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Global Youth Enterprise & Livelihoods Development Conference 2010
After an extensive global consultation with stakeholders in this field, the following themes have been identified as priority areas for the field this year and thus will comprise the conference's tracks: -
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Background
The World Youth Leadership Summit was started by the two Founder Chairpersons Mr. M.L. Mittal, Chairperson of the Gita Mohan Mittal Foundation (or GMMF) and Mr. Hiroshi Matsumoto, Chairperson of the Inner Trip Reyukai International (or ITRI).
Both organizations have organized Regional Youth Summits all over the world with a view to promote Youth Leadership and create Network of Youth Leaders to help them understand their role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.The objective was also to help the youth become sensitive to the aspirations and values of their counterparts in other parts of the world and to provide an expression to the same so that their experiences could be shared for mutual benefit.
ITRI and GMMF joined hands to organize an unprecedented Global Youth Leadership Summit titled “Young Voices Against Poverty,” and brought together young leaders from 192 member states to the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 29 to 31 October 2006 to commit themselves to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
The youth delegates become spokespersons for the Millennium Development Goals in their home countries, creating a global network to encourage young people to get involved in community, national and international activities to accelerate progress in reaching the Goals.
Recently the UNDP dissolved the Department that was Managing the Youth Forum. Now, it is proposed to give a shape to this activity through an NPO registered in New York. In due course it will be also registered with the UNO.
Therefore, as a tangible outcome of the series of events held in different parts of the world, the Chairpersons decide to establish the World Youth Peace Leaders Forum to carry forward the work already undertaken by the two NGOs and the United Nations. This would be a forum of leaders in diverse fields with outstanding and proven potential and vision.
Formation of this forum is based on the need to create capacity and institutionalize a mechanism to harness the vast global youth leadership talent and create a system whereby an on going exchange of ideas, training, project experiences and resource sharing could become a reality and not remain confined merely as an idea.
Mr. Mohan Lal Mittal and Mr. Hiroshi Matsumoto will be the founder Chairpersons. At the next stage it is envisaged to create regional committees in different regions of the world like Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean and Western Asia.
These regional committees will comprise of business, political and educational leaders. There will be a separate youth affairs committee and a mentors committee. The duration of these committees will be for five years.
Senior Global Leaders like have expressed the need for the concept and have given their in-principle consent to join the Forum in the capacity of advisors.
