmpowerment Mission, which is a campaign organized to createchannels of youth engagement through volunteering. Participantsenthusiastically voted, and pledged to mobilize over 10,000 studentsand communities in rural and urban areas around Mumbai.

Amita Dahiya, UNV, post-2015 National Coordinator

[email protected]

UNV is a partner of MYWorld. You can use the UNV partner website for online

voting: http://www.myworld2015.org/?partner=UNV

Youth taking the offline Survey in Assam
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.myworld2015.org/?partner=UNVhttp://www.myworld2015.org/?partner=UNVhttp://www.myworld2015.org/?partner=UNVmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Restless Development is a youth-led development agency. Their mission is toplace young people at the forefront of change and development. Their strength comesfrom being led by young professionals, from the boardroom right through to the field. Theyhave been working hard since 1985, and over the past 27 years their programs havereached over seven million young people.With input from partners in 12 countries and with support from the Department for Interna-tional Development youth working group, Restless Development launched a toolkitforpost-2015 youth consultations, meant to enable youth groups across the world to run

consultation workshops on youth priorities for a post 2015 development framework. Theresults were captured in a reportand a dissemination guidewas designed to pro-

vide guidance on how to share the findings with key influencers in the post-2015 process in different national and local contexts. Theguide is packed full of useful tips and ideas on how to develop the key elements of a good post-2015 dissemination strategy.

The International Youth Council(IYC) has launched a post-MDG tool-kit on

water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The

toolkit, based on material originally produced

by WaterAid, has been developed to support

IYC and their youth affiliations in carrying out

advocacy around the post-2015 framework.

Youth WASH Ambassadors are concerned

with making sure every young person has the

opportunity to take part in shaping the future

of WASH. It is crucial toraise awareness about the

importance of these vital

services, mobilize young

people to work together,

and build their capacity to

lobby for WASH in the post

-2015 framework and be-

yond. You can download

the Post-MDGs toolkit by

following the link: http://

internationalyouthcoun-

cil.com/page/post-mdg

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toolkit

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initiatives for development from around (OUR) World

WAGGGS, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, isengaged in numerous groups and alliances that work on developing the successor

framework for MDGs. Capitalizing on its resources and its role as the largest vol-

unteer movement dedicated to girls and young women in the world, WAGGGS

wants to make sure the voices of girls and young women are taken into account in

the post-2015 development framework. To address this concern, WAGGGS

launched the campaign The World we want for Girls and established a pool of

young women from 16 countries to be ambassadors on the future development

agenda, to ensure that it takes into account the priorities of girls and young wom-

en. WAGGGS supports its Member Organizations at national and regional level, to

engage in events and

lobbying opportunities

on post-2015.

WAGGGS members

engaged in High-level

Panel consultations and

other UN-led and civil

society- led initiatives

with youth in particular.

The young ambassa-

dors are also contrib-

uting to the promotion of the MYWorld survey and coordinating the offline roll out

For further information, contact Anush [email protected]

Bake the world a better place

This initiative explores how marketing and advertising techniques can be used to raise awareness about development issues. The

chefs of this initiative are a consortium of five NGOs working together in a European cross -border project. By creating new

recipes, they open development education to new tasters! They identified a target group, usually not reached by development

education: Young Modern Performers (YMP). For over two years, Bake the world a better place carried out 25 actions aimed at

reaching mainstream European youth in order to make them aware of the MDGs. These can be very simple things that [young

people] can change in their everyday habits. There are many interdependencies between everyday personal lifestyles at

home and development topics. Thinking global involves acting local!

Find out more : http://www.bakeabetterplace.org/
http://www.restlessdevelopment.org/file/post-mdg-youth-consultation-toolkit-pdfhttp://www.restlessdevelopment.org/file/post-mdg-youth-consultation-toolkit-pdfhttp://www.youthpost2015.org/wordpress/report/youthvoices.pdfhttp://www.youthpost2015.org/wordpress/report/youthvoices.pdfhttp://www.youthpost2015.org/wordpress/report/disseminationguide.pdfhttp://www.youthpost2015.org/wordpress/report/disseminationguide.pdfhttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkitmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.bakeabetterplace.org/http://www.bakeabetterplace.org/http://www.bakeabetterplace.org/mailto:[email protected]://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://internationalyouthcouncil.com/page/post-mdg-toolkithttp://www.youthpost2015.org/wordpress/report/disseminationguide.pdfhttp://www.youthpost2015.org/wordpress/report/youthvoices.pdfhttp://www.restlessdevelopment.org/file/post-mdg-youth-consultation-toolkit-pdf


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For further information: contact [email protected]

United Nations Volunteers

Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse 10

53113 Bonn, Germany

Leveraging Egyptian voices

Egypt possesses a large youth population:18-29-year-olds make up one quarter of the total population (Egypt Human De-

velopment Report 2010, UNDP and Institute of National Planning, Egypt, 2010). This substantial human capital remains largely

untapped. Many young people are excluded and disengaged from the development of their communities. Therefore,

youth, as a diverse category, represented a target group for the Post 2015 Development consultations that took place in

Egypt. Over 20 participants, representing NGO affiliates, university and technical

school students attended the national consultation in March 2013. The consulta-

tion ensured the participation of the voiceless and marginalized youth including

youth from rural areas, women, national CSOs and informal youth groups. Almost

half of the participants came from the governorates of Fayoum, Qena, Minya and

Beni Suef.

To youth, and Egypt overall, the future they want entails security,freedom, a better economy, national reconciliation and social jus-

tice. In addition, the youth discussed the need to foster a culture of en-

gagement and the creation of more avenues for civic involvement.

Leveraging the voices of youth can induce real positive change on all

levels in Egypt. One development priority that was identified was how to

reach different groups of youth and engage them in the society depend-

ing on clear economic, political, and social policies.

Noha Tarek, Youth Development Specialist/Arab Youth Programme

[email protected]

www.unv.org

www.volunteeractioncounts.org

www.onlinevolunteering.org

www.facebook.com/unvolunteers

www.youtube.com/unv

https://unv.unteamworks.org/node/266207

So, do you still believe that development doesnt needs youth? http://www.youthpolicy.org/development/Looking for even more dissemination and advocacy tools for the MDGs and the post -2015 process? Find outmore about youth participation http://www.youthpolicy.org/symposia/2013/04/10/participation-resources/

Volunteerism constittes an imporant par of the tansition to responsible adulthood. It is a valuable vehicle by which young people are exosed to

active citizenship. Increasingly, developing counties are intoducing volunteerism to young people through the educational system (page 57).Volunteerism is one channel by which young people can engage, especially through youth organizations. Where young people wor k together

through volunteer action, they can contibute to building bridges cross cultres and gender and play their fll par in peace processes (page 70).From the 2011 State of the Worlds Volunteerism Repor

We might be consulted, but our opin-

ion is not included in the decision

making.Anonymous during the National Consulta-

tion in Egypt
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