1. Youth and Inclusive
Citizenship:
ASPBAE’s Responses

2. The Genesis
ASPBAE General Assembly mandated
in 2012 to bring youth focus as a
priority agenda

3. Building a constituency of
marginalised youth in the Asia Pacific
• Consensus building on youth agenda
• Capacity building of youth
• Facilitating participation of youth in various
forums
• Documenting the lived experiences of the
youth by the youth themselves

4. Consensus building on youth agenda
• Constituting the Working Group on Youth and Life skills
• Marginalised youth and ASPBAE members working
with youth or on youth issues
• Meetings in Jakarta & New Delhi
• Policy Asks on Youth, Literacy & Life skills and the
Declaration on Youth and Education informed
ASPBAE’s Policy Advocacy on post 2015 education
agenda

6. Capacity building of youth
• UNESCO International Policy Forum on Youth,
Literacy and Life Skills (Jakarta, Aug. 2013)
• BLDC – with a focus on Youth Voices in
Education

8. Facilitating participation of youth
in various forums
• Mother Language Education in Bangkok in 2013
• ASPBAE 50th anniversary launch panel discussion on
Youth and Adult Learning & Education in January 2014
in Manila, Philippines
• Youth & Inclusive Citizenship Workshop in September
2014, New Delhi

9. Documenting the lived experiences of the
youth by the youth themselves
Journeys of personal empowerment
documented by the marginalised youth
and published jointly with UIL