Youth Participation in National Youth Policy’s Establishment

Overview

Khmer Youth Association plays an important role to educate people and members of commune councils to understand, why it is important for all people in the community to be active in communal development, and why they need to know what advocacy is.

What we want

• a society where youths actively participate in democratic processes and in the promotion of human rights
• to promote the participation of people in local development processes
• to encourage young people/youths to join in decision making and to share their concerns for developing their own community
• to collect ideas and needs of youths in every province and city in Cambodia to put them into a draft of National Youth Policy

What we do

We are working with citizens and members of commune councils. Those people can be anything as teachers, members of community development, village chiefs or villagers from the same commune/district. The age group we focus on is between 24 and 35 years. Our unit divides into two parts, the Civic Education and the Advocacy, whereas the Civic Education part provides trainings, workshops, networking, research and takes care about poster and brochure printing; the Advocacy part organizes youth conferences and roundtable discussions and publishes the newsletter called "Youth & Democracy".

Where we work

We are working in six communes in each of the following provinces: Svay Rieng, Prey Veng, Takeo, Kampong Cham, and Siem Reap.

Youth Position Paper On National Youth Policy|Youth Network and Social Engaged for Development

Young Progressive South East Asia's Public statement to the upcoming 14 th ASEAN Summit in Hua Hin , Thailand .

A Proposed Charter of principles defining the framework of a Regional Policy for Young people in South East Asia

Draft Cambodian National Youth Policy