aspbae responses to youth & inclusive citizenship

Youth and Inclusive

Citizenship: ASPBAE’s Responses

The Genesis

ASPBAE General Assembly mandated in 2012 to bring youth focus as a priority agenda

Building a constituency of marginalised youth in the

Asia Pacific

• Consensus building on youth agenda

• Capacity building of youth

• Facilitating participation of youth in various forums

• Documenting the lived experiences of the youth by the youth themselves

Consensus building on youth agenda

• Constituting the Working Group on Youth and Life skills

• Marginalised youth and ASPBAE members working with youth or on youth issues

• Meetings in Jakarta & New Delhi

• Policy Asks on Youth, Literacy & Life skills and the Declaration on Youth and Education informed ASPBAE’s Policy Advocacy on post 2015 education agenda

Capacity building of youth

• UNESCO International Policy Forum on Youth, Literacy and Life Skills (Jakarta, Aug. 2013)

• BLDC – with a focus on Youth Voices in Education

Facilitating participation of youth

in various forums

• Mother Language Education in Bangkok in 2013

• ASPBAE 50th anniversary launch panel discussion on Youth and Adult Learning & Education in January 2014 in Manila, Philippines

• Youth & Inclusive Citizenship Workshop in September 2014, New Delhi

Documenting the lived experiences of the youth by the

youth themselves

Journeys of personal empowerment documented by the marginalised youth and published jointly with UIL