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Year Book
2007-2008
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Government of Pakistan
Ministry of Youth Affairs
Islamabad
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YEAR BOOK
2007-08
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS
ISLAMABAD.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Sr. No. | Description | Page No. |
01 02 | Foreword Message from Minister | |
03 | Introduction | |
04 | Functions of the Ministry | |
05 | Achievements of the Ministry | |
06 | Development Schemes | |
07 | Proposed Future Programs | |
08 | Calendar of Events for the Year 2008-2009 |
FOREWORD
The Ministry presents its Year Book for the period 2007-2008 as a statement of the main activities undertaken and tasks accomplished. The objective is to keep the public informed on important aspect of the Ministry of Youth Affairs.
The main responsibility of the Ministry of Youth Affairs is to deal with Policy and legislation on all aspects of youth affairs, inter-provincial coordination, youth activities, youth exchange programmes and non-government organizations dealing with youth.
The Ministry would welcome gratefully any suggestion or comment to improve the substance and quality of the Year Book.
Secretary
Islamabad, January 14th, 2009
Introduction
In Pakistan, Youth is defined as the population in the age group of 15 to 29 Years. The period of life which youth represents is most productive and useful by virtue of the nascent energies they are endowed with by nature. The young people aspire for full participation in the life of a society. If appropriate opportunities are made available to put their natural endowment to creative, productive and useful channels, Pakistani Youth is indeed capable of working miracles. In Pakistan, the youth population is at present more than forty million, which is about one forth of our total population. Key statistics of youth in Pakistan are at annex-I
Youth Affairs Division was established on June 12,1989. As an economy measure it was merged with Ministry of Women Development on October 09, 1993. It was again made a separate Division on August 18, 1996 and was again merged with Ministry of Culture on November 19, 1996 as a Wing.
The Government again raised the status of the Youth Affairs Wing to a full-fledged Ministry on 18-11-2005 under the charge of Federal Minister and MOS for Youth Affairs. Currently there is one Sr. Joint Secretary, two Deputy Secretaries and Five Section Officers on sanctioned strength of the Ministry of Youth Affairs (organogram is annexed)
FUNCTIONS OF THE MINISTRY
According to Rules of Business, Ministry of Youth Affairs deals with policy and legislation on all aspects of youth affairs, inter-provincial coordination, youth activities, youth exchange programmes and non-governmental organizations dealing with youth. The definition of Youth is a non-student youth between the ages of 15 and 29 years. Youth constitute one fourth of the entire population. The functions of this Ministry as assigned in the Rules of Business are as follows: -
i. Policy on all aspect of Youth Affairs in conformity with national objectives and laws.
ii. Legislation covering all aspects of Youth Affairs and matters ancillary thereto, in consultation with the concerned Ministries and Divisions.
iii. All international aspects of Youth Affairs including negotiations for bilateral and multi-lateral agreements for mutual assistance and cooperation.
iv. Coordination of aid and assistance from foreign countries for Youth Affairs.
v. Inter-Provincial coordination on all aspects of Youth Affairs.
vi. Monitoring of the implementation of policies on all aspects of Youth Affairs.
vii. Regulation of administrative, budgetary and other matters of organization dealing in Youth Affairs.
viii. Youth activities and movements pertaining to youth outside educational institutions.
ix. Youth Exchange Programme (External) Youth Centers
x. All Youth Organizations and forums.
ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2007-08
A) FORMULATION OF NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY.
The National Youth Policy has been redrafted in the light of cabinet decision and circulated to all stakeholders including concerned Federal Ministries, Provincial Youth Departments and Youth NGOs for their views and comments, before submission to the Cabinet. The main principles of the draft national youth policy are:-
i. Motivation, awareness and sense of pride.
ii. Character building.
iii. National integration.
iv. Promotion of sports and recreation.
v. Academic and intellectual development.
vi. Enabling employment.
vii. Youth health.
viii. Social volunteerism.
ix. Incentive for talented and high performing youth.
x. Youth marriage.
xi. Youth mentoring.
xii. Upgrading the social studies of marginalized and vulnerable groups of youth.
A number of Ministries and institutions in Pakistan are already engaged in various programmes benefiting the youth. The National Youth Policy aims at creating a youth centric focus by integrating and coordinating the programmes of various Ministries and institutes and provide overall guidance to develop the youth to meet the challenges of the future in building Pakistan. Thus a plan of action has been proposed in pursuance of the policy based on the existing programmes and infrastructure beside additional programmes and dimensions where necessary.
B) MOBILE COMPUTER LITRACY AND AWARENESS PROGRAMME.
Computer Literacy and Awareness Programme has been started for the youth of those areas where such facility is not available. The programme is run through mobile computer van provided by the Common-Wealth Youth Programme. During the year 2007-08, 266 youth of different areas were provided the training under this programme.
C) NATIONAL YOUTH AWARD SCHEME
In order to recognize the achievements of the young people in their lives and the volunteers working for the welfare and development of the youth, the Ministry has started National Youth Award Scheme. Under this programme, two types of awards are distributed on 12th Aug each year i.e the international youth day. The award comprises cash shield and a certificate.
§ National Youth Award: Award for the youth who excel in the fields of literature, culture, education, science & technology, sports, business, community service, media, qirat and naat, management science, agriculture, computer science, information technology, environment, technicians, paramedics and skilled workers and an award for special youth.
§ Jinnah Youth Award: Award for the volunteer/organization for their outstanding achievements in the field of youth welfare and development.
D) SEE PAKISTAN NATIONAL YOUTH CAMP
The Ministry organizes “See Pakistan National Youth Camps” to achieve the following objective.
i. Promotion of national integration by providing an environment in which youth could interact and work together with their cross cultural counterparts from other provinces/areas.
ii. Discovery of the magnificence of Pakistan from seashore to the mountains.
iii. Participation of youth in educational activities.
iv. To bridge linguistic differences and to familiarize the youth with the culture of different regions of Pakistan.
During the Financial Year 2007-08 three See Pakistan National Youth Camps were organized in which 239 youth participated as detailed below::-
i. Camp for female was held from 28th Oct to 3rd Nov. 2007 at Islamabad comprising 53 females youth from all over the country.
ii. Camp for male was held from 26th Dec., to 31st Dec., 2007 at Lahore comprising 118 male youth from all over the country.
iii. Special youth camp was held from 22nd to 29th June, 2008 at Islamabad and Lahore., comprising 68 youth from different agencies of FATA.
E) INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXCHANGE.
International Youth Exchange Program is one of the components of the policy of the Government of Pakistan, which provides an opportunity to youth to see land, culture and economic development and also to exchange ideas of mutual interest with each other during exchange of youth delegations. Pakistan is committed to active participation in the youth activities to create understanding among youth of friendly countries.
i. OUTGOING PAKISTAN YOUTH DELEGATIONS.
i) A 5-members Pakistan Youth delegation visited Egypt from 23rd Aug to 4th Sep., 2007 to participate in 39th International Youth Camp.
ii) A 18-members Pakistan Youth delegation visited Turkey to attend “Year of Mawlana Jalaluddin Romi”.
iii) A 9-member Pakistan Youth delegation visited Republic of Korea from 7th to 27th August, 2007 to participate in “2007 Youth Camp for Asia’s Future” 104-member Pakistan youth delegation visited China from 2nd September, to 10th September 2007 under the youth exchange programme.
iv) A 104-members Pakistan youth delegation visited China from 2nd September, to 10th September 2007 under the youth exchange programme.
v) A 6-members Pakistan youth delegation visited Jordan in the month of October.
vi) A 10-members Pakistan youth delegation visited Republic of Korea from 27th November, to 8th December 2007 under bilateral youth exchange programme.
vii) A 9-members Pakistan youth delegation visited Bangladesh in December 2007 to participate in First SAARC Youth Camp.
ii. INCOMING PAKISTAN YOUTH DELEGATIONS.
i) A 10-members Indian Youth delegation visited Pakistan from 30th June to 7th July, 2007 under the Cultural Exchange Programme.
iii. MEETINGS/CONFERENCE/SETMINARS.
i) International Youth Day is celebrated in accordance with paragraph 7 of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 541/120 on 12 August every year to promote better awareness among youth. Ministry of Youth Affairs celebrated International Youth Day 2007 on 12 August 2007 at Islamabad. Provincial Governments and NGO enrolled with this Ministry all over the country also celebrated the international youth day.
a) The Mini Regional Advisory Board Meeting of Commonwealth Youth Programme was held in Islamabad from 2nd to 6th April 2008 in which 8 member countries from Asia Region participated in the meeting.
F) Misc. Activities through Organizations/ N.G.Os
The Ministry arranged various misc. activities and collaboration with organization/NGO working for youth welfare.
a) A workshop, “Life Skill Training Workshop” for the leaders/representative of the NGOs was organized from 10-12 September, 2007 in Islamabad.
b) A seminar, “Youth Advocacy Network” was organized in Collaboration with an NGO.
c) A National Strategic Conference 2008 (leadership and Youth) was organized in March 2008 at Murree with a NGO AIESEC.
d) A National Seminar, “Role of Youth and Volunteers” was organized in collaboration with National Volunteer Movement.
e) A workshop, “Tobbaco Free Youth and Tobacco Initiatives in Pakistan” was organized in collaboration with Ministry of Health.
G) DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES
In order to promote cultural and recreational activities along with vocational training, the Ministry has planned to construct Youth Development Centres at the following places/cities.
1) Quetta
Civil work has been completed
2) Peshawar
Civil work has been completed.
3,4) Lahore & Multan
Case under process with the Provincial Government.
5,6) Karachi & Sukkur
Work will be started during 2008-09
7) Gilgit
Work will be started during 2008-09
8) Gawadar
Work will be started during 2008-09
H) ESTABLISHMENT OF PLANNING AND MONITERING
CELL.
The Ministry has established a Planning and Monitoring Cell to strengthen the capacity and evaluation of the Development Projects.
I) PROPOSED FUTURE PROGRAMMES
i. Youth Awareness Programme
In order to empower youth and create awareness amongst youth on different issues, awareness programme through media, conventions, walks, training, seminars, and symposiums etc. would be organized at District, Provincial and National levels. Main thrust of the programme would be campaigns on community youth awareness to promote healthy life style, anti-smoking abuse, literacy drive and health initiatives for youth.
ii. Construction of Youth Development Centers
Construction of Youth Development Centers to provide Sports, indoor games, social and re-creational facilities along-with vocational training to youth.
iii. Development of Play Fields
In order to provide modest sports facilities, 100 play fields would be developed in the country, by providing basic facilities, especially in the rural areas. PC-I has been prepared and submitted to P&D Division for further processing for approval of Central Development Working Party (CDWP).
iv. Youth Convention
National Youth Conventions will be organized at Provincial Headquarters on rotation. The objective of holding these conventions is to promote national integration and creating harmony among the young generation.
v. See Pakistan National Youth Camp
See Pakistan National Youth Camps are organized to achieve the following objectives:-
- Promotion of national integration by providing an environment in which youth could interact and work together with their cross cultural counterparts form other provinces.
- Discovery of the magnificence of Pakistan from seashore to the mountains.
- Participation of youth in educational activities.
- To bridge linguistic differences and to familiarize the youth with the culture of different regions of Pakistan.
vi. SEE ISLAMABAD PROGRAMME
See Islamabad Programme has been initiated to provide opportunity to students of Government Schools of Islamabad who are unable to visit historical and beautiful places of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Taxila.
International Youth Exchange Programme
International Youth Exchange Programme is one of the components of the policy of the Government of Pakistan, which provides an opportunity to youth to see land, culture and economic development and also to exchange ideas of mutual interest with each other during exchange of youth delegations. Pakistan is committed to active participation in the youth activities to create understanding among youth of friendly countries.
In order to achieve the above objectives, youth delegations are exchanged either under Bilateral Cultural Exchange Programmes signed with various friendly countries or under special invitations received from them.
Presently, Pakistan have valid Cultural Exchange Programmes with the following countries:-
S.NO. COUNTRY SIGNING DATE EXPIRY DATE
1. Germany 09-06-1988 Till the next meeting of
Of the JMC.
2. France 30-05-1995 -do-
3. Turkey 21-11-2002 31-12-2006
4. Sri Lanka. 1-8-2002 31-12-2006
5. Russian Federation 05-02-2002 31-12-2006
6. Mauritius 27-2-2002 31-12-2006
7. China 03-11-2003 31-12-2006.
8. United Arab Emirates 08-03-2004 31-12-2006
9. Bangladesh 30-07-2002 31-12-2007
10. Malaysia 21-07-2003 31-12-2007
11. Iran 04-03-2004 31-12-2007
12. Kuwait 26-08-2004 31-12-2006
13. Syria 07-12-2004 31-12-2006
14. Jordon 17-03-2005 31-12-2007
15. Uzbekistan 06-03-2005 31-12-2009
16. Greece 25-04-2005 31-12-2007
17. Philippines 19-04-2005 31-12-2009
18. Brunei Darussalam MO 07-05-2005 Till on termination
19. Thailand 09-05-2005 31-12-2009
20 Yemen 10-04-2006 31-12-2009
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