WORDS FROM YES CHAIRMAN.
The government, society and other stakeholders must create mechanisms that ensure young people are involved in the development of poverty reduction strategy through national youth councils or other forums for youth representation. This will ensure that youth perspectives are heard and that poverty reduction strategies are relevant to local concerns. It will also promote widespread participation in their implementation. In terms of these recommendations, you can play a key role in ensuring country ownership of poverty reduction strategies. By investing in the engagement of youth, the poverty reduction strategies will not only make youth more active as citizens to give back to their societies for the rest of their lives, but also by default link the entire families of these youths and their communities into the work. By looking at these needs of youth, key needs in terms of long range and greatest poverty-pay off are likely to be quickly identified.
WORDS FROM YES GENERAL SECRETARY
Youth organizations are unique in that they are primarily focused on reflecting the views and serving the needs of the young people. Whether these are structured organizations or informal groups, they provide a space where young people can organize for action to meet community needs and experience group processes. Support to youth organizations and their structures on a national level through National Youth Councils or Youth Committees in many countries is the basic strategy to involve youth into decision making and insert ideas on how to rescue their life based on socio-economic development hence become independent .This also involves the right and support to establish youth organizations.
