Project Proposal
National Youth Movement
for UN Post- 2015
Development Agenda.
“Youth Led
Sustainability”
An Initiative of
National
Youth Services Council (NYSC) – Sri Lanka
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The National
Youth Services Council
The pioneer public sector organization working towards the
development of the youth in Sri Lanka to become well-functioning, independent
and valuable citizens who will contribute to the national development. The NYSC
focuses more on their personal development with creating conducive environment
to become youth leaders at the grass root level. The established working
structure for this is the youth club network in Sri Lanka which has over 10,000
youth clubs in all parts of the country at the village level.
More Info - www.srilankayouth.lk
1.2 Post 2015 - Millennium Development
Goals
Enormous progress has been made towards
achieving the MDGs. Poverty in the world continues to decline, more children
than ever are attending primary school, child deaths have dropped dramatically,
access to safe drinking water has been greatly expanded, and targeted
investments in fighting malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis have saved millions.
The MDGs are making a real difference in
people’s lives and, with strong leadership and accountability; this progress
can be expanded in most of the world’s countries by the target date of 2015.
After 2015, efforts to achieve a world of
prosperity, equity, freedom, dignity and peace will continue unabated. The UN
is working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the
momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015
development agenda.
The
MDGs have effectively forged a global consensus and mobilized public support
for eradicating global poverty. However, they were narrow in scope and did not
sufficiently address the specificities at the country level. The MDGs put great
emphasis on social spending, and have the agenda transparent and focused, but
this approach brought an oversimplification of the policy agenda. Furthermore,
the world is now confronting a series of challenges, both old and new, which
requires new policies and international frameworks that: generate a more
balanced distribution of both the benefits of globalization and the responsibility
for its costs, consider the interdependence among issues and enhance coherence
at various levels, and pay increased attention to inter-temporal decisions in
order to manage risks and improve security of achievements accomplished.
1.3
Why Youth for Beyond 2015 Development Agenda?
The
world is looking at bold and concrete decisions that will enable policies,
funding and political will for sustainable development. None of this will be
possible without the crucial contribution of civil society and, in particular,
youth, with half the world’s population under 25, young people are not only the
most affected by negative consequences of unsustainable development, but they
also have the greatest capacity and energy to deal with those challenges and
work on practical solutions.
Youth
Beyond 2015 is a collective of young people coming from different backgrounds
and different part of the country to advocate for a youth centered post 2015 development agenda.
1.4
Why Sri Lanka should be part of it?
The 1/4th of Sri Lankan population is composed of
Young People, and rapid growth of the young generation have become the crucial
stakeholders for the countries development. This National Youth Movement is
composed of young facilitators and a volunteer team who represents different
organizations and with a strong project background & diverse international
team building experience committed to achieve the goals of the campaign.
1.5
Sri Lanka : Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow
SRI LANKA, a South-Asian island state located
in the Indian Ocean, is also known as “The Pearl of the Indian ocean”. It’s
easy to see why: Sri Lanka’s ecosystems contain a vast biodiversity including
rainforests, grasslands, rivers, wetlands, freshwater bodies and marine
ecosystems. The rich array of fauna and flora places Sri Lanka among the
world’s top 18 biodiversity hotspots. UNESCO has designated four natural
forests in Sri Lanka as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, namely : Sinharaja
Rainforest, Knuckles Mountain Rage, the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary and Horton Plains
National Park. These forests are globally important and provide habitat for an
exceptional number of endemic species of flora and fauna.
Historical accounts suggest that more than
75% of Sri Lanka was once covered by forest. But since the British colonial
era, there has been mass-scale deforestation largely for agricultural and urban
expansion. Infrastructure development, destructive logging and encroachment
even of protected areas continue to fuel deforestation, resulting in a shocking
reduction of Sri Lanka’s closed canopy of forest cover to 22.22% of the
country’s total land area in 2007. The good news is that Sri Lanka has set a
target of increasing the country’s forest cover to 33% of the land area by the
year 2016 . Thus, it is of importance to Sri Lanka to preserve its natural
biodiversity.
With a rich history dating back to some
30,000 years ago, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was ruled in ancient times by monarchs,
most notably of the Sinha royal dynasties that lasted over 2000 years. The
earliest-known inhabitants of the island were probably the ancestors of the
Wanniyala-Aetto people, also commonly known as “Veddahs”. Veddah life style is
still simple and unostentatious; most of their activities are nature-blended
and minimalistic. They are hunter-gatherers, living in simple thatched mud
huts. The structure of the ancient village was made up of a wewa
(tank/reservoir), dagaba (temple), paddy fields, a small forest and a village
meadow. These villagers were more or less self-sufficient in food, milk and brackish
water fish. The inter-village trade was confined to few goods such as spices,
salt and ornamental goods that were brought into the village by travelling
traders. Culture and Buddhism played a major role in shaping the traditions of
the day. Some of these included the Kariya, a communal voluntary participation
in agricultural as well as other social activities and Attama which is a common
system where one's labour is offered in agricultural activities and in return
the farmers offer their labour in cultivation. Also, there were water
conservation systems in place such as Bettma, Tattumaru, Kattimaru and Kanna
meetings held before each Kanna.
In 1505 the Portuguese took possession of
Ceylon until the Dutch India Company usurped control (1658–1796). The British
took over in 1796, and developed coffee, tea, and rubber plantations and thus
began the transformation towards urbanism and industrialisation. In 1948 Ceylon
gained independence. From 1983 to 2009, there was a civil war against the
government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist
militant organisation who fought to create an independent state named Tamil
Eelam in the North and East of the island. On 19 May 2009, the end to the
insurgency and the defeat of the LTTE was officially declared.
Sri Lanka is finally free and most
importantly enjoying peace. Currently, we are in a very important stage of
economic development and reconciliation, determinedly catching up with the GDP
rates that were hampered by war. Sri Lanka is becoming one of the emerging
economies in the Asia. It has shown 8% GDP growth just two years after the
conflict, despite the global economic downturn, and economic growth is expected
to be 8-9% in the next few years. Sri
Lanka has gained the middle income ‘emerging market’ country status with its
Gross Domestic Product reaching to about $50 billion from just $24 billion in
2005 . Sri Lanka plans to build up foreign exchange reserves to over $10
billion by 2013 and foreign exchange reserves hit a record 6.6 billion dollars
in 2010, according to Sri Lanka’s Central Bank. The latest calculation of
poverty indices shows that the poverty level of the country has further
declined from 15.2% reported in 2006/07 to 8.9% in 2009/10 and the inflation
rate has gone down to 6.9% in mid-2011 .
Tourism has rebounded with a 48 percent increase in 2010 compared to
2009.
Yet, amidst all the economic booms, Sri Lanka
today faces multiple challenges, such as the impacts of climate change and
natural disasters, unemployment, rapid tourism and infrastructure development,
and destruction of vital ecosystems. Measures are being taken to address these
issues. However the youth of Sri Lanka are taking on the responsibility for
change. We are educated as the country enjoys more than 90% literacy, due to
the free education system, and we are rising to the challenge of making a
change in the sphere of environmental, social and economic sustainability.
In brief, using our age-old traditions will
help us to achieve a better degree of sustainability. If we are to see a better
future, it is important that we learn from history.
2.0 Key
Objectives
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Enhancing the Youth Participation to the
post-2015 development agenda and Rio+20 outcome via
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Consulting with children and youth on post-2015
development agenda via local level and National youth consultation process and
developing a national youth report at the end of the campaign
·
Empowering Young People to initiate grass root
level projects to achieve MDG Goals
3.0 Methodology
A two day Training for
Trainers will be carried out in Colombo for selected 50 young facilitators from
the 25 districts (Two per each district).Facilitators should be experienced in
working with young people, they could be existing members or volunteers of the
National Youth Services Council or volunteers from other partner youth organizations
to support the facilitation. The diversity of the consultations will be
strengthened if facilitators delivering the sessions have diverse backgrounds.
As suggested above, it should be ensured that the facilitators are young
people, and ensured that there is a good gender balance.
These the facilitators will organize consultative workshops (Preferably two day
workshops) in their respective district, with the participation of young people
from that particular area. Objective of these workshops will be to get the
ideas and inputs from youth on "Post 2015 development Agenda".
.
Final report of this
series of consultations will be presented at the World Conference on Youth in
2014 under the theme "What Sri Lankan Youth Really Want Beyond 2015"
4.0 Administrative Structure
Organizing Partners (Ops)
Will consist a team of 10 members
who will be the main coordinators of this campaign. All administrative,
logistics, strategic planning and other important matters will be dealt by this
team. This team will report to NYSC and facilitate the entire campaign. The OPs
are youth leaders who are experienced in the field of youth activism and who
are inspired to make the voice of youth be heard in the country.
Stakeholder
This will consists of youth led organizations,
Youth NGOs, Youth Networks, Young Business Professionals, Students from
colleges and universities, Disable young people, Young Journalists, Under
Privileged Youngsters etc. in Sri Lanka who would to like to contribute
to the initiative. They will be consulted for Policy discussion.
Facilitators
The facilitating team would
consist of youth facilitators from different parts of the country that would
work and consult with other youth in their respective regions. This key group
of facilitators will be the backbone of the youth network of the campaign. They
will organize the district consultations in their respective districts. The
facilitating team consists of 50 energetic young leaders which will be selected
in transparent process. The facilitators will be trained at a Training for
Trainers (TOT) residential workshop before the begging of the district
consultations.
6.0 Timeline
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Activity
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Dec-12
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Jan
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Feb
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Mar-13
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Apr-13
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May-13
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Jun-13
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Jul-13
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Aug-13
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Sep
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Oct
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Nov-13
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Dec-13
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Jan-14
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Getting approval for the project proposal
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Recruiting youth
facilitators
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Conducting TOT for the
youth facilitators
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Conducting District
consultations
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Obtaining youth views on
Post 2015 agenda through other mechanisms
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Analyzing Data gathered
through various sources
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Preparing the final
project report
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Submission of the final
report at World Youth Conference 2014
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7.0 Budget
| Budget for Post 2015 Development Agenda Sri Lanka |
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| Program |
Item |
Sub Item |
Qty |
Unit Price (Rs) |
Total Price (Rs) |
Total Cost(Rs) |
| TOT program |
Participant Material |
Conference Material |
50 |
500.00 |
25,000.00 |
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Lunch |
50 |
600.00 |
30,000.00 |
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Refreshment |
50 |
200.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Logistics |
Equipment Hiriring |
1 |
15,000.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Other material |
1 |
7,500.00 |
7,500.00 |
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Transport |
1 |
12,000.00 |
12,000.00 |
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Micelleneuos |
1 |
10,000.00 |
10,000.00 |
109,500.00 |
| Consultation |
Participant Material |
Consultation Material |
30 |
300.00 |
9,000.00 |
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Refreshment |
30 |
250.00 |
7,500.00 |
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Logistics |
Equipment Hiring |
1 |
15,000.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Other Material |
1 |
5,000.00 |
5,000.00 |
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Transport |
1 |
12,000.00 |
12,000.00 |
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Micelleneous |
1 |
10,000.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Cost per consultation |
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58,500.00 |
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No of consultations |
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25 |
1,462,500.00 |
| Special
Consultation |
Participants Material |
Program Material |
50 |
300.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Refreshment |
50 |
300.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Logistics |
Equipment Hiring |
1 |
7,500.00 |
7,500.00 |
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Venue Charges |
1 |
10,000.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Other Material |
1 |
5,000.00 |
5,000.00 |
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Transport |
1 |
15,000.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Advertising |
1 |
2,500.00 |
2,500.00 |
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Micelleneous |
1 |
10,000.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Cost per consultation |
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80,000.00 |
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No of consultations |
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5 |
400,000.00 |
| Stakeholder Meetings |
Participants Material |
Program Material |
50 |
200.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Refreshment |
50 |
200.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Logistics |
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Equipment Hiring |
1 |
15,000.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Venue Charges |
1 |
5,000.00 |
5,000.00 |
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Other Material |
1 |
3,000.00 |
3,000.00 |
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Transport |
1 |
12,000.00 |
12,000.00 |
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Micelleneous |
1 |
8,000.00 |
8,000.00 |
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Cost per consultation |
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63,000.00 |
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No of consultations |
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3 |
189,000.00 |
| Administrative Costs |
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Meeting Logistics |
1 |
15,000.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Project Management |
1 |
25,000.00 |
25,000.00 |
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Blog |
1 |
15,000.00 |
15,000.00 |
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Communications |
1 |
10,000.00 |
10,000.00 |
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Transport |
1 |
30,000.00 |
30,000.00 |
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Micelleneous |
1 |
40,000.00 |
40,000.00 |
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135,000.00 |
| Total
campaign Costs (LKR) |
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2,296,000.00 |
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| Notes: |
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| TOT
Program Budget |
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| 25
consultation workshops across the country (Give details) |
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| 5
special consultation programs (Give details) |
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| 3
stakeholder events (Give details) |
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| Admin
costs to project manage the development agenda |
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Organizing Partners (OPs)
-
Sikander Sabeer
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Jayathma Wickramanayake
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Sahan Hottatuwa
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Thamara De Silva
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Mohamed Husni
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Kusala Kumara Fernando
-
Parasuram Niranjan
Contact Info:
National
Youth Services Council (NYSC)
No.65, High Level Road, Maharagama
Web Site : www.srilankayouth.lk
T.P : 011-2850986
E- mail : info@srilankayouth.lk
