ICFTU-APRO Youth Action PlansBackground:Youth issues are directly or indirectly related to youth employment situations. As such, younger workers in formalised youth structures gives sense to a more structured approach to the concerns.

With a consolidated approach to these issues, better collective actions and strategies and standards can be developed from a regional and international perspective. Not every affiliate in APRO has a formalised youth structure that provides a voice for younger workers in relation to their employment issues. Hence, actions plans were developed with a purpose for reaching various youths, be it in permanent, casual employments, seeking jobs or in schools.

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

• Objectives (est 4 years)– All affiliated National Centres set up constitutionalised

youth committees / organisation to better represent youth related employment issues.

– APRO Youth committee to set up communication links with respective national youth committees for sharing information, strategies, experiences & developments

– Youth representatives be included in major international / national meetings where decision-making is concerned

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

• Proposed activities– Publicity

• Various campaigns through printed materials &/or items targeted at different groups (On issues like Child Labour, HIV & AIDS, Decent Work, Youth Unemployment, anti-drug abuse etc. to be distributed in international conferences &/or relevant National run campaigns)

• Cartoons creation, Documentary/ short story films

– Email Newsletter (Bi-monthly general youths related issues either from APRO youth or other related youth union movmements.)

– Solicomm Network• To appoint Administrators within the APRO Youth

committee to allow access to people who signs up• To encourage / promote respective youth

committees to sign-up • To create mailing list• To establish ICFTU-APRO Youth Committee e-library to share files / photos / documents• To have youth officer &/or committee members to

organise topics for online conferencing

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

– Youth officer & the APRO youth committee will monitor progress of all activities & achievements of the objectives through the Solicomm Network

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

– Youth Website/ Webpage Revamp ( to reach IT savvy youths)

• To Include: – Committee’s Terms-Of-Reference– Committee Events / photos– Articles, Issues – Database collection for email newsletter distribution (to

encourage youth members to sign-up)– Relevant issues / happenings of respective National Centre

Youth Committees– Relevant issues / happenings of other international youth union

movements (other GUFs…etc)– Hyperlinks to Solicomm / other international & national youth

union movements

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

– Training / Programs (on issues such as organising, recruitment, decent work…etc)

• To have continuous exchange programs with National Centre Youth Committees To have exchange / training / educational programs with other National Centres youths (including those who have yet set up youth committees)

• To actively participate as far as possible all ICFTU & ICFTU-APRO organised activities to provide a voice for youths

• To actively participate in ILO / ACTRAV future training programs

• Other ad-hoc activities / projects / social activities / fund-raising programs

ICFTU-APRO Youth Action Plans

– Promote & institutionalise tripartite youth structures to organise activities / dialogues / workshops at both national / international levels

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