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YAN Annual Report 2017 Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN) Anamnagar, Kathmandu Phone: +977-9849006100 Email: [email protected] ; [email protected] Please Visit Us @ Website: www.yan.org.np & Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/Youth Advocacy Nepal 1 Message from the Chairperson First of all, I would like to express my pleasure on the publication of annual report encompassing activities, achievements, challenges and learning within of the year 2017 by Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN). I hope this process goes better in the coming days. In which context was YAN established? Why was it established? What are its working fields and values? I would like to express my views in order to clarify aforementioned questions. I along with Sanjay Khadka, Mina Majhakoti, Gita Chaudhari, Rama Bhattarai, Nisha Bhujel and Ganesh Dhami who are in the current executive committee, were actively involved as volunteers in Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP) for several years. We learned many things during our active volunteerism in COCAP. Due to long time volunteerism in the field of human rights, we were fascinated towards the realm of human rights, accountability and social justice. Though there are many human rights based organization in Nepal but youth working for the protection and promotion of human rights is not often. This strikes our mind and we committed to establish an innovative youth-led organization objectively focusing to protect, promote and ensure all human rights for all. We went through several talks and meetings, which led to the establishment of Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN). We have conducted pressurizing programs by organizing sit-in and rallies in order to put pressure to concerned authorities and stakeholders. With the view to empower youth through dialogue and discussion, YAN has conducted more than a dozen of discussion programs in different contemporary issues. On the other hand, it has conducted regional and central level consultative workshops in order to mainstream issues of marginalized and vulnerable youth. In a short span of time of two year of its establishment, YAN has become popular among youth and civil society, which can be regarded as great achievement. Finally, I would like to thanks to all those who have actively participated and supported all programs conducted by YAN. I am very grateful to all members of YAN. I am very grateful to Action Aid International Nepal (AAIN) for their generous support. Without their support YAN would not have been succeed. I am hopeful that YAN will be receiving supports from all sectors and it will be contributing for protection and promotion of human rights and democracy through youth initiation in collaboration with civil society. Thank you. Narendra Khatiwada 2 ABOUT YAN Introduction Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN) is a movement based youth organization dedicated to protect and promote youth rights through advocacy and campaigns and capacity development programs. With an initiation of energetic and vibrant youth, it is registered in District Administration Office, Kathmandu and affiliated with Social Welfare Council (SWC) in 2013. It is one of the leading advocacy organizations working in the field of youth development, education, disaster risk reduction and climate change, employment and entrepreneurship and gender equality and social inclusion. Vision YAN envisions just, democratic and prosperous Nepal where all youth realize their fundamental human rights and freedoms. Mission YAN protect and promote youths through advocacy and campaigns and capacity development programs. Objectives 1. To increase full and effective participation and leadership of youth civic and political affairs 2. To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for youth. 3. To promote gender equality and Social inclusion 4. To promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all youth. 5. To mainstream the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and take action to combat climate change and its impacts. Working Areas 1. Youth Development 2. Education 3. Disaster risk reduction and climate change 4. Employment and entrepreneurship 5. Gender equity and Social inclusion Values 1. Accountability and Transparency 2. Social Justice 3. Collaboration 4. Nonviolence 5. Mutual respect for all 1. Institutional strengthening 2. Advocacy and campaigning 3. Youth capacity building 4. Networking, coordination and collaboration 5. Research, documentation and publication Department 1. Administration and Finance Department 2. Program Department 3 3. Volunteer Department How Can You Contribute 1. Being YAN Member: YAN is an open platform to all interested youth. In order to become a YAN member, one should fill up its prescribed membership form with fee charge of NRs. 200.00 (In words: two hundred rupees only). However, the Executive Board of YAN reserves full rights to provide membership based on its organizational statute. 2. Being Volunteer: YAN believes in volunteerism as it can significantly contribute for the sustainable development and peace. Therefore, YAN has organizationally provisioned a Volunteer Program to promote volunteerism in Nepal through the active mobilization of national and international volunteers through which skills will be shared for lasting change. Interested individual either national or international and having specific skills, knowledge and expertise in any one of the aforementioned working areas can join YAN to contribute for its mission in Nepal. The volunteers will only be provided working spaces at appropriate areas without any kind of financial reimbursement. 3. Being Intern YAN provides unpaid internship opportunity particularly for newly graduated youth who wish to have practical experience on organizational matters. The interested eligible candidate should apply for this opportunity with a personal statement along with newly updated resume stating why s/he is interested. ORGANIZATION CHART ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS A. HARNESSING YOUTH POWER AND PROMOTING YOUTH 1. Social Media and Geo-politics Youth dialogue on Social Media and Nepal's geopolitics" on 30 September 2016 at YAN's office. Resource person of the program was Mr. Yuvaraj Acharya, senior Journalist. There was the participation of 20 youth. 4 Resource person Mr. Acharya explained that Nepal has been traditionally a buffer zone between the two big neighbours- India and China. According to him, Hulaki Highway (Postman Highway) is one of the concepts of India. Which start from east link points of Chriyobhanjyang of Sikkim to Jhulaghat of Baitadi. He further informed that America proposed to make road to Tibet observing Hulaki Highway. Resource person Mr. Yuvraj Acharya further argued that geopolitics is based on heartland theory and rim land theory. These geopolitical theories argued that political power depend on geography. Mr. Acharya again informed that none of the politics, academia, bureaucracy or the media can control the concept of geopolitics. He said that media is a mental model and can control the mass And power exerciser are trying to control Nepal’s geopolitics. 2. Dialogue on Social Movement An interaction program on “Social Movement”. The interaction program was held on 4 December 2016 at Youth Advocacy Nepal’s office premises. The resource person for the program was Mr. Bimal Kumar Phunyal, Country Director of Action Aid Nepal. The program was facilitated by Mr. Narendra Khatiwada, President of YAN. The interaction program was followed by general introduction of the participants and the resource person Mr. Phunyal continued the program with the interaction with the conceptual understanding on Social Movement. The main objective of the interaction program was to make youth understand the term Social Movement in different way. Bimal Kumar Phunyal, Country Director of Action aid said that Case study should perform in international level. Political parties are to manage the state and social movements should bridge the gap and provide different views on social movement. Moreover he focused that social movements should not be done only for protest, in this case he concerns on research to change the surroundings with resources and alternatives. Further he said that social movements are required for social transformation. 3. Dialogue on Migration: Problems and Perspectives To enhance the knowledge of youth in the issue of Migration and its current problem, Youth Advocacy Nepal invited Dr. Prakash Bhattarai; president of Centre for Social Change to share and interact on Migration: Problem and Perspective at Youth Advocacy Nepal’s office premises on 9 September 2016. The program was facilitated by Basanta Raj Padhya; board member of YAN. 5 Dr. Bhattarai first questioned that why Migration is extremely important in Nepal? Further he informed that there are very less initiative to work with the issue of migration. President of Centre for Social Change Dr. Prakash Bhattarai explained different dimension of migration. According to him, most of the people in Nepal, Migrate to different places without anyone’s force are voluntary migration and after the devastating earthquake and other natural calamities people are forced to migrate to the safer places. He told that development induced migration is also type of forced migration. This type of migration is caused by development activities and people are forced to leave their usual place of residence. Dr. Bhattarai argued that there are many challenges in the issue. Firstly, there