2. * GWP Global Strategy Towards 2020 :
contains different youth-related items
* GWP Gender Strategy and GWP Youth
Strategy
3.
4. GWP Youth Strategy will
• Guide GWP in deepening its engagement with youth organizations as
partners, and in supporting young water professionals, young leaders,
technical actors and entrepreneurs in the water sector.
• Be built by Youth for Youth ! ()
• Consist of strategic goals, accompanied by a proposed set of actions
• Serve as a concise framework for future engagement of GWP’s global
network with youth, in particular through ‘Youth Action Plans’
5. Strategy Process
• Preparation of drafts
• Youth Consultation and consultation of Regional and Country Water
Partnerships:
Young people (networks as well as individuals) are involved through:
Presentation at YWP Conference
Youth Consultation meeting in Gaborone
Consultation meeting at Budapest Summit
Electronic media
• Launch of GWP Youth Strategy : end of 2013
6. Strategic Goals
• Goal 1 – Catalysing change through integrating youth in the water
sector
enhance the participation of youth in water resource management
processes and good governance by supporting the activities of local
youth organizations, with technical as well as strategy advice and
support
• Goal 2 – Developing capacity beyond generations
• Goal 3 – Empowering Youth to become agents of change
• Goal 4 – Building intergenerational partnerships
7. Strategic Goals
• Goal 1 – Catalysing change through integrating youth in the water
sector
• Goal 2 – Developing capacity beyond generations
organize seminars and workshops for young water professionals to
stimulate exchange between young water professionals, between young
and senior professionals which stimulates life-long-learning and contributes
to ensure that capacity building is a continuous process
Integrate Youth in the Knowledge Chain
• Goal 3 – Empowering Youth to become agents of change
• Goal 4 – Building intergenerational partnerships
8. Strategic Goals
• Goal 1 – Catalysing change through integrating youth in the water
sector
• Goal 2 – Developing capacity beyond generations
• Goal 3 – Empowering Youth to become agents of change
partner with relevant youth networks, to set up funds for providing small
grant opportunities to young entrepreneurs with water sector projects
assist national and international institutions in developing financing
plans for youth entrepreneurship in water resources management
assist youth to formalize associations, in order to enhance their
legitimacy and enable them to receive public funds and/or enter into
valid contracts with other public institutions, e.g., municipalities
• Goal 4 – Building intergenerational partnerships
9. Strategic Goals
• Goal 1 – Catalysing change through integrating youth in the water
sector
• Goal 2 – Developing capacity beyond generations
• Goal 3 – Empowering Youth to become agents of change
• Goal 4 – Building intergenerational partnerships
GWPO, Regional and Country Water Partnerships complete their
governance structure to include a youth body (Youth Focal Points), in
charge of coordinating youth-related activities and communication
10. Implementation
• Appointment of Youth Focal Points at Country and Regional level, as well
as ‘youth councils’
• Youth Action Plans
• Permanent Monitoring / Mid-term evaluation