How can YOUTH promote and celebrate the Year? Organize an event: The UN Programme on Youth has developed, together with NGO partners, an Activities Kit that provides guidance on organizing an event to celebrate the Year. The Kit includes practical advice and effective strategies on how to promote your event; engage the media; develop partnerships; build a constituency of supporters and much more. Post an event on the UN’s official Calendar of Events for the Year: Visit social.un.org/iyyevents and submit an Event Registration Form. If you wish to attach the official logo of the year to promotional materials, please follow the Guidelines posted on the website. Participate in local events: Visit the Calendar of Events to learn about activities taking place in your community and around the world. Also, subscribe to Youth Flash, the UN’s monthly newsletter at un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/flash.htm, to learn about youth-related activities and publications. Contribute to online discussions: Monthly consultations are held on Facebook to encourage youth from around the world to share their views on various aspects of the Year. Topics have included: contributions for low-cost ideas for celebration activities; suggestions to increase the effectiveness of youth participation and representation at the community level; ideas for engaging the media to raise public awareness and ways to increase dialogue and understanding among the UN, Governments and youth. To participate, please visit facebook/UNyouth and follow the link. Raise public awareness: Download the International Year of Youth banner from the official website and post a link on your webpage.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:23:05 +0000