Just a few things we’ve got planned in the months ahead: 7th-9th February: CABOS (Commonwealth Advisory Body on Sports) Meeting, Delhi – India Discussions on how Sports can be better utilized as a tool for Peace and Development. 14th-18th February: Commonwealth Youth Sub-committee on Human Rights and Democracy Training, London. Commitment Create a Commonwealth Youth …

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Over 20 students and Faculty from The National University of Rwanda (NUR), on Friday, concluded a one-week training in the use of multimedia for instruction, as part of the university’s efforts to explore modern ways of delivering knowledge to its students. The training was organised by the University Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) in partnership …

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The Pinelands Creative Workshop (PCW) is facilitating a one-day workshop on the topic highlighted above on Wednesday, 16th February 2011 at the Horatio Cooke Auditorium, NUPW Headquarters, Dalkeith, St Michael from 10am – 3pm. The Workshop is a component of a new project which is being conducted throughout the Caribbean including Barbados, with the objectives …

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International Perspectives in Youth Entrepreneurship Training (IPYET) is an International Training programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Labour Organization. It is organised by the ILO Lusaka Country Office and CYP Regional Centre for Africa The workshop is targeted at youth development practitioners, social development programmers, enterprise mentors, trainers and academia. The workshop will …

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About 60 young Cameroonians from diverse backgrounds will participate in a three-day training session to sharpen their entrepreneurial skills from 8th to 10th February, 2011 at the residence of the British High Commissioner to Cameroon in Yaounde. This 3-day initiative has been crafted by Youth Employment Services (YES), an NGO run by young Cameroonians, to …

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This is a video of Sugata Mitra, responsible for the original “Hole in the Wall” project in a slum in New Delhi India started in 1999. Mitra outlines the findings from the expansion of the program in India and elsewhere including South Africa. The video talk by Mitra focuses on how children can learn to …

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Young people from around the Commonwealth are trained in human rights and democracy to prepare them for their role as youth election observers A group of twenty young people from around the Commonwealth became the first trained Commonwealth youth election observers last week, after completing their training in human rights and democracy at the Commonwealth …

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The youth of today should be seen as agents for peace-building, this is according to Auckland City Councilor Alfred Filipaina, during his speech to participants at the opening of the four day, Wansolwara Youth Peace-building Conference‟ beginning today at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Auckland Airport, New Zealand. “As young people you need to be the …

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Commonwealth Correspondent Ayodeji Morakinyo, 24, offers the latest diary instalment from his national service military training in the Niger Delta, known as a hotspot for kidnappings. Before travelling to Delta State, I had heard of militancy and their newly carved industry of kidnapping. One time, I read in a national newspaper that Niger Delta militants, …

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Commonwealth Correspondent Ayodeji Morakinyo, 24, offers the latest diary instalment from his national service military training in the Niger Delta, known as a hotspot for kidnappings. Before travelling to Delta State, I had heard of militancy and their newly carved industry of kidnapping. One time, I read in a national newspaper that Niger Delta militants, …

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