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Subject: FYI...1st African Youth Conference against Hunger in The Gambia


> National Youth Association for Food Security (NaYAFS) in collaboration with
> the Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) and ActionAid The Gambia (AATG), are
> hosting the 1st African Youth Conference against Hunger (AYCAH), which will
> also coincide with the Global Week of Action.  It will take place from April 10
> to 16, 2005, at Independence Stadium & Friendship Hotel in Banjul, The
> Gambia.
>
> The idea for the conference emanated from the World Wocial Forum that was
> held in Brazil in January this year. The conference aims to assess progress of
> Millenium Development Goals with special emphasis on hunger. Established
> during the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, the goal aims to reduce the
> number of people in the world living with chronic hunger by half before 2015.
> The number as it now stands is 840 million people. The conference also aims
> to mobilize youth participation in the 5-year review of the Millennium
> Deveopoment Goals that will take place in New York in September, 2005. Issues on
> trade and the WTO, among other things, will also be discussed. During the
> conference workshops and discussions on various issues will be held.  Each
> participant will have the option to attend any one of the following workshop
> sessions:
>
> * Millennium Development Goals
> * Trade – World Trade Organizations and Economic Partnerships Agreements
> * HIV/AIDS and Food Security
> * Global Call to Action Against Poverty
> * International Alliance Against Hunger
> * Youth in Agriculture
>
> Field trips will also be arranged for participants to see both urban and
> provincial projects in Gambia that address the issue of hunger. Trips will visit
> carnivals and street caravans, which will allow poor and marginalized people
> to make honest displays of their problems sharing items such as T-shirts,
> flyers, etc.
>
> As the targeted number of participants of the forth coming conference is 300
> people, registration and admission will be on a first-come first-served
> basis. The registration fee for Non-African participants will be $500 USD per
> person. This fee will cover local travel and food only. Registration for
> participation will be closed on March 25, 2005 – though extensions may be made
until
> April 1 if space is available. For African participants all costs of
> accommodation, food, and in-country travel will be covered by the conference
> organizers.
>
> Fees can be paid upon arrival.
> Learn more at this site:
> http://events.takingitglobal.org/gambia2005
>
> Download the application form here:
> http://events.takingitglobal.org/gambia2005/docsphotos
>
>
> About the organizers:
> Natoinal Youth Association for Food Security (NaYAFS)
>
> The National Youth Association for Food Security (NaYAFS) is comprised of
> highly motivated youth with the aim of mobilizing productive youth labor for
> sustainable food security.
>
> The establishment of the association hinges on a global call for young
> people to come together in a bid to complementing their governments’ and other
> development agencies’ efforts towards the attainment of sustainable food
> security. Issues such as natural disasters, poor natural resource management,
> inadequate policies and low awareness levels on nutrition education food security
> and HIV/AIDS are seen as some of the contributing factors towards the increase
> in rural poverty.
>
> This charge stems from the International Youth Forum of the World Food
> Summit that brought together youth representatives from more than 130 countries
> including The Gambia. The event was held in Rome – Italy from the 13th to the
> 17th of November 1996, under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture
> Organization of the UN (FAO). At the end of the forum, the delegates arrived at a
> declaration, which mandated them to establish national chapters of the IYF in
> their respective countries, hence the formation of NaYAFS in The Gambia.
>
> A management committee is running the association, which is at the helm of
> affairs. The association has a secretariat that streamlines and coordinates
> the programs and activities of the association.   As a decentralized
> program-based umbrella youth organization, concerned with food security, the
NaYAFS has
> expanded its programs and activities. This enables the grassroots members to
> participate in the planning and implementation of programs and activities
> within their locality. One good example is the establishment of divisional
> chapters that implement activities at the grasssroots level and the establishment
> of the Rural Program office which coordinates all our divisional programs
> and activities.
>
> NaYAFS
> P.O. Box 611
> Banjul
> Email: [log in to unmask] <javascript:void(0)>
> Tel:(220) 9913108/9910547 and 9907499
>
> ActionAid in The Gambia
>
> ActionAid International is an international organization that fights against
> poverty and social exclusion world-wide through the development of long term
> programs in more than 40 countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Its
> vision is a World without poverty in which every person can exercise their right
> to a life of dignity whilst its mission is to work with poor and
> marginalized people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity
that
> cause it.
>
> As part of its Africa program, AcitonAid the Gambia (AATG) was established
> in 1979 with the same vision and mission as the umbrella body. Over the year
> however AATG, has emerged from a series of policy and strategy changes all in
> a bid to address the issues as dictated by time and circumstances. Now it is
> a three country program with Senegal and Guinea Bissau as CBI’s but
> headquartered in The Gambia. Strategy wise it has also   moved form the old mode of
> operations of service delivery where communities are referred to as
> beneficiaries, to a more development oriented approach of partnership and hence a
Rights
> Base Approach (RBA).
>
> Today AATG works in partnership with national and international campaign
> networks to make heard the voices of the marginalize people in intergovernmental
> and transnational forums to influence the political decisions of governments
> which can have an impact in poor communities.
>
> AATG, working in accordance with the principles of the rights-based approach
> to development, is also a strong advocate of pro-gender issues and
> activities. In this it takes the analysis of poverty and marginalization beyond
> communities and households to individual women, men, boys and girls as well as to
> the most vulnerable and marginalized groups.
>
> ActionAid
> MDI Road, Kanifing
> Email: [log in to unmask] <javascript:void(0)>
> Tel: (220) 4392029/4392004 and cell: 9913099
> Fax: (220) 4394245
> www.actionaid.org
>
>
> Global Youth Action Network
>
> The Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) is a growing collaboration among
> youth and youth organizations that are committed to uniting their efforts to
> improve the world.  It works to facilitate intergenerational partnership in
> global decision-making, to promote collaboration, and to provide tools, resources,
> and recognition for positive youth action to change the world. With hundreds
> of organizational members in almost 200 countries and tens of thousands of
> contacts, the Network is rapidly expanding, supporting collaboration to
> improve youth engagement and participation in decision-making.  It provides support
> to young people who take positive action to improve their communities and
> provides recognition for the amazing contributions young people are making to
> the world every day.  GYAN and TakingITGlboal have partnered to create the
> most dynamic and resourceful on-line community on the net for young people and
> youth organizations working to make a difference.
>
> Global Youth Action Network
> 211 E. 43rd St. #905
> New York, NY 10017 - USA
> Email: [log in to unmask] <javascript:void(0)>
> Phone: +1-212-661-6111
> Fax: +1-212-661-1933
> www.youthlink.org

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