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The report on this survey was made public at a dissemination event on 2nd June at Hotel Radisson attended by youth organisations, donor organisations working with young people and representatives from the Ministry of Youth.
The survey was conducted in Kathmandu, Siraha, Rolpa and Bhajhang. The latter three districts were chosen on the basis of their remoteness and being the most affected areas during the insurgency and Madhesh andolan.
You can download Youth Survey of Nepal from here and view photos of dissemination programme from here.
During the event the British Council Country Director, Dr. Robert Monro handed over the copy of the report to the Honourable Minister Hit Bahadur Tamang, Ministry of Youth and Sports. Dr Monro said on the occasion “The young people of Nepal represent the future of this country and this report gives a valuable insight into how they see that future. It does not make for comfortable reading, but it does give a clear indication to the government on what needs to be done to avoid future conflict and build a more prosperous society. I hope that the government will listen.”
Honourable Minister Tamang said " I would like to thank hertily to Dr Monro and the British Council, for preparing report which is mainly focused on creating human resources for future development of Nepal by doing the comparative study between youth employment and peace after conflict in Nepal.
This report is highly important now during the period of policy making for the process of peace building"
The key findings of the study showed a bleak situation on employment and self employment opportunities for youth. It showed a strong inverse relationship between employment and conflict. Only half of the employed youths in the districts actually showed as being employed by development agencies. Although most respondents desired to start their own enterprises, they were hampered by the lack of skill and capital among other constrains. They also confirmed that many trainings programs run by different organisations were ineffective because most of the workshops were based on pre-planned notion without adequate research. Most of the trainings were given for a short time and are rarely tied up with job guarantees.
Regarding the post conflict scenario and reconciliation scenario, most youths are playing a passive role in peace building. Areas for improvement that youths thought were necessary to boost up the peace building initiative, reduce conflict, and generate employment were: constitution, law, policies, structural support, formal education, vocational trainings, capital market and labour, counselling services and peace education.
The findings of this survey are hoped to be used by the Ministry of Youth in its overall programme planning.
British Council through its Active Citizens Project is working with young people to help them recognize their potential and exercise their responsibility to engage effectively in positive development of their communities at local and international level. This project creates an opportunity for young active citizens to engage in their communities on small scale projects of real and lasting value
In June 2011, 8 Active citizens from Nepal are travelling to the UK to share their social action projects and to learn from similar projects that UK Active Citizens are engaged in. The UK community had visited Nepal in March 2011. Through this intercultural sharing of stories, the British Council will promote a discussion of shared behaviours and values across the world community of active citizens
The programme is jointly developed and delivered by the British Council and the Association of Youth Organisation Nepal (AYON).
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