The Caribbean Youth Summit (CYS) kicked off on the AC Mariott Resort with a convincing name for youth throughout the Caribbean to play an lively position in shaping each nationwide and regional improvement agendas.
Charting a course for sustainable improvement
Minister of State within the Ministry of Schooling and Youth, Hon. Marsha Smith, delivered an tackle at Wednesday’s opening of the four-day Caribbean Youth Summit (CYS).
She emphasised the vital position of the area’s youth in reaching the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs), stressing that the Caribbean finds itself at a pivotal juncture in its pursuit of those international goals.
Reimagining the post-pandemic future
In gentle of the challenges led to by the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister Smith referred to as for a collective reassessment and recommitment to the SDGs.
“We’re recognizing that popping out of the COVID-19 [pandemic], there must be a resetting, a coming collectively once more on the desk, to see the place we’re, and the place these objectives are associated,” the State Minister mentioned.
Youth voices: Catalysts for change
The Minister highlighted the importance of the youth summit as a platform for Caribbean youth to share their numerous views and take possession of alternatives to affect nationwide policymakers.
The SDGs: A blueprint for progress
The SDGs, a framework designed to deal with a variety of worldwide challenges, together with ending poverty, eradicating starvation, guaranteeing well being and well-being, and selling high quality schooling, served as a focus for discussions all through the summit.
A collaborative endeavor
The inaugural CYS has attracted a various meeting of younger folks and key stakeholders from throughout the Caribbean area
Contributors have come collectively to trade concepts, share experiences, and devise progressive options to sort out gender-based violence and different cross-cutting points.
The occasion, staged by CARICOM in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Youth Council and the Ministry of Schooling and Youth, has garnered funding from worldwide companions, together with the European Union (EU)-United Nations (UN) Highlight Initiative Caribbean Regional programme, UN Improvement Programme (UNDP), UN Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls (UNWOMEN), and United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
