Introduction
During the 8th GFRAS Annual Meeting in Australia in 2017, the theme revolved around youth and how they engage in or are engaged by rural advisory services. A number of the young participants came together during the conference and discussed the idea of strengthening the way forward after the Annual Meeting by creating a Youth Working Group (YWG). This was then proposed in the GFRAS Steering Committee Meeting, which was subsequently approved.
Jon the working group via Slack!
About us
Core Goals
- Youth Representation
- To ensure that there is youth representative in crucial policy or other decision-making discussions on RAS initiatives
- To ensure that the youth will be streamlined in terms of investments for RAS development programs
- Capacity-building
- To increase the engagement of RAS on youth and vice versa; believing that RAS can help build youth capacity, while youth can help build RAS creativity
- Workshops
- Immersive experiential learning
- To create regular online discussions to build capacity for RAS engagements
- Webinar
- Online advocacy campaigns
- Knowledge sharing
- To gather knowledge products on youth in RAS from across the various networks and placed on an online one-stop shop
- To continuously gather data on youth to build big data analytics that will help GFRAS and partners know more what areas of the youth can be targeted for initiatives
- To increase the engagement of RAS on youth and vice versa; believing that RAS can help build youth capacity, while youth can help build RAS creativity
Activities
1st webinar: Youth-led RAS Strategies: What now, Where to in Policy and Advocacy within RAS?
Report on the 1st YWG webinar, pdf 445KB