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National Youth Policy of Barbados the National Youth Policy of Barbados National Youth Policy Booklet.indd, Spread 1 of 34 - Pages (68, 1) 24/10/2012 10:48 The National Youth Policy of Barbados The National Youth Policy of Barbados NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY OF BARBADOS National Camp Sports Day, Sharon Juniors Steelpan. MINISTRY OF FAMILY, CULTURE, SPORTS AND YOUTH OCTOBER 2011 National Camp Sports Day at the National Stadium. The National Youth Policy of Barbados Page 68 National Youth Policy Booklet.indd, Spread 2 of 34 - Pages (2, 67) 24/10/2012 10:48 The National Youth Policy of Barbados The National Youth Policy of Barbados (v) Websites, Social Networks and Other Mass ix. Carl Padmore - UWI Students’ Guild CONTENTS Media x. Christaneisha Soleyn - EGLB The Websites of the National Youth Forum and the xi. Donna Greene - Ministry of Culture PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................ 3-5 Division of Youth Affairs, as well as Facebook and xii. David Kirton - Ministry of FCSY ACKNOWLEDEMENTS ............................................................................................................................ 6-7 Twitter, were used as public arenas to discuss the Draft xiii. Othneil Lowe - Ministry of FCSY National Youth Policy and make recommendations. xiv. Ivan Henry – Consultant EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................ 8-10 Throughout 2010 and during the first five months of xv. Cleviston Hunte - the new Director of 2011, the Draft National Youth Policy was discussed Youth Affairs joined the team in 2011. PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING YOUTH .................................................................................................. 11 in all the Media Houses, and drew useful feedback from the public. Comprehensive written reviews and 11.5. MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH (1) THE CONTEXT 11 specific comments were received from the public. FORUM INTERIM STEERING COMMITTEE (2) ASPIRATIONS OF AND FOR YOUTH 25 (3) RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOUTH 32 (vi) Participant Observation The Members of the Interim Steering Committee of The Consultant and the other members of the National the National Youth Forum were: Youth Policy Co-ordinating Committee observed PART TWO: INTERVENTION ..................................................................................................................... young people and interacted with them on a regular i. Alvin Mayers (4) KEY STRATEGY AREAS ......................................................................................................... 37 basis; and were able to make informed contributions ii. Andre Craig on their behaviour, aspirations, expectations and iii. Anjanette Samuel (5) PRIORITY TARGET GROUPS .............................................................................................. 48 plans. iv. Asha Jones (6) IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS ................................................................................... 50 v. Damien Daniel, later replaced by (7) NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ......................................................................................................... 58 Chetwyn Ryce 11.4. MEMBERS OF THE NYP CO-ORDINATING vi. Dwaine Paul (8) OPERATING COSTS ................................................................................................................ 59 COMMITTEE vii. Jamar Worrell (9) EXPECTED OUTCOMES ......................................................................................................... 59 viii. Karen McClean (10) MONITORING AND EVALUATION ............................................................................................ 60 The Members of the National Youth Policy Co- ix. Lisa Durant later replaced by Natalie ordinating Committee were: Rowe (11) ADDITIONS i. Derek Alleyne – Chairman x. Mariama Branker 11.1. REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................... 65 ii. Irvine Best - PS of MFCSY xi. Melissa Savoury-Gittens 11.2. GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 66 iii. Hally Haynes - Acting Director MFCSY xii. Quincy Jones iv. Ronald Brathwaite – Government xiii. Rhea Mapp 11.3. METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................. 66 Industrial School at Dodds xiv. Richard Kennedy 11.4. MEMBERS OF NYP CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE ...................................................... 67 v. Damien Griffith - UWI Students Services xv. A Cadet 11.5. MEMBERS OF NYF INTERIM STEERING COMMITTEE .............................................. 67 vi. Rhonnelle Smith - BYDC vii. Reggie Burke - CYEN viii. Damian Mascoll – BYDC The National Youth Policy of Barbados Page 67 National Youth Policy Booklet.indd, Spread 3 of 34 - Pages (66, 3) 24/10/2012 10:48 The National Youth Policy of Barbados The National Youth Policy of Barbados Studies: “Gender Socialisation, Schooling i) Senior Staff in Government Departments PREFACE BY and Violence”, 2005. j) BYDC and other Youth Organizations THE MINISTER OF FAMILY, CULTURE, SPORTS xxvii. West Indian Commission Report: “Time AND YOUTH (iii) Focus Group Discussions For Action”, 1992. The primary tool for gathering information was Focus and empowering them to help themselves through xxviii. World Bank: “Caribbean Youth Develop- Group Discussions. At the first Business Meeting of education and training. Succeeding generations of ment”, 2003. the National Youth Forum, at the Cave Hill Campus young Barbadians have seized these opportunities th of the University of the West Indies on 17 July 2010, to improve their prospects of securing decent 11.2. GLOSSARY OF TERMS the 200+ delegates were split into 22 small groups to employment and a higher standard of living. In the (a) Bashment: Entertainment taken to discuss the vision, goals and objectives of the National process, Barbados has systematically moved from unacceptable levels; bordering on license. Youth Policy. At the second Business Meeting at the being a mono-crop colony to becoming one of the th (b) Reasonings: Intense discussions of a topic. Barbados Community College on 14 August 2010, 42 countries of the world with a United Nations 9 groups placed the issues in order of priority and classification of “very high human development” by 11.3. METHODOLOGY made recommendation on how the objectives could 2010. The following research methods were used to gather be achieved. Hon. Stephen Lashley vital information for this study. Minister of Family, Culture, Sports and Youth However, by the first decade of the 21st century it Members of National Youth Policy Coordinating had become clear that even though opportunities for (i) Desk Research Barbados is internationally renowned for the Committee, the Interim Steering Committee of the social and economic advancement existed, increasing The exercise began with a study of the copious remarkable progress it has made since the escalation National Youth Forum, the National Council of Parent- numbers of young people were becoming marginalized literature on youth. of the movement for social reform in 1937 which led Teachers Association, the Students Guild of the from the mainstream institutions of society. Whether to the Moyne Commission Report; the achievement (ii) In-depth Interviews Cave Hill Campus of University of the West Indies, by choice or from force of circumstances young of universal adult suffrage in 1951; the granting of Over 60 In-depth interviews were held with a variety all staff of the Division of Youth Affairs, Members of Barbadians were less involved in the mainstream universal free secondary education in 1961; and the of important stakeholders. These included the Constituency Councils, and unemployed youth also economic, political, religious, social, recreational and gaining of independence in 1966. At each of these following: participated in Focus Group Discussions. service organizations. critical turning points in the recent history of Barbados, the aspirations of young people to participate more a) Young men and women, individually and in (iv) Town Hall Meetings The situation was exacerbated by the financial melt- fully in the important sectors of society and to enjoy groups When the first draft of the National Youth Policy was down in the USA in late 2007 and the subsequent a higher standard of living featured prominently in b) Parents and Parent-Teacher Organizations completed, 4 Town Hall meetings were held – at the global economic downturn, that is already considered the deliberations and added a sense of urgency to c) Religious Leaders Solidarity House, Barbados Workers’ Union (20th the worst recession since the 1930’s and which th the demands for change. It is a history of increasing d) Secondary School Principals November 2010), at the Steel Shed (13 May 2011), threatens to become another Great Depression. th access to scarce resources by more and more e) Tertiary Level Educators at the Hilda Skeene Primary School in St. Philip (14 However it is eventually classified, it has transformed Barbadians. f) Individual Employers and their Organizations May 2011) and at Alexandra School (17th August the world in at least two fundamental ways. g) Trade Unionists 2011) - to allow the public to discuss the proposed The mandate of every Government since 1951 has h) Opinion/Community/Sector Leaders (e.g.
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