Over the past several years, organizations have expressed a need for the community to come together to share best practices in youth empowerment. 3WGE believes convening youth leaders is necessary to advance approaches to reach and empower more youth. 3WGE is organizing a Youth Leadership Summit in Sri Lanka to discuss youth leadership development and create a vision for collaborating to support young people.

1. T h e C e n t u r i o n

2. Over the past several years, a number of youth leadership and youth development; government and private human
development organizations have expressed a need for the community to come together to share best practices to discuss
the needs, gaps, and challenges faced in the field of Youth Empowerment, and to discover ways to work together.
We believed this assembling of a community of young prospects is a necessary step in discovering, improving, and
innovating ways to advance the ideologies in this area; all with the intention of reaching more youth and increasing their
competencies.
The possibility of convening a youth leadership summit to discuss and assess the field of youth leadership development
and to create a vision for bringing together youngsters with a shared commitment is an initiative of 3WGE as a
responsibility towards youth of Sri Lanka.
INTRODUCTION

3. Youth leadership can take many forms: Youth Voice, Youth empowerment etc. The Youth
Leadership Summit is aimed to support and develop young leaders who are aspiring
decision makers of civic mandate.
Young leaders can bring in different strengths, and new perspectives for critical decision
making. An appropriate platform will enable youngsters to experience and cultivate their
own appropriate styles of leadership practice.
Objectives of a leadership forum would be to capitalize on youth engagement and
shifting conventional thinking paradigms of its younger generation. Youth are valued and
have the opportunity to be productive and connected citizens who make meaningful
contributions now and throughout their adult lives.
“The
foundation of
every state is
the education
of its youth.”
YOUTH & LEADERSHIP

4. • Enhancing key leadership competencies of the youth
• Brainstorming new perceptions and ideas of youth leadership space
• Providing a platform to young significant leaders to voice out
• Communicating the importance of empowerment
• Forming a platform for young students to grasp the importance of proper education
• Preparing the youth of Sri Lanka to embrace and overcome challenges they face transforming into an adult
OBJECTIVES

5. “All citizens should have the opportunity to be active, but all
will not respond.
Those who do respond carry the burden of our free society.”
“I call them the Responsibles.”
– John W. Gardner American Leadership Forum
Forum
Class VIII Graduation, San José 1997

6. Full elaboration of the event outline will be communicated separately on the event manual. Event will be compromised of
four development stages.
PHASE 01 Discovery
Identifying of potential young influencers
Key discussion points
EVENT OUTLINE

7. * Full elaboration of the event outline will be communicated separately on the event manual. Event will be compromised of
four development stages.
PHASE 02 Development
Identifying strengths, challenges, and possible solutions to youth problems
Engage in collecting information taking action on issues that directly affect youth
Use of self development tools
Focus groups to better understand the contexts of leadership
Analyze findings and develop recommendations
Youth leadership advocates frame work
EVENT OUTLINE

8. * Full elaboration of the event outline will be communicated separately on the event manual. Event will be compromised of
four development stages.
PHASE 03 Implementation
Youth Leadership Summit 2016 – ‘the centurion’ will be planed as a one day event in Colombo
The forum will consist of three main area; Key note speeches, Brain storming and focus groups
EVENT OUTLINE

9. * Full elaboration of the event outline will be communicated separately on the event manual. Event will be compromised of
four development stages.
PHASE 03 Sustain
Inauguration of youth leadership advocates frame work
EVENT OUTLINE

10. “ Most of us have potentialities that have never been developed simply because
the circumstances of our lives never called them forth. Exploration of the full
range of our own potentialities is not something that we can safely leave to the
chances of life. It is something to be pursued systematically, or at least avidly, to
the end of our days.
“And by potentialities I mean not just skills but the full range of our capacities for
sensing, wondering, learning, understanding, loving, and aspiring.”
~John W. Gardner, Self-
Renewal

11. Youth Leadership Summit 2016 will provide an arena to partnering institutions with unlimited
branding exposure, under circumstance of acknowledgement and authorization of the main
organizer (3WGE)
Youth Leadership Summit 2016 will attract an audience of approx.100 young influencers in the age group of (18 to 20
years) from leading government, semi-government and international schools in Colombo and suburbs. The summit will
enable the partnering establishments to inform, engage and inculcate to create top of mind preference which will lead to
both short term and long term prospects.
GET INVOLVED

12. EXPOSURE
SHOWCASING
OF
BANNERS
Showcasing of banners
Other promotional material
provide by the institute
event
An automated
presentation of duration
the event
Logo presence in conference bulletin
Insertion of LOGO, in
the newsletter
Logo on red carpet backdrop
f
Exposure on social media

13. Over the past several years, a number of youth leadership and youth development; government and private human
development organizations have expressed a need for the community to come together to share best practices, to
discuss the needs, gaps, and challenges faced in the field of Youth Empowerment, and to discover ways to work
together.
We believed this assembling of a community of young prospects is a necessary step in discovering, improving, and
innovating ways to advance the ideologies in this area; all with the intention of reaching more youth and increasing their
competencies.
The possibility of convening a youth leadership summit to discuss and assess the field of youth leadership development
and to create a vision for bringing together youngsters with a shared commitment is an initiative of 3WGE as a
responsibility towards youth of Sri Lanka.
INTRODUCTION

14. Youth Leadership Summit will be the first of its kind and will continue to inspire young minds aspiring to be devoted
leaders of the social order: a platform to voice out and progress their leadership qualities to server a better resolution.
Youth Leadership Summit 2016 will be the stepping stone of a much larger perception transformation of the youth to the
betterment of all.
We Truly believe this event will boost your brand revelation to the profiled target audience and will enable the
fulfillment of your corporate objectives through achieving your goals as well.
SUSTAINABILITY