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Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth

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International Youth Day 2012

“To unleash the power of young people, we need to partner with them.”
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations’ (UN) International Youth Day is celebrated on August 12 each year to recognize efforts of the world’s youth in enhancing global society. It also aims to promote ways to engage them in becoming more actively involved in making positive contributions to their communities.

Each year, International Youth Day (IYD) is assigned a theme; a conceptual slogan that communicates the scope, direction, and objectives of the year’s youth initiatives and that also provides a unifying banner from under which individuals can draw the inspiration to take action. The theme chosen for International Youth Day 2012 – Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth – is a global call to action for young men and women, as well as other stakeholders around the world, to develop and engage in partnerships with and for youth towards building a better world.

International Youth Day 2012 provides an important opportunity to build upon the priorities of the Secretary-General’s Action Agenda, as well as to respond to calls from youth organizations and UN Member States around the world to strengthen mechanisms for partnerships with young people by exploring various and innovative ways that the United Nations, Member States, civil society, the private sector, academia and philanthropists effectively partner and collaborate with young people, especially in the areas of employment, entrepreneurship, political inclusion, citizenship and protection of rights, and education, including on sexual and reproductive health.

How you can celebrate International Youth Day

Team up! Reach out to Governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, the private sector and young people and get key actors involved in strengthening mechanisms for partnerships with and for young people by exploring various and innovative ways that the United Nations, Member States, civil society, the private sector, academia and philanthropists can partner and collaborate with young people, especially in the areas of employment, entrepreneurship, political inclusion, citizenship and protection of rights, and education, including on sexual and reproductive health.

Organize! Hold forums, public discussions and information campaigns in support of young people, focusing on strengthening mechanisms for partnerships with and for young people around the areas of employment, entrepreneurship, political inclusion, citizenship and protection of rights, and education, including on sexual and   reproductive health.

Celebrate! Plan and organize performances to showcase and celebrate how youth contribute to the societies in which they live, and how everyone, through partnerships with and for youth, can build a better world.

Email your plans for commemorating International Youth Day 2012 in your community: youth@un.org

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The National Youth Project

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Vision:

Enabling youth to participate in the advancement of Kuwait’s future vision and its strategic and developmental goals.

Strategic Goals:

The project seeks to achieve the following goals:

  1. Creating communication channels between the political leadership and youth groups.
  2. Developing positive participation methods for youth in society issues.
  3. Upgrading youth capabilities and skills and reinforcing their contribution to national unity.
  4. Identifying youth ambitions and aspirations and developing ways to enhance these ambitions.
  5. Identifying concerns and challenges facing youth in order to find appropriate solutions for them.
  6. Engaging youth and seeking their views in government programs and development plans.
  7. Preparing and qualifying promising future youth leadership to proceed with the development process.
  8. Encouraging youth initiatives and inciting them to innovation and work in a democratic society.
  9. Strengthening the national Kuwaiti identity, developing national cohesion, combating radicalism and fanaticism, and abandoning group sectarian, and tribal divisions among youth.
  10. Bolstering the democratic and constitutional culture, reinforcing tolerance and diversity of views and opinions among youth.
  11. Encouraging freedom of expression, laying the foundations of communication ethics and respecting individual opinions

 Priorities that were set by Preparatory Youth Council.

Connect with the National Youth Project below:

Click [here] for their  website.

ExpatVoices: Good vision set here by the Government of Kuwait – Empowering the Youth of Kuwait in the country’s future goals. With the youth today, we have charisma, ambitions, vitality, passions, energy and spirits. They are more flexible towards change and are open-minded. The government can definitely harness and channel their unique qualities and skills towards a growth-oriented, educated, modern and advanced society. Best wishes to the National Youth Project in their vision and we hope by these initiatives, our future generations bring us more prosperity and goodness to this country.

Catch the conversation by Youth on TED [link] (Ideas worth spreading)

“Much of the Middle East revolutions were spearheaded by youths. Their reason for doing so is for their future, which at that point of time was not particularly bright. So they were forced to take charge and act, or live yet another generation of poverty.” - Shiyong Pow