Update from Tulsi Giri, Individual Member of Nepal
Youth Participation in Social Development Work Camp, Rivan, Kaski, Nepal
August 1-5, 2008
USSHA Foundation
‘Work Camp for Youth Participation in Social Development’ project had two phases of implementation. The first phase was conduction of work camp. The work camp was conducted in the ‘Community Building’ of Janajagriti Youth Club (Public Awareness Youth Club) in ward number 6 of Rivan VDC from August 1-5, 2008.
Teamwork to cross the river.
The second phase of the work camp is implementation and follow-up of the Aggregated Youth Club Action Plan (AYCAP) developed at the end of the work camp. During the work camp the participants were
kept in home stay with different families of the ward number 6. There were altogether 13 homestay families (6 brahmin families, 3 giri families and 4 magar families). Each family got one or two participants as their own family members for the 6 nights. One family, nearby the community building, was the center point
which was responsible for preparing tea and snacks for the work camp participants according to the schedule. All the home stay families got some financial support from the project for hosting the participants.
Outcomes
1. 25 participants from the rural and urban communities participated in the work camp and learned about the sustainable social development.
2. The participants learned the knowledge and skills to identify and prioritize the problems, issues and needs of the communities, and resource identification and mobilization for the social development.
3. The participants identified the basic need of the community and youth, and prepared the action plan i.e.
establishment of the ‘Community Resource Center’ for addressing the prioritized needs.
4. The work camp has initiated an environment for the community youth to participate in the social development in organized way where at the same time it has established a network between the inside and outside youth for two-way assistance for the social development of the rural communities.
Planting tea in the local community
The work camp which was focused to generate youth resource for the social development was completed successfully with very positive response from the community, local youth clubs and participants. USSHA Foundation is hence motivated to follow-up and to implement the action plan very successfully for the social development of Rivan VDC. And also, is looking ahead to establish and widen up the scope of this work camp model in other rural communities to encourage and support youth of that community to involve in social development.
May 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
International Workshop
Youth Participation in Sustainable Development
November 2009, Nepal
Organizers
USSHA Foundation World Student Committee for Sustainable Development
Kathmandu, Nepal (WSC-SD)
GPO Box- 26373 Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.usshafoundation.org http://www.wscsd.org
ussha.fn@gmail.com carl.kamp@wscsd.org
Overview
WSCSD and USSHA Foundation collaboratively designed the concept of organizing international workshop on ‘Youth Participation in Sustainable Development’ in Nepal in mid November 2009.
This International Workshop is designed as a broader and in-depth vision to blend the international and grassroots idea for the sustainable development of communities. The basic idea of organizing this workshop in Nepal is to find out the linkages between sustainable development movement in the global scenario and the issues, status and understanding of sustainable development in local level. The developed and developing communities should have productive partnership among each other to utilize the resources for equity and appropriate development. This envisioned international workshop will at the base initiates the dialogue and partnership among grassroots, national and international youth and development stakeholders. At the same time it will analyze the development status of the developing world and finding links between international development instruments and local scenarios. The workshop will travel through high level workshop in the capital to practicum at the grassroots, and finally interaction and exploring partnership among the national and international youth.
Objectives
Exploring sustainable development status, practices, challenges and opportunities in developing nations.
Finding the linkage between international movement of sustainable development with the sustainable development understanding and mind-set of developing communities
Initiating youth partnership for sustainable development through capacity building.
Themes Addressed
Understanding from the view point of developing communities specially in the grassroots level the concept or necessity of sustainable development is rather vague and not understood clearly. In this international workshop the following 4 points will be major themes of discussion which, in the organizers perception, plays vital role in understanding the sustainability issues in local level in comparison to global movement of sustainability.
Sustainable Livelihoods/Employment Opportunities and Natural Resources
(Economic Opportunities for Sustainable Development)
Agriculture and Community Development
(Grassroots initiatives for Sustainable Development)
Peace and Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainable Development
Contents
On the basis of above thematic areas the workshop will be guided by following contents while moving from high-level discussions to the grassroots practicum. The contents mentioned below will review the themes addressed by the workshop i.e. the themes will be observed and studied in the content areas.
Society, Social Structure and Development Status of Nepal and South Asian Countries
Sustainable Development Approaches and Practices (national and international)
Role Identification of Stakeholders for Sustainable Development (Government, Development Agencies, International Communities, Private Sector, Youth, Media and Community)
International development mechanisms and instruments
Determinants of Sustainable Development
Resources Identification and Productive Utilization for developing communities
Knowledge-Information-Technology-Skills (KITS) for sustainable development
Partnership (local-national-regional-international)
Workshop date and venue
Number of days – 15
Date – August/November 2009
Venue – Nepal (Kathmandu – Rivan – Pokhara)
Participants
Participants Representation Number Registration Fee
Nepal (including the previous work camp participants) 7 USD 150
South Asia
6 USD 500
South (Africa, Latin America, South-east Asia etc.) 7 USD 500
North (North America, Europe, Australia and Japan)
15 USD 500
The participants will be youth from age group 16-30. The total number of participants from around the world will be 35. The participants will be called from the member student communities of WSCSD on 1 to 1 basis and beside that other participants will be selected on the basis of free competition.
Workshop Module
Welcome and Opening (1 day)
The workshop will be formally started after all the national and international participants arrive in the venue. The organizers will welcome and formally announce the opening of international workshop following the welcome dinner. This is the introduction (rapport building) day among the participants, facilitators, organizers, speakers and others directly related to the workshop.
Thematic Workshop (2 days)
This opening thematic workshop/discussion will be organized in Kathmandu. This workshop will play the role of environment setting by learning the basis of sustainable development, sharing the facts of around the world, understanding the basic issues and ideas of the workshop and building a plan for the next few days stay. Three sessions will be conducted in this day focused in the following three points:
Travel to the practicum destination (1 day)
On the third day, the participants will be taken to the practicum destination. The destination is about 230 KM west from Kathmandu. The participants will travel through the bus.
In the evening the participants reach to the destination where the community people, youth clubs and organizers welcome the participants with cultural show. The participants will then be transferred to the home stay families. Participants will accommodate in villagers’ home in small groups (group of 2-3 in each from local, national and international participants) which will be an opportunity for participants to understand the life, culture and structure of the family and Nepali society as well.
Community Practicum (7 days)
Every day practicum will start from theoretical session in morning (based on the schedule prepared by the facilitators) and passes through identification of situation in local context, practical observation and community action, outdoor team activities and games and finally sharing the experience and concluding the day comparing the community, national and international context. The theoretical portion will be based on the content of the workshop written above and practical part will be based on each day theoretical sessions. Each day the participants will draw conclusion of the day according to the schedule and find the possibilities for developing sustainable development project in the end.
On 7th day the participants will return back to Pokhara in the day time. The night will be for personal refreshment.
Interaction (2 days)
Here, the participants will come to the concrete action after reviewing the previous days and their experiences. After the 12 days working on the themes, community practicum, discussions, sharing etc. the group will finally seat down to brainstorm and develop an action plan to be implemented in the same community practicum destination or in broader regions for assisting sustainable development actions in Nepal. This will be conducted in Pokhara.
Travel to Kathmandu and Closing (2 days)
On the second last day the program will be formally closed with the lunch in Pokhara. The participants then can move to Kathmandu with the organizers or can go for visit/hike/trekking as per the personal wish and planning.
Project Development
The participants will at the end develop a concrete project for initiating the sustainable development actions. This project will either be the follow-up and wider vision of the action plan of Rivan Work Camp or the assistance to the work camp project of USSHA Foundation or will be a broader project establishing sustainable development initiative in Nepal. It depends on the idea and the perspective of the participants of the workshop.
Facilitators/Speakers
Facilitators – One from Nepal and one from International experts will be facilitating the program throughout the period.
Speakers – Speakers will be from government, non-government and development agencies having long experiences in sustainable development working in Nepal, South Asian region and/or in international level. The speakers will depend upon the topics and field of specialization.
Expected Outcomes
A practical project (action plan) to foster sustainable development initiatives will be developed at the end for implementing after the workshop.
The participants will learn the development status, challenges and opportunities in Nepal and other developing world. This will also draw a concrete linkage understanding on the global sustainable development movements and local scenarios.
A network among the participants and communities will be developed which opens further possibilities of support and partnership.
Organizers
United Youth Club Rivan 1-9: This is a youth club network of 9 youth clubs of Rivan VDC. This community based youth organization is also the implementation partner of work camp project of USSHA Foundation in that region.
World Student Committee for Sustainable Development (WSCSD): WSCSD is a multidisciplinary network of motivated students with the ability to think and act both locally and globally, and who share the vision to make a difference. It has 13 member student communities and more than 50 individual members in more than 29 countries around the world. http://www.wscsd.org
USSHA Foundation: USSHA Foundation is an emerging development foundation in Nepal initiated by young students to develop the communities through innovative development actions and involvement of youth in development process. http://www.usshafoundation.org
Detailed Budget
S.N. Particulars Amount Unit Total
1. Administrative Costs
a. Stationery 300 300
b. Printing/Photocopy 200 200
c. Communication (Phone, email/internet, fax) 500 500
d. Transportation 200 200
e. Office Rent (50% of total) 50 4 month 200
Sub-Total 1400
2. Program Costs
2.1 Food and Accommodation of Participants and Project team including program venue
a. in Kathmandu 45 40*3 nights 5400
b. in Practicum Destination 7 40*7 nights 1960
c. in Pokhara 25 40*3 nights 3000
2.2 Snacks and Refreshments 5 45*9 days 2025
2.3 Local transportation of Participants and Project team (round trip to Kathmandu – Pokhara – Practicum Destination) 800 800
2.4 Workshop Kits 12 40 480
2.5 Service in Practicum Destination and during Workshop
a. Medication 100 100
b. Stand by Transportation 150 150
2.6 Facilitators 50 2*12 days 1200
2.7 Resource Persons/Speakers 100 6 persons 600
Sub-Total 15715
3. Human Resources
a. Project Coordinator 400 3 months 1200
b. Assistant Coordinator 250 2*3 months 1500
c. Partially paid Volunteers (management, finance, participants’ coordination etc.) 5 5* 90 days 900
Sub-Total 3600
4. Project Development and Implementation (Action Plan) 3500 3500
5. Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation 300 300
Total 24,515
The total amount of fund required for the program: 24,515 USD
Fund collected by the participants’ registration fee: 15,050 USD
Additional fund required: 9,465 USD
Organizations can support in one of the following ways:
Supporting the administrative or program costs of the program
Supporting the registration fee for the participants from developing country
Supporting the flights of the participants from developing country to and from Nepal; this is not included in above budget
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