Young champions for education



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United Nations Children’s Fund

Regional Office for South Asia

YOUNG CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION




South Asia UNGEI Regional Training


26-29 August 2008

Kathmandu, Nepal


For every child

Health, Education, Equality, Protection

ADVANCE HUMANITY

© The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA)

For further information, please contact:


Regional Advisor, Education

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA)

PO Box 5815, Lekhnath Marg

Kathmandu, Nepal

Email: rosa@unicef.org
or
UNGEI Coordinator

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA)

PO Box 5815, Lekhnath Marg

Kathmandu, Nepal

Email: rosa@unicef.org

Photo credit: Katarina Premfors/UNICEF AFG/2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Opening Remarks 5

Why are we here? 6

Introduction 6

Education for All: will we make it by 2015? 6

South Asia and global trends 7

Who are the 17 million out-of-school children? 8

Why does gender matter? 13

Sex and gender 13

Gender planning 13

Gender roles 14

Gender needs 14



Knowledge 15

Making schooling safe and secure: understanding and reporting abuse 15

Child labour, education and poverty 17

Tasks for Young Champions 18

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 20

WASH and the Millennium Development Goals 21

Other benefits 21

The International Year of Sanitation 22

What can Young Champions do? 22

Substance abuse, HIV and AIDS 23

Situation of children, young people and HIV/AIDS 23

Summary of epidemic in South Asia 24

Why focus on young people? 24

CRC principles and challenges in HIV/AIDS 26

Young Champions and the response to HIV 26

SAARC on drugs 27

Language and context 28

Multilingual construct of South Asia 28

Young Champions moving forward 29

Child trafficking 29

National legislation 30

Policy responses 30

Children in emergencies 31

Tools 35

Understanding the CRC 35

Communicating for change 35

How to build links with the media 35

The art of writing a press release 37

Interviews with the media 37

Meena Manch: a strategy for change 38

Girl Stars as role models 39

Managing stress 41

Stress in children and adolescents 41

How can we respond to stress? 42

Case Studies 45

The Education Journalists group 45

Educational Pages 46

A safer society for girls by Save the Children Norway 49

UNFPA’s Youth Information Centers 50

Panel discussion 51

Young Champions for emergency support 51

Multi-sectoral approaches by Young Champions 52

The ethics of providing HIV services to adolescents 52

Using technology to stay in touch 53

The Training Manual 53

Young Champions in action 54

Afghanistan 54

Bhutan 55

Bangladesh 56

India 56

Nepal 57


Pakistan 57

Workshop Evaluation 58

Annual Work Plan 60

Afghanistan 60

Bangladesh 61

Bhutan 62

India 63

Maldives 64

Nepal 67

Pakistan 68



Participants 69

Meeting Agenda 74



Opening Remarks


Sabita Bhujel, Young Champion Nepal

Daniel Toole, Regional Director, UNICEF ROSA

Raka Rashid, Regional UNGEI Coordinator, UNICEF ROSA

Lava Deo Awasthi, Ph.D., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education and Sports, Nepal

Sabita Bhujel welcomed the Young Champions to Nepal to discuss priorities for promoting girls’ education in South Asia. Ava Deo Awasthi recalled that South Asia, now poverty stricken and disadvantaged, was once a source of wisdom for the rest of the world. “We have to turn the clock around”, he said. The Ministry of Education in Nepal was taking an interest in how the youth could be at the centre of Education for All as well as the Millennium Development Goals. Daniel Toole expressed the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) pride in being part of the UN Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) partnership, and said he was even more proud to be here with the Young Champions.


Raka Rashid spoke about the purpose of the workshop: to consolidate the work begun in 2007 by the South Asia Regional UNGEI and pave the way for smooth country-level implementation and continuation of the model. She listed three specific outcomes:

  1. a review of last year’s activities and sharing of experiences

  2. the preparation of next year’s workplan

  3. a draft outline, based on feedback from participants, for a generic training manual to be developed by the South Asia UNGEI, for adaptation and use at country levels.

Sabita Bhujel hoped that this workshop would help Young Champions do their best to promote girls’ education. Daniel Toole concluded with the words of the famous Indian Mahatma Gandhi: Be the change you want to see. “This is your challenge”, he said, “To be and build that change: a world where all children go to school.”




Why are we here?

Introduction

UNGEI is a partnership of organizations dedicated to promoting girls’ education and gender equality. It is carried forward, among others, by champions who believe in and work toward a vision of "a world where all girls and boys are empowered through quality education to realize their full potential and contribute to transforming societies where gender equality becomes a reality."1


The UNGEI champions in the South Asia region are young women and men who represent the UNGEI movement as advocates and change makers in their communities and societies and, through their activities, address the disparities which affect girls’ education in the region. The South Asia model also recognizes an emerging demographic trend, the “youth bulge” that will constitute the next generation of leaders, workers, parents and citizens, and seizes the opportunity to prepare young people for these roles.2
In May 2007, over 50 young people, UNICEF and partner organisations were trained from seven countries of South Asia. When they returned home, they began implementing their workplans. Many in turn trained cadres of young volunteers to help promote girls’ education and gender equality. Strategies varied across countries and communities, and included the use of community radio stations, the scout movement, newspaper articles, television documentaries, newsletters, school enrollment drives, campaigns for environmental protection and bringing drop- outs back to school.
The 2008 refresher training provided an occasion to take stock of where we are and how best to move forward to the next stages of implementation, adaptation and institutionalization.



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