Committee on YPLD

Youth Participation and Leadership Development (YPLD)

 Terms of Reference

As the youth participants remarkably concluded the 2nd Youth Assembly (Malaysia, 2011), they stated: ‘We are confident that with renewed commitment and responsiveness, we will continue to engage ourselves in taking actions to the pressing issues around the community. We advocate for the transformation of lives to make a positive difference in our societies.’ It was then in the 3rd Leaders Quadrennial Roundtable (Singapore, 2011), that the youth representative processed these words to come up with a Strategic Plan.

The last quadrennium has already magnified many deficiencies with the sustainability of the members in the committee and its constituency within the local, national, and in regional level. Given the present reality, in this quadrennium, we are building up stringing set of activities in order to maintain the young people’s involvement within the YMCA circle. Thus, promoting Global Citizenship as Asia-Pacific’s youth empowering tool, grounded local youth-led projects may prosper as we develop this new quadrennium’s structure.

Members

  • YPLD Committee – Composed of 12 YPLD members and several invitees. This includes the Chair who will be selected among the 12 committee members and has a great involvement in the YMCA for at least 2 years.
  • National Youth Representatives – Composed of 2 Youth Representatives from each national movement who are to assist the YPLD Committee in mainstreaming the programs and initiatives down to the national and local YMCAs. The 12 YPLD members will be automatically be one of the National Youth Representatives.

Membership Selection Process

In the initial year - 2012, the APAY General Secretary selects 12 potential young leaders for the Youth Participation and Leadership Development Committee, provided that their national movements recommend and support them. By April, nomination and selection of the National Youth Representatives would be done. As recommended, this National Youth Representative will either be a Youth Staff or Youth Board of a particular movement. Successors for YPLD membership should be developed upon mid-quadrennium (in between 2013-2014).

Functions and Responsibilities

The YPLD Committee members are expected to:

  1. Commit yourself to the Committee and to their own YMCA for four (4) years;
  2. Represent the young people’s voice across the Asia-Pacific YMCAs during the annual Executive Committee Meeting (ECM);
  3. Promote and strengthen existing Youth Constituents (Uni-Y, College Y, Campus Y, Student Y, Youth Groups, etc.);
  4. Promote and advocate the initiatives (i.e. Global Citizenship, Peace and Reconciliation, Climate Justice, Gender Equity, and Youth, etc.) taken from the regional level to the national level;
  5. Liaise with the related APAY-Staff regarding the regional programs (i.e. conferences, forums, assemblies, work camps, trainings, etc.) planning and coordination;
  6. Rely updates and information to the related APAY-Staff and the National Youth Representatives;
  7. Coordinate with the National Youth Representatives regularly;
  8. Facilitate exchange of information between young people on social concerns and issues at various levels to create greater awareness and widening the scope for participation and leadership development;
  9. Initiate fund-raising activities for the young people in Asia-Pacific;
  10. Mentor potential successors in the mid-year of the 4-year term.

 

The National Youth Representatives are expected to:

  1. Commit yourself for at least three (3) years;
  2. Rely updates and information between YPLD Committee and Youth Constituents within their respective movements;
  3. Coordinate with the YPLD Committee members regularly;
  4. Assemble the entire Youth Constituency within your country, in case you do not have any, you may take the initiative to start one;
  5. Attend, mostly, in regional programs (i.e. conferences, forums, assemblies, workcamps, trainings, etc.);
  6. Facilitate interactive exchange of information within the local, national, regional level and vice-versa;
  7. Promote Global Citizenship Education (GCE) through participating for at least 2 consecutive years; first, as a trainee; then, as a trainer to another batch of participants;
  8. Transmit learning from ToT by conducting either a re-echo or local GCE actions within your respective movements;
  9. Support the fund-raising activities for young people to participate in regional programs as well as to be able to hold their own activities within their YMCAs;
  10. Encourage existing Youth Constituents to do local GCE Actions within their community.