One such initiative is MY World, a global survey for citizens led by the United Nations and partners. It aims to capture people's voices, priorities and views, so that global leaders can be informed as they begin the process of defining the new development agenda for the world. Through creative online and offline methods, MY World asks individuals which six of sixteen possible issues they think would make the most difference to their lives. The sixteen issues have been built up from the priorities expressed by poor people in existing research and polling exercises and they cover the existing Millennium Development Goals, plus issues of sustainability, security, governance and transparency. From now until 2015, they want as many people in as many countries as possible to be involved with MY World: citizens of all ages, genders and backgrounds, and particularly the world’s poor and marginalized communities.
Results will firstly be submitted to the Secretary General´s High Level Panel for Post-2015 before their meetings in Monrovia, Bali and New York and will feed into their final report and recommendations for a new development framework in May 2013. After which, MY World will continue gathering people´s voices up to 2015 and results will be shared with the Secretary General and global leaders as they prepare the next development agenda in the run up to 2015.
The MY World global survey was front and centre of Sri Lanka Youth, National Youth Services Council’s promotional activities on the International Women’s Day. This event was organized by the Mothers and Daughters Organization of Sri Lanka in collaboration with the UNFPA Gender Forum and Foundation for Innovative Social Development. With almost 500 attendees, this year’s IWD proved a perfect opportunity to promote the MY World global survey as a path to stress for Women’s issues such as Better Healthcare, Protection against crime and violence, Political Freedom, Equality between Men and Women and etc.
To help gather support for the MY World global survey, a team of youth volunteers with offline survey papers together with a large colourful banner, factsheets, stickers and even posters who proved very popular among the crowds were present at the International Women’s Day celebrations. The group of volunteers were also on hand to encourage people to vote and have their voice heard.
IWD provided a great opportunity for the My world team of the National Youth Services Council to interact with the community and raise awareness about the My world 2015 campaign and United Nations Global Development Agenda. Below are some the photographs of the event.
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