Sikander Sabeer: GYBN Steering Committee

Sunday, January 5, 2014

GYBN Steering Committee

We are very pleased to announce that the Steering Committee has elected two (2) focal points, representing the Global South and the Global North.

Melina Sakiyama (Brazil) was elected as Global South Focal Point and Christian Schwarzer (Germany) was elected as Global North Focal Point.
Melina and Christian can be contacted at melina.sakiyama@gmail.com and christian.schwarzer@gmail.com

The elections were conducted by the Steering Committee as part of their mandate:
The Steering Committee is the main coordinating body of the network and ensures that the mission and goals of GYBN are achieved.
In accordance with the GYBN Statute, adopted at the Kick-Off conference in Berlin, it is required that the Steering Committee has between
eight to fifteen members, coming from each of the world regions. The elected Steering Committee was responsible to elect two Focal Points
out of its members based on pre-defined criteria.
Currently the following GYBN members are serving as part of the Steering Committee:
Shankar Adhikari (Nepal)
Tomas Badura (Czech Republic)
Shailyn Drukis (Canada)
Mirna Ines Fernández (Bolivia)
Mesfin Hailemariam (Ethiopia)
Dayna Noltie (Canada)
Melina Sakiyama (Brazil)
Christian Schwarzer (Germany)
Achmad Solikhin (Indonesia)
Lemuel Vega (Mexico)

In accordance with the GYBN statute one (1) representative of Indigenous Youth and one (1) youth representative from the host-country of the upcoming CBD COP (South Korea) will be elected very soon.

FOCAL POINT ROLE
The two Focal Points must have extensive previous experience with working with GYBN and the CBD-Process and are serving as communication channel (contact person) between the network and external bodies (in particular but not limited to, the CBD Secretariat). For the Focal Points, it is mandatory that one person is
from the Global South and the other from the Global North. In addition, gender balance among the two Focal Points is strongly encouraged.
The Focal Point position is crucial to maintaining the functionality of GYBN and a good relationship with the CBD secretariat. Therefore only candidates with extensive previous experience with working with GYBN and the CBD-process can run for this position. Participation in at least one (1) CBD COP and prior involvement in GYBN activities is mandatory for focal point candidates.

FOCAL POINT ELECTION PROCESS
Two members of the Steering Committee (Melina Sakiyama and Christian Schwarzer) applied for the Focal Point position, and after a screening process by the Steering Committee confirming their qualification for the position, the Steering Committee approved their application and since they were the only candidates, they were elected as Focal Points.

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About Me

Sikander Sabeer is a product of Isipathana College and holding a first class with distinction Bachelors of Science (BSc) degree on Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology from Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka), an outreach campus of University of Mysore (India). Presently reading for his Masters of Science (MSc) on Business Management at National School of Business Management (Sri Lanka), an outreach post-graduate institute of University of Dublin (Ireland).

Sikanders’ development work can be categorized into three avenues, namely community service and community development; youth empowerment and professional development; climate change and sustainable development. Meanwhile his development work is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. In the action oriented phase, he gets in to the field and implements his ideas. He works very closely with multi-stakeholders such as children, school students, youth, corporates & business firms, UN agencies, non-governmental and government organizations on diversified projects at different levels and on different capacities. With his strong grass-root level initiatives and experience, he invests equal time on advocacy, mentorship and youth policy framework, which is a unique, and a strategic bottom up approach.

Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. He has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences, at some of the UN meetings I have served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team headed by HE president. Half of the world’s population is made up of young people and as a youth representative and a major stakeholder he had made several interventions on behalf of Global Youth and Sri Lankan youth at some of the UN conferences.

He has held several key positions in organizing several national and international events/programmes and he is one of the co-creators of the YOUTH is the word –Guinness World Record, where 1500 Sri Lankan youth stood to gather to form the largest human mosaic in the world.

His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development, Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the most prestigious “Commonwealth Youth Awards (CYA)” for Excellence in Development Work (2012), The CYA’s celebrate and recognize extraordinary young people among one billion audiences from 54 member states of Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging from poverty alleviation to education and protection of the environment. This is awarded by Commonwealth Secretariat (CYP) headed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He earned the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council Youth Empowerment Programme on 2010 for outstanding contribution for Voluntary Activities. He serves as a Youth Ambassadorial role for climate change and serves as a Youth Facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion program. Apart from these major recognitions his team earned U.S. Department of States Federal Assistant Award Grant for “Green the Home” project and Global Changemakers Community Action Project (CAP) and Regional Action Project (RAP) grants for Youth Empowerment Initiatives.

Presently Sikander is serving as an Assistant Manager for Business Development and Project Officer for recycling solutions for Neptune Recyclers (Neptune Papers [Pvt.] Ltd) in Sri Lanka, a member of multinational corporate Expolanka Holdings PLC. He works very closely with multi- stakeholders, especially with school students, Industries and Corporates on recycling solutions which create an additional income from the trash while minimizing the environmental pollution.

"Do as much as voluntary activities, because volunteers Inspire in Action, they make a real change in their community, they talk less and work a lot, but never expect any personal benefits from their action, Indeed one day they will earn the rewards, that’s confirmed; Install this in your mind “I will do the best I can”

-Sikander Sabeer-