| 1973
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Commonwealth
member countries recognize Youth Development as an important area of attention
for the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting (CYMM)
mandates a Commonwealth Youth Programme and the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) endorses this initiative. |
| 1974
|
The
Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) Head Office is established at the Commonwealth
Secretariat, London. This CYP Office will supervise three CYP Regional
Centres. |
| 1975 |
Three
CYP Regional Centres are established to serve and assist Commonwealth
member countries in youth development and to implement CYP programmes
and training. The three Centres are established to cover the regions of
Asia & South Pacific; Africa; and the Caribbean. |
| 1975
|
CYP
Asia Pacific acquires an office building on the Punjab Engineering College
campus in Chandigarh, India. The CYP Asia Centre offers its first professional
Diploma on Youth Development. |
| 1975
|
CYP
begins to establish itself as a delivery organization of residential human
resource training in youth development for government ministries, youth
development workers and functionaries. |
| 1984
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The
present CYP Asia Centre is reborn when a fourth regional centre for the
South Pacific is established in Honiara, Solomon Islands. |
| 1993 |
Work
begins to create a comprehensive, accredited HRD Diploma “Youth
in Development Work”. The Diploma will be conducted in collaboration
with National Open University Systems in member countries and with the
Commonwealth of Learning (COL). |
| 1995 |
Work
begins to develop a programme to deliver entrepreneurial training and
small business loans to disadvantaged young people in the Asia Region.
|
| 1996 |
CYP
Asia Centre adopts a new delivery mode for its human resource training
programmes. In place of residential training programmes, a distance-learning
model is adopted to better serve the learners from diverse geographical
locations and those who need flexible learning hours. |
| 1996 |
Asia
Centre’s Commonwealth Youth Credit Initiative (CYCI) project begins,
in partnership with the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and
Career Development (ICECD), Ahmedabad, India. |
| 1996
|
CYP
Asia Centre helps enrol 1000 Youth Development Workers when it signs a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with five partner universities. |
| 1998 |
CYP
Asia Centre offers technical support as member countries begin to formulate
and/or revise national youth policies and strengthen youth networks. |
| 1998 |
CYMM,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia endorses the Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment
(PAYE) to direct all CYP initiatives. |
| 1999 |
United
Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
declares the CYP Asia Centre as a Centre of Excellence in Human Resource
Development and Training. |
| 2001 |
The
Youth Ambassadors for Positive Living (YAPL) Programme is launched to
fight against the double menace of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse in the Asia
region. |
| 2001 |
CYPTEC
(Commonwealth Youth Programme Technology Empowerment Centre) is launched
to provide Information Communication Technology (ICT) training to young
people. |
| 2002 |
CYPTEC-on-wheels
is launched – this is a mobile unit with six computers that reaches
out to young people in surrounding rural and slum areas to impart ICT
training. |
| 2002 |
The
Commonwealth Asia Forum of Junior Chambers (C7-JC) is instituted in Singapore
as an outcome of the Asia Regional Consultation on Youth Chambers of Commerce.
It is a regional network aimed at enhancing co-operation among young people
of the Commonwealth Asia region to promote, facilitate and develop enterprises,
entrepreneurship, business skills, values, ethics, mentorship and leadership.
|
| 2002 |
CHOGM,
Coolum, Australia endorses the Youth for the Future Initiative, which
is designed to improve the relevance and usefulness of the Commonwealth
for young people. |
| 2003
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CYMM,
Gaborone, Botswana decides that from now on, each of the CYP’s national
youth representatives may participate in meetings of Commonwealth Youth
Ministers, under the leadership of the head of their national delegation. |
| 2003
|
The
‘Asia Youth Environment Network’ (AYEN) was founded as
a result of the Asia Regional Workshop on ‘Youth for the Environment’
in Ahmedabad. This Network would serve as a model of sustainable development
by young Asians committed to the conservation of the environment.
|
Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre,
Commonwealth Secretariat, Sector 12, Chandigarh, India |
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