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Red CrossRed Crescent Global YouthConference2013
This conference is a historic gathering of young humanitarians from around the world to discuss the biggest humanitarian issues facing the planet. The RCRC Global Youth Conference 2013 (GYC 13) provides a unique opportunity for young leaders to shape the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and its humanitarian priorities, as well as share ideas and best practice to help do more and reach further in improving the lives of vulnerable people.
BAYSIDE TERRACE, SYDNEY CONVENTION AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY
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Photos: Australian Red Cross/Antony Balmain
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RCRC Global Youth Conference 2013The RCRC GYC 13 is as an officially sanctioned pre-cursor to the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Council of Delegates meeting of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. These meetings are being hosted by Australian Red Cross from 12 to 18 November. The first ever Youth Engagement Strategy for the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Movement will be launched at the RCRC GYC 13. It will outline how Young Humanitarians determine their collective contribution to humanitarian action. The strategy will be presented to the Movement in the General Assembly by the Chair of the Youth Commission.
We are so proud and excited to welcome you to beautiful Sydney for this momentous event. Many of you are already well connected via social media and have prepared to make the most of our time together by participating in a range of online forums and learning events, so we are off to a great start!
As you know, our conference is officially sanctioned by the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent. It precedes the week-long Statutory Meetings where more than 1000 delegates from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe will meet here at the Sydney Convention and Entertainment Centre to coordinate global efforts to reduce human suffering.
For the first time young humanitarians have the opportunity to contribute equally into these peak international meetings. We will be participating at the highest levels. Our discussions will not end up in a resolution or remain as conversations between young people, but will immediately translate into advocacy and action in front of and within all the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies.
For the first time ever, the voices of those that will be responsible for carrying out this humanitarian work in the future will be carried into these meetings — and not just a few, but many.
So your ideas, enthusiasm and energy truly count!
We encourage you to turn your efforts equally to the three pillars that form the framework of the next two days:Pillar 1: Setting a vision of the world beyond 2015Pillar 2: Youth shaping the humanitarian landscape
through the implementation of the IFRC Y.E.S.
Pillar 3: Preparing for participation and interventions in the General Assembly and the Council of Delegates
We’re sure you will agree that these three pillars of the GYC are too important for just the youth delegates here in Sydney to be discussing. Please join in the conversations with our peers around the world on the GYC blog (www.rcrcmeetings.org), the RCRC Youth Facebook page, follow us on Twitter @RCRCYouth and tweet using #rcrc2013 and #rcgyc13.
At a time when we commemorate 150 years of humanitarian action in our Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and look forward to our shared future challenges, we are glad that the youth of the Movement will have their say at this GYC and be heard at the Statutory Meetings that follow.
As well, we come together to leverage Your Voice (rcvoices.org); a dedicated space for people of all ages to express their hopes, visions and aspirations for the future. This platform brings a diversity of RCRC voices around the globe to the global post-2015 development agenda — including yours and the people you represent. The IFRC Youth Commission and Australian Red Cross are truly privileged and honoured to be delivering to you this GYC. We thank you for contributions and invite you to make the most of every moment here at this historic gathering.
We encourage you to continue to make your positive, passionate and informed influence felt into the future.
Ashanta Osborne-MosesChair, IFRC Youth Commission
Chris KwongNational Youth Member, Australian Red Cross
WelcomeYoung Humanitarians!
Ashanta Osborne-MosesChair, IFRC Youth Commission
Chris KwongNational Youth Member, Australian Red Cross
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RCRC Global Youth Conference 2013FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER ▪ OPENING CEREMONY 6:00PM - 8:30PM
18:00
The RCRC Global Youth Conference opening ceremony will include a welcome from Australian Red Cross and a range of fun and interactive cultural performances.
Formalities will include speeches from the following dignitaries: Mr. Robert Tickner, Australian Red Cross CEO Mr. Tadateru Konoé, IFRC PresidentMs. Charlotta Relander, ICRC Head of Division Cooperation and Coordination Mr. Michael Legge, Australian Red Cross President The Hon. Victor Dominello, NSW Government Youth Minister (invited) Ms. Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Youth Commission Chair
SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 1 : MORNINGTIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER
Pillar 1: Setting the vision of the world beyond 2015
08:30 Welcome and IntroductionFacilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission
08:4040 mins
Setting a vision beyond 2015
Lessons learned from the MDGsRC’s role post 2015Opportunity to highlight Your Voices campaign
Facilitator:Flavio Ronzi, Youth Leader, Italian Red Cross
Plenary Speakers:Nikki Bartlett, Deputy CEO Oaktree Foundation Matthias Schmale, Under Secretary General for National Society and Knowledge Development, IFRCQuestions from the floor
09:2040 mins
Contributing to a better world through RCRC actions
Panellists will discuss where RCRC has the capacity to create a better world while partnering with other key stakeholders. They will focus on strengthening community resilience through the following areas:Creation of knowledgeable and safe communitiesCreation of knowledgeable and healthy communitiesCreation of knowledgeable and “prepared” communities
Pre-GYC learning requirement:Concept of strengthening resilience
Facilitator:Bridianne O’Dea, Former Chair, NSW Red Cross Youth Advisory Committee
Panel: Walter Cotte, Under Secretary General, Programme Services, IFRC Charlotta Relander, Head of Division Cooperation and Coordination within the Movement, ICRCRepresentative from Asia Pacific Zone NS.
10:0030 mins
MORNING TEA
10:3090 mins
Post 2015 Open Space Technology Session
This break out will be an opportunity for delegates to build on the previous two sessions and share ideas with each other. It will also generate questions to be posed to the senior leaders in the Town Hall session.A focus on linking Pillar 1 and 2 – the way that post 2015 fits into the YES, including topics such as addressing the challenges young people face, institutional culture, and ways to influence individual National Societies
Break Out Groups:
Facilitators:Youth Leaders will facilitate theses sessions. Sessions will be in multi languages
Drafting Team members will also be assigned to groups with the view of ensuring maximum engagement on the part of the drafting committee to promote comprehensive and detailed capture of outcomes of groups)
12:0045 mins
Spaces for Youth in RCRC: The Role of RCRC Youth in Shaping the Humanitarian Landscape
Candid discussion with senior leaders of the MovementEvaluation of the investment in and achievements of engaging young people in RCRC at all levels over the last decadeEvaluation of successful initiatives for strengthening youth engagement at the IFRC and NS levels
Pre-GYC learning requirement:Overview of youth development in RCRC over the last decade.
Facilitator: Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission
Town Hall Style:Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Robert Tickner, Secretary General, Australian Red Cross Questions from the floor
12:4560 mins
LUNCH
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SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 1 : AFTERNOONTIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER
Pillar 2: RCRC Youth shaping the humanitarian landscape through implementation of the IFRC Youth Engagement Strategy
13:4560 mins
Say YES to the Youth Engagement Strategy
Panellists will discuss the Y.E.S. as a tool ensuring relevant educational opportunities, empowerment, and enabling environments for youth to become RCRC agents of change. This session will explore the possible impacts of the Y.E.S and the investments required for successful youth engagement, both on the ground and also at the senior leadership level.A presentation with the timeline on the National Societies implementing the Y.E.S. towards 2020 will be incorporated, “IFRC Y.E.S. implementation towards 2020 and measuring of youth impact”.
Facilitator:Charlotte Nordstrom, Youth President, Norwegian Red Cross
Panel:Jagan Chapagain, Zone Director of Asia Pacific, IFRC Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent, Under Secretary General, Governance and Management Services, IFRCAlicia Crawford, National Manager – Global Poverty ProjectNikki Bartlett, Deputy CEO Oaktree Foundation
14:4530 mins
Interactive Skills Building Session (a): Internal advocacy for a change of an institutional culture
This session will not only focus on institutional processes and structures, but rather on the mind-set change and change of value to youth engagement.
Facilitator:Mathew Darling, National Youth Representative, New Zealand Red Cross
Presenter:Chris Kwong, National Youth Member, Australian Red Cross Questions from the floor
15:1530 mins
Interactive Skills Building Session (b): Senior leadership and institutional structures facilitating youth engagement
This session will focus on role of the senior leadership and on more tangible matters such as structures, systems, procedures to be used and applied in order to make the youth engagement possible.
Facilitator:Danny Vakapora, Youth Leader, Cook Islands Red Cross
Presenter:Chrystold Chetty, Chair of RCRC Finance Commission
15:4530 mins
Interactive Skills Building Session (c): Capacity building and resource mobilisation beyond financial inputs in facilitating youth engagement
This sessions will be an exploration of ways that young people can build capacity through the mobilisation of resources beyond financial
Facilitator:Chrystold Chetty, Chair of RCRC Finance Commission.
Presenter:Eyal Halamish, CEO, OurSay Questions from the floor
16:15 30 MINS AFTERNOON TEA
16:4530 mins
Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology Session
In this session delegates will break into smaller groups and explore ways in which to incorporate lessons learned in the previous skill building session in their own national societies.
Report back from Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology SessionReport back from break out groups
Break Out GroupsFacilitators:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth CommissionYouth Leaders will facilitate theses sessions. Sessions will be in multi languages
Drafting Team members will also be assigned to groups with the view of ensuring maximum engagement on the part of the drafting committee to promote comprehensive and detailed capture of outcomes of groups
18:1530 mins
Close of Day 1
Report back from Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology SessionReport back from break out groups
Facilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission
18:45 Experiencing Australian Culture: Interactive Activity Various workshop rooms
Aerial photo of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge at dawn. Photo by Ethan Rohloff, Destination NSW
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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 2 : MORNINGTIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER
08:3020 mins
Gallery Walk
Summary and input from the Global Youth Engagement Strategy discussions of Day 1 will be presented at the “gallery”.
08.5010 mins
Welcome and Introduction to day 2 - PlenaryFacilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission
09:0090 mins
YES Network Meetings
Regional priorities for implementation of the Y.E.S. are to be discussed and agreed in this agenda point. Methodology of this session will ensure relevance of regional priorities for participating National Societies.
Facilitators: Youth Commission members and Youth Leaders will facilitate these sessions. Zone Directors will be preset to act as resource persons.
10:3030 MINS MORNING TEA
11:0090 mins
YES Network Meetings
Regional priorities for implementation of the Y.E.S. are to be discussed and agreed in this agenda point. Methodology of this session will ensure relevance of regional priorities for participating National Societies.
Break out Groups:Delegates will be broken into Regional Youth Network Groups.
Facilitators: Youth Commission members and Youth Leaders will facilitate these sessions. Zone Directors will be present to act as resource persons.
12:3060 MINS LUNCH
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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 2 : AFTERNOON
TIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER
Pillar 3: Preparing for the GA and CoD participation and interventions
13:3060 mins
Orientation for the RCRC Statutory Meetings
This session will introduce to and prepare delegates for the technical components of the General Assembly and Council of Delegates meetings. Delegates will also be educated around interventions, including their purpose, the procedure of making an intervention and what delegates should look out for. This session will also prepare delegates for planning the content of their interventions.This session will also provide delegates an overview of the IFRC humanitarian diplomacy messaging and engagement of governments and other stakeholders following the Statutory meetings in preparation for the International Conference of RCRC in 2015.
Facilitator and Speakers:Dr Helen Durham, Director, Strategy Planning and Research, Australian Red CrossJoelle Tanguy, Under Secretary General, Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy, IFRCMalika Aït-Mohamed Parent, Under Secretary General, Governance and Management Services, IFRC
Resource PeopleFrank MohrhauerTechnical ExpertsMembers of the Drafting Team
14:3030 MINS AFTERNOON TEA
15:00120 mins
Preparing for youth interventions in the statutory meetings
In this session delegates will work in groups to prepare interventions for all areas where the pillars of the GYC link in with the GA, CoD, and Y.E.S.The Drafting team will provide summaries of all of the outcomes of the GYC to the working groups. The working groups will then prepare interventions around the GYC outcome statements assigned to them.These interventions (not longer than 3 mins each) will be reported back to the group in plenary style and will form the basis for all interventions made at the statutory meetings, reflecting a clear and consistent youth voice.
Facilitator:Dr Helen Durham, Director, Strategy Planning and Research, Australian Red Cross
Break out Groups:Delegates will be broken into Regional Youth Network Groups.
Facilitators: Youth Commission members and Youth Leaders will facilitate these sessions. Zone Directors will be present to act as resource persons.
17:0030mins
Report back from Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology Session
Report back from break out groupsBreak out Group facilitator and drafting team member
Facilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission
17:3030mins
Conference Summary
Drafting Team to Report back on outcomes of GYCFacilitator:Chris Kwong, Co-Chair Drafting TeamMads Espersen, Co-Chair Drafting team
18:00 30 mins
Closing Ceremony
19:00 FAREWELL PARTY
Photo: Australian Red Cross/Antony Balmain
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Statutory meetingsFrom 12-18 November 2013, Sydney, Australia will proudly play host to the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Council of Delegates meeting of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.
The meetings bring together the leaders of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement from all National Societies, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to discuss today’s humanitarian challenges and determine the future path of the Movement.
General Assembly The General Assembly is the supreme governing body of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Member National Societies meet to celebrate their achievements, discuss the humanitarian challenges and decide the future strategic directions.
The 19th session of the General Assembly will take place from 12 to 15 November 2013.The draft provisional agenda will focus on assessment and review of the operational and financial activities related to Strategy 2020.
It will also reflect on the IFRC’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and engagement in discussions around the post-2015 development goals.
Council of Delegates ̶ 150 years of humanitarian action
The Council of Delegates of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement will be held from 17̶ 18 November 2013.
This will bring together Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies from 188 countries, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Participants will discuss how the Movement can best respond to pressing humanitarian challenges and the future path of the Movement. In addition, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will take this opportunity to reflect on resolutions adopted at its 31st International Conference in 2011, and prepare for the next International Conference, to be held in 2015.
This year’s event will be held under the theme “150 years of humanitarian action,” and a dialogue on this subject within the Movement in the lead up to the Council of Delegates will enrich the debate in Sydney.
Photo: ICRC/Marko Kokic