Red CrossRed Crescent Global YouthConference2013

This conference is a historic gathering of young humanitarians from around the world to discuss the biggest humanitarian issues facing the planet. The RCRC Global Youth Conference 2013 (GYC 13) provides a unique opportunity for young leaders to shape the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and its humanitarian priorities, as well as share ideas and best practice to help do more and reach further in improving the lives of vulnerable people.

BAYSIDE TERRACE, SYDNEY CONVENTION AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY

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Photos: Australian Red Cross/Antony Balmain

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RCRC Global Youth Conference 2013The RCRC GYC 13 is as an officially sanctioned pre-cursor to the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Council of Delegates meeting of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. These meetings are being hosted by Australian Red Cross from 12 to 18 November. The first ever Youth Engagement Strategy for the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Movement will be launched at the RCRC GYC 13. It will outline how Young Humanitarians determine their collective contribution to humanitarian action. The strategy will be presented to the Movement in the General Assembly by the Chair of the Youth Commission.

We are so proud and excited to welcome you to beautiful Sydney for this momentous event. Many of you are already well connected via social media and have prepared to make the most of our time together by participating in a range of online forums and learning events, so we are off to a great start!

As you know, our conference is officially sanctioned by the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent. It precedes the week-long Statutory Meetings where more than 1000 delegates from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe will meet here at the Sydney Convention and Entertainment Centre to coordinate global efforts to reduce human suffering.

For the first time young humanitarians have the opportunity to contribute equally into these peak international meetings. We will be participating at the highest levels. Our discussions will not end up in a resolution or remain as conversations between young people, but will immediately translate into advocacy and action in front of and within all the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies.

For the first time ever, the voices of those that will be responsible for carrying out this humanitarian work in the future will be carried into these meetings — and not just a few, but many.

So your ideas, enthusiasm and energy truly count!

We encourage you to turn your efforts equally to the three pillars that form the framework of the next two days:Pillar 1: Setting a vision of the world beyond 2015Pillar 2: Youth shaping the humanitarian landscape

through the implementation of the IFRC Y.E.S.

Pillar 3: Preparing for participation and interventions in the General Assembly and the Council of Delegates

We’re sure you will agree that these three pillars of the GYC are too important for just the youth delegates here in Sydney to be discussing. Please join in the conversations with our peers around the world on the GYC blog (www.rcrcmeetings.org), the RCRC Youth Facebook page, follow us on Twitter @RCRCYouth and tweet using #rcrc2013 and #rcgyc13.

At a time when we commemorate 150 years of humanitarian action in our Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and look forward to our shared future challenges, we are glad that the youth of the Movement will have their say at this GYC and be heard at the Statutory Meetings that follow.

As well, we come together to leverage Your Voice (rcvoices.org); a dedicated space for people of all ages to express their hopes, visions and aspirations for the future. This platform brings a diversity of RCRC voices around the globe to the global post-2015 development agenda — including yours and the people you represent. The IFRC Youth Commission and Australian Red Cross are truly privileged and honoured to be delivering to you this GYC. We thank you for contributions and invite you to make the most of every moment here at this historic gathering.

We encourage you to continue to make your positive, passionate and informed influence felt into the future.

Ashanta Osborne-MosesChair, IFRC Youth Commission

Chris KwongNational Youth Member, Australian Red Cross

WelcomeYoung Humanitarians!

Ashanta Osborne-MosesChair, IFRC Youth Commission

Chris KwongNational Youth Member, Australian Red Cross

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RCRC Global Youth Conference 2013FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER ▪ OPENING CEREMONY 6:00PM - 8:30PM

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The RCRC Global Youth Conference opening ceremony will include a welcome from Australian Red Cross and a range of fun and interactive cultural performances.

Formalities will include speeches from the following dignitaries: Mr. Robert Tickner, Australian Red Cross CEO Mr. Tadateru Konoé, IFRC PresidentMs. Charlotta Relander, ICRC Head of Division Cooperation and Coordination Mr. Michael Legge, Australian Red Cross President The Hon. Victor Dominello, NSW Government Youth Minister (invited) Ms. Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Youth Commission Chair

SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 1 : MORNINGTIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER

Pillar 1: Setting the vision of the world beyond 2015

08:30 Welcome and IntroductionFacilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission

08:4040 mins

Setting a vision beyond 2015

Lessons learned from the MDGsRC’s role post 2015Opportunity to highlight Your Voices campaign

Facilitator:Flavio Ronzi, Youth Leader, Italian Red Cross

Plenary Speakers:Nikki Bartlett, Deputy CEO Oaktree Foundation Matthias Schmale, Under Secretary General for National Society and Knowledge Development, IFRCQuestions from the floor

09:2040 mins

Contributing to a better world through RCRC actions

Panellists will discuss where RCRC has the capacity to create a better world while partnering with other key stakeholders. They will focus on strengthening community resilience through the following areas:Creation of knowledgeable and safe communitiesCreation of knowledgeable and healthy communitiesCreation of knowledgeable and “prepared” communities

Pre-GYC learning requirement:Concept of strengthening resilience

Facilitator:Bridianne O’Dea, Former Chair, NSW Red Cross Youth Advisory Committee

Panel: Walter Cotte, Under Secretary General, Programme Services, IFRC Charlotta Relander, Head of Division Cooperation and Coordination within the Movement, ICRCRepresentative from Asia Pacific Zone NS.

10:0030 mins

MORNING TEA

10:3090 mins

Post 2015 Open Space Technology Session

This break out will be an opportunity for delegates to build on the previous two sessions and share ideas with each other. It will also generate questions to be posed to the senior leaders in the Town Hall session.A focus on linking Pillar 1 and 2 – the way that post 2015 fits into the YES, including topics such as addressing the challenges young people face, institutional culture, and ways to influence individual National Societies

Break Out Groups:

Facilitators:Youth Leaders will facilitate theses sessions. Sessions will be in multi languages

Drafting Team members will also be assigned to groups with the view of ensuring maximum engagement on the part of the drafting committee to promote comprehensive and detailed capture of outcomes of groups)

12:0045 mins

Spaces for Youth in RCRC: The Role of RCRC Youth in Shaping the Humanitarian Landscape

Candid discussion with senior leaders of the MovementEvaluation of the investment in and achievements of engaging young people in RCRC at all levels over the last decadeEvaluation of successful initiatives for strengthening youth engagement at the IFRC and NS levels

Pre-GYC learning requirement:Overview of youth development in RCRC over the last decade.

Facilitator: Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission

Town Hall Style:Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Robert Tickner, Secretary General, Australian Red Cross Questions from the floor

12:4560 mins

LUNCH

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SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 1 : AFTERNOONTIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER

Pillar 2: RCRC Youth shaping the humanitarian landscape through implementation of the IFRC Youth Engagement Strategy

13:4560 mins

Say YES to the Youth Engagement Strategy

Panellists will discuss the Y.E.S. as a tool ensuring relevant educational opportunities, empowerment, and enabling environments for youth to become RCRC agents of change. This session will explore the possible impacts of the Y.E.S and the investments required for successful youth engagement, both on the ground and also at the senior leadership level.A presentation with the timeline on the National Societies implementing the Y.E.S. towards 2020 will be incorporated, “IFRC Y.E.S. implementation towards 2020 and measuring of youth impact”.

Facilitator:Charlotte Nordstrom, Youth President, Norwegian Red Cross

Panel:Jagan Chapagain, Zone Director of Asia Pacific, IFRC Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent, Under Secretary General, Governance and Management Services, IFRCAlicia Crawford, National Manager – Global Poverty ProjectNikki Bartlett, Deputy CEO Oaktree Foundation

14:4530 mins

Interactive Skills Building Session (a): Internal advocacy for a change of an institutional culture

This session will not only focus on institutional processes and structures, but rather on the mind-set change and change of value to youth engagement.

Facilitator:Mathew Darling, National Youth Representative, New Zealand Red Cross

Presenter:Chris Kwong, National Youth Member, Australian Red Cross Questions from the floor

15:1530 mins

Interactive Skills Building Session (b): Senior leadership and institutional structures facilitating youth engagement

This session will focus on role of the senior leadership and on more tangible matters such as structures, systems, procedures to be used and applied in order to make the youth engagement possible.

Facilitator:Danny Vakapora, Youth Leader, Cook Islands Red Cross

Presenter:Chrystold Chetty, Chair of RCRC Finance Commission

15:4530 mins

Interactive Skills Building Session (c): Capacity building and resource mobilisation beyond financial inputs in facilitating youth engagement

This sessions will be an exploration of ways that young people can build capacity through the mobilisation of resources beyond financial

Facilitator:Chrystold Chetty, Chair of RCRC Finance Commission.

Presenter:Eyal Halamish, CEO, OurSay Questions from the floor

16:15 30 MINS AFTERNOON TEA

16:4530 mins

Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology Session

In this session delegates will break into smaller groups and explore ways in which to incorporate lessons learned in the previous skill building session in their own national societies.

Report back from Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology SessionReport back from break out groups

Break Out GroupsFacilitators:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth CommissionYouth Leaders will facilitate theses sessions. Sessions will be in multi languages

Drafting Team members will also be assigned to groups with the view of ensuring maximum engagement on the part of the drafting committee to promote comprehensive and detailed capture of outcomes of groups

18:1530 mins

Close of Day 1

Report back from Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology SessionReport back from break out groups

Facilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission

18:45 Experiencing Australian Culture: Interactive Activity Various workshop rooms

Aerial photo of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge at dawn. Photo by Ethan Rohloff, Destination NSW

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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 2 : MORNINGTIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER

08:3020 mins

Gallery Walk

Summary and input from the Global Youth Engagement Strategy discussions of Day 1 will be presented at the “gallery”.

08.5010 mins

Welcome and Introduction to day 2 - PlenaryFacilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission

09:0090 mins

YES Network Meetings

Regional priorities for implementation of the Y.E.S. are to be discussed and agreed in this agenda point. Methodology of this session will ensure relevance of regional priorities for participating National Societies.

Facilitators: Youth Commission members and Youth Leaders will facilitate these sessions. Zone Directors will be preset to act as resource persons.

10:3030 MINS MORNING TEA

11:0090 mins

YES Network Meetings

Regional priorities for implementation of the Y.E.S. are to be discussed and agreed in this agenda point. Methodology of this session will ensure relevance of regional priorities for participating National Societies.

Break out Groups:Delegates will be broken into Regional Youth Network Groups.

Facilitators: Youth Commission members and Youth Leaders will facilitate these sessions. Zone Directors will be present to act as resource persons.

12:3060 MINS LUNCH

Australian Red Cross youth leadership gathering 2011. Photo: Australian Red Cross/Rodney Dekker

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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER ▪ DAY 2 : AFTERNOON

TIME MEETING ACTIVITY SPEAKER

Pillar 3: Preparing for the GA and CoD participation and interventions

13:3060 mins

Orientation for the RCRC Statutory Meetings

This session will introduce to and prepare delegates for the technical components of the General Assembly and Council of Delegates meetings. Delegates will also be educated around interventions, including their purpose, the procedure of making an intervention and what delegates should look out for. This session will also prepare delegates for planning the content of their interventions.This session will also provide delegates an overview of the IFRC humanitarian diplomacy messaging and engagement of governments and other stakeholders following the Statutory meetings in preparation for the International Conference of RCRC in 2015.

Facilitator and Speakers:Dr Helen Durham, Director, Strategy Planning and Research, Australian Red CrossJoelle Tanguy, Under Secretary General, Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy, IFRCMalika Aït-Mohamed Parent, Under Secretary General, Governance and Management Services, IFRC

Resource PeopleFrank MohrhauerTechnical ExpertsMembers of the Drafting Team

14:3030 MINS AFTERNOON TEA

15:00120 mins

Preparing for youth interventions in the statutory meetings

In this session delegates will work in groups to prepare interventions for all areas where the pillars of the GYC link in with the GA, CoD, and Y.E.S.The Drafting team will provide summaries of all of the outcomes of the GYC to the working groups. The working groups will then prepare interventions around the GYC outcome statements assigned to them.These interventions (not longer than 3 mins each) will be reported back to the group in plenary style and will form the basis for all interventions made at the statutory meetings, reflecting a clear and consistent youth voice.

Facilitator:Dr Helen Durham, Director, Strategy Planning and Research, Australian Red Cross

Break out Groups:Delegates will be broken into Regional Youth Network Groups.

Facilitators: Youth Commission members and Youth Leaders will facilitate these sessions. Zone Directors will be present to act as resource persons.

17:0030mins

Report back from Skill building and Advocacy Open Space Technology Session

Report back from break out groupsBreak out Group facilitator and drafting team member

Facilitator:Ashanta Osborne-Moses, Chair Youth Commission

17:3030mins

Conference Summary

Drafting Team to Report back on outcomes of GYCFacilitator:Chris Kwong, Co-Chair Drafting TeamMads Espersen, Co-Chair Drafting team

18:00 30 mins

Closing Ceremony

19:00 FAREWELL PARTY

Photo: Australian Red Cross/Antony Balmain

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Statutory meetingsFrom 12-18 November 2013, Sydney, Australia will proudly play host to the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Council of Delegates meeting of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.

The meetings bring together the leaders of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement from all National Societies, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to discuss today’s humanitarian challenges and determine the future path of the Movement.

General Assembly The General Assembly is the supreme governing body of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Member National Societies meet to celebrate their achievements, discuss the humanitarian challenges and decide the future strategic directions.

The 19th session of the General Assembly will take place from 12 to 15 November 2013.The draft provisional agenda will focus on assessment and review of the operational and financial activities related to Strategy 2020.

It will also reflect on the IFRC’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and engagement in discussions around the post-2015 development goals.

Council of Delegates ̶ 150 years of humanitarian action

The Council of Delegates of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement will be held from 17̶ 18 November 2013.

This will bring together Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies from 188 countries, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Participants will discuss how the Movement can best respond to pressing humanitarian challenges and the future path of the Movement. In addition, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will take this opportunity to reflect on resolutions adopted at its 31st International Conference in 2011, and prepare for the next International Conference, to be held in 2015.

This year’s event will be held under the theme “150 years of humanitarian action,” and a dialogue on this subject within the Movement in the lead up to the Council of Delegates will enrich the debate in Sydney.

Photo: ICRC/Marko Kokic