Asian African Youth Forum - Indonesia: December 2011

This Declaration is an outcome of the Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010 drafted and finalized by participants of the Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010.

Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010: Youth Declaration

ASIA AFRICA YOUTH FORUM 2010 'REVIVING ASIA-AFRICA COOPERATION ACCELERATE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALs (MDGs)'

23-27 August 2010

Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

1.We, Youth Representatives from 26 countries in Asia and Africa

gathered at the Asia Africa Youth Forum on 23-27 August 2010 in

Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

2.We have gathered here to commemorate the Asia Africa

Conference and its Declaration of 1955. Fifty five years ago the

Declaration had offered political support to colonized states

within the regions for its independence and crafted a new ethos

to govern the relationship between nations which we called the

’Bandung Spirit’ also known as the 10 principles of the Asian

African Conference 1955 and had set a milestone for future south-

south cooperation.

3.We acknowledged that Asian African Leaders during the 2005

Summit in Jakarta had reaffirmed their commitment to

reinvigorate the Bandung Spirit, to strengthen and enhance

Cooperation by establishing the ‘New Asian African Strategic

Partnership’.

4.We, youth representatives from Asia and Africa, recognize that

the Declaration is very much still relevant today. We firmly

believe that youth should play significant roles in development

through partnerships with various stakeholders and set forth

progressive agenda of cooperation using the South-South

framework.

5.Reiterating the Bandung Spirit, we appreciate the commitment

made by 189 heads of states and nations toward the Millennium Declaration,

Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010: Youth Declaration

which is an unprecedented commitment. The Millennium Declaration was

translated into 8 Millennium Development Goals with targets and indicators

to be achieved by 2015. The Goals provide an overall, yet simple framework to

which all countries are committed and development of any country can be

tracked by assessing progress made toward achieving the MDGs.

6. We recognize progresses have been made by the regions in

achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

7. But we recognize as well that progresses have not been even

among and within both regions. Some sub-regions, countries,

states, and sub-national areas have not yet made any significant

progress while some are facing threats of regressing. Both regions

might not achieve its target in solving hunger and malnutrition

if they continue their current trends without any breakthrough

plan. HIV/AIDS is still a major communicable threat to

population in both regions. Inequalities, social exclusion, and

gender discrimination still persist in many countries.

8. We acknowledge as well that the financial, energy and food crises

as well as climate change, have given pressures to government’s

efforts to improve the livelihood of the poor, including young

people, and have impeded the progress, and in many cases, have

regressed the countries from achieving the MDGs by 2015.

9. We note with great concern that research on developing vaccine to

prevent HIV/AIDS continue to receive minimum funding. In this

light, we welcome the High Level Plenary Meeting on MDGs

Review in September 2010.

10.We intend to use this Asia Africa Youth Forum to express our

commitment to encourage our leaders to take a serious and

comprehensive and honest review of the progress made, the

challenges ahead and outline concerted actions to accelerate the

achievement of MDGs especially in Asia and Africa regions.

Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010: Youth Declaration

11. The Declaration agreed upon at this Forum signifies hopes,

dreams, concerns and reflections of many voiceless youth and the

poorest, who reside in Asia Africa than our collective voices who

have gathered here.

12.We appreciate the UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/64/134

proclaiming the year commencing on 12 August 2010 as the

International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding.

We reaffirm and call upon the governments, organizations and

bodies of the United Nations system and non-governmental

organizations to develop strong partnerships to scale up

investments in youth and to encourage youth-lead contributions

towards achieving the MDGs.

To this end we declare that:

13.The commitment to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals as

a fair and equal global development and poverty reduction platform must be

reinvigorated. Asian and African countries must make all efforts to achieve

the Goals by 2015 by improving their policies and programmes,

strengthening good governance and institutional arrangements,

promoting peace, sustainable development and fulfillment of

human rights, as well as ensuring wide public participation.

14.We call upon our governments to utilize the existing resources

and mobilize domestic resources to improve the progress toward

achieving MDGs and we urge developing countries to fulfill their

commitment of at least 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) per

year as Overseas Development Assistance.

15.Notwithstanding the importance of aids, Asian and African

countries demand a more open and fair access to the developed

market.

16.Developed countries, bilateral and multilateral development

agencies must address the special needs of Asian African

countries that include but not limited to sustainable debt relief

and/or debt swaps for MDGs arrangements.

17.Developed countries, and bilateral and multilateral development

agencies should not set disguised, unfair or impossible conditions

toward developing countries to help them meet the MDG targets.

18.We call for the advancement of Asia Africa partnership between

bilateral governments, multilateral and regional associations or

arrangements including private sectors. We believe that can

enhance equitable and sustainable growth, strengthen

institutional capacity and good governance, which at the end

promote improvement of livelihood among the poorest and

marginalized groups.

We, youth representatives, declare that:

MDGs as Common Platform

19.Youth representatives attending this Forum work on different

thematic areas or target groups such as community empowerment,

advocacy , healthcare for the poor, education for girls and women,

human rights, climate change, adolescent reproductive health,

youth employment, etc. We reaffirm that all of these different

areas and types of work are integral part of concerted efforts

towards the achievement of the MDGs, and that only when those

youth-led initiatives are synergized, youth can make a lot of

difference.

20.We understand that we share common understanding and

platform: we want better life for ourselves, for others and for the

next generations to come. Our dream is that the MDGs are

achieved in our generation.

21.To achieve that, we reiterate our commitment to raise public

awareness of our governments’ commitment toward the MDGs, by

engaging youth and organizations dealing with youth affairs at

various levels.

22.We also reiterate our commitment to contribute and expand our

active and robust involvements in political, economic and social

development through any youth-led initiatives that use the MDGs

as our common platform.

Promote Accountability and Youth Mainstreaming

23.We will continue to spare no efforts to influence youth

mainstreaming in all levels of development planning, legislation,

budget allocation and monitoring.

24.We will spare no efforts for our elected leaders at global, regional,

national and sub-national levels, to acknowledge and address the

needs of the poor, vulnerable and marginalized groups, as well as

socially excluded groups including caste, disabled, gender, race

and sexual orientation.

25.We express our determination that youth should play an active

and leading role in keeping the government accountable for

meeting the MDGs by 2015. We are committed to gear up our

efforts in monitoring the government policies and program,

including service delivery at the community level in particular, to

ensure accelerated achievement of the MDGs.

Youth Network

26.Upholding the spirit of the Asia Africa Youth Forum, youth

organizations in Asia and Africa regions are committed to develop

and invigorate a cross-continent youth network for mutual

support, information and knowledge sharing. Such a network is

Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010: Youth Declaration

DEEMED ESSENTIAL FOR BRINGING IN INNOVATIVE AND ADAPTABLE YOUTH-

LED INITIATIVE ON MDGs

27. We support all initiatives that can strengthen youth

organizations in Asia-Africa to share information and knowledge

as well as develop our capacity to accelerate the achievement of

MDGs by 2015.

28. We are determined to develop an institutional process of the Asia-

Africa Youth Forum through a regular annual meeting and

support the initiative to establish Asia Africa Youth Forum

Secretariat.

Partnership

29. We are also committed to collaborate and make synergies with all

partners including civil society organizations, parliamentarians,

media, universities, private sector, faith-based organizations, UN

agencies including UN Millennium Campaign and other potential

partners, that can strengthen and expand youth-led MDG

initiatives, especially for promoting youth monitoring on public

services to hold the government and elected leaders accountable.

Media and Technology

30. We are committed to exploit to the fullest the latest information

technology such as websites, blogs, videos, mailing list, short

message services, etc to serve our main purposes as youth

representatives committed to the achievement of MDGs in the

light of Bandung Spirit.

25 August 2010

Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010: Youth Declaration

YOUTH AND MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Poverty affects youth’s current and future livelihood.

Poverty hinder youth by limiting options for youth to choose their future paths and marginalize

youth in the development. Poverty affects their quality of health, education, environment,

security. In the contrary, youth must be seen and taken into account as a development partner in

any policy-making process at global, national, and sub-national levels that affect the future risks of

the youth.

2. Achieve universal primary education. Education empowers youth, both boys and girls, to break

“vicious cycle” of poverty. Attaining higher education enables youth to have more options to

improve their livelihood, actively contributing to the social and economic development of our

nations, participating and reaping the benefit of globalization, strengthening global and national

peace, sovereignty, governance, and human rights, and protecting our environment and natural

resources sustainably for next generations. Education is an investment in youth that any

governments are obliged to protect its commitment.

3. Promote gender equality and empower women. Gender inequalities in employment, property

rights, as well as gender inequalities in accesses to education, health services, safe and cleaned

water and sanitation hamper women from their full and productive participation in development.

Any development policy planning and review must take into account gender analysis. Youth

organizations can help to accelerate gender equalities and women empowerment by actively

engage in policy and implementation change advocacies including through youth monitoring.

4. Reduce child mortality. Child mortality especially from preventable causes is intolerable. We call

our elected leaders to take serious measures to address the causes and protect the livelihood of

our brothers and sisters. Youth will give special attention to advocate and monitor the reduction of

child mortality, and we are committed to assume our active responsibilities including but not

limited to providing information and services to communities.

5. Improve maternal health. Maternal mortality is also intolerable. A woman should not die giving

birth. We call our elected leaders to apply available technologies, knowledge, resources and

measures, to address causes of maternal mortality. Youth will not accept anymore government’s

ignorance or inabilities that could jeopardize our future. Youth are committed to assume our

responsibilities to play our roles in advocating and monitoring improvement of maternal health as

well as our active responsibilities that can help improve the livelihood of mothers.

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Youth is one of vulnerable groups of these

communicable causes. We call government’s attention to actively engage youth organizations to

prevent and to reduce the spread of these deathly causes. Youth organizations are committed to

actively do preventive campaign, strengthen peer-to-peer counseling and promote the fulfillment

of the rights of the people infected with HIV/AIDS.

7. Ensure environmental sustainability. Environmental destruction either natural and man-made

calamities, affect youth’s future by causing new and chronic poverty, paralyzing education, health

and economic infrastructures, and stealing youth dreams of better future. Full integration of

sustainable development principles into national policies must be fulfilled by the government. We

also call our governments to apply available technologies, knowledge, resources and measures, to

expand access to safe and affordable access to water and sanitation including support to local

water management by communities.

8. Develop a global partnership for development. We call developed countries, bilateral and

multilateral agencies to fulfill their side of commitments toward MDGs. Youth organizations will

continue to uphold the fulfillment of this commitment to our developed countries in the regions.

In our interdependence world, we recognize that any external shocks will have varied degrees to

different countries. The recent financial, food and energy crises, as well as climate change issue,

have given challenges toward developing country’s efforts to achieve the MDGs. These challenges

are also opportunities to reemphasize and refocus our Asian-African government’s commitment to

share technology, knowledge, resources and measures to form breakthrough plan to accelerate

the achievement of MDGs in the regions.

The Asia Africa Youth Forum is a forum that invites youths from all countries of Asia and Africa and the world to formulate a declaration that is blown into the world to demonstrate the existence of the youth of Asia and Africa to the world. This forum brought a number of prominent and competent speakers to fill the show in this forum. AAYF 2010 commemorates the Asian-African Conference held in 1955 in Bandung. This forum is held on the basis of a desire to continue the expectations of our predecessors is to form strategic cooperation among Asian and African Countries.

Bandung, the capital of West Java province, Indonesia to witness the conference the countries in Asia and Africa in 1955 and 2005. The conference’s two major significance for human civilization to create freedom and peace to human welfare. At the conference 2005 all 106 countries, 73% of the world’s population, succeeded in formulating BANDUNG DECLARATION as a form of mutual understanding to build a strategic partnership.

In 2010, the Asia Africa Youth Forum has contribute to accelerate the achievement of Millennium Development Goals or MDGs through the BANDUNG DECLARATION. This Declaration is an outcome of the Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010 which was drafted and finalized by participants of the Asia Africa Youth Forum 2010. The Declaration must be followed up by concrete action through the organization of the youth meeting in the Asia-Africa. Youth are the future hope of reviving the spirit of Bandung Conference in 1955, maintaining the consistency of solidarity and cooperation between the countries of Asia and Africa. In this context the implementation of the Asian-African Youth Forum to find relevance.

In order to maintaining the consistency of solidarity and cooperation to achieve Millennium Development Goals, the Asia Africa Youth Forum Indonesia : "Fasilitasi Pengembangan Organisasi Asia Africa Youth Forum" 2011 will be held in Bandung. The conference is aim to develop professionalism for youth and to accelerate the revitalization of Indonesian youth roles for the achievement of MDGs in Indonesia.

*No.*	*Nama Peserta*
1.	Antartika Deha Kusumawardhani
2.	Arifin Ihsan Rismansyah
3	.Awaludin Aldien
4	.Baginda Aflah
5	.Dewi Namiera Sungkar
6	.Dian Mayasari
7	.Endah Wijayanti
8	.Fitri Kurnia Rahim
9	.Gilang
10	.Gurit Nugroho Dwie Baskoro
11	.Harumi Aini
12	.Idea Bhakti Pertiwi
13	.Ilham Muhamad Firdaus
14	.Ipah Rosipah
15	.Johaina Ali Samsodden
16	.Lidwina Ayu Andarini
17	.Maulana Putra
18	.Meldawati
19	.Muhamad Muslih
20	.Muhamad Saepul Akbar
21	.Muhamad Yusuf Sahroni
22	.Naluri Bella Wati
23	.Novi Melina Rizky
24	.Nurul Huda Rosadi
25	.Raden Nabila Sophia
26	.Rahyang Rimba
27	.Rheza Ardiansyah
28	.Ricky Aditia Nevariza
29	.Rizky Puji Lestarina
30	.Saripoden T. Moctar
31	.Tia Sundari Waryono
32	.Virtha Meilda

*Time*	*Activiti*
Day 1
13:00 - 16:00	Registration
16:00 - 17:30	Roll Call
	Remembering AAYF 2010
17:30 - 19:00	Personal needs
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner Reception - Opening Ceremony
	Kepala Dinas Pemuda dan Olah Raga Prov. Jawa Barat
21:00	Break

Day 2
07:00 - 08:30	Breakfast
09:00 -12:00	Management Organization on Sustainability of MDGs'
	Speaker: Mitta Rosette Taufik
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:00	Floor Discussion
14:30 - 17:00	Board Office Planning AAYF Indonesia
	by participants
17:00 - 18:00	Personal needs
18:00 - 19:00	Dinner
19:00 - 21:00	Board Office Planning AAYF Indonesia
	by participants
21:00	Break

Day 3
07:00 - 08:30	Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00	Motivation Movement of Youth Empowerment
	Speaker: Harry Firmansyah
	Floor Discussion
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	Coaching Clinic: Succes Story
	Speaker: Afif Muhammad
	Floor Discussion
14:30 - 15:00	Question and Answer
15:30 - 18:00	Planning Management Organization on Sustainability of MDGs'
	Oath of Service of Board Office AAYF Indonesia
	by Board Office AAYF Indonesia
18:00 - 19:00	Personal needs
19:00 - 20:00	Dinner
20:00 - 22:00	Cultural Night
22:00	Break

Day 4
07:00 - 08:30	Breakfast
09:00 - 11:30	Closing Plenary and Ceremonial
11:30 - 13:00	Check-out

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