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05.04.13 - Commonwealth Youth Development Awards Open for 2013 Nominations
Awards highlight contribution young people make to achieving development goals The Commonwealth Youth Development Awards, which encourage and sustain investment in youth-led development, are open for 2013 nominations. Youth workers are encouraged to nominate young people, who are driving innovative projects in any number of areas, including agriculture, small enterprise, skills training, climate change/environment protection, [...] Read more
14.03.13 - Winners of Commonwealth Youth Awards announced
Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work celebrate young people in the Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others Four young development workers from Australia, Barbados, Kenya and Sri Lanka, were today awarded £14,000 between them for their projects. Evans Wadongo, who won both the pan-Commonwealth and Africa region [...] Read more
14.02.13 - Commonwealth Students’ Association launches strategic plan
The CSA will engage and empower students in the Commonwealth to influence key education decisions and policies. The Commonwealth Students’ Association (CSA) has launched its strategic plan to guide its work in representing the voice and concerns of students in the Commonwealth. The CSA Steering Committee – an elected team of nine student leaders from [...] Read more
13.02.13 - Commonwealth creates Youth Development Index
The Commonwealth has developed its first index to monitor the development and empowerment of young people in its member countries. The Youth Development Index measures the status of young people, aged 15-29, in five key domains: education, health, employment, and civic and political participation. It will assist youth ministers and other policy-makers in identifying areas [...] Read more
13.02.13 - A call to young leaders in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in the Commonwealth
Are you interested in how sport can be used to support sustainable development? Do you believe in the value of international cooperation and working with other young leaders across the Commonwealth? Would you like to contribute to a Commonwealth-wide initiative and expand your networks and contacts in the sport and development field? An exciting opportunity [...] Read more
04.02.13 - Commonwealth announces finalists for youth awards in development work
The 16 finalists will each receive a £1,000 grant to advance their development work The Commonwealth has announced the finalists of the Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work. The awards celebrate young people (aged 15-29) in the Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging [...] Read more
25.01.13 - Commonwealth Youth Programme celebrates 40th anniversary
The Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) is celebrating 40 years of championing young people’s engagement in decision-making and development. Since its establishment in 1973, CYP has focused on youth empowerment: working with youth leaders, government ministries and youth workers to unleash the vast potential of young people in Commonwealth member states. Today, young people (aged 15-29) [...] Read more
24.01.13 - ‘Opportunity through Enterprise’ – the Commonwealth theme for 2013
The theme “encourages us all to celebrate the ways in which talent and innovation can be supported and put to the best use possible” – Secretary-General This year’s Commonwealth theme, to be launched on Commonwealth Day, encourages imagination, creativity, and a positive attitude to grasp the opportunities of our time – at home or with [...] Read more
11.01.13 - Debt and No Job Prospects: The Onion Satirizes the College Grad Experience
Leave it to the Onion to expertly satirize the modern college graduate experience: boatloads of debt and no solid job prospects. In this “Special Update” we meet 27-year-old Mark Felder, a 2007 University of Miami alumnus with a bachelor’s degree in communications and a “strong affection for the academic institution that left him totally unprepared for the [...] Read more
14.12.12 - 18CCEM: “Student leaders had time to lobby, discuss and network”
A four-day Youth Forum in Mauritius held earlier this year in the wings of the Conference of the Commonwealth Education Ministers was the launch pad for a new international student movement, reports Zain Haider Awan, 18, a delegate from Britain. Watch Zain’s video report by clicking here. The Eighteenth Conference of the Commonwealth Education Ministers (18CCEM) is held every three years [...] Read more
05.12.12 - Youth Have the Power to Change a School Culture
via Good. In our A City Education series, City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the opportunity gap and ending the dropout crisis. During the holiday season, many people take the time to reflect on the previous year and think about what—or who—means a lot to [...] Read more
05.12.12 - What issues affect you?
The Youth Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat will host the 8th Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting (8CYMM) from 15-19 April 2013 in Papua New Guinea. Focusing on ‘Young People at the Centre of Development’, the meeting will bring Youth Ministers from across the 54-nation Commonwealth who will be gathering for the first time in five [...] Read more
