[Pakistan] on-line youth conference on National Youth Policy

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

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Dear Sir:

 

Second week of next month, 4th-10th May 2003, is being celebrated as 
the International Youth Week worldwide. As a contribution, we are 
organizing an on-line youth conference on National Youth Policy on 
Saturday 10th May 2003. 

 

For a country like Pakistan, in which one forth population i.e. about 
35 million is youth (age 15-29), nothing could be as important as a 
broadly acceptable vision for youth and an effective mechanism for 
harnessing the potential of youth. In this context, National Youth 
Policy (NYP) can only be the first, albeit extremely important step. 
It is like the first brick of any wall, which if laid down wrongly, 
could never be rectified, unless the whole structure has to be 
demolished.

 

This online conference would be a brainstorming session to discuss 
the 1) need, 2) framework and; 3) process of formulation of National 
Youth Policy. Young parliamentarians, youth activists, youth 
ministries, students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, 
and intellectuals, would sign-in the conference. This conference 
would suggest a Youth Vision and would review the framework for Youth 
Policy as approved by the Federal Cabinet recently.

 

To make this exercise effective, related documents and chat protocol 
would be uploaded at www.jawanpakistan.org/conference.htm  by 1st May 
2003. To log-in the chat room, please visit www.jawanpakistan.org on 
10th May 2003 from 4 pm to 8 pm. We hope to get you assistance in 
making this initiative a success. For our brief introduction and 
selecting method(s) of your assistance, please see overleaf or below.

 

 

We look forward to your click!

 

 

 

ALI SALMAN

Editor

JAWAN PAKISTAN

 

Jawan Pakistan (JP) is a registered youth organization at federal and 
provincial levels since 1992. It is managed voluntarily by a group of 
young entrepreneurs and professionals. It has taken lead in providing 
intellectual guidance and leadership development to the youth by 
different methods over last decade. Its activities included seminars, 
volunteer work, publications and advocacy. Convinced by the ITC 
revolution in Pakistan over last three years, it has been 
concentrating solely on on-line youth work. Its flagship project is 
known as www.jawanpakistan.org launched in December 2002. The website 
since then has been visited by about 200,000 people, maintaining an 
average of 2,000 hits per day. The website was rated as No. 1 URL by 
Spider Magazine and was reviewed as a leading website by Daily 
Nation.

 

Jawan Pakistan’s second current project is a ‘Think Tank on Youth’. 
This Think Tank provides informed perspective on youth related 
matters to a broad audience, including youth themselves, policy 
makers, youth activists, educationists etc. Its primary work has been 
on National Youth Policy (www.jawanpakistan.org/thinktank.htm). It 
has been declared as National Focal Point on Youth for Pakistan by 
International Foundation for Human Development/UNESCO. Lately, JP has 
been invited, and since then engaged, in formulation of National 
Youth Policy with multilateral donors and the Government of Pakistan.

 

Disclaimer: Jawan Pakistan is a not-for-profit, non-partisan 
organization, and runs on self-reliant basis and local resources. 
Opinions expressed in its newsletter are those of contributors and it 
does not necessarily agree or disagree with them.

 

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JAWAN PAKISTAN’S ON-LINE YOUTH CONFERENCE

www.jawanpakistan.org/conference.htm

Saturday 10th May 2003          Time: 4 pm to 8 pm

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