Sikander Sabeer: Post 2015 Development Agenda Meeting Minutes

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Post 2015 Development Agenda Meeting Minutes - 27/01/2012

This is a document which summarizes the discussions and decisions made from the first meeting held on 30^th September till today. This document hopes to set the foundation for all discussions and decisions to be made in the near future.

The current team

· Sikander Sabeer

· Mohamed Husni

· Kusala Fernandp

· Jayathma Wickremanayake

· Tamara de Silva

· R. P. Niranjan

· Sahan Hattotuwa

Main objectives

1. To have a National Youth Report (Sri Lanka Youth Declaration) constituting the Youth Perspective on the post 2015 Development Agenda of Sri Lanka which will be presented to

§ Presented at WYC 2014

§ Fed into the National Planning Process

2. To Formulate a Sri Lankan Youth Action Plan which would be incorporated to the NYSC’s Agenda

3. To create Common Platform for multi stakeholder interaction under the subject of “ Youth Perspective on the post 2015 Development Agenda of Sri Lanka”

Duties and responsibilities

Sikander – Overall Campaign Head and Project Head “Creating A Stakeholder Forum”

Husni- Project Head for “Creating A Stakeholder Forum”

Kusala and Jayathma – Project Head of Youth Consultations and TOT program

Tamaara – Project Head for “Youth Action Plan” and manager of the campaign

Sahan, Niranjan, - Managing the Campaign and handling all logistics

The TOT Program and the Consultation Program

The TOT program -

A TOT will be held for a group of 15 youth leaders are members of the youth parliament.

§ The TOT will be a 2 day program

§ This group will be trained as Facilitators for the Consultation Program.

§ Facilitators may not selected on geographical basis

§ Facilitators will be chosen by Jayathma and Kusala

§ This team will handle all the Consultations during the campaign. Food an Transport allowance will be paid to these Faciliators

§ Another group would be trained as Rappatuers will be trained to take noted during these consultations. Approx. 15 and it will be a 1 day program,

§ Some of these Rappatuers will be absorbed into the Drafting Committee

§ The responsibility of organizing these consultations will be hand over to the District Youth Council which are under the NYSC

§ All Rappatuers and facilitators will receive letter of appreciation which are

Signed by high level people

Consultation Program -

The mix of consultations would be 9 provincial workshop and 5 specific workshops, adding to a total of 14 consultations. The decision on the 5 specific workshops is yet to be decided.

· 9 provisional consultations -

§ One day program from 10am – 4 pm

§ 20 participants

§ To pay around Rs. 300 to Rs 400 as travel allowance

§ It would be responsibility of the respective district council to organize all consultations

§ If there is a need to provide accommodation for the participants, it would be handle by the district councils

· The following is the draft lists of contents of the consultation program –

§ About MDGs

§ Importance of MDGs

§ MDGs and Sri Lanka

§ Post 2015

§ Thematic Discussion

§ Leadership Activities

§ Presentation from NYSC

Youth Action Plan

The following are the discussions about the Youth Action Plan

§ This plan will be incorporated to the NYSC’s development agenda

§ Each Youth District will planning a project with the help from Youth district federation

§ This will be present to NYSC Board

§ The Finances for these Projects will be provided by NYSC’s budget

§ Other project from stakeholder will also be accepted.

Open Stakeholder

· Have an open forum

· Maybe have a conference at the end of the consultations

· If any stakeholders want provide an input to the campaign they could do so by communicating it through E Mail.

Draft timeline

Week	Things to be done
2^nd week Feb 2013	Finalizing the campaign with Mr. Milinda
4^th week Feb 2013	Press release of the Campaign
2^nd week march 2013	The TOT program
1^st week April 2013 to 4^th Week of September	§ Start of the Consultation program § Inputs to the report § Drafting the Report
1^st week October 2013	§ Output of the 1^st Draft Of the report § Finalizing the Youth action Plan § Maybe to organize a conference for the output of the report
2^nd Week October 2013 to 2^nd week March 2014	§ Finalizing the Report
2^nd Week April 2014	§ The final draft output of the Youth Report
World Youth Conference 2014	Presenting the report on “Youth Perspective on Post 2015 development Agenda”

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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-