New Forum Will Help Shape Youth Policy
New Forum Will Help Shape Youth Policy
A new government forum in Kyrgyzstan aimed at coordinating the country’s disparate youth movements may help to develop a more progressive state policy on youth issues, say NBCentralAsia observers.
On August 22, deputy director at the youth department of the state agency for sport, youth and the protection of children, Olga Bryzgalova, announced that a new public chamber will be set up to deal with the problems facing youngsters, as well as to protect their rights and promote new ideas.
The chamber will also establish contact with the leaders of various public and political organisations and begin the process of drafting new laws.
Bryzgalova explained that Kyrgyzstan needs such a forum in order to help define the way in which Kyrgyzstan’s 70 child and youth organisations can help determine state youth policy.
According to the National Statistics Committee, 41 per cent of the country’s five million population are under the age of 25.
Aleksandr Ivanov, chairman of the Youth Development Corps, says that youth organisations do not tend to communicate with one another and a single coordination body is long overdue.
“The position and ideas behind youth policy and state youth programmes should be reconsidered and made more practical,” he said.
In April 2006, the government approved a new programme, allocating 10 million soms, or 250,000 US dollars, a year for three years to fund various state-run projects aimed at helping young people.
Political analyst Marat Kazakpaev believes that the government should go a step further and offer financial assistance to non-governmental groups that help to shape youth development as well.
“Coordination should come through continual participation in all youth activities,” said Kazakpaev.
(NBCentralAsia draws comment and analysis from a broad range of political observers throughout the region)
On August 22, deputy director at the youth department of the state agency for sport, youth and the protection of children, Olga Bryzgalova, announced that a new public chamber will be set up to deal with the problems facing youngsters, as well as to protect their rights and promote new ideas.
The chamber will also establish contact with the leaders of various public and political organisations and begin the process of drafting new laws.
Bryzgalova explained that Kyrgyzstan needs such a forum in order to help define the way in which Kyrgyzstan’s 70 child and youth organisations can help determine state youth policy.
According to the National Statistics Committee, 41 per cent of the country’s five million population are under the age of 25.
Aleksandr Ivanov, chairman of the Youth Development Corps, says that youth organisations do not tend to communicate with one another and a single coordination body is long overdue.
“The position and ideas behind youth policy and state youth programmes should be reconsidered and made more practical,” he said.
In April 2006, the government approved a new programme, allocating 10 million soms, or 250,000 US dollars, a year for three years to fund various state-run projects aimed at helping young people.
Political analyst Marat Kazakpaev believes that the government should go a step further and offer financial assistance to non-governmental groups that help to shape youth development as well.
“Coordination should come through continual participation in all youth activities,” said Kazakpaev.
(NBCentralAsia draws comment and analysis from a broad range of political observers throughout the region)
