African Development Forum V

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African Development Forum V

• Theme Youth and Leadership in the 21st Century
• Presented at the Regional Meeting on Youth
  Development in Africa
• June 27-29, 2006

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Objectives and Expected Outcomes

• Develop synergies for youth development in Africa
• Promote development and implementation of youth
  development initiatives, including WPAY and
  proposed African Youth Charter
• Design catalytic and reconnaissance
  frameworks for youth dev projects
• Review approaches for meeting the challenges of
  girls and young women
• Initiate process for Africa Youth Report 2007

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Background

• Situation of youth in Africa
• Political
• Economic
• Social
• Institutional and policy landscape
• National
• Regional
• International
• Africa youth in a globalised world
• Threats and opportunities

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African Youth in a Globalised World

• Outcomes of UN GA 60th Session
• Role of ECA and other UN agencies
• Role of African leaders, CSOs, youth
• Emergence of Youth groups- for MDGs, PRSs, Peace
  Conflict Resolution, etc
• AU African Youth Charter

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Rationale for ADF on Youth

• Youth as an economic asset
• Labour force, investment demand, innovations
• Youth as a social force
• Social transformation, community development
  issues of African identity
• Youth as a political force
• Leadership in political dev issues of
  citizenship
• To translate these potentials into real benefits
  for development through partnerships and policies
  underpinned by the youth agenda

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Principles and Strategies

• Attending to Youth inspired, legitimate
  coherent interventions
• Building on partnerships
• Revolving on organised consultations with and
  among youth
• Collating best practices
• Leveraging implementation through political and
  institutional leaderships

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Proposed Activities and Outcomes

• Pre-ADF
• National, regional consultations
• Country briefs
• Forum
• Dialogue Session (youth, govt, partners)
• Consensus Statement
• Workshops, Exhibitions, etc.
• Post-forum
• Implementation and Monitoring task force
• Africa Youth Report 2007

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Proposed Work Programme

• Plenary sessions
• Youth and leadership in the dev. process
• Youth situation in Africa
• AU African Youth Charter
• Breakout sessions
• Nurturing youth as an asset
• Utilising youth as an asset
• Building an environment for youth engagement
• Multi-stakeholder dialogue
• Workshops, exhibitions, etc.

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Participation

• Political leaders, ministers
• UN leadership
• Heads of Collaborating organisations
• Key personalities, resource people, experts
• Youth (min.40 of total)
• Criteria
• Selected at country levelIndividual Activity
• Nominated, sponsored

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Timing

• Event- tentative October 2006
• Regional Pre-Meeting- June 2006

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Current Status of ADF preps

• Partnerships arrangements to be firmed up
• Compilation of background reports to start
• National level consultations in partnership with
  UNICEF/UNCTs to start August 2006

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ADFV Organisation and Processes

• Joint Organisers- ECA and AU
• Steering Committee- Core partners (UNDP, ILO,
  UNESCO, UNICEF, OIF)
• Internal Coordination Committee
• Secretariat
• Sub-committees- Programme Documentation, Youth
  Participation, Media Publicity, Budget Finance

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Youth Role in ADFV- summary

• Documentation
• Country briefs
• Main conference document
• Thematic papers
• Consensus Statement
• Publicity
• Organisation
• Post-forum Follow-up
• Monitoring Evaluation

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I want your responses on these

• How best to conduct the national consultations
• How best to receive youth inputs into Forum
  programme, documentation, selection of key
  personalities
• How best to incorporate WPAY and AU Youth Charter
• How best to engage youth in documentation,
  publicity organisation
• kboateng_at_uneca.org

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• Thank you