Publications from OIYP
OIYP CASE STUDY COLLECTION - AWARENESS RAISING & BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
Do you try to raise awareness of issues and their impact in your work for change? Do you try and empower, inspire or encourage people to behave differently in your work for change?
Many OIYP Action Partners do - and this research presents a series of case studies and questions for reflection around our use of these strategies for change. In the collection there are case studies on workshops, peer education, campaigning, creative action for change and technology platforms for change.
Download OIYP's Case Study Collection
This is just the beginning. GET INVOLVED!
1 SURVEY: Let us know what you think: http://surveys.takingitglobal.org/survey.html?SurveyID=36!
2 FORUM: Participate & contribute to our online forum August:
The online forum will be held during August in OIYP’s Skills Forum - http://www.iyp.oxfam.org/forumnew/login.asp?target=default.asp. Action Partners, OIYP advisors and special guests will share their experiences of using these strategies, different approaches to social marketing and how to monitor and assess the impact of these approaches. We hope that you will be able to contribute.
Register by emailing iypaction@oxfam.org.au
OIYP Input on the MDGs
OIYP has contributed input into the Youth Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which goes to The United Nations Millennium Project. OIYP's input is available here. The Youth Report draft is available here. We will keep this page updated with the final report.
Background:
The Youth Report was inspired by a meeting in April 2004 with Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD) focusing on the MDGs. At that meeting, the chair of the UN CSD Youth Caucus asked him how the Millennium Project was going to involve young people as partners. He replied, "You tell us."
As a result of this invitation, an international team of youth experts from various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worked together to formulate this Report. OIYP was invited to provide input on the draft. The OIYP Secretariat considered that the report was excellent but provided some comments on the emphasis of the draft as well as some case studies drawn from our network to be incorporated in the final drafting (February) before the report was submitted to the Millenium Project.
We would advise all those interested to read both the report and our input. You can also see the report online at www.mdgyouthreport.org.
Click here to read OIYP's input.
UNESCO Youth Declaration on Cultural Diversity
Email OIYP - iypenquiries AT oxfam.org.au for a copy of the declaration in English or French.
Cultural diversity enriches our lives in countless ways every day. It is also an important source of identity and basic human rights. The cultural diversity around us today is the outcome of thousands of years of human interaction with nature and among people with different customs, beliefs and ways of life. Having inherited this priceless legacy, we need to ensure it is passed down to future generations.
This transmission cannot and should not be taken for granted. All cultures are creative and dynamic, but they are also unique, fragile and irreplaceable. A culture neglected for a single generation can be lost forever. It is therefore crucial to create a safe environment in which all cultures can develop freely. In order to preserve cultural diversity in all its variety and vitality, the Member States of UNESCO unanimously adopted the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity in 2001. The document you have in front of you is a version of this text that has been developed by and for young people around the world.
Through this version, we are seeking not only to introduce cultural diversity and UNESCO to young people but also to cultivate links among them wherever they may live. Through international and intercultural friendship, young people should benefit from cultural diversity and, through their actions today, help to preserve it for generations to come. Thus, while youth are the key to the future, it is essential that they shape the present too.
Koïchiro Matsuura
OIYP 2004 Communique
Email OIYP - iypenquiries AT oxfam.org.au for a copy of the Communique.
The world’s second sitting of the Oxfam International Youth Parliament (OIYP) took place in Sydney, Australia between July 5 and 12, 2004. 306 of the world’s most dynamic young leaders from 100 countries met to develop their skills, build networks, exchange strategies and to turn their ideas in to action.
Providing space for young men and women to create alternative directions is more important in today’s world than ever. Daily, we are presented with images of a divided world where distrust, greed and aggression dominate the way that peoples and nations interact. It is clear that new leaders are needed. Leaders who are open, thoughtful and compassionate and who have the courage to speak their minds and to find new and innovative ways to forge social, economic, cultural and political relationships.
OIYP is much more than just an event – it is a launching pad for action. The delegates to OIYP2004 are a new generation of leaders who are responding to global challenges with practical solutions. Be it a young HIV/AIDS educator in Zambia, a medical student from Iraq, a human rights lawyer from Zimbabwe, or a peace-builder from the Solomon Islands, the 306 OIYP action partners are committed to taking action and effecting real change where it is most needed in the world today.
Local Solutions - Global Impact is a testament to the work of OIYP Action Partners and their commitment to taking action within their own communities to achieve sustainable change. Please download, read and distribute Local Solutions - Global Impact as far and widely as possible.
Highly affected, rarely considered - youth commission report into globalisation
The first step in the Campaign was the Youth Commission into Globalisation - an inquiry into the impacts of globalisation on young people. The Commission unearthed a number of emerging issues, concerns and policy priorities of youth in the face of globalisation.
The Youth Commission findings are now available in the report "Highly Affected, Rarely Considered" which outlines the way globisation affects young people and their communities. Written by young people from all around the world, the report offers recommendations for action in order to maximise positive opportunities and minimise and negative impacts of globalisation.
We invite you all to read and distribute the report widely. Most importantly we invite you to TAKE ACTION!
Download the report in chapters below or email iypenquiries AT oxfam.org.au to receive a full PDF copy.
Introduction & Framing
Introduction ; Background & Methodology; Human Rights Framework; Agenda for Action
Chapters
Educationhttp://iyp.oxfam.org/documents/Chapter 1 Education.pdf;
Vulnerability of Agricultural Youth;
Violence & Young Peoples' Security;
Youth Activism and Human Rights;
Young People's access to Technology;
Global Youth Culture & Youth Identity.
Conclusion
youth guide to globalisation
Download the Youth Guide to Globalisation.
IYP's Youth Guide to Globalisation has been written by youth for youth and explores the definitions of globalisation from the perspectives of young people, examines the key players and the myths of globalisation, highlights the impacts globalisation is having on youth with personal
accounts, and provides practical responses to globalisation and the skills you can use in your everyday life!
