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