The Work of the National Youth Commission

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The Work of the National Youth Commission
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Contents

• Introduction
• Overview of the NYC
• Our vision, objectives, and goals
• The larger environment
• NYCs mission and functions
• Strategic planning
• Cooperative partnerships and strategic tie-ups
• The work of each NYC department
• Reforming the NYC
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• The NYC seeks to build an organizational
  framework that will enable us to plan for the
  gainful employment of our nations youth, achieve
  the ideals of civil society, and make our
  government function better.
• The NYC intends to use the concept of a hierarchy
  of functions in order to chart out a roadmap for
  the reform of our organization.

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Overview of the NYC
Vision
Objectives
Strategic planning
Larger environment
Goals
Cooperative Partnership
Mission Functions
NYC
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Our vision

• To develop a comprehensive plan for the gainful
  employment of youth
• To establish a civil society based on the concept
  of cooperative partnership
• To follow the new middle path in providing a
  full range of services to the nations youth

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Our objectives

• Enhance the competitiveness of our youth in the
  job market
• Instill in our young citizens a sense of
  responsibility, dedication to service, and
  concern for society
• Spur our youth to become active participants in
  global civil society

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Overview of the NYC
Civil society
Promote 3rd sector
Cultivate youth leadership
Volunteerism, service learning
building
exchange
Career planning
Entrepreneurism, employment
Capacity
in public
International
Training
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Overview of the NYC (categorizing our work by
age group)
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Our goals

• To help our youth develop into well-rounded human
  beings
• To improve the professional expertise of those
  who work with youth
• To strengthen our organization and ensure its
  sound development
• To spur increased interest in the third sector
  and build a consensus regarding civil society
• To systematically instill in youth a global
  outlook and a desire to serve others.
• To systematically cultivate third-sector
  personnel with a global outlook and professional
  expertise

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The larger environment

• Globalization / localization
• Democratization / universal values
• Industrial transition / knowledge-based economy
• Administrative reform / governmental
  restructuring
• Third sector / the power of society

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NYCs mission and functions (1/2)

• Level-one function Direct service
• Level-two functions
• Development of human resources Building
  of a sound organization
• Level-three functions Policy formulation
• Development of innovative programs
  Evaluation and research

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NYCs mission and functions (2/2)
NYC
Level-two functions Integrate service
assets Improve professional skills
Support
Enhance
Support, Enhance
Support, Enhance
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Strategic planning (1/2)

• From the perspective of human resource
  development
• Talent search phase
• Talent development phase
• The payoff to society

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Strategic planning (2/2)

• From the perspective of the need to strengthen
  non-profit organizations
• Training of NPO personnel
• Implementing IT solutions for NPOs
• Internal reforms and democratization
• Global coordination

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Strategic planning an overall perspective
Talent search phase

• Individual youth
• Development of potential human resources
• Identification of youth with potential

Talent development phase
Strengthen Organization
Third sector Recruit human resource
Train human resource
International exchange
Special agents
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Features of cooperative relationships

• All participants must have a clear understanding
  of where their interests lie and what their role
  is.
• There must be clear and effective channels of
  communication.
• The partners must be flexible enough to adjust to
  changing circumstances.
• The leaders of all organizations involved must
  have a means of learning from each other so that
  the partnership can be an organization for
  learning.

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Implementation of cooperative relationships

• Emergency hiring program for recent graduates
• Temporary earthquake reconstruction jobs for
  students from the quake-affected area (during
  vacations)
• 2001 Cooperation Plan NPOs head into the e-age
• Job Placement and Career Counseling Center
• Regional youth volunteer centers
• Advisory network for young entrepreneurs
• Advisory activities for young entrepreneurs

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Implementation of partnerships(1/2)

• Emergency hiring project
• Project to provide junior college and university
  students from the area hit by the 1999 earthquake
  with a chance to take part in recovery work
• Moving Forward in 2002--Working Together for a
  Better Taiwan

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Implementation of partnerships(2/2)

• Employment services and career planning resource
  centers
• District youth volunteer centers
• Youth entrepreneurship guidance network

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Duties of NYCs 1st Department

• Business start-up loans for youth
• Women's entrepreneurial guidance
• Youth entrepreneurship guidance network
• Youth entrepreneurship education

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1st Department key projects (1/2)

• Women's entrepreneurship guidance
• Provide women entrepreneurs with knowledge and
  information through such means as women's
  entrepreneurship roundtable discussions, women's
  entrepreneurship prep courses, Workshop on
  Entrepreneurism for Women's Groups

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1st Department key projects (2/2)

• Women's entrepreneurship guidance
• Establish information network for women's
  entrepreneur shop support resources
• Strengthen the women's entrepreneurship
  consulting network
• Provide women's entrepreneurship consulting

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1st Department list of key projects
Women's entrepreneurship prep course
Women's entrepreneurship prep course
Instructors at the Women's Workshop on
Entrepreneurship
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Duties of NYCs 2nd Department

• Assist youth in their career planning
• Raise the professionalism of career planning
  counselors
• Provide youth with training in specialized skills
• Provide youth employment hunting services

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2nd Department key projects

• Raising the professionalism of career planning
  counselors
• Train "seed" counselors help youth develop a
  career planning "blueprint"
• Plan a five-stage career planning curriculum
• Hold Basic Course and Advanced Course (1) in
  2002 Advanced Course (2 and 3) in 2003 Advanced
  Course (4) in 2004
• Compile a course syllabus for training course
  participants

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2nd Department list of key projects

• Training of career planning counselors

Employment Fair
Press conference on summer vacation work program
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Duties of NYCs 3rd Department

• Promote greater professionalism in the third
  sector
• Strengthen third sector's ability to serve
  society's needs
• Help youth and NPOs become more internationally
  involved

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3rd Department key projects

• Important examples of the Third Section's work
• Training of third-sector personnel
• Training of youth leaders
• Training of youth to take part in international
  affairs
• Training to familiarize youth with key
  international organizations
• Training of young goodwill ambassadors
• Exchanges of experience by third-sector personnel
  
• Camps to familiarize secondary students with
  university life
• NPO leader forums on-site study visits project
  management courses

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3rd Department list of key projects
Workshop to train personnel for international
affairs
NPO leader forum
Strategy planning workshop
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Duties of NYCs 4th Department(1/2)

• Encourage youth to do volunteer work
• Promote GYSD
• Carry out Youth Information Volunteers Project
• Hold 20 leadership workshops for campus group
  officers

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Duties of NYCs 4th Department(2/2)

• Carry out the Secondary Student Service-Learning
  Project
• Hold 20 workshops for "seed teachers"
• Promote youth leisure activities
• Promote youth eco-leisure education camps (as
  part of the International Year of Ecotourism
  2001)

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4th Department key projects(1/2)

• Took part in GYSD activities
• Set up special GYSD website
• Held six workshops to provide empowerment
  guidance
• Over 400 groups took part in on-site work
• Held focus activities across the country on April
  26-27
• Sharing of results at local level, and selection
  of outstanding groups
• Held exchange activities with Singapore youth

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4th Department key projects(2/2)

• Activities connected with the International Year
  of Volunteers
• Promote activities connected with the
  International Year of Volunteers, establish
  IAVE-TAIWAN (Taiwan branch of the International
  Association of Volunteer Effort), organize
  international conferences, promote international
  volunteer exchange activities.
• Help other government agencies promote volunteer
  services, e.g.
• - Central Personnel Administration training
  of public-sector volunteer workers
• - Government Information Office training of
  volunteers to work for a nuclear-free Taiwan
• - National Sports Council recruitment of
  volunteers to serve at international baseball
  tournaments

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4th Department list of key projects
Visit to senior citizens
Musical performance
GYSD focus activity
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Reforming the NYC

• Working in accordance with the concept of a
  hierarchy of functions, the NYC intends to. . .
• . . . strengthen our ability to act as a liaison
  between government agencies and NGOs
• . . . strengthen our role as a builder of
  societys capabilities and
• . . re-examine and adjust the allocation of
  resources to each of the three levels in our
  hierarchy of functions.

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Reform measures (1/3)

• Adjusting the level of NYC involvement
• Reduce the NYCs level-one (front line)
  functions, focus more on level-two functions, and
  move toward level-three (policy and coordination)
  functions.
• The final goal is to establish level-three
  comprehensive planning (e.g. comprehensive
  planning, research, policy formulation, and
  benefits analysis) as the NYCs main function.
• Strengthening the NYCs liaison function
• The NYC needs to strengthen its capacity for
  lateral liaison with other government bodies
  engaged in related work, in order to cultivate
  modern youth with highly marketable job skills,
  dedication to service, and a cosmopolitan world
  view.

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Reform measures (2/3)

• Help youth become fully prepared, productive
  members of the labor force
• Work together with junior colleges, universities,
  business firms, and the third sector to help
  students make a smooth transition from academic
  life to the work world.
• Help NPOs make effective use of information
  technology
• Help NPOs implement IT solutions
• Short term Help NPOs set up their own websites
• Mid to long term Establish electronic
  authentication system for NPOs
• Help NPOs establish resource sharing

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Reform measures (3/3)

• Strengthen international youth exchange
  activities
• Maintain close contacts with civil society
  organizations throughout the world
• Provide international aid through official
  channels
• Use non-official means to promote youth exchange
  activities
• Guide youth to be creators of the knowledge-based
  economy
• Put high priority on guiding youth to establish
  new-style knowledge-based businesses
• Strengthen promotion of entrepreneurial
  activities by women

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Conclusions

• Become the key human resource planner for the
  nations youth
• Become a research center for the third sector
• Link with the government, private sector, and the
  third sector to become a member of global civil
  society

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Notes

• The NYC was established on January 1, 1966 in
  order to take comprehensive charge of the
  nations youth services.
• The NYC currently has four departments, and in
  1970 established the Youth Vocational Training
  Center.
• The NYC currently has a budget for a staff of 171
  persons (including the Vocational Training Center
  for Youth)
• The NYC budget for FY 2001 is NT611,262,000.

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