Youth Participation Sub Group
About
The Youth Participation sub-group is focussed on:
- The participation of Young People in the work of the DFID CSO Youth Working Group
- The participation of Young People in the work of DFID
The joint coordinators of the Youth Participation sub-group are Hannah Candassamy and Ival Cummings-John.
Currently, meetings are held once every two months at the British Youth Council.
Activities
- The Participation sub-group are currently involved in drafting a plan for ongoing youth participation in the network, and in DFID.
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From the e-mail list
- Young people needed to inform future international youth programmes (2010/06/16 14:10)Hi all BYC is supporting the British Council to run a day long event on 2nd July in London to explore good practice in international youth programmes. We want to hear from young people in the UK who have taken part in any international volunteer opportunity / event. We are especially keen to hear from people that have not been part of one of
- PSG Meeting (2010/04/14 16:21)Dear Participation sub group. Since Hannah and I became co-coordinators for the group we have not had an opportunity to have a meeting as yet. We would like to organise one as soon as possible to talk about some of the things we have been up to and discuss some of the things that the PSG need to be doing.
- application for young people to join the Youth Working Group steering committee (2010/03/15 16:15)Dear all, Hope you are well. Apologies if you did not receive this e-mail last week and sorry for the short notice. We are currently working to combine all the Youth Working Group contacts but some of you may not be on the full list so just sending this again for those who are not and want to apply.
- FW: Invitation global youth work publication launch (2010/02/19 12:10)Hi all See below and attached invitation. All the best J ______________________________ __ Sent: 18 February 2010 17:09 To: James Edleston Hi James, Attached is an invite to the launch of our Global Youth Action publication on 18th March, 5.30-7.30pm. The new resource combines lessons learnt from Global Youth Action, evaluation findings, policy
Terms of Reference
Created August 2009
1. Aims
The Participation Sub-group aims to raise the quality of young people’s participation within the DFID/CSO Youth Working Group (YWG) and within DFID.
2. Background
Currently, the YWG and the YWG Steering Group is primarily composed of staff members of the organisations involved. Young people have limited opportunity to influence the group’s work on a regular, structured basis. To reflect the aims of the YWG, to model good practice to DFID, and to ‘practice what we preach’ it was felt that more needed to be done to ensure participation throughout the work of the group. To this end the Participation Sub-group (PSG) was established at a YWG meeting on 10 June 2009.
3. Composition and Recruitment
Participation Sub-group members: • Are young people aged 15-24 years old • Commit to a 1 year term and a minimum of 5 hours per month • Are recruited by a panel of existing PSG members and YWG steering group members • Currently have links with an organisation involved in the YWG • Have an understanding of and commitment to global and development issues • Have an understanding of and commitment to youth participation
The PSG members will explore ways of widening participation, including through regional structures.
4. Purpose
The purpose of the Participation Sub-group is to take a lead on developing best practice on youth participation: a) Within the Youth Working Group, supporting the YWG to become a model of youth participation b) Within DfID and its activities
The PSG also supports the Aims, Objectives and Targets outlined in the Youth Working Group Terms of Reference.
5. Roles and Responsibilities
Members of the Participation Sub-Group will: i) Attend the Steering Committee meetings and feed back on activities.
ii) Promote the work of YWG with young people
iii) Explore ways of involving and consulting young people through publicity on the YWG website, publications through all organisations in the YWG network and other youth networks.
iv) Support the YWG to involve young people and monitor progress in increasing participation. v) Contribute to participation within DfID and its activities. vi) Model good practice by coordinating a pilot of a fully participatory action, on behalf of the YWG. • YWG members will support young people involved in the PSG.
6. Meetings • Meetings should be restricted to a maximum of 15 PSG members - 1st come, 1st served. • PSG members agree an amount of time per month they are able to commit. • The British Youth Council has agreed to host the Participation Sub-Group meetings for the time being and the secretary will be decided at the beginning of each meeting. • One Steering Committee member will attend the PSG meetings and will be involved in selecting young people to be involved in the PSG. • All meetings will take place no earlier than 6pm.
7. Indicators of success The PSG will be developing indicators to assess the success and progress of the group.
Notespace - Participation
Because of the open structure of the Youth Working Group, each sub-group has a notespace on this site. This space is for members of the group to use for note-taking, and keeping track of keep work-in-progress.
