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CSD Youth Blast 2011

Welcome!

Youth leaders from around the world will converge on the Youth Blast in New York on May 1, 2011 to share their skills and prepare for the 19th Session UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD-19).

The purpose of the Youth Blast is to empower children and youth present at the CSD-19. The goals of the Blast are to provide information and training for leaders around the CSD and provide a space for youth to share best practices for implementing solutions and participating in decision-making at the international level.

Blast Information:

What: CSD Youth Caucus Blast!

Why: Meet the youth that will be your peers at CSD before the commission gets started

When: Sunday May 1 8:30am - 5:30pm

Where: New School, Room E206, 25 East 13th Street. Please find here a map.

How to register?

Please register here

Programme

Time

Activity

8.30-9.30

Introduction
Inter-­‐cultural activity focused on getting to know eacht other and learning from the differen places we come from

9.30-10.25

Overview of the CSD-19
• Youth at the UN and the UNCSDInter-­‐cultural activity focused on getting to know eacht other and learning from the differen places we come fromCSD-­19
• Goals, principles and practical functioning of the Major Group on Children and Youth
• Processes
• Questions and Answers

10.25-10.40

Break

10.40-12.30

Policy points Major Group on Children and Youth
• Presentation of the MGCY Policy Paper and the policy points
• Formation of Policy Groups related to thematic discussions
• Statement writing per thematic discussion

12.30-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.00

Energiser
Presentation of statements

15.00-16.00

Programme
• Overview
• Division of work according to
• Policy groups / trackers
• Lobby / advocacy
• Communications

16.00-16.30

Break

16.30-17.00

Presentation of Action Plans to the whole Major Group

17.00-17.30

Evaluation

20.00

Dinner in town

Download a copy of the programme here

Matthew Carroll (06/02/2006 2:45 am)

Ben Vanpeperstraete (29/04/2011 11:31 pm)