A blog by Alvin Ma “A platform for the voices of young people to be heard” is the opening line on our website’s about us page. Having contributed to YourCommonwealth for the past eight years, I want to share my perspective on facilitating understanding, particularly in response to recent international headlines on the COVID-19 pandemic …
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For many years, efforts have been made to achieve and sustain peace, security, and better livelihoods for the youth in Africa and across the world. In this blog, Jessica Nakasamu, a 20-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Zambia, shares her key takeaways from the first of a virtual seminar series for young people hosted by The Commonwealth …
The Commonwealth Action Series is back with a session on ‘Trade, Entrepreneurship & Employment’ on International Youth Day, 12 August. Follow the link for more information and register here. The webinar series, which started in July, will run until December 2020. It is aimed at helping give young people a stronger voice in policy decisions affecting …
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On this International Youth Day, focused on the theme ‘Youth Engagement for Global Action’, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland invited representatives from our networks to share their vision for empowering and engaging young people. Read their messages here.
On this International Youth Day, focused on the theme ‘Youth Engagement for Global Action’, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland invited representatives from our networks to share their vision for empowering and engaging young people. Read their messages here.
The Social Studies Department of the Open University of Sri Lanka launched the Diploma in Youth Development at a function held Saturday (8) at the auditorium of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development in Narahenpita. Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dullas Alahapperuma, Vice Chancellor of the OUSL Prof. Upali Vidhanapathirana and …
Certain youth advocates last week raised questions about the policy programmes and management of the youth portfolio and wanted it taken away from Olivia “Babsy” Grange, Minister of Youth Sports and Culture. It was surprising that the youth advocates did not investigate before they made their ill-informed statements. If they had they would have found …
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Progress towards a National Youth Policy for Guyana is painfully slow despite the opportunity created by the United Nations’ International Year of Youth, writes 27-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Mark Anthony Ross. It’s almost the end of the International Year of Youth 2010-2011, a year which was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/64/134 under the …
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The first worldwide index measuring the development and empowerment of young people will be launched by The Commonwealth on 19 September. The Youth Development Index (YDI) offers an inter-country comparison of the environment for young people, aged 15 to 29, across five key areas: education, health, employment, civic participation and political participation. The first …
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The Youth Development Index, a new global measure of the development and empowerment of young people, was launched by The Commonwealth on 19 September. We asked contributors to YourCommonwealth.org to define youth development. Here are some of their answers: “Youth development is when there is equal opportunities for all youths to gain access to basic resources …
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