Reference: YAD/PYCWG/084
Location: United Kingdom and up to 4 field visits
Duration: 60 person days
Closing Date: 18 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom and up to 4 field visits
Duration: 60 person days
Closing Date: 18 Jan 2013
The Commonwealth Secretariat is committed to advancing youth empowerment through strategic engagement with and in support of member governments. The Commonwealth Youth Ministers, at their meeting in 2008 endorsed:
- The importance of mainstreaming for the systematic integration of youth development into the work of all relevant stakeholders; and
- Implementation of practical approaches to mainstreaming using opportunities available to engage with a range of stakeholders including the private sector, NGOs and especially young people.
The Commonwealth Plan of Action on Youth Empowerment (PAYE) 2007-15 is a guiding framework for governments’ actions for youth development, and adopts as a central strategy the mainstreaming of young people’s issues and perspectives into all government policies, plans, programmes and activities.
The PAYE is designed to be a definitive reference tool for Ministries of Youth Affairs, and in many countries has formed the foundation of policy development and technical interventions. The Commonwealth Secretariat is currently developing a Youth Development Index, based on the PAYE, which will also allow member governments to monitor progress on youth development and identify areas of priority investment.
The Commonwealth is constantly seeking to make the PAYE more accessible to all parties engaged in youth development, and one path to this end is the documentation and dissemination of good practice in PAYE implementation.
Guiding Framework for Youth Mainstreaming
The Secretariat plans to develop a practical Guiding Framework for Youth Mainstreaming, which will articulate structures, mechanisms and processes that overcome political and institutional barriers to ensure that youth development and perspectives are intrinsically integrated into all government national policies, plans, programmes and activities.
On the basis of political and institutional analysis of both success and failure to date in this field, it will provide ‘best fit’ practice principles and good practice models that can be adapted to context. It will also include case studies of good practice examples of youth mainstreaming implemented by governments across the Commonwealth. It will address the political economy drivers behind such successes, and offer guidance on altering political incentives to deliver progressive youth policies where governments have been unwilling or unable to do so to date.
The Guide will reference best practice in political economy analysis and in gender mainstreaming, which is more advanced in the Commonwealth and elsewhere in government and international development. It is now widely recognised that gender considerations, rather than being an add-on, should be incorporated into all activities of government at the outset. This is highly relevant to youth mainstreaming in the development discourse.
The Guiding Framework for Youth Mainstreaming will assist member governments to:
- Articulate the importance and value of youth mainstreaming;
- Analyse the status of youth issues and perspectives throughout their government and other relevant institutions;
- Understand how a variety of member governments have approached youth mainstreaming in their countries;
- Identify factors that have led to member country governments to give priority to young people and invest in youth mainstreaming, and also identify political challenges that serve as barriers to this;
- Design a best fit national youth mainstreaming strategy and framework, and an accompanying action plan for effective implementation, anchored in the political realities of public finance, political imperatives, public administrative capacity challenges etc.
Guiding Framework on Youth Mainstreaming
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