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Title: Vietnam Action Network for Youth - VANY
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Categories: Child & Youth Rights
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Vietnam Action Network for Youth - VANY is a network of individual youths, youth groups and youth-led organizations that share the same perspectives of “YOUTH TAKE ACTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT” that must be consistent with the promotion of a substantial slogan “YOUTH VOICES & PARTICIPATION” in Vietnam. It serves as an open, loose and friendly platform for youth to exchange ideas, share experiences and collaborate together on different projects and programs that are led by youth.
As a member of the Global Youth Action Network – GYAN, the Global Youth Service Day – GYSD and TakingITGlobal, VANY provides information support and recognition for the voices, participation, initiatives and positive solutions of youth.
Given the facts that many individual youths and youth organizations in Vietnam has been contributing human, financial resources and volunteering in nationwide to development of Vietnam but unworthily unrecognized due to lack of a “strong voice” that could put an effect for change. VANY would be a connection to link and gather specific recommendations on youth issues, volunteerism to have a stronger petition to be submitted to the Hochiminh Communist Central Youth Union, Vietnam Youth Federation, National Committee on Youth of Vietnam or even the Vietnam Government.
With the identification given, a group of youth, volunteers in Hanoi who have been working as young activists came up with an idea of the youth-coordinated network for all unregistered youth groups/organizations to make a difference.
In the ideal case, VANY will be an umbrella organization of almost youth groups/organizations, volunteer groups and civil society organizations working with/for youth in a common perspective of “for a better world”.
Background:
As VANY initiative is the first ever-established youth network which can link all in-country youth groups, clubs and volunteer groups working for youth development and achievement of 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) nationwide through a coordination group (called Governing Council) who are pooled from all member organizations. Further, the networking and linkage of Vietnam youth groups/clubs has never been taken into consideration by government agencies especially the unregistered youth groups. Additionally, VANY would be a good panel/channel that its member organizations can raise their voices to policy-makers, legislators and government officials on all youth-related issues such as volunteerism, youth law (that has just been adopted by Vietnam National Assembly on November 28, 2005) etc.
The VANY project proposal will be a breakthrough in the process of regularization of its member groups that would help them with more empowerment in their intervention into decision-making process in the future.
In Vietnam, adolescents and young people are facing many challenges. One of these challenges is lack of HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge. “HIV/AIDS campaigns in Vietnam have been successful in raising awareness of HIV/AIDS among the vast majority of young people who participated. However, though high levels of knowledge were recorded, accuracy of knowledge was lower. Notable is that nearly three quarters of young people who have never attended school have not heard of AIDS. SAVY shows a clear relationship between level of education and HIV knowledge. SAVY also shows that discussion about HIV/AIDS with young people in the family is often not linked to reproductive health and sexuality issues” . Further, substance use is also identified in the SAVY findings as challenged issues for adolescents and young people in Vietnam “…98.6% of the total sample said that they can easily obtain alcohol. Young men are further encouraged to drink through peer pressure, but social constraints discourage the same behavior in young women” . Therefore, the awareness-raising as well peer education is considered important to change their risky behaviors to HIV/AIDS and substance abuse and VANY is trying to play a small but indispensable role in changing young people’ thinking that HIV/AIDS is not an easy disease to be contracted as well substance abuse must be tried to become adult.
Objectives:
The project proposal of the Vietnam Action Network for Youth – VANY established and operated with following key goals:
- building up an open, friendly and loose platform for individual youth, youth organizations & volunteer groups to exchange and share experiences, information and initiatives of youth offline through a series of activities on special occasions and online activities through a website/forum/discussion boards or in monthly VANY newsletter,
- organize training and workshops on how to promote volunteerism among young generation; provision of life-skills, organizational skills, facilitation and fundraising skills for youth/volunteer groups,
- foster, promote and advocate for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) among youth/youth organizations and volunteer groups in Vietnam through IEC campaigns at all levels: school, university, community etc. with member organizations as focal points,
- networking of all member organizations that link activities/projects/programmes to have bigger and bigger impacts on awareness of the society and community, a big step for the change of policies regarding youth,
Milestones:
- eatablishment National Youth NGO,
- prepare youth organizations mapping,
- expansion of youth activities,
- fostering youth voice & participation in decision-making process & law-making,
- promote PPP among youth issues,
- enhance youth position in society
Budget:
~15,,000USD
Needs:
computers, domain, hosting, office space & qualified as well professional youths
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