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The origin of the International Council on National Youth Policy (ICNYP) can be traced to the first session of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth in Lisbon, Portugal from 8 to 12 August 1998 hosted by the Government of Portugal in cooperation with the United Nations.
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The origin of the International Council on National Youth Policy (ICNYP) can be traced to the first session of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth in Lisbon, Portugal from 8 to 12 August 1998 hosted by the Government of Portugal in cooperation with the United Nations.

That Conference stressed the importance of national youth policy.

The ICNYP seeks to follow-up that unique World Conference by bringing together representatives of Governmental ministries responsible for youth from all UN Member-States and of world and regional non-governmental youth organizations in a biennial International Conference on National Youth Policy. This Conference will be of an expert, information exchange and training nature, and not as a UN conference with protracted negotiations over the words of a final declaration. The thrust of all ICNYP actions will be to encourage and enable all stakeholders, and most particularly youth, to participate in all aspects of the formulation, implementation and evaluation of national youth policy. The ICNYP will provide a regular series of training seminars on national youth policy for representatives of Governmental, Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with national youth policy and provide a resource service on national youth policy concerning funding sources willing and able to finance national youth policy projects. The ICNYP will convene an International Conference on National Youth Policy (in the form of an international expert meeting) on a biennial basis, and the design of the content will be decided by the ICNYP Council in 2002. The initial issues to be addressed by the Conference are:

-the design, implementation and evaluation of national youth policy,
-the delivery of national youth policy by national youth service and other youth volunteer youth service,
-youth participation in all aspects of national youth policy formulation,
-operation and evaluation and role of a national youth NGO coordination platform, and
-priority youth issues to be addressed in the national youth policy (such as education, health, employment, environment, drug abuse etc).
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