Role of youth in development

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1.     Role of youth in environmental conservation;
Young people have a strong interest in protection and conservation of the environment. Environmental education has steadily grown over the past decade through its inclusion in both school curricula and informal education programmers. This concept was brought by the youth, for the youth.
The World Program of Action proposes strengthening the participation of young people in the protection, preservation and improvement of the environment. Youth have been and continue to be actively involved in implementing environmental projects and in identifying new strategies for addressing environmental problems. For the environmental conservation youth can play roles as counselor, mobilizer, advocator etc. (WSSD, 2002)
2.         Role of youth in decision making;
The past decade has seen a growing acceptance of the importance of the young people’s participation in decision making, and successful efforts to engage youth people in the political process have led to improved policy formulation, adoption, implementation and evaluation.
In nation efforts to include youth in decision making, consideration must be given to the changes occurring in the political attitudes of young people and in the patterns and structure of the youth movements. For the different level of decision making youth can act as a leader, facilitator, advisor etc.  (World Youth Report, 2005 pg 73)
3.         Role of youth in Peace Building;
Youth plays a vital role in peace keeping. The peace process becomes easier and simplified when role of youth is ensured at various levels of the peace process. Youth are not just beneficiaries, they are the partners of decision making in peace process.
As peace and development are inter-related, youth’s meaningful participation can make peace process much easier. For peace process youth’s participation in political, economic, social and cultural part is necessary. Peaceful environment is a need of today, to achieve this youth can be part of peace process for decision making. They can act as leader, advocator, mediator etc. (World Youth Report, 2005 pg 74)
4.         Role of youth in health sector:
If the state provides a place for the youth to receive information and appropriate services on sexual and reproductive health, youth can be self aware and it will gradually reduce the health problem in the country. (World youth Report, 2005b, pg 133)
If the services are provided as per the age group of the youth, the result is supposed to be better. This can help reduce the mental problems and drug abuse in youth. If a youth is aware he/she can prevent 10 youths from being victim of any kind of sexual health issue. To upgrade the standard of health facilities in the country, youth can be engaged as counselor, health service provider, health facilitator etc. (The Charter of Nepali Youth, 2010, pg8)
5.   Role of youth in Education;
Vocational and technical education is the need of the day. Education can make youth self employed. They can be turned into a productive citizen for the country. International training and opportunity for exchange of visits and experience can be created by youth. These help to gain much knowledge which is useful for any nation’s political, economic, and cultural development. Youth can be a part of education network by being a trainer, teacher, peer educator etc.  (United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
Those youth can be trained with non-formal education that is unable to go to school due to livelihood problems. Non-formal education will help them to raise their standard of living; as a result county is developed. (The Charter of Nepalese Youth, 2005)
Except these areas youth can be involved in areas like employment, human right, globalization and further more issues of the country by playing roles of peer educator, mobilizer, counselor, advisor, advocator, facilitator, mediator, leader and as governmental/ nongovernmental officers.
References:
·   Youth Organization. (2010). The Charter of Nepali Youth, Nepal,  pg. 8
·   WSSD. (2002). Youth Role in Environmental Conservation: World Summit on Sustainable Development Jonesburg.
·   UN, (2005). World Youth Report Role of youth In Peace Building; 

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