Final Agenda
International Association
for National Youth
Service
8th Global Conference
The International
Association for National Youth Service's
8th
Global
Conference on National Youth Service took place
from 19-22 November 2008 at the Fondation des
Etats-Unis in
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Day 1 - Wednesday
19/11/08
Special
Pre-Conference Session on NYS Policy and
Program Development
This
session is specially designed for policymakers,
government representatives, and practitioners
who are new to the field of National Youth
Service (NYS) and service learning, and
interested in learning more about the key
issues in program and policy design. The
session will provide participants with an
in-depth understanding of the concepts of NYS
and service learning, an opportunity to learn
about some successful NYS and service learning
program models, and the tools to begin
developing a NYS policy or program in their
home country. This session will be facilitated
by experts in the field of national youth
service.
Overview
of definitions and key concepts of youth
service; overview of different types of models
throughout the world
Case Studies
Government experts and policymakers
will share their experiences with Youth Service
program and policy development. There will be
time set aside at the end for questions.
Chair:
Presenters:
-
Lucy
Hlubi, Director: Skills Development, Umsobomvu
Youth Fund (South Africa)
Participants will examine effective
models of Youth Service in both youth service
corps and formal education settings.
Participants will focus more extensively on one
of these areas and review key considerations in
designing policies and programs as well as
challenges to implementation and strategies for
addressing these challenges
Chair: Marie Trellu,
President, Unis-Cite (France)
Presenters:
Session Two: Youth Service in Educational Settings
- Dina Sherif, Associate
Director, the Gerhart Center for Philanthropy
and Civic Engagement, American University in
Cairo (Egypt)
Chair:
Elisabeth Hoodless, DBE, Executive
Director, Community Service Volunteers
(UK); Chairman, IANYS Global
Council
Presenters:
- James Bullock,
Minister Counselor for Public Affairs, US
Embassy in Paris
- Message
from Bernard
Laporte, Youth, Sports and Non Profit Sector
State Secretary (France)
Reception for ALL Global Conference
Participants
Day 2 -
Thursday 20/11/08
Round Table
Presentation: Scaling Up NYS from local to
national
An internationally diverse panel
of practitioners will present models of
national youth service programs with different
designs and at various stages of development.
Panelists will discuss how youth service
programs began in each country and how pilot
programs were or could be scaled up to the national
level.
Chair:
Reuven Gal, Head, The Authority for
National Civic Service
(Israel)
Presenters:
- Hinrich Goos, Project
Leader,
FÖJ ,
Voluntary Ecological Year (
Round Table
Presentation: Measuring the Impact of NYS
Programs on Participants and on the
Community
Panelists will discuss the importance of
increasing the evidence base to support NYS,
and will present on different models of
evaluation to measure the impact of NYS
programs both on participants and on the
community. Participants will
learn about the model and outcomes of various
impact assessments and discuss the implications
for their own NYS programs as well as for the field
of NYS as a whole.
Chair: Andy Furco, Associate
Vice President for Public Engagement,
University of Minnesota
(USA)
Presenters:
Site Visits
in Paris and surroundings, organized by
Unis-Cite
Gathering and Feedback
Session - Grand Salon
Round Table Presentation - Stimulating Private Sector Investment in NYS
Philanthropic leaders from the private sector
will present on the innovative ways in
which they have partnered with organizations to
support youth civic engagement
programs. The panelists will
also discuss trends in corporate philanthropy
for NYS and implications for increasing private
sector investment in NYS programs and the youth
civic engagement
field.
Chair: Marie
Trellu, President, Unis-Cite
(France)
Presenters:
- Colonel Robert L.
Gordon III, Senior Vice President, Civic
Leadership, City Year
(USA)
- Anne Campbell, Program Manager, Open Society Institute (USA)
- Patrick Baboin, Vice President, The Timberland Company (USA-France)
Day 3 - Friday 21/11/08
Round Table Presentation: NYS as a Strategy for Social Inclusion
Panelists examine how
NYS can be utilized as a strategy for social
inclusion of disadvantaged
groups. Case studies show how
participation in NYS can be beneficial
to members of disadvantaged groups as well as
communities as a whole.
Discussion also focuses on ways to make NYS
programs more inclusive and
accessible for all
groups.
Presenters:
- John Stringham, RGDTS (
This panel discusses
the
cost of NYS programs, including concerns about
cost and how to mobilize
public sources of funding for NYS.
Participants
have pre-selected a workshop choice.
Panelists discuss the ways in which NYS can be utilized as a strategy to meet a variety of community and national needs. This panel examines how to identify needs that can be addressed by NYS and how to design NYS programs for those particular needs.
Chair:
Presenters:
- Reuven Gal, Head, The Authority for National Civic Service (Israel)
- Barbara Kramer, former President,
currently Member of the Board of
Directors, Zentralstelle
Kriegsdienstverweigerung (Central Coordinating
organization for conscientious objection)
(
- Wu Wei, Deputy Director of the International Department, All-China Youth Federation (China)
F2:
Developing regional networks for youth
service
This session discusses the benefits of regional youth service networks and explores the opportunities and challenges of developing regional networks. Participants have the opportunity to connect with established regional networks and others interested in developing youth service networks for their regions.
Chair: Agnes
Uhereczky, Director, Association of Voluntary
Service Organizations (
Presenters:
- Stephanie Roels, United Nations Volunteers (Presenting on River SEE)
- Mae Chao, Volunteer Infrastructure Specialist, United Nations Volunteers (Germany)
F3:
Peacebuilding and Service
This
workshop will examine how youth service can be
a means for
peacebuilding through the contributions and
connections people make.
Panelists will speak on the topic from the
perspectives of developing
compassionate and committed young people
through service,
faith-based traditions of service and
peace, and conflict
transformation through youth
service.
Presenters:
- Deb
Kielsmeier, Associate Pastor, Christ
Presbyterian Church,
- Kamini Prakash, Director, Streaming of Citizenship Action, Pravah (India)
- James Fofanah, Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, Students Partnership Worldwide (Sierra Leone)
- Phuon Tuan Don, Founding President, Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (Vietnam)
This is a meeting for
all IANYS members and all conference
participants. The IANYS Global
Council leads discussions on important issues
to the Association,
including membership, identifying the location
of the 9th Global Conference, and
identifying needs of the NYS field and
suggestions for how IANYS might respond.
Day 4 - Saturday
22/11/08
Thematic Workshops
Participants have pre-selected a
workshop choice.
Given
that the world's 1.5 billion young people aged
12-24 constitute the
largest generation ever to make the transition
to adulthood, and that
this age group is a focus of many of the
Millennium Development Goals,
how can countries harness the potential of
young people to contribute
their own development and to the achievement of
the MDGs? This workshop
examines how national youth service can be used
to help address the
MDGs.
Presenters:
- Kofi Obiri
Yeboah, Executive Director, National Service
Scheme (
- Helene Agnelli, Coordinator, National Volunteering Program (Burkina Faso)
- Soad Abdel Rahman A. Eleragi, NUNV/FGM Specialist, UNV/UNFPA/ AUW FGM Project (Sudan)
This
session discusses the pedagogy of
service-learning and the importance
of critical reflection to connect service with
learning objective.
Panelists present different service-learning
models and discuss key
considerations for developing and advancing
learning objectives in NYS
programs.
Chair: Jim
Kielsmeier, President and CEO, National Youth
Leadership Council (
Presenters:
- Lic. Enrique Ochoa, Programa Nacional Educacion Solidaria, Ministerio de Educacion de la Nacion (Argentina)
Speakers:
- Henry Lozano, Director of External Affairs, the Shinnyo-en Foundation
- Kumi Naidoo, Honorary President, CIVICUS