International Summer School organised by Youth Association for Habitat and Agenda 21

From 15-25 September 1999 a Summer School will be organised in the beautiful Agean coastal town of Cesme-Turkey. This Summer School is a provision of the Plan of Action of the Seventeenth Session of the Commission on Human Settlements Parallel Youth Programme, which was held in Nairobi in May 1999. The main themes of the Summer School are human settlements, human rights, environment and capacity building.

Participants

The number of participants of the Summer School is 100 and regional distribution is 10 from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America respectively. Gender equality will be a priority. The participants should be representing a non-governmental organization, a youth initiative, a political party or a university club and they should have basic knowledge about the main topics of the Summer School. The participants are required to be fluent in English to be able to follow the discussions.

Objectives

• Sharing of experiences;
• Providing of leadership building and transferability of knowledge;
• A better understanding of the cited topics supplemented by the presence of the experts in the relevant fields;
• Enhancement of intercultural learning;
• Dissemination of outcomes of each event as booklets thereby providing access to information for the organisations whom have not attended to the Summer School.

Content

The International Summer Training course will be consisting of workshops, seminars, and presentation of best practices by the participating organisations. There will be two sessions every day, in the morning and in the afternoon. The provisional sub topics are as follows:

Human rights

• Peace
• Students rights in universities
• Rights of migrants
• Refugee rights
• Child rights
• Gender equality
• Young women
• Women rights
• Human rights education
• Public policies based on human rights
• Best practices
• Add your suggestion!!

Human settlements

• Poverty eradication
• Unemployment
• Adequate shelter for all
• Social integration
• Safer cities
• Security of tenure
• Housing rights
• Urban governance
• Public-private partnership
• Central-local partnership
• Government-civil society partnership
• Youth work at local level
• Introduction of the Agenda 21 and its applications
• Introduction of the Habitat Agenda and its applications
• Best practices
• Add your suggestion!!

Capacity Building

• Sustainable job opportunities
• Youth participation in decision making
• Development of youth structures
• International cooperation
• National cooperation
• Local cooperation
• Lobby and advocacy on youth issues
• Entrepreneurship
• Youth empowerment
• Integrated cross sectoral youth policies
• Project preparation methods
• Project management
• United Nations system
• The system of the European Union
• Youth work in Europe
• Institutionalisation
• Leadership building
• Networking
• International partnership
• Promotion of best practices
• Resource mobilisation
• Inter-cultural learning
• Civic engagement
• Youth representation
• Best practices
• Add your suggestion

Environment

• Land pollution
• Nuclear energy
• Ecological economics
• Fresh Water Management
• Participatory Natural Resource Management
• Environmental economy
• Consumer habits
• Cultural heritage
• Forestry
• Marine Pollution
• Industrial Ecology
• Wind energy
• Solar Energy
• Best practices
• Add your suggestion!!

You may also organise a workshop on one of the related topics of the four main issues, apart from the workshops that will be carried out by the formal lecturers. Moreover, you may also present your best practices provided that you inform the organisation committee in advance. There will also be an exhibition during the whole event where you may display all your documentations and the like. Please inform us if you would like to take part in it for us to organise the venue.

The participants are asked to indicate their areas of interest in one of the main topics of the Summer School. However, you will be asked to fill in another application form as a confirmation where you will choose the specific workshops for each day, for us to facilitate the organisation of work. On the contrary, it is recommended that you follow one topic to keep the pace. The related issue is indicated in the application form.

Since this Summer School aims to promote inter cultural learning, there will be parties which will be organised by the willing countries. Therefore, you are asked to inform the organisations committee if you have an intention to organise one where you are asked to bring with you your national costumes, food, drinks, handicrafts, etc.

Daily Progamme

07:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:00 Sports time
10:30-12:30 Morning session
12:30-14:30 Lunch
15:00-17:00 Afternoon session
17:00-20:30 Free time
20:30-22:00 Dinner
22:00- Party
Please note that Youth Association for Habitat and Agenda 21 (The Secretariat of Youth for Habitat International Network) does not have any financial resources to cover the travel expenses of the participants.

Finally, a participation fee of $30 is required for boarding and local transport. The deadline for application is July 31, 1999.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further questions.

Best regards
Zeynep Aydemir
Programme manager

Youth Association for Habitat and Agenda 21
(The Secretariat of Youth for Habitat International Network) Address: Buyukdere Cad. Sisli Belediyesi Binasi Kat 12
80280 Esentepe- Istanbul/TURKEY
Tel: +90 212 272 12 12 / 212 90 24 (voice)
Tel/Fax: +90 212 272 45 96
E-mail: youthforhab@turk.net, info@youthforhab.org.tr
Web-site: http://www.youthforhab.org.tr
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