National Federation of Youth Organisations in Bangladesh (NFYOB) is the coordinating council of youth organizations in the country which includes 480 member organizations and about four thousand youth organizations as its primary members. Central committee of the federation is elected and constituted by the representatives of different member organizations. NFYOB has been very actively involved in all sorts of youth development actions programmes.
NFYOB is registered under the Ministry of Social Welfare and affiliated with the Ministry of Youth And Sports, Govt. of Bangladesh. It is also associated with the Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and has Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)of the United Nations.
Since its formation in 1985 NFYOB has maintaining excellent liaison with the Government. It has in its credit of leading and pioneering a number of social movement including Youth Employment, Poverty Eradication, Mass Education, Environment Protection, Child Rights, Human Rights, Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, Motivation and rehabilitation programmes, Promotion and construction of Sustainable Culture of Peace and non violence.
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Motivational and skill development training, Advocacy for youth development, NFYOB organized many seminars and workshops particularly for youth. These events educate and inform the participants on various aspects. Through these events we broaden their horizons of thinking and increase awareness, at the same time inducing moral values in them. We stress upon the youth to educate themselves because the nation’s future relies upon them.
Youth Employment for Social Development
It is obvious that employment (gainful employment under conditions that are not hazardous to the health of the worker) is a problem of all age groups and not just the youth of the world. However, it is important that special emphasis be given to the provision of employment to youth so that they can be made to feel that they are, in fact, contributing to society as a whole.
Projects
· Working under the World Program of Action for Youth, it is proposed that the following projects be taken up to soften and eventually minimize the problem of unemployment and underemployment among the youth of the third world and the South Asian countries in particular. How ever it is proposed to:
· Set up a program of internship with the cooperation of multinationals and conglomerates operating in that particular country. This will provide the youth with work experience, a taste of the work environment and will also contribute to their self esteem.
· Organize workshops and seminars conducted voluntarily by professionals from repaid evolving fields that are at the cutting edge of technology. This will be useful in the sense that it will help these professionals identify individuals that have the potential and the drive to succeed in these fields and who can be groomed further.
· Encourage entrepreneurs by awarding grants to the most feasible and most innovative projects in a regular nationwide contest. This contest is to be judged by a panel of leaders from the corporate sector who would also interviews. This will provide youth with the opportunity to present their ideas to individuals who have the ability to make a difference. Of course this will be an opportunity for the youth to practice and improve their interviews skills and their self-confidence, conviction and self-belief. In return the corporate sector will get a source of new ideas and projects that have been hitherto, for all practical purposes, untapped.
Proposals for Action
· Set up National Youth Bank
· Encourage self-employment
· Employment opportunities for special groups
· Voluntary community service involving Youth
· Unemployment creates a lot of problems for the Youth. NFYOB is working to solve all the youth problems. Living within constraints we have done whatever we could to help the youth in this regard.
Regular Leadership Training Programme: In every three months NFYOB organizes this training for the members of the executive committee of the member organisations.
Self-employment Training: NFYOB is also running a training and self-employment project for the rural unemployed youth. ‘ Training and Self-employment for Rural Youth’ (2nd Phase) project aimed to provide mobile training on livestock and poultry farming for the poor youths in the rural villages. Project period is two years.
24 groups of rural poor youth have been selected from 12 different villages for the training and at the end of the project some 480 (280 male and 200 female) poor youth will be trained. Relevant experienced resource persons are running the training. After completion of the training the trained youth will get loans through revolving fund to start their own small projects.
From the very beginning and its formation, NFYOB is working with the Department of Youth Development, Ministry of Youth & Sports and other related departments of the government to update the National Youth Policy basis on the present needs. Mr. Dulal Biswas, Secretary General of NFYOB was one of the member of the National Youth Policy Drafting Committee under the Ministry of Youth & Sports.
Youth and Drug Abuse
The youth are frustrated because of a lack of entertainment, a lack of employment opportunities, an obsolete educational system and an uncertain political climate. Observations reveals that this frustration is a gateway to violence, alcohol abuse, Juvenile Delinquency and deadliest of all drugs. This national problem is of course also an international problem and a problem that is like Mythical Hydra, the serpent with many heads.
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