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Pre-conference Youth Workshop

14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health Pre-conference Youth Workshop

Many pre-conference events and workshops will be organized prior to March 8, 2009 in order to extend learning and offer additional networking opportunities at the World Conference. One of these events will be a two day Pre-conference Youth Workshop. Recognizing the need for building a new generation of anti-tobacco advocates across the world, to supplement and later replace the ‘aging warhorses’ of the anti-tobacco advocacy movement, the WCTOH will organize a two day capacity building workshop for young people from different regions during March 6-7, 2009. This workshop is being held in New Delhi, India and is being organized by a Delhi based NGO: HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) along with the organizers of this conference: Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Salaam Bombay and ACT- India. The participants of Pre-conference Youth Workshop will join the main conference on March 8, 2009 at Mumbai, India. The Pre-conference Youth Workshop would provide platform to about 135 delegates (youth delegates between 16-25 years and adult chaperones) from 30 countries and 15 states of India to discuss and debate issues related to tobacco control and jointly plan youth led tobacco control advocacy activities worldwide.

Please email the duly filled up form latest by September 15th, 2008 at

HRIDAY has extensive experience of working on youth health promotion issues in India and internationally. HRIDAY is a partner organization with the organizers of WCTOH and houses the Delhi secretariat of WCTOH. HRIDAY-SHAN, hosted the first ever ‘Global Youth Meet’ (GYM 2006) in November 2006 in Delhi. GYM gave rise to ‘Youth For Health (Y4H),’ a worldwide movement of health advocacy linking young people from 35 countries around the globe, including 11 states of India, to facilitate concerted action in regards to promoting health-friendly public policies (see http://y4h.hriday-shan.org/). Youth advocates from HRIDAY were also participants of the Youth Pre-conference training organized in conjunction with the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, and are members of Global Youth Action on Tobacco, an international youth advocacy network(www.gyatnetwork.org).

The intent of this youth conference would be to:
  • Encourage youth to get actively involved in advocacy efforts related to tobacco control.
  • Provide youth with a platform to discuss and debate health issues, like tobacco control.
  • Empower youth delegates with key and constructive leadership and advocacy skills.
  • Provide young health advocates with ample networking and mentoring opportunities

This youth workshop provides synergy to the main conference as youth participants get to present their perspectives as youth leaders in tobacco control. This conference also provides them with an opportunity to further refine their advocacy skills that they would have learnt during the two days of pre-conference workshop. They will also get to participate in regional meeting and meet with tobacco control experts in their country and region. Coordinated follow-up post-conference is planned, too, to maximize and synchronize, if possible, swift and strong action by youth-led tobacco control groups around the globe.

Scholarships: The organizers are arranging for scholarship to support the participation of youth delegates from developing countries. Limited scholarships will be available. Interested delegates from developed countries are requested to apply for funds to participate in the Pre-conference Youth Workshop and 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health.
 
   


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