Session Overview: Opportunities for Displaced Youth

Strategies to Increase & Improve Educational and Skills Building Opportunities for Displaced Youth


Global Consultation 2009, Istanbul

Wednesday 1 April 11:00-12:45, Concurrent Learning Session Block 3

Abstract

The Women’s Refugee Commission, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the INEE Adolescent and Youth Task Team (AYTT) will organize an interactive learning session that focuses on strategies to address the educational and job training needs of displaced young women and men. The session will begin with a facilitated discussion with panelists who will share their perspective of what appears to be working in regards to post-primary and skills building opportunities for displaced youth, what’s missing and what more is needed. Panelists will include: NRC discussing their Youth Education Pack concept, objectives and lessons learned; RET sharing elements of what works and what matters to refugee youth based on two of their programmes with displaced youth; and two Women’s Commission youth advisors who come from conflict-affected countries to share their opinions and perspectives. The panel will be moderated by the Women’s Refugee Commission.

After the panelists’ discussion, participants will divide into small groups to address the same questions of what’s working, what’s missing and what more is needed. Each small group will include a youth advisor to contribute to the discussion. The groups will reconvene for a plenary discussion where each small group will briefly share a few ideas of models for possible replication; gaps that need to be addressed; and strategies and tools that are required to address ongoing needs. These ideas will be discussed among the panelists and larger group.

The session will conclude with the Women’s Refugee Commission, NRC and AYTT sharing some recent tools developed & initiatives underway to address some of the issues raised (e.g., NRC’s Youth Education Pack, Women’s Refugee Commission’s Market Assessment Toolkit, AYTT’s mapping exercise and action plan, etc).

Session Objectives

  • Objective 1: To make the case that more attention and support for educational and skills building opportunities for displaced older children and young people is needed;
  • Objective 2: To identify some good models and examples of what is working and what more is needed;
  • Objective 3: To identify some strategies and tools to address these needs.


Expected Outcomes

  • Outcome 1: Key messages to make the case to donors, policy-makers and practitioners for increased, appropriate investment and attention to the educational needs of displaced youth have been identified and recorded.
  • Outcome 2: Gaps and challenges facing youth have been discussed to contribute to INEE research agenda.
  • Outcome 3: Resources, tools, contacts and promising models have been shared to contribute to the evidence base and strengthen education and skills building programming and policies for displaced youth.


Panel

Chair: Jenny Perlman Robinson, Women’s Refugee Commission

Presenters:

  • Eldrid Midttun, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
  • Jenny Perlman Robinson, Women’s Refugee Commission
  • Nicolas Servas, Adolescent and Youth Task Team co-chair (AYTT) / The Foundation for the Refugee Education Trust (RET)
  • Ishmeal Alfred Charles, Youth Advisor, Women's Refugee Commission, Sierra Leone
  • Christine Lamunu, Youth Advisor, Women's Refugee Commission, Uganda


For further information on this session please contact the Session Coordinator Jenny Perlman Robinson at {encode="jennyp@wrcommission.org" title="jennyp@wrcommission.org"}.

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