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8 TH GLOBAL RCE CONFERENCE IN NAIROBI. SESSION 4: THEMATIC DISCUSSION ON YOUTH. Question 1. Can RCEs collaborate on an international project that involves youth and how can RCEs agree on such a project? RESPONSE
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8TH GLOBAL RCE CONFERENCE IN NAIROBI SESSION 4: THEMATIC DISCUSSION ON YOUTH
Question 1 • Can RCEs collaborate on an international project that involves youth and how can RCEs agree on such a project? • RESPONSE The youth deliberated and agreed that it is indeed possible for RCEs to collaborate with youth on projects especially from identification all the way to implementation.
Question 2 • What is a collaborative and inclusive way to create a cohesive project throughout the Global RCE Network of 120 RCEs? • RESPONSE Involving and incorporating a youth in RCE boards and decision making process especially adoping a bottom-up approach
Question 3 • Can RCEs be used as a tool to provide research and training to youth regarding sustainable development for specific specialized needs and issues; what kind of structure would be recommended to share this local training and knowledge to other RCEs and the public? • RESPONSE • The youth agree that RCEs can be used as a tool to provide research and training as majority are in tertiary institutions and their researches can be geared towards solving societal problem. The kind of structure recommended is to have a RCE Global Youth Network from the local to the global level.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND WAY FORWARD • Youth recommend the establishment of a Global RCE Youth Network to coordinate Youth affairs within the entire Global RCE Network. • A Concept paper containing the framework in which the Global RCE Youth Network to prepared by Jonathan Yee by 25th December 2013 and posted in the RCE portal. • The RCEs that had been selected in the 7th RCE Conference representing the four regions to be informed to nominate a representative to start working on actualization of RCE Global Youth Network • To have a Youth representative in all RCE boards.