ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2020 AN EMPOWERED MIND CAN CHANGE THE WORLD TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 Message from Leadership 6 Board of Directors 7 EQWIP HUBS 10 IAYI 11 CWY-JCM UNPFII 12 -Canada Program 13 Leveraging our Expertise CONFIO/PICMCA WaterAid 15 Our Partnerships Indigenous 150+ Goethe-Institute 16 Our Alumni 17 Our Partners 19 Financial Statements 20 Our Donors and Funders MESSAGE FROM LEADERSHIP

I joined the organization as President & CEO in the Fall of 2019 and have not looked back. The organization is one of the best organizations that I have ever been a part of. Our mission, to combine education and international experience for young people, while at the same time having an impact on achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, has and will have a profound impact on our young people, our communities and our Susan Handrigan future. Who couldn’t get behind that kind of a mission? President and Chief Excecutive Officer The International non-profit sector has been so gracious in welcoming me, and I was surprised to hear just how many people in this sector have graduated fimropma cat Canada World Youth program. I have heard many stories about transformation, resilience, giving, understanding, sharing,impact and most of all opportunity. We have used these stories and experiences to help reposition CWY-JCM for the next 50 years of growth. At the core, CWY-JCM will remain the same: an organization built to open doors around the world for all young people, including the most vulnerable youth and provide them with the education, training and experience they need to develop their own leadership. However, we will use our experience and expertise to continue to build relationships and have a greater impact on the future of our global economy. We have chosen four pillars to guide us: 1) Empowerment of Indigenous Communities; 2) Empowerment of Young Women and Girls; 3) Sustainable Livelihoods & Entrepreneurship; and 4) Environmental Sustainability. These pillars will also allow us to create programming that reduces inequalities; that promotes gender equality, that improves economic growth; takes climate action and overall improves the quality of education experience for youth globally. We will continue to work closely with our partners in a collaborative effort to better the lives of young people both here in Canada and around the world. Guided by a very dedicated board of directors and alumni base, my team and I are very proud of all that we have been able to accomplish in such a short time. Covid-19 has hit our sector very hard, but we are resilient, we are creative and most of all, we are investing in the best resource available, our young people

4 CWY-JCM has always focused on diversity, inclusion and belonging. Our programming methodology has included education and experience on inclusiveness. This being said, and in the current context of our global economy, it is clear that there is still so much to be done. We will continue to work and advocate for young people who deserve a world that attribute the same rights for every human.

For almost half a century, CWY-JCM has provided thousands of young, globally engaged Canadians a special opportunity to build stronger communities at home and around the world. In doing so, these young leaders have worked with peers – both local and distant – adding value to their education, accelerating their personal and professional development and fostering a resilient, shared sense of global citizenship. Today, our participants, and networks of alumni, continue making Rob Norris key contributions to communities and countries in numerous Chair, Board of ways, including emphasizing: the importance of reconciliation for directors Indigenous Peoples and others; the empowerment of young r wecoomnciliation for Indigenous Peoples and others; the empowerment of young women and girls; the value of entrepreneurship in the promotion of inclusive prosperity; and environmental sustainability and stewardship. And this annual report highlights how. How Canada World Youth – and partners – worked with over 84,000 young people from Canada and around the world as part of Canada’s EQWIP HUBS program; over five years, the program successfully connected young Canadians to others needing a hand as they started businesses and secured meaningful employment across Asia, Africa and the Americas. How Canada World Youth is working with partners in various Canadian communities – and in the Americas – to support and sustain Pathways to Indigenous Youth Leadership, a terrific program which provides meaningful international opportunities for young Indigenous Canadians. How Canada World Youth is partnering to help improve the lives and well-being for children and youth put at risk because of irregular migration patterns and pressures in Central America. And how Canada World Youth is working with WaterAid Canada to enhance the health and hygiene of women and girls in Africa and South Asia. By staying nimble, staying relevant and remaining focused on encouraging and supporting future internationally-engaged leaders at home and across the globe, CWY-JCM is helping Canada – and Canadians – demonstrate what Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland calls our “constructive leadership” - working with partners to promote a more peaceful, secure and prosperous world. i

i Speech by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. 8 February 2018. Ottawa, Canada. 5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rob Norris Dr. Michael Hawes Chair, Board of Chair of the Governance directors and Nominating Committee Julie Payette Patron

Young people are the energy that will carry Dr. Susan Machum Salvatore Badali our world forward Treasurer and Chair Secretary to the of the Finance and Board of Directors with kindness and Audit Committee appreciation for the talents of others and the fragility of the environment. CWY connects them globally and locally. - Dr. Carol Stuart The Hon. Dr. Carol Stuart Christian Padaris Director Director

6 EQWIP HUBS

In 2015, CWY-JCM and Youth Challenge youth volunteers (80% women) supported International (YCI) partnered to launch EQWIP Partner capacity strengthening and youth HUBs, a 5-year program that supported youth livelihood development in the areas of business in , , , , and advisory, marketing, research, environmental to secure meaningful employment or sustainability, and gender. start businesses. It did this by establishing youth focal spaces called HUBs, increasing the Canadian youth also played invaluable capacity of local partner organizations to run motivation and modeling roles to youth these HUBs and deliver youth livelihood entrepreneurs and job seekers, particularly programs, strengthening the livelihood young women, encouraging them to persevere, ecosystem surrounding partners, and engaging have confidence in themselves and consider qualified young Canadian volunteers to support non-traditional livelihoods. these outcomes through technical assistance to At project end, 66% of surveyed youth Partners and local youth (ages 15-35). graduates were employed or operating a business, a three-fold increase over baseline, Over 5 years, EQWIP HUBs trained 84,672 and 74% of surveyed youth reported youth (55% women) and funded 580 youth improvements in their social well-being because entrepreneurs (57% women). More than 18,300 of the project. youth accessed livelihood support services, in addition to classroom training, to further their job search or businesses launch. 526 Canadian

7 Entrepreneurship

Youth Innovation Fund (YIF) launched 580 333 Youth who received Youth Focused YIF grants to launch Innovation HUBs their businesses 247 12 12 supporting partners and youth Urban Total Youth Trained Centers

6 44,513 Countries 84,672 39,959

+26% In local partners ability to deliver Youth Livelihoods programming d e n i a +50% G

In local partners ability to integrate Gender y

t Equality into their programming

In collaboration with i c a p a +32% C

l In local partners ability to enhance

a Participatory Youth Governance 12 6 t o T Core Partners Satellite Partners +42% In local partners ability to integrate Environmental Sustainability into their programming HUB Network 234 Members

9,382 With Technical Support From

Canadians Participated in 132 public engagement 419 + 107 = 526 activities of returned Canadian Volunteers New Canadian Volunteers

The EQWIP HUBs project was funded in part by 8 On behalf of all of us here at Canada World Youth and all our partners on the EQWIP HUBs project we would like to extend a big thank you to all the Canadian Volunteers, EQWIP HUBs staff as well as our many local volunteers who have made this project a reality. With the dedicated efforts of all these individuals we have now completed this 5-year project and successfully transferred many hubs to local partners. These efforts, and this capacity building has created a platform for sustainable development which will have lasting impacts on youth for decades to come. We hope to follow their many successes into the future. 9 INTERNATIONAL ABORIGINAL YOUTH INTERNSHIP

The CWY-JCM’s Pathways to Indigenous Youth The overseas internship in 2018 was delivered Leadership (PIYL), funded by Global Affairs in partnership with Fundación Juventud Canada under the International Aboriginal Youth Mundo (FJCM) in Colombia, and Internship Initiative (IAYI), is a 3-year project Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perú 2018-2021 for Canadian Indigenous youth to (BVBP) in Peru; the 2019 internship was only access the labour market and/or post- delivered in Peru with BVBP. While abroad, secondary education while increasing their interns were placed in 3 different rural capacity to address development issues in their communities where they lived with local own communities and overseas. families, supported community projects, and delivered public engagement activities. When CWY-JCM partnered with Indigenous interns returned to Canada they also conducted Leadership Development Institute Inc (ILDI) public engagement activities that included a and Nokiiwin Tribal Council (NTC) in 2018, and CTV Regina television interview, PowerPoint Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre (Ma Mawi) in 2019 presentations given in the intern’s local high to support with recruitment, pre-program schools and universities, presentations given at preparation, and the integration of Indigenous local Indigenous organizations, including Ma cultures, practices, and knowledge in the Mawi Centre, and news articles in publications training continuum. including Anishinabek News.

10 In the first year twenty-one interns completed the overseas phase, and twenty-four in the second year. Over and above, completing the program and all of its challenges, the young people noted that they learned more about their own indigeneity and what it means to be indigenous on a global scale.

CWY-JCM would like to thank all the participants and our partners for their commitment to the internship and especially their feedback, that has been instrumental as we prepare our next cohort for 2021!

UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES

In 2018 and 2019, CWY-JCM supported six Indigenous youth from Canada to participate at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), a high-level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) that meets each year to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. The forum provides Indigenous youth with an opportunity to increase their knowledge of UN programs, mechanisms and bodies, Canada’s role at the UN, and Indigenous Peoples’ participation in United Nations systems. 11 CHINE-CANADA PROGRAM LEADERS PROGRAM

CWY-JCM in partnership with the East China Normal University, the China Scholarship Council and the China Embassy in Ottawa to offer the China-Canada Young Leaders Program. The program is designed to foster among young Canadians an appreciation for Chinese culture and language; increase the knowledge of young Canadians about China as well as Chinese history, economic and political system and Chinese society; and provide an innovative learning opportunity for young Canadians combining academic study and volunteer community service

In 2018, six Canadian students and in 2019, eight Canadian students studied at the East China Normal University in Shanghai followed by volunteer community service teaching English in Chongqing, where they lived with host families. CWY-JCM collaborated with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to help cover the cost of the program. Additionally, Canadian students are required to fundraise for program costs not covered by the CSC scholarships.

I am grateful for having a program like this available to me and young people in Canada through Canada World Youth, who I’m a huge proponent of...This opportunity has been beyond tremendous and eye opening. I’ve met some incredible people and discovered things about the world and about myself that I’ll always have with me. - Ian Heystee, 2019 Participant

12 LEVERAGING OUR EXPERTISE

PICMA/CONFIO In 2018-19 fifty-one (51) youth congregated in Puerto Cortes from August 9 to August 14 for the first CONFIO Youth Preventing Irregular Child Migration in Central Conference. In 2019, CWY-JCM made a America (PICMCA/CONFIO) is a four-year concerted effort to align project activities project, lead by Children Believe, designed to with GAC’s Feminist International Assistant improve the well-being of children and youth Policy by developing and providing training to who are at risk of irregular migration in Central staff and youth on Gender Equity, Violence America and . As a sub-contractor CWY- Prevention, and New models of Masculinity. JCM is leveraging its expertise in youth CWY-JCM also supported the participation of engagement and youth-centred approaches to 34 youth at the Regional Workshop on Migration develop and deliver orientation, training and in San Salvador on August 16th. In September support to youth, staff and partners, which over 120 youth from Hidalgo, Oaxaca and La deepens the participation and integration of Mixteca gathered in Huajuapan Mexico for the young women and young men (age 15 to 24) first youth forum of Las Mixtecas. Local and into project implementation, monitoring, National Youth committees were established in evaluation and learning. all five countries.

13 WaterAid/ Nana Kofi Acquah

HerWASH: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

CWY-JCM is a technical subcontractor in the youth engagement methodologies, CWY-JCM HerWASH: Sexual and Reproductive Health and supports country team and implementing Rights project led by WaterAid Canada, with the partners in the three Western African countries financial contribution of Global Affairs Canada. to meaningfully engage youth in project activities The project aims to address menstrual health including the development of a Manual, and hygiene for women and adolescent girls as a development and delivery of Training-of-trainer foundation for improving comprehensive sexual sessions, and providing leadership training to and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in adolescent girls and young women in and out of , Liberia, Sierra Leone and school. . Leveraging its expertise in innovative 14 youth OUR PARTNERSHIPS GOETHE INSTITUT

CWY-JCM partnered with Goethe-Institut for the Our Digital Future, c’est ICI project, which is realized by the Goethe-Institut, ThinkYoung and Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi NDG, and funded by the European Union. The project offers young adults a new platform for a debate that addresses our digital future in a holistic and positive way and focuses on identifying the principles, processes, and decisions that will lead to the most inclusive digital societies.

CWY-JCM has supported with the recruitment and promotion of the ‘24hrs Thinkathons’, an event that takes place in a Canadian and a European city simultaneously for 24 hours. The first two events took place in Montreal/Brussels in October 2019, and Edmonton/Milan in November 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events are now held virtually. INDIGENOUS 150 +

Since October 2019, with RBC’s support through RBC Future Launch, CWY-JCM in partnership with Good Influence Film has developed and delivered the curriculum for the Indigenous 150+ Youth Ambassador Training Programme (INYAP). INYAP was the pilot programme for a leadership and media media training initiative that included 24 Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth from diverse regions across Canada. In this 8-week leadership and skills building course youth learned to be cultural curators. Delivered over- distance through a series of training sessions, the goal was to provide skills for Indigenous youth to learn; protocols for working with Indigenous communities, interview techniques, how to moderate cross-cultural conversations and address harmful stereotypes. In total the participants created 40 podcast episodes which will were released in the fall of 2020 as the Indigenous 150+ podcast series. 15 OUR PARTNERS

International Canadian Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perú Association québécoise des organismes de (BVBP) – Peru coopération internationale (AQOCI) Cea Don Bosco – Bolivia Canadian Council for International Cooperation Centro de Servicios para la Capacitacion (CCIC) Laboral y el Desarrolio (CAPLAB) – Peru Children’s Believe CONCEPT – Sénégal Export Development Canada (EDC) East China Normal University (ECNU) – China Fondation du Grand Montréal Emirates Foundation – United Arab Emirates Goethe-Institut Fundación Juventud Colombia Mundo (FJCM) – Indigenous 150+ Colombia Indigenous Leadership Development Institute Fundacja Euroweek – Inc (ILDI) Ghana YMCA – Ghana Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre (Ma Mawi) INFOCAL – Bolivia Nokiiwin Tribal Council (NTC) Institute of Rural Development and Planning Rumie (IRDP) – Tanzania Vancouver Foundation Instituto Tecnológico Don Bosco – Bolivia WaterAid Kumasi Technical University – Ghana National Service Scheme (NSS) – Ghana Ser Familia – Bolivia Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College (TUDARCo) – Tanzania Université Gaston Berger (UGB) – Sénégal UNTAG – Indonesia UPGRIS – Indonesia Vocational Training Authority (VTA) – Tanzania Yayasa Insan Sekolah Kasih (YISK) – Indonesia YMCA Sénégal – Sénégal

16 CWY-JCM FAMILY ALUMNI

We are proud of the network of Alumni that has been created since 1971. Our alumni are part of a truly global team of individuals who continue to support CWY-JCM by actively participating in the development of a just, harmonious and sustainable world. Are you a CWY-JCM alumni? As we lead into the 50th year, we want to hear from you! A great way to reconnect is through our newsletter where you can catch up on the latest news, events, and stories from your peers. So please subscribe and make sure to update your contact info by communicating with us at alumni- [email protected]. Send us your stories, accomplishments, group reunion plans, etc., so we can share and grow our network of global CWY-JCM alumni. Don’t forget to get your counterparts involved!

17 We are proud of the relations that our alumni form through the program and are always happy to hear about their reunions as well as help them reconnect to organize more. There is never a lack of stories to share, but we are proud to share this one from our first group of participants in 1972. They have been group of trailblazers that have supported each other for nearly 50 years and most recently united in 2019.

40 Canadians and 40 Yugoslavs..so diverse in every way but tied forever by our common experiences. We formed lifelong friendships that bind us still 48 years later. Now especially with the covid-19 pandemic I worry that my friends will hit, that I won't know and will never be able to see them again. We already mourn the deaths of almost 20 of us over the years. I could never properly explain the full depth of everything I learned ( besides two languages), the changes, the need to help, to volunteer, to give back. - Gunny Tennese, 1972 Participant

18 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

19 THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS AND FUNDERS

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