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Name: African Youth Forum 2010 E-Consultation
Categories: Education
Health
Peace & Conflict
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Concept on African Youth Forum (AYF), Kampala,
July 17th to 19th 2010
As a Pre- event to the 15th Ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union.
1. BACKGROUND:
AU Summits are part of the mechanisms used by African leaders under the auspices of the African Union to deliberate and take action on commitments, upcoming issues and policy framing on social, economic and political aspects that affect African countries.
AU summits are organized under various themes that highlight areas of concern as agreed upon by Heads of States and Assemblies to consider key concerns of the continent. The forthcoming AU Summit in Kampala will be held under the theme; “Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa”, to specifically take stock of global and continental goals on reducing maternal and infant mortality and improving safe motherhood and child health; as well as redressing strategies to accelerate progress in improving both maternal and child health.
The AU summit in Kampala will have three major meetings that include the Ordinary session of the Permanent Representatives committee which will run from July 19th – 20th, the ordinary session of the Executive Council (African foreign Affairs Ministers) from July 22nd – 23rd and lastly the ordinary session of the Assembly of African Heads of State and Governments which will be held from July 25th – 27th.
Recognizing failure to achieve targets for the Millennium Development Goals especially without prioritization of sexual reproductive health of people in Africa; African Ministers of Health meeting in Gaborone October 2005 adopted the Continental Policy framework on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) which addresses SRHR challenges, increased resource allocation to health and ensuring SRH commodity security among others. In 2006, the Maputo Plan of Action was developed for the operationalisation of the Policy Framework and it seeks to take the continent forward towards the goal of universal access to comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health services that include maternal health in Africa by 2015. In addition, the African Accelerated Child Survival Strategy of 2007 stipulates goals that have to be met by African states on promoting child survival through reduction of infant/child mortality and promotion of child health care programmes.
In 2009, UNICEF Uganda fronted the idea of Uganda hosting an African Youth Forum alongside the July 2010 AU Summit. The idea was welcomed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but as a requirement, the host country has full discretion on the preparations and organization of any side event to an AU Summit outside the AU secretariat programme for that particular summit. In that respect, the Head of state of the host country had to approve the event before its endorsement by the AUC early this year. This means that the AYF will now be an integral meeting of the summit of July 2010.
In the meantime, African Youth Forum (AYF) preparation meetings were started and are hosted by a sub-committee designated by the National task force organizing the AU summit. The sub- committee was created to develop among others this concept note for planning and execution of the African Youth Forum, as well as engage AU commission on the agenda of this event and it’s linkage with the main Heads of States Summit The African Youth Forum meeting is planned for three days starting on July 17th to 19th and its expected that its resolutions/ recommendations will either be presented to the Executive council for review before presentation to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government or directly presented to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government. The most appropriate mechanism will be decided after consultation and negotiation with the African Union Commission.
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