Draft Letter to UNFPA & UNICEF for Way Forward (Feedback needed by 4.00pm!)
Ishita Chaudhry
Chief Executive Officer | Ashoka Fellow
The YP Foundation
Developing Potential In Young People
N 204, Greater Kailash, Part 1, New Delhi - 110048. India
T.: +91.11.46792243 | E.: theypfo...@gmail.com
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TYPF Turns 10! The YP Foundation is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables young people to create programmes and influence policies in the areas of gender, sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance. The organization promotes, protects and advances young people’s human rights by building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements. Founded in 2002, we have worked over the last 10 years directly with 5,000 young people to set up over 200 projects in India, reaching out to 300,000 young people. To know more, email us at 1...@theypfoundation.org !
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Ishita Chaudhry
Thank you for inviting us to UNFPA’s office on December 18, 2012 to share possibilities for the way forward for the Post 2015 youth consultations. We really appreciate the leadership that UNPFA and UNICEF are taking in this regard and believe that it is critical, given the context of the 2015 discussions that emerging from countries as well as India’s 12th Five Year planning process, that young people’s needs are well represented and articulated.
We hope the outcomes of this process will be useful as inputs not just for various upcoming points in the formal 2015 process (that are happening both nationally, regionally and internationally), but will also be useful in providing deeper insight to relevant Government of India Ministries that are addressing young people’s needs in their approach/work.
As per the group’s deliberations regarding the questions posted by UNICEF and UNFPA, we have developed consensus on the way forward and would suggest the following as next steps:
· The convening group currently stands as Josh, Pravah, The YP Foundation and Restless Development. We are still waiting for a response from Bahai and Nirantar and should hear from them soon, we would also like to leave some flexibility in this until our next meeting as a few other partners may need to be brought on, based on methodology.
· As of now, all the organizations have agreed to write papers that encapsulate young people’s needs (divided thematically). The baseline for the papers will be inputs that have already been assimilated from inputs assimilated from consultations led by WNTA and many of the convening group, for young people’s inputs to the Planning Commission for India’s 12th 5 year plan. Additional inputs will be taken from the consultations on the 2015 process that the convening groups will hold. We feel that it is important to link both, as the process for the 12th 5 year plan was both intensive and extensive, and reflected the participation of more than 70 organizations that are either working with young people/are youth-led.
· All papers will be finalized after the consultations to reflect all the inputs from the consultations to reflect final recommendations and will serve as the formal outcomes from this process. A list of which papers will be written and whom they will be written by will be shared with you in our meeting in early January.
· The convening group recommends the following process:
o Regional Consultations and a National Consultation (Different organizations will take the lead in different regions, the final list, number and thematic focus of which will share in our meeting in early Jan).
o National Consultations with special groups/marginalized populations from young people who have been excluded from the discourse on 2015 so far (particularly, young persons with disabilities, young people living with HIV and LGBTQI young people)
o We look forward to the opportunity of linking these outcomes with relevant ministries and strengthening dialogue between young people and regional/national departments of Education and Health in this regard.
o We understand that the time period in which these consultations need to happen are February, with the culmination of all reports by end March.
We look forward to UNICEF and UNFPA’s support in this process, both with the mobilization of technical resources (where required), recommendations or inputs for groups we should reach out to and include and financial/resource support to enable this process.
If we could schedule a meeting where we can discuss the modalities of the same in the early year that would help with the finalization of the process. By then, since the convening group also plans to meet once again in the interim period, we will have more clarity on process as well as which organization is taking the lead on what.
Looking forward to feedback and inputs from both agencies and best wishes from all of us for the New Year!
Warm Regards,
Ishita
(On behalf of the Convening Group for Post2015 – Youth)
Chief Executive Officer | Ashoka Fellow
The YP Foundation
Developing Potential In Young People
N 204, Greater Kailash, Part 1, New Delhi - 110048. India
T.: +91.11.46792243 | E.: theypfo...@gmail.com
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TYPF Turns 10! The YP Foundation is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables young people to create programmes and influence policies in the areas of gender, sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance. The organization promotes, protects and advances young people’s human rights by building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements. Founded in 2002, we have worked over the last 10 years directly with 5,000 young people to set up over 200 projects in India, reaching out to 300,000 young people. To know more, email us at 1...@theypfoundation.org !
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Meenu Venkateswaran
Dear All,
Saurabh just spoke with me and recommended a more flexible letter right now, not committing the number of consultations and specific details until we have all had a chance to sit down and spend more time on the same.Please find the letter (pasted below and attached) with those edits out. I hope this is better!
Thank you for inviting us to UNFPA’s office on December 18, 2012 to share possibilities for the way forward for the Post 2015 youth consultations. We really appreciate the leadership that UNPFA and UNICEF are taking in this regard and believe that it is critical, given the context of the 2015 discussions that emerging from countries as well as India’s 12th Five Year planning process, that young people’s needs are well represented and articulated.
We hope the outcomes of this process will be useful as inputs not just for various upcoming points in the formal 2015 process (that are happening both nationally, regionally and internationally), but will also be useful in providing deeper insight to relevant Government of India Ministries that are addressing young people’s needs in their approach/work.
As per the group’s deliberations regarding the questions posted by UNICEF and UNFPA, we have developed consensus on the way forward and would suggest the following as next steps:
· The convening group currently stands as Josh, Pravah, The YP Foundation and Restless Development. We are still waiting for a response from Bahai and Nirantar and should hear from them soon, we would also like to leave some flexibility in this until our next meeting as a few other partners may need to be brought on, based on methodology.
· As of now, all the organizations have agreed to write papers that encapsulate young people’s needs (divided thematically). The baseline for the papers will be inputs that have already been assimilated from inputs assimilated from consultations led by WNTA and many of the convening group, for young people’s inputs to the Planning Commission for India’s 12th 5 year plan. Additional inputs will be taken from the consultations on the 2015 process that the convening groups will hold. We feel that it is important to link both, as the process for the 12th 5 year plan was both intensive and extensive, and reflected the participation of more than 70 organizations that are either working with young people/are youth-led.
Would recommend taking this and the next bullet to after you explain the process. And instead of giving the details of the paper writing process - because as we saw in the last meeting there was no agreement on this process - you can perhaps say that papers will be written which will take into account the previous inputs and what will be got from the consultations being planned currently. And not say that the baseline would be existing inputs and additional inputs will be taken through the consultations etc.
· All papers will be finalized after the consultations to reflect all the inputs from the consultations to reflect final recommendations and will serve as the formal outcomes from this process. A list of which papers will be written and whom they will be written by will be shared with you in our meeting in early January.
Aparajita Dhar
Hi Ishita,
Thanks for taking the initiative and drafting the email for UNFPA on behalf of all of us. I would like to mention that since some organizations (Nirantar, Bahai) have not been able to get back we should write to Frederika (who also will just see this mail and do nothing until 2 Jan as she will be on leave) we do not share any plan with UNFPA right now rather ask for a meeting on the 1st week of Jan from her while we all meet as a team and take some democratic steps to develop a plan and budget and then share that with her on the said meeting day.
Hope you will do the needful edit of the letter.
Regards,
Aparajita Dhar
Country Director
Restless Development
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Meenu Venkateswaran
Ishita Chaudhry
Do let me know if this is okay to send:
Thank you for inviting us to UNFPA’s office on December 18, 2012 to share possibilities for the way forward for the Post 2015 youth consultations. We really appreciate the leadership that UNPFA and UNICEF are taking in this regard and believe that it is critical, given the context of the 2015 discussions that emerging from countries as well as India’s 12th Five Year planning process, that young people’s needs are well represented and articulated.
We hope the outcomes of this process will be useful as inputs not just for various upcoming points in the formal 2015 process (that are happening both nationally, regionally and internationally), but will also be useful in providing deeper insight to relevant Government of India Ministries that are addressing young people’s needs in their approach/work.
As per the group’s deliberations regarding the questions posted by UNICEF and UNFPA, we have developed consensus on the way forward and would suggest the following as next steps:
· The convening group currently stands as Josh, Pravah, The YP Foundation, Bahai and Restless Development. We are still waiting for a response from Nirantar and should hear from them soon, we would also like to leave some flexibility in this until our next meeting as a few other partners may need to be brought on, based on methodology.
· The convening group recommends the following process:
o Regional Consultations and a National Consultation (Different organizations will take the lead in different regions, the final list, number and thematic focus of which will share in our meeting in early Jan).
o National Consultations with special groups/marginalized populations from young people who have been excluded from the discourse on 2015 so far (particularly, young persons with disabilities, young people living with HIV and LGBTQI young people)
o Thematic papers will be written inputs assimilated from consultations led by WNTA and many of the convening group, for young people’s inputs to the Planning Commission for India’s 12th 5 year plan. These will be finalized after the consultations to reflect all the inputs from the same to reflect final recommendations and will serve as the formal outcomes from this process. (A list of which papers will be written and whom they will be written by will be shared with you in our meeting in early January.)
o We look forward to the opportunity of linking these outcomes with relevant ministries and strengthening dialogue between young people and regional/national departments of Education and Health in this regard.
o We understand that the time period in which these consultations need to happen are February, with the culmination of all reports by end March.
We look forward to UNICEF and UNFPA’s support in this process, both with the mobilization of technical resources (where required), recommendations or inputs for groups we should reach out to and include and financial/resource support to enable this process.
If we could schedule a meeting where we can discuss the modalities of the same in the early year that would help with the finalization of the process. By then, since the convening group also plans to meet once again in the interim period, we will have more clarity on process as well as which organization is taking the lead on what.
Looking forward to feedback and inputs from both agencies and best wishes from all of us for the New Year!
Warm Regards,
Ishita
(On behalf of the Convening Group for Post2015 – Youth)
Chief Executive Officer | Ashoka Fellow
The YP Foundation
Developing Potential In Young People
N 204, Greater Kailash, Part 1, New Delhi - 110048. India
T.: +91.11.46792243 | E.: theypfo...@gmail.com
_______________________________________
TYPF Turns 10! The YP Foundation is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables young people to create programmes and influence policies in the areas of gender, sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance. The organization promotes, protects and advances young people’s human rights by building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements. Founded in 2002, we have worked over the last 10 years directly with 5,000 young people to set up over 200 projects in India, reaching out to 300,000 young people. To know more, email us at 1...@theypfoundation.org !
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