Presenting the Mexico City Youth Partnerships Initiative!

none 01 Avr 2008 – 10:32

by Molly Lepeska

Throughout the upcoming 2008 International AIDS Conference, the World AIDS Campaign and the Mexico Youth Force, will implement the Mexico City Youth Partnership Initiative (YPI). The YPI will pair youth leaders with established leaders of a wide-range of constituencies, in order for youth to develop practical leadership skills experientially, as well as for the constituencies to learn from youth leaders and develop partnerships with youth as a constituency. Through the two-way learning process, the YPI will promote mutual understanding, facilitate networking, and enable a transfer of knowledge and skills between participants.

Through its Global Steering Committee (GSC), the WAC will identify and encourage leaders from the constituencies of media, people living with HIV and AIDS, business, women, non-governmental organisations, youth, activists, faith and labour, to take part in this initiative. Leaders from academia, parliamentarians, harm reduction and MSM will also be engaged.

This initiative is unique in that, rather than being a one-time encounter, participants will be linked prior to the meeting, and immediately after the conference they will have the opportunity to discuss ways in which they can continue to work together and build partnerships.

To learn more about this initiative, please get in touch with Claudia Ahumada, at ahumadac@worldaidscampaign.org

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