Sikander Sabeer: SL Post 2015 Development Agenda

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

SL Post 2015 Development Agenda - Meeting Minutes 01

Sri Lanka Youth Movement for Post 2015 Development Agenda

Minutes -01 - 30/09/2012

Discussed following Items

Introduction

Presence - Sikander, Sahan, Husni, Niranjan

Facilitator - Sikander

Note taker – Sahan

Excuses- Jayahma, Thamara and Kosala

Overall View

· Final outcome is to develop a National Youth Report on Post 2015 Development Agenda.

· Other objective – Postponed to next meeting

· The final report will be launched at the UN youth conference 2014 which will be held in Sri Lanka, the report will constitute the following-

§ Youth’s views of Development Beyond 2015

§ MDGs Review as per youth perspective

· A concept note will be created by Sikander and Jayathma and it will used as the first draft

· Ultimately the campaign will be evolved into an open platform for the youth, but the OP’s will take the initiative to design the campaign.

· This campaign will be organized under NYSC, resources will be provided by them.

Administrative Structure of the Campaign

§ 10 Organizing Partners (OP's), already 7 of them taking the leadership and another three will be added.

§ Working Group which consist of facilitating team.

§ Advisory board

§ Other Stakeholders

Note - OPs should have the ultimate authority to make the decision.

Core Committee consisting of 10 members

o 7 member are already decided

§ Sikander

§ Husni

§ Niranjan

§ Sahan

§ Jayathma

§ Kusala

§ Tamara

Proposed other 3 members could be appointed by NYSC and they should be girls from different parts of the country.

§ Advisory board will consist of big people such as (not yet fully decided)

o Chairmen of NYSC

o Minister of Youth Affairs

o One member of major stakeholders

o Ananda Mallawathanthri - UNDP

o Natal – UNV

§ A Stakeholder group will be a different section which consists of other youth organizations who want to be a part of the Campaign but do not have any authority to dominate the proceedings of the campaign.

§ Working groups consisting volunteers, this will be headed by one of the organizing partners. These Groups will be responsible for administrations, logistics, media and so on

The following points are to be discussed with Milinda

§ Finalizing working groups

§ Finalizing the Organizing partners

§ How to make the campaign legitimate

§ Workshop content

Contents of the Campaign

§ Workshops per district

o Have different workshops per different sectors of society

o Finding problems in the society

§ National Youth Survey

§ Create a facilitating team and train them

§ Media/Blog/Videos etc

§ Forum/Symposiums.

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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-