Background information
OAYouth-Kenya and
IYC-Kenya have partnered with Africa Monitor, Text for Change and other
partners to implement a project to enable Kenyan youth participation in the
post-2015 Agenda through the use of the new media, particularly crowd-sourcing,
mobile technology and radio campaigning. We have established a mobile based
e-platform to mobilize perspectives from a minimum of 15,000 youths in Kenya on
the post-2015 agenda and make available regular information feeds about current
debates related to the post-2015 global dialogue. Young people can participate by sending an sms
with the word POST2015 to 21222. The project was launched on 13th
April 2013 in the University of Nairobi.
Several documents have
been released detailing the aspirations of young people in regards to the
Post-2015 Agenda. Notable ones include the African Youth Declaration on Post-2015
Agenda by OAYouth-Kenya and the report by VSO Jitolee from their youth
consultation. Further the Government through the Ministry of Planning are
conducting the national consultations with an aim of releasing a national
report in June 2013. The CSOs are also consultation in order to feed their
input to the government process.
In
consultations with UN Agencies, CSOs, youth serving organizations and the
Ministry of Planning and vision 2030, the need has emerged to have a Kenyan specific
youth position that would address pertinent and key issues that affect young
people and pull all the papers that have been drafted with different youth
organizations with an aim to consolidate a one position paper that will feed to
the National consultation taking place in June 3013. It is on this basis that
the Organization of African Youth-Kenya, in partnership with various
organizations, seeks to have Kenyan Youth Post-2015 Synthesis Workshop to
engage and consult hence come up with the position paper.
Objectives of the Workshop
·
To assemble youth with experience in sustainable
development and technical skills to synthesize the various documents on Post
2015 and based on their experiences.
·
To develop a consensus document that targets
specific youth issues that will culminate into Kenyan Youth position on Post-2015
Agenda.
·
To strengthen partnership within Kenyan youth and
youth serving organizations in the country to implement MDGs based projects.
Methodology
The Kenyan Youth Post2015 Synthesis Workshop will
run for two days in Nairobi, between 30th and 31st May, 2013. The workshop will have 70 participants. The
breakdown of the participants is a follows:
- Kenyan youths
- Workshop conveners
- Workshop partners
Workshop Matrix
The conveners
in consultations with other youth serving organizations have selected various
documents that will form the basis of the discussions, including the Kenyan
2011 MDG status report by the Ministry of Planning and Vision 2030. The
documents will be sent to the analysts prior to the workshop. The Organization
of African Youth-Kenya has also been running sms and social media based
platforms that will also offer raw data on youth views on Post 2015Agenda
During
the workshop, the particulates will work in panels/groups and securitize the
documents to identify a trend of common emerging issues that are relevant to
the Kenyan youth.
After
the intense synthesis, the identified key issues will be discussed and a draft
document availed. The draft document will then be subjected to analysis, debate
and adjustments. The outcome document
will then be validated as the Kenyan youth position on Post 2015.
Expected outcome:
- Create more awareness and enable broader youth participation in the Post-2015 Agenda.
- Release a Kenya Youth Position Paper on Post-2015 Agenda to feed into the National Report.
Feeding into other process
Kenyan
Youth position on 2015 document will be fed into other formal process so as to
enhance its value. These are:
- Kenya National CSOs forum (20 slots already reserved for young people)
- Kenyan National Consultation on Post 2015 to be hosted by the government (10 slots for young people reserved.)
Partnership
The
Organization of African Youth-Kenya seeks to have as many partners as possible
to ensure that the process is legitimate, valuable and broad based. While we
had thought of having the process of consultations across the country, resource
constraints have impeded such engagements.
However,
we aspire to make the engagement an open process that is inclusive. Partners
can therefore take part in the process through various kinds of support.
The
worth of partnership is based on the informational and data value that we will
obtain. The information can be used for youth advocacy, policy influence and
developments, projects developments and resource mobilization. The partner’s
engagement in the process would also help to raise the grassroots voices of the
youth they serve within their networks.
