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Objective 1
- Youth Identity and Empowerment: To empower young people as individuals and guayanese citizen through life skills development support, enabling enviroments arts, sports and culture, and voluteerism.
Objective 2
- Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship: To create an enabling enviroment for the reduction of youth unemployment through self-employement, entrepreneurship, and demand driven-education and training.
Objective 3
- Education and Market-Driven Skills development: To develop an effective and dynamic national system of formal and informal education, that is accesible by all young people, ensures functional literacy, and equips youth with the skill demanded by the market and needed to overcome life challenges.
Objective 4
- Youth leadership, Participation and representation: To ensure that young people are respected and become active participant and representatives in decision making in the community, national, regional and international policy arenas. Objective 5. Youth health safety and well-being: To strengthen social support systems for youth and improve conditions for their health, safety and well-being.
Beneficiaries
Girls, boys, adolescents and youth
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Public policy
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Main Priority Measure
B.7 - Boys, girls, adolescents and young people
Guarantee for all boys, girls, adolescents and young people, without any form of discrimination, the chance to live a life free from poverty and violence, and to enjoy protection and exercise of their human rights, a range of opportunities and access to health, education and social protection.
B.8 - Mechanisms for effective participation
Guarantee also the existence of mechanisms for the effective participation, without any form of discrimination, of adolescents and young people in public debate, in decision-making and in all policy and programme phases, in particular on matters that affect them directly, and strengthen institutional mechanisms for youth.
B.9 - Full and satisfying youth
Invest in youth, through specific public policies and differentiated access, especially through the provision, without discrimination, of universal, free, public, secular, high-quality, intercultural education in order to ensure that this stage of life is full and satisfactory, to enable them to develop as autonomous individuals with a sense of responsibility and solidarity and with the ability to tackle creatively the challenges of the twenty-first century.
B.16 - Guarantee of opportunities and capabilities
Guarantee for boys, girls, adolescents and young people the opportunities and the basis for harmonious coexistence and a life free from violence, through intersectoral strategies to address the factors that disrupt harmony in the community and foment violence, to provide education from early childhood that promotes tolerance, an appreciation for diversity, mutual respect and respect for human rights, conflict resolution and peace, and to ensure protection, timely access to justice and compensation for victims.