Youth recommendations Second GPE Replenishment Conference Brussels, June 26th 2014 Including youth leaders in the GPE Replenishment Conference was an incredible success. More than before, GPE ensured the participation of young people acting on and in touch with the grassroots level of education in their conference. The engagement of young people in panels and discussions not only warranted critical perspectives and innovative ideas for decision-makers; it also rendered renewed attention on the side of these decision-makers for the inclusion of youth within their own governmental or NGO frameworks. At the end of the Conference, the youth leaders came together to decide upon five main recommendations to the Board of the Global Partnership for Education. We unanimously agreed on the following. 1. The GPE must create a youth constituency on its board. a. This youth constituency adequately reflects the GPE’s goals of calling on representatives of marginalised groups. b. The youth constituency needs to be elected by youth from local education networks. c. The youth constituency represents the ideas of young people as recommended by youth in local education networks. 2. The GPE must ensure the inclusion of youth representatives in local education groups. These youth must be linked directly to the youth constituency on the GPE Board. In addition, GPE must continue to invite youth to its events. a. Since a group has already been assembled, it is recommended to initially maintain this network. b. One youth representative on education must be selected for each country. c. This youth representative functions as liaison between local education groups and the Youth Constituency on the GPE Board. d. The GPE must therefore structurally reserve a portion of its budget for youth participation. 3. Youth, in line with the Post-2015 Framework, needs to have a monitoring and evaluating role regarding the allocation of funding and quality of education. a. This monitoring role is to be implemented locally and nationally. b. Monitoring is done on a qualitative basis and focuses on two fields: i. The proper allocation of funding. ii. The quality of education. c. Findings are reported by two types of monitoring individuals: i. Youth volunteers specifically targeting educational institutions for quality screening. ii. Anyone willing and able to report. d. Implementation must take place through the use of smartphones and text messages services and can be largely picture-driven. 4. In its focus on the Post-2015 Agenda, the GPE needs to reflect each state’s global responsibility toward solving global problems on a local level. a. Further the idea that every country in the world, whether ‘developing’ or ‘developed’, faces challenges with regard to the Post-2015 Agenda. b. Truly collaborate on solving global educational problems. 5. The GPE is called upon to facilitate bridging the divide between government and civil society through the inclusion of youth in the decision-making process. There is generally no youth involvement in governments. Governments need to engage with young people, since they the people at the grassroots of education. Let youth be in the middle.
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