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CALL FOR ACTION --- HELP DRAFT THE 'YOUTH VISION FOR THE WORLD WATER FORUM' |
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Dear all, Our opinion as ambassadors will be invaluable in drafting the youth vision at the ongoing World Water Forum in Marseilles . When I attended the WORLD FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT I was invited by their Paris office to be a part of the World Water Forum. The drafting process is now underway . Please log on to the following link : http://meetingwords.com/WorldWaterForumYouthVision Give your inputs and help draft the vision for saving our water resources. The draft as it stands now is as below : Draft of the youth vision for the World Water Forum 2012 / 13-3-2012 Introduction As crucial stakeholders, we share the and the ne combating the global water crisis. It impacts us all and we are all needed to implement solutions. We recognize the complex linkages between water challenges and myriad global governance gaps. However as young people we are not constrained by political, institutional or organisational agendas work together to confront water issues with an holistic. Due to the global, transboundry, and cumulative nature of these problems, he World Water Forum promot these linkages and address governance gapsoung people possess skills, flexibility, and motivation to address these challenges. Thus, there exists an opportunity, an obligation, and a strategic necessity to engage young people in the amelioration and prevention of chronic and future crisesfor young people to act. We recognize the important milestones reached. However, as young people we are particularly cognizant of the remaining challenges, and this is where our focus must lie. We call on all decision makers to hear our voice, address our concerns, and engage us at all levels. The Youth Vision We recognise three interrelated pillars in the processboth for their impact on young people around the world, andbecause they are areas in which we can have direct, observable, and lasting impact.These are the foundations of our vision. Three Pillars 1. Education Young people, whether in the early years of education or producing advanced academic research, are simultaneously direct consumers and important producers of education. We recognize the immense potential of educational programs developed and implemented by young people of all ages and in all places. 2.Crossing Boundaries Water crosses many boundaries, as should we. in isolation as it is an interlinked issue and must be treated as such. Young people are free and flexible to engage in multi-stakeholder dialogue across generations, socio-economic statuses, disciplines, cultures, geographic regions, and political boundaries. We acknowledge the local level s the crucial level of implementation therefore local should be the actors the process. Young people can get involve at all level to bridge the gap between the ?top? and the ?bottom?, practitioners and non-practitioners, global and local. 3.Innovation As Youth we in our everyday livesencompasses both technical and social developmenthand in hand. Social media ha revolutionised social networks and a powerful instrument e people to build networks to share experience. Grassroots innovations, adapt to local realities, should be cherished as they proved their efficiency on the ground. Small scale innovations should be part of adaptation and resilience strategies. Open, accessible programs should ensure knowledge development, sharing and innovation. Proposed solutions and best practices ? create context-specific water education tools to be posted online and incorporated into school curricula ? support and promote youth to youth educational programs to spread awareness, knowledge and to build capacity. ? develop an end-user friendly academic research agenda for easy implementation at a local level, as well as the structures to better link academia with policy makers, industry and civil society.
use social media to create viral communication to raise awareness on thesanitation crisis ? use social media to connect people engage in solving similar issues, and build trandisciplinary online networks ? Set up brainstorming sessions like waterhackathon gathering contributors from different backgrounds to build solutions using a transdisciplinary perspective. These can also include open sourcing to reach new talent and ideas outside of the settled water community, companies, ministers and NGOs and to use experiences from different sectors and disciplines to solve the water crisis. ? Use innovative new technologies such as real life gaming to map complex water crisis and facilitate cooperation of political and economic stakeholders. Universities and students should be highly receptive to these innovations.
Commitments In order to work towards a better living environment together, we therefore commit to : ? Building an inclusive network of young people contributing to water related processes. Linking existing networks and including new ones is a powerful way to build capacity amongst young people, who are indeed the next decision makers, on every level. ? Working on the increased empowerment of youth within the world water community, through the gathering and sharing of information, best practices and networks.
? Following the outcomes of the World Water Forum in Marseille and hold the most important actors accountable for their commitments. Call We call for a greater commitment of all stakeholders to work in the coming three years toward the implementation of the action plans agreed upon during the preparation and the sessions of the 6th World Water Forum, ensure continued input from the youth and other important stakeholders within this process and commit to report on the progress made at the 7th World Water Forum to be held in Daegu, Korea in 2015. As the youth, we are already working on this commit |
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2 Comments
Good for you! It's an awesome project. I wish you a good luck ;^)
Posted 15-03-2012 16:10
Thank you Kehkashan, Nice of you to post this. Though I was aware of the Mersailles Forum, I could not follow this since I have exams till this weekend.
Posted 15-03-2012 00:58