Year: 2021- Ongoing
Supported by: Yuwa, Ypeer Nepal, Visible Impact, Rotaract Club of Kathmandu Mid-Town, Right Here Right Now (RHRN), Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA), Blind Youth Association Nepal (BYAN), Beyond Beijing Committee Nepal (BBC), Asia Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW)
Major Component: young people, APFSD, SDG, HLPF
High-Level Dialogue: Youth at the Forefront of SDG in Nepal was conducted on 21st September 2021 through Nepal APFSD Youth Alliance (NAYA).
NAYA is a platform created by young individuals and organizations that were part of the APFSD Youth Forum 2021. NAYA envisions young people at the forefront of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development at the national, regional, and international levels. Currently, there are eight youth-led and serving organizations in the working group of NAYA (Yuwa, Visible Impact, NYCA, BYAN, BBC, AYON, ARROW, and RHRN2) with a membership of about 70 young people in all their diversities.
Visible Impact is serving as a secretariat for NAYA.
Around HLPF 6th - 14th July, various social media activities were conducted on the social media handles of Visible Impact under three major issues, Gender Equality, SRHR, and Climate Action. These actions were further amplified in the three-day ministerial meeting of the forum from 13th - 15th July 2021.
Social media posts were created to impart information and updates about the High-Level Political Forum and Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2030. A Series of Facebook posts and a Tweetathon were conducted.
A social media contest where participants shared their messages through a video based on one of the themes of Gender Equality, SRHR, and Climate Action.
Reaction snap was a unique contest where participants had to send a message to a friend related to themes like SRHR, Gender equality, or Climate Change. The reaction of friends has to be recorded and shared with the consent of the respective person.
A virtual event was organized on 21st September 2021 titled "High-Level Dialogue: Youth at the Forefront of SDG in Nepal". This web meeting brought together around 70 participants from different sectors across the seven provinces of Nepal. Through the incorporation of sign language interpretation, caption writing, and language interpretation from Nepali to English and vice versa within the program modality, the program was successful in accommodating people in their diversities. The event was live broadcasted through the Facebook page of Visible Impact and ARROW. The discussion off the web meeting was focused on a call to action by young people. Key recommendations from young people for HLPF, APFSD, intergovernmental Fora, and key recommendations from APFSD Youth Forum (Nepal) were shared.
At the same virtual event, Nepal APFSD Youth Alliance was launched. A video presentation was used to launch NAYA. National and regional governmental officers gave their remarks on the recommendations and NAYA at the event. Ms. kabita Aryal, Chief of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section, Family Welfare Division, Ministry of Health and Population, Mr. Milan Dhungana, Under Secretary (Tech.), Climate Change Management Division, Ministry of Forest and Environment, Mr. Khil Raj Rai, Program Director of National Planning Commission, and Mr. Bamdev Chhetri Gautam, Vice-Chair, provincial Policy, and Planning Commission, Lumbini Province gave their remarks and were positive towards recommendations presented in the program.
NAYA also supported the provincial youth consultations organized by YUWA under RHRN II. The provincial youth consultations were conducted in all 7 provinces of Nepal, where youth in their diversities from the region were gathered for an in-depth discussion on SDG 4: Quality Education, and SDG 5: Gender Equality. The issues and recommendations based on the specific provinces were generated by the young people. The outcomes from the provincial youth consultations were further incorporated in the final document of Nepal’s Call to Action for APFSD 2022.
After the completion of the provincial youth consultations, NAYA organized the National Youth Conclave on 4th March 2022 to gather youth perspectives on the implementations of SDGs in Nepal, and discuss the issues and challenges, and recommendations for the achievement of Agenda 2030. The outcome of the youth conclave was documented as Nepal’s Call to Action for APFSD 2022, which was an important resource for the Regional APFSD Youth Forum 2022.
Similar to phase I, different infographics were shared through our social media handles during the second phase of NAYA. Different SDGs (Goal 4, 5, 14, 15, and 17) that were being reviewed during the HLPF 2022 were focused on for these infographics.
NAYA organized a Youth Policy Dialogue in a panel discussion format consisting of key decision-makers and a youth representative. A dialogue was conducted to discuss different policies being implemented to achieve SDGs in Nepal, exchange updates, and sensitize each other about the need to bring young people to the forefront as torchbearers of sustainable development.
The main outcome of NAYA I is that we were able to bring many youths from Nepal under one roof to advocate for the SDGs implementation in Nepal, giving them an opportunity to interact with key decision-makers and put forward their suggestions and recommendations. The government officials also gave their commitment to engaging youth at the forefront of the Sustainable Development Agenda at their respective workplaces and areas of work during the High-Level Dialogue. The outcome of the program was documented as a Call to Action. The recommendations gathered during the National Youth Conclave were used to feed in to prepare a Nepal-specific call to action during the APFSD 2022.
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