ICYC News List
Volunteers for International Youth Day
The International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific Committee on Youth Cooperation is looking for Volunteers with different set of skills to assist the committee during an international event - International Youth Day, August 12, 2020. The theme of International Youth Day...
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Volunteers for Go Green Campaign 3.0
Youth are the fore front of any entity to excel its advancement and movement across platform. ICYC annual Go Green Campaign is coming up in July with Commemoration with the International Cooperative Day, 4th of July 2020 with this years them on Climate Action (SDG#13). Climate action...
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Book Review: A Genealogy of the Cooperative
A Genealogy of Cooperation” by Mohammad Bahiraee Published by Barg-e Noo Research Cooperative and Rah-e Roshd Educational Cooperative Introduce by: Farshid YousefiMoghadam and Leili Shirzad Member of Barg-e Noo Research Cooperative and Rah-e Roshd Educational...
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Platform to share COVID-19 experiences, resources and needs
ICA has launched a forum for its members to participate in coordinating the global cooperative response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. The platform, created on www.loomio.coop, a worker cooperative based in New Zealand, provides the space and means to share and build the...
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Ahsan Ali Thakur Public Service Message on the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ahsan Ali Thakur, Chairperson of the ICA-Asia and Pacific committee on Youth Cooperation gave the public service message on the COVID-19 pandemic where he mentioned to follow the WHO preventive measures. Ahsan argued to follow and spread the preventive measure and do not spread the panic!...
Global Youth Forum 2020 Report
An exciting report on the Global Youth Forum 2020 (GYF20) by Mr. Farshid Yousefimoghadam, of Rah-e-roshd Cooperative Educational Complex, Iran, an ICYC member. The report takes you through the first edition of GYF20 and covers the innovative sessions from business models to...
by Ivjyot Singh
Global Days of Listening
The Global Days of Listening by the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs), is a forum that facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experience on specific themes, every month. For the past 10 years, it has provided a forum for active listening for people around the world...
by Ivjyot Singh
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The Future of Youth and Their Empowerment in ICA and its Regional Youth Networks and Committees. Where does the ICA Asia and Pacific region stand?
Deeping the involvement of and with young people to grow the cooperative movement is a pressing need, that is aptly reflected in the new Draft Strategy of the ICA for 2020-30 (A People Centred Path for a Second Cooperative Decade 2020-2030). The addition of youth in the new draft strategy shows...
by Ahsan Ali Thakur (ICYC Chairperson)
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Youth and Their Role in The Economy
Enabling the youth to play effective role in their socio-economic development, is a vital objective that all countries and organizations need to realize. The growth of any organization or country relies on long term stability; and their continuous growth and development can’t be achieved...
by Alireza Banaeifar (Vice-Chairperson, ICYC)
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Global Youth Forum 2020
As you already know, the Global Youth Forum Cooperative Entrepreneurship 2020 (GYF20) is a #coops4dev global event that will take place in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, from 3-7 February. We are already working hard at setting up quality training sessions, along with around 40 trainers!...
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Young Scholars at the 14th ICA CCR Asia and Pacific Research Conference 2019, Australia
The ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research (CCR) organized the 14th ICA-AP Cooperative Research Conference on “Cooperation among Cooperatives and Mutuals” in the Asia-Pacific region at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle, Australia from December 12 to 14, 2019....
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The New ICA Youth Network Executive Committee
The ICA Youth Network held elections for the four members at-large on the Executive Committee in Kigali. For the first time, we have a full Executive Committee! Mr. Alireza Banaeifar from ICC Iran got elected to the Executive Committee from the Asia and Pacific region. Congratulations!
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Global Youth Workshop in Kigali
On 13 October 2019, young cooperators from different continents gathered in Kigali to exchange and share ideas on how to help drive cooperation. The session preceded the ICA Youth Network Assembly during the Global Cooperative Conference programme in Rwanda. With the focus on how to...
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Youth Resolution Approved by ICA General Assembly
The Youth Network presented a resolution to the ICA General Assembly on 17 October 2019 to strengthen the ICA Youth Network. The resolution contained important highlights that are as follows:Reinforce the importance of the regional youth committees and their participation with a vote at the...
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ICYC wishes you a very Happy New Year 2020
Message from the Chairperson- Mr. Ahsan Ali Thakur We have completed another year filled with great discussions and actions focussing on the involvement of youth in cooperatives. The year has passed by but its memories linger on in our thoughts and aspirations for the future. As...
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Bringing People Together
Ahsan Ali Thakur, Chairperson of the ICA’s Asia & Pacific Committee on Youth Cooperation, shares his thoughts on why co-operative education is important and what the co-operative movement can do to make itself more relevant to young people. click here to read more.
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NITA Crafts Development Multipurpose Cooperative
NITA (National Indigenous and Traditional Arts) is located in the city of Nasarpur, in Sindh province, Pakistan. NITA works for the revival, development and education on traditional arts. In 2016, it was registered as NITA Crafts Development Multipurpose Cooperative Society by...
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Digital Democracy through Cooperative
The 2017 ICA General Assembly passed the resolution calling on cooperators to explore the potential of platform cooperatives. Following this, the ICA reached out to its members and experts from its structures as well as members of the academia with a simple survey on Platform Cooperatives (PC)....
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Education to Change the World: Intl Conference UK
This November, hundreds of delegates will meet in Rochdale, the birthplace of the modern cooperative movement to celebrate the centenary year of the Co-operative College, UK. Taking place from the 26 -28 November 2019 at Rochdale’s iconic Town Hall, the three day landmark event will...
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The Global Youth Cooperative Webinar 2.0
The ICA-AP Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) organised its second Global Youth Cooperative Webinar on August 12, 2019 to celebrate the International Youth Day. This year, the Day focused on ‘Transforming Education’ to highlight initiatives in making education inclusive and...
Go Green Campaign 2.0
The Go Green Campaign was developed by Mr. Ahsan Ali Thakur, the Chairperson of ICA Asia and Pacific Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) in 2018, to highlight that environment is changing and the scale of cutting down of trees for the development of a city, country and region needs...
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GO GREEN CAMPAIGN 2.0 WORKSHOP REPORT
The Go Green Campaign is an initiative of ICYC, started in 2018, to encourage youth from the Asia and Pacific region to combat the global threat of climate change and its ever-lasting effects that it poses on future generations, by planting trees on International Mother Earth ...
Teacher Talk by Rah-e-roshd
Teacher Talk: A Novel Initiative of the Rah-e-roshdMs. Eslahpazir at Teacher Talk In Iran the oral tradition of story-telling is a legacy of our ancestors. Although texts exist as alternatives, for teachers to reach out to a diverse classroom, the spoken word is more effective. This was our...
Coopathon 2.0 at NCUI
ICA Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) organized the Young Development Professionals’ Meeting (YDPM)and Coopathon 2.0 on January 29 and 30, 2019 respectively. The two events were designed for development professionals and students interested in pursuing careers in local, national and...
by Mr. Farshid Yousefimoghadam
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Global Mapping of Youth Cooperatives
The Youth Network of the ICA started a global campaign in September 2018 to map all initiatives to empower youth through cooperatives. This initiative is a first of its kind, whereby all initiatives on youth and youth cooperatives will be showcased on a global platform through a...
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Connecting Imus Cooperative Federation (ICF)
The Imus Cooperative Federation (ICF) conducted a learning activity from 26th February to 1st March 2019, with University and Youth Cooperatives in Indonesia. The activity was organised by ICYC under the leadership of its former Secretary Mr. Santosh Kumar and Co-Secretary Ms. Anis Saadah. The...
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Global Cooperative Entrepreneurs Training
Participants from the Global Cooperatie Entrepreneurs Project (GCE)The ICA-EU Partnership launched the Global Cooperative Entrepreneurs project (GCE), inspired by the success of Cooperatives Europe’s CoopStarter 2.0 Erasmus+ funded project. The underlying objective of the GCE project is to set...
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Go Green Campaign 2.0
The Go Green Campaign is an initiative of ICYC, started in 2018, to make youth from the Asia and Pacific region aware of the threats posed by climate change and to take small steps to counter the effects by planting trees on International Mother Earth Day. The campaign showcases the...
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ICYC welcomes its new member from ICC, Iran
Javad AbbasalizadehJavad is Bachelor of IT and senior student in E-commerce at Iran University of Science and Technology. He also is the CEO of Iran Business Horizon -IBH, which is a young and brilliant group with the aim of business promotion for Small- medium...
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ICYC welcomes its new member from Iran
Ms. Zahra Mehraban has majored in the literature and is a member of Rah-e-Roshd Co-operative Educational Complex and member of Manzoomeye Barg-e-No Research Co-operative. Zahra Mehran born in 1986 obtained her Bachelor’s in Literature in University of Tehran, and her...
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Coopathon 2.0 at the NCUI
The pilot edition of Coopathon in April 2018 saw 100+ young students from across the southern Indian states compete at the country’s premier institute - Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. Building on this innovative initiative, ICA-AP organized the second edition of Coopathon 2.0...
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Values and 7 Principles of Co-operative:
Every established organization has one of the pillars vested in the values and principles. They are necessary to maintain a sustainable working environment and diligent services to provide the user and/or customer. Why Do We Need Values and Principles? According to John Heenan, “The...
Leadership Masterclass & Cooperative College UK
The Co-operative College is committed to delivering co-operative education right across the globe and this year celebrates 100 years of providing training to the co-operative movement and beyond. Later this month, their flagship executive education program takes place in Asia for...
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Meeting of the ICA-AP Committee on Youth
The ICA-AP Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) met for its 11th Annual meeting at the IRIB Conference Center on November 27, 2018. The meeting was inaugurated by chairperson Mr. Ahsan Ali Thakur’s welcome speech where he presented the committee’s strategy, indicators of measuring...
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Meeting & Workshop on Youth & Co-operatives
Optimizing the presence of a large gathering of cooperators in Tehran, ICA-AP through its two regional committees on ‘youth cooperation’ (ICYC), and on ‘Co-operatives in Educational Institutions’ (ICEI), the ICA-EU Partnership on Co-operatives in Development (#Coops4Dev), and...
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Thoughts on the ICA-AP Youth Summit 2.0
Why hold the Second Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit Lamac Barangay in Pinamugajan Municipality, Cebu Province, the Philippines? A good question! When we were discussing the idea of a Youth Summit in 2015, we felt it should be different in terms of place and program. The considerations for...
by Balu Iyer, Regional Director- ICA-Asia and Pacific
ICA Global Youth Network Executive Committee
ICA General Assembly was held in 25 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year there were elections for the member at large, in which a full committee has been elected in this session the following are the members that were selected. The following are people selected from the elections...
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11th Annual Meeting of the ICYC Committee
The 11th Annual meeting of the ICYC will be organized on 27th November 2018 at the IRIB in Iran during the 13th ICA-AP Regional Assembly. The members are expected to discuss the year gone by and future possibilities of development activities. The committee had physically last met in 2017 in...
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Augmented Reality in education, learning and train
A research article written by our very own member Ms. Doaa Nasser working in ESDC Palestine, on how augmented reality can be used in the education for the youth in modern times. The research is written in Arabic and on request this research can be provided to the our readers. Ms. Doaa...
by Doaa Nasser
Coop Yes – Sri Lanka Youth Cooperative
According to the statistics of the Department of Co-operative Development of the Ministry of Co-operative and Internal Trade of Sri Lanka, there are 10,002 co-operative societies with 6,303,306 members in Sri Lanka. Among them, there are 305 multipurpose co-operative societies with 4,033,607...
by Udaya Prabath Vice Chairperson of ICYC.
Go Green Campaign and the Report-2018
On 7th July 2018, International Day of Cooperative was celebrated. The Go Green Campaign was held in 8 different countries, its main purpose was to gather youth in a single day and a platform to celebrate the International Cooperative Day, Work on SDG#13, Aware the public about the cooperative...
SCOOP – Youth Portal
The Singapore National Co-operative Federation (SNCF) is the apex body of Singapore’s Co-operative Movement, and secretariat of the Central Co-operative Fund (CCF). Formed in 1980 with the aim of championing Singapore’s co-operative movement, the apex body represents 99% of co-operative...
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Youth Summit 2.0, Youth Coop Pitch
ICA Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) and its members in the Philippines, are proud to announce the second edition of the Asia Pacific Co-operative Youth Summit from August 18-21, 2018 in Cebu, the Philippines. The theme of the Second Summit is, 'Creative Skills, Co-operative Entrepreneurship and...
by Trinh Thi Ly
Contributions from our member country
On the occasion of international Day of Co-operatives (July 7, 2018) ICYC celebrated by initiating “Go Green campaign” launched by Ahsan Ali Thakur, to support United Nation Sustainable Development Goals- Goal 13 which is on Climate Action. ICYC members from Nepal, Palestine, UAE, and Pakistan...
European Development Days 2018
The 2018 European Development Days were held between 5-6 of June in Brussels where the Cooperatives Europe Development Platform (CEDP) members showcased a stand with its recent work, hosted guests from abroad and from other partner organisations as organized a brainstorming...
by Anis Saadah
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Go Green Sharajah UAE
As a Celebration of the International Day of Cooperatives in UAE. Sharjah Cooperative Society, in collaboration with the Cooperative Department of the Ministry of Economy, organized a tree planting initiative to promote a culture of environmental protection. To make it a green environment...
by Samar Ahmad | Youth Ambassador - Cooperation Committee
Go Green Bangkok - Thailand
The power of people is the core to the cooperative movement and when individual's come's up together for the similar purpose it brings up the cooperative sprite of pure and utmost category. In Thailand, 3 individuals from different fields and knowledge worked on something bigger than themselves...
by Ahsan Ali Thakur | HR & Communication Manager KCHS Union Ltd./Chairperson ICYC
Drop of Blood and Youth COOP - Nepal
The blood donation camp was organized on Saturday, June 2, 2018, at Sarvottam SACCOS, with the help of Nepal Red Cross society. It began at around 9 am and continued up to 1 pm, with a steady stream of donors throughout. The corridor of the first floor of the coop was buzzing with youngsters...
by Santosh Khanal - Arvottam Saving & Credit Co-operative Limited, Kathmandu - Nepal
Go Green Karachi Pakistan
Trees are know to provide a cooling effect and shade to the people and varies benefits. People need to think before planting the trees, as it requires water and suitable place to grow also temperature of the city needs to be in consideration as well. Recent reports as highlighted in media, have...
by Ahsan Ali Thakur | HR & Communication Manager KCHS Union Ltd./Chairperson ICYC Pakistan
Go Green Iloilo Phillippines
Look around your surroundings. Tell me what you see. You can’t because all you see is garbage everywhere and this creates all kinds of pollution to our Mother Earth. We were given the responsibility to take care of nature and all we do is destroy it. We can’t do anything if nature...
by Ronah Marie Kristine Funtilon Nillos, NATCCO Youth Representative, Philippines.
Go Green - Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Koperasi “Kopma UGM” is a student co-operative located in Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Established at 1982, Koperasi “Kopma UGM” has received many awards from regional and national level. The unique fact about our co-operative is even though we are listed as one of...
by Ika Rizky Fauziah Abdullah | Head of Public Relation - Koperasi 'Kopma UGM'
Go Green Khatmandu - NACCFL
Go Green: A concept that was initiated by ICYC not only to support UN-Sustainable Development Goals but also to save our planet for our future generations. From a single individual, community, nation and whole world should take efforts to save the planet. There are piles of reasons for...
by Prama Shrestha | Admin Officer - NACCFL
Go Green Campaign - Media Varation Creation
four month back, I met Mr. Ahsan Ali Thakur, the Chairperson of International Cooperative Alliance - Asia & Pacific Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) and the Vice President of ICA - Youth Network, at the second edition of International Cooperative Congress organized by National...
Go Green Nepal Multipurpose Cooperative (NMC)
Nepal Multipurpose Co-operative Society Ltd.(NMC-COOP),celebrated International Day of Cooperative 2018 with Go Green campaign in Bahundangi office. We are very happy to celebrate this cooperative day in a distinctive way. This event is a showcase work towards UN-SDGs 2030. We...
by Laxmi Prasad Uprety | Vice-Chairperson - NMC-COOP
Sharjah Coop Society and Ministry of Economy, UAE
UAE the first and the oldest cooperative with Cooperative Department of UAE conducted a meeting in Head Office of Sharjah Cooperative Society. The meeting was attended by Majid Al Jeneid (General Manager, SCS), Mr. Abdullah Issa Al Huriamel (Malls Manager, SCS) Mr. Saeed Mubarak...
by Ahsan Ali Thakur | HR & Communication Manager KCHS Union Ltd./Chairperson ICYC Pakistan
CSR - Prama Shrestha - Plant a Birthday Tree
As almost all people know that, planting trees is a wonderful way to help to protect the environment since trees produce oxygen, which everyone on earth breathes to stay alive. In addition, it is also one of the effort to adverse effects of global warming. Thus planting trees is one of the best...
by Prama Shrestha | Admin Officer - NACCFL
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Go Green Palestine
On the International Day of Cooperatives July 7, 2018 for sustainable Consumption and production, and combating climate action, Ms. Doaa Nasser and Ms. Aisha Salem participated from the ESDC #Palestine. (GO GREEN) through the cultivation of...
by Doaa Nasser | Monitoring & Evaluation - ESDC
ICYC New Members!
Welcome to our Newest Members Ms. Aisha Salem, Mr. Abhinash Paudel, and Ms. Doaa Nasser from Palestine and Nepal. Below are their profiles. Ms. Aisha Salem, ESDC, PalestineAisha Salem, Head of Gaza office of the Economic and Social Development Center of Palestine, she holds a Master...
CSR: On My Birthday - Ahsan Ali Thakur Pakistan
Mr. Punya Prasad Regmi is a former Chief Economic Advisor at Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal, had a chat with him, provided me with the idea of doing something meaningful on my birthday. The idea is, on my birthday he told me that you could plant a tree and have a meaning of life when we...
by Ahsan Ali Thakur | HR & Communication Manager KCHS Union Ltd./Chairperson ICYC Pakistan
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The All-New ICYC Website 2.0
We have recently launched our spanking new ICYC website and we urge all of you visit the website at http://youth-asiapacific.coop and subscribe to the newsletter. The website was officially launched on April 6, 2018 in Nepal by Mr. Li Chunsheng, Chairman of ICA-Asia Pacific in the recent...
by Viknesh Rajandran | CEO, COOP2U (ANGKASA) Malaysia Member of ICYC
Cooperative With Youth
Youth is the stage of human life between childhood dependence to adulthood independence. Recently, youth are seen to be actively participating in uplifting their condition of co-operative sector. Hence, the relationship between Youth and Co-operatives is getting stronger. Involvement of youth...
Cooperation (Poem)
As the world is a common home, and we all have equal right, Right to develop ourselves, right for a common sight. It's tough to walk alone; the path is not always painless Co-operation if implemented the journey is full of happiness. Cooperation is doing together to...
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Meeting with the Cooperative Department (UAE)
On April, 1st 2018, Mr. Ahsan Ali Thakur, Chairperson of ICA - AP Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) / Board Member of ICA - AP and HR & Communication Manager, KCHS Union Ltd. (Pakistan), visited the Ministry of Economy - Dubai Office, UAE.He was received by Mr. Saeed Mubarak Bin Amro -...
by Ahsan Ali Thakur | HR & Communication Manager KCHS Union Ltd./Chairperson ICYC Pakistan
2nd Cooperative Congress Nepal: Youth and Gender
In the session Om Devi Malla, talked about categorizing the population and differentiating youth so that there can be focused on their needs. Youth program are gender friendly programs therefore a budget should be assigned for it. In terms of Youth, they are like a spinal cord....
by Ahsan Ali Thakur | HR & Communication Manager KCHS Union Ltd./Chairperson ICYC Pakistan
CSR: The Green Initiative
Last month I was lucky to be given a chance to participate in a noble cause by a group of awesome folks in my community. The good folks at my local Surau, Musolla Al Jannah D'Pinestogether with the municipal council (Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya) came together with a brilliant activity to make...
by Viknesh Rajandran | CEO, COOP2U (ANGKASA) Malaysia Member of ICYC
Youth Participation in Cooperatives
Cooperatives are the institutional set up that intend to bring together the scattered capital, technology and human skill along with integrating them for the economic, social and cultural development of the cooperative members. Cooperative has been considered milestone in uplifting the poor...
by Sharmila Thakuri - "arthatoday.com" - Chief Reporter
Nepal Youth Report: Financial Literacy Program
Students part of the program along with Ms. Indira Panta and Mr. Ahsan Ali Thakur (centre standing)Financial Literacy program is a youth based program which is designed to run on cooperative model through financial institutions in the Nepal. The basic idea is to educate the youth about how to save...
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Report on World Conference on Youth (WCY) 2014; 6t
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Empowering youth to deliver on SDGs by 2030
The above-mentioned meeting was jointly convening by UNDP, UNV and ESCAP, in the UNCC on 11 and 12 January 2016. This brought together 30 experts on youth mainly from UNDP and UNV offices in countries across Asia and the Pacific. Discussions took place on the status of youth in the Asian and...
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International Youth Day
On 17 December 1999, in its resolution 54/120, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day.Click here to read more
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Empowering youth to deliver on SDGs by 2030
The above-mentioned meeting was jointly convening by UNDP, UNV and ESCAP, in the UNCC on 11 and 12 January 2016. This brought together 30 experts on youth mainly from UNDP and UNV offices in countries across Asia and the Pacific. Discussions took place on the status of youth in the Asian and...
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Putting People at the center of development
The Palestine Agricultural Co-operatives Union is serious about taking steps to remove the stumbling blocks that have restricted fresh graduates from taking up gainful and decent employment. Mass unemployment among youths is one of the tragic phenomenon of Palestine. The burden of economic...
by Hamza Omar
Hamza Omair
Hamza Omair is 24 years old and works as the Financial Officer for Alliance Member Palestine Agricultural Co-operative Union in Ramallah, Palestine. He has around two years experience in accounting and financial administration for non-governmental organization (NGOs) and he holds specialized...
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Co-Secretary Designate-Anis Saadah
Anis Saadah stands at the forefront of the Indonesian youth cooperative movement. She is spent the past four years to rebranding cooperative image and attract young people to involve in cooperative movement. Young people should be main driver to change the perspective of cooperative that is now...
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