In December, I have an
opportunity to work as a Rapporteur in MTOT (Master Training of Trainers) of Sustainable Development
Goals. This training was conducted by Youth Initiative in collaboration with
Restless Development & UNFPA-Nepal. The MTOT was conducted in Dhulikhel, Nepal in December
17-21, 2016. The main objective of this MTOT training was to produce youth
trainers on SDGs to work in community level for the purpose to localized SDGs.
The MTOT program includes the major component
of 5 social goals of SDGs (3, 4,5,8 & 16), facilitations skills,
Evidence-based advocacy, Local Level planning process to produce youth trainers
of SDGs for the purpose to make them engage in community-level for 15 years.
There were 25 participants from diverse background representing from
Banking, Engineering, Tourism, Social Activist, political thinkers. The participants
were divided into 4 groups for the entire 5 days residential program.
These groups worked on each social goal of SDGs and developed
the action plan to work in the community. Participants were
interested to know about fundraising for the proposed project and they were
highly motivated to know that Local Level planning process could possibly
facilitate them for funding process.
In the first day of training, I
observed participants doing Icebreaking, session on Child marriage and formed a
group to work in 5 social goals. In the second day, participants took session
on MDGs to SDGs, learnt about Evidence Based Advocacy. In third day,
participants worked on the SDGs 4, 5 and 8. In the 4th day,
participants went for field visit. One group went to visit local hospital and
other went to visit community.
The main motive of this session
was to inform participants about the concept of service seekers and service
providers in the community. This training also made them enable to understand
where the resources and possible action taken to solve the community issues. In
the day5th, Mock session was organized in the community issues and participants
learnt about 14 step planning process of community level.
At the end, participants were
evaluated best on their performance and could possibly be mobilized in the
grassroots level of Nepal to localize SDGs process. The participants were well
informed about the use of social media and global issues. In my informal
interaction with the participants on mainstreaming youth in development of
Nepal, most of the youth urged that youth have potential to change the nations.
They argued that most of the Nepali youth are doing great jobs in an
international market. The time has come to act in Nepal, they say. They have
understood the multiple impact of working in community level and knew the
significance of behavioral change for Nepal’s overall transformation.
Overall, my experience writing
rapporteur was great. As I got chance to interact with youth from diverse
background to know about them, their thoughts and aspiration for Nepal.
-Mr. Saurav Raj Pant, Regional Communication Adviser for Asia-Pacific, Independent International Relations Research Associate, Freelance Development consultant and blogger.
Dear sir,
ReplyDeleteNamaste
Sir, you and your team moving on kailali district for youth and Governance parts i hope i will participate and full support of you.
Thank you.
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