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PROGRAMME & OUTCOME
Though the
programme ran from 7-12 January 2005, participants
began arriving in Mauritius on 4 January and some
did not depart until 18 January due to difficult
travel schedules.
Field trips,
shopping trips and visits to places of interest
were arranged during the pre- and post-meeting
days. Additionally, participants prepared and
dismantled the display materials they had brought
from their islands.
Ninety-four
youth participants (43 from the AIMS region,
36 from the Caribbean and 17 from the Pacific)
participated in the YVIL event. They came from
31 SIDS and six islands with other affiliations.
The meeting
was officially opened by Hon. Ravi Raj Yerrigadoo,
Minister of Youth and Sports in Mauritius, a very
young politician, who spent an hour after the
official ceremony talking individually with the
youth participants and visiting their country
displays.
After an
introductory workshop, the meeting focused on
the three main themes - Life and love in islands,
My island home and Money in my pocket.
Starting
with Life and love in islands, there was a panel
discussion led by youth participants from each
of the three regions. Participants then were divided
into small groups where they discussed and prioritized
the issues relating to that theme after which
they reported back to plenary.
Then they
returned to their small groups to discuss future
youth-led activities relating to the priority
issues. They used the project
template (28Kb .doc) to prepare in detail,
one or more project proposals. These were then
presented to the plenary group.
See discussion
and project proposals for:
Three youth-led
drafting committees were established to start
working on the final declaration. There
was some overlap between the three themes, but
this had been expected.
The make-up
of the small groups was re-arranged each day so
as to provide as much interaction as possible.
Every group was interregional and gender balanced.
A group of resource people played a very important
role in providing advice to the small groups where
necessary. The resource people came from UNESCO
headquarters and field offices, UNICEF, Ministries
of Education in Mauritius, St Vincent and the
Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of
Environment in Seychelles, TakingITGlobal, and
RMIT University Melbourne.
After the
discussions on the three themes were completed,
participants met together in country groups to
decide on their follow-up project(s).
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Youth Visioning Declaration
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Programme of event
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Closing Ceremony
Youth Visioning Meeting:
- Programme & Outcome
- Media Coverage
- Participants
- Photos
More information:
Programme
at Pointe aux Sables
[55Kb .doc]
Responses
from participants involved in the YV event
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