Lessons for Youth Empowerment identified through POA Catch-up meeting
Background
This Catch-Up meeting was originally initiated by Mr. Salam who experienced as a coordinator of ILDC 2024 and was co-organized by him and his fellow alumni (ILDC 2023) for re-connecting, sharing their experiences and discussing on challenges faced in implementing the plan of action (POA). Besides ILDC 2023 alumni, others who just begun working on POA, such as ILDC 2024 alumni and Health Equity Course alumni of 2023 & 2024, were invited to participate in the meeting as a mutual learning opportunity.
Date
January 18th and 25th, 2025 (Zoom)
Participants
*ILDC 2023 (Presenters): Salam, Sarna, Aman, Laksiri, Thadsa, Tehreem, Rehan, Hasham
*ILDC 2024: Abayed, Shoma, Swapnil, Himal
*ILDC 2021: Jack (& his colleague, David)
*HEC 2023 & 2024 and Organizing members: Sujata, Sheela, Lambodar, Chirag, Nitin, Abishek, Nilesh, Vijaypal, Chhavi, Chhaya
Lessons Learned
In the 1st meeting, the participants shared their findings from the presentation and discussion of that day. Due to lack of time, however, they decided to have the 2nd meeting for the remaining presentations and future plan for learning. After every presentation was done, participants reviewed all the findings that they gained and more specified for application as follows.
Topic for further learning
Participants raised some topics that they wanted to discuss in the future;
- How can we approach participants with different levels of prior understanding to ensure equal learning progress across the group (getting everyone on the same page), especially when there are time constraints? 【Tehreem, Aman, Salam, (invite Chhaya?)】
- What is secure relationship? What will it contribute to?
- How to make youth get interested in participation in advocacy?
- Is the financial rewarding contributing to uplift volunteerism?
Presentation
Pakistan
To promote collaboration between youth groups and NGOs, to share ownership to ensure sustainability
To enhance the secondary leadership among youth group members for fostering self-empowerment and volunteerism for community development
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- Hasham, RASTI
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- Rehan, RASTI
To enhance volunteerism on the youth platform
Bangladesh
To ensure sustainability of the group by increasing secure relationship and sense of volunteerism through enhancing capacity and developing alternative leadership.
Sri Lanka
To ensure participatory leadership among youth members
To improve communication between district youth coordinators and animators
Report
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