Kathmandu, Jan. 31: Minister for Youth and Sports Daljit BK Shreepali Monday said that the government was integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into various youth development programmes.
Speaking at a ministerial roundtable on ‘the role of youth in poverty eradication and promoting prosperity’ organized during the 2017 Youth Forum of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, United States of America, he stated that the government had been targeting vulnerable young population specially women in its development planning.
“The government has launched programmes such as ‘youth skill and leadership development training’, ‘youth communication’ and ‘rural youth entrepreneurship’ targeting vulnerable young population, specially young women, to address problems like unemployment, poverty, gender violence, trafficking of girls and domestic violence,” Shreepali said.
According to a press statement issued by the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations in New York, the Minister also attended the opening session of the 2017 Youth Forum which featured speeches by ECOSOC president Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, president of General Assembly Peter Thomson, envoy of the secretary-general on youth Ahmad Alhendawi and other dignitaries.
“The speakers highlighted various issues affecting youth all over the world including ending poverty and inequality as well as promoting youth entrepreneurship and employment, and underlined the importance of effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to materialize the ambition of ‘leaving no one behind’,” read the statement.
Apart from roundtables, there are six different breakout sessions organized under different themes featuring youth and ending poverty, hunger and achieving food safety, healthy lives and promoting wellbeing, gender equality and empowering of women and girls, resilient infrastructure and fostering innovation, and conservation and using oceans and seas sustainably.
The theme of this year’s Youth Forum is ‘the role of youth in poverty eradication and promoting prosperity in a changing world’.
Speaking at a ministerial roundtable on ‘the role of youth in poverty eradication and promoting prosperity’ organized during the 2017 Youth Forum of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, United States of America, he stated that the government had been targeting vulnerable young population specially women in its development planning.
“The government has launched programmes such as ‘youth skill and leadership development training’, ‘youth communication’ and ‘rural youth entrepreneurship’ targeting vulnerable young population, specially young women, to address problems like unemployment, poverty, gender violence, trafficking of girls and domestic violence,” Shreepali said.
According to a press statement issued by the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations in New York, the Minister also attended the opening session of the 2017 Youth Forum which featured speeches by ECOSOC president Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, president of General Assembly Peter Thomson, envoy of the secretary-general on youth Ahmad Alhendawi and other dignitaries.
“The speakers highlighted various issues affecting youth all over the world including ending poverty and inequality as well as promoting youth entrepreneurship and employment, and underlined the importance of effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to materialize the ambition of ‘leaving no one behind’,” read the statement.
Apart from roundtables, there are six different breakout sessions organized under different themes featuring youth and ending poverty, hunger and achieving food safety, healthy lives and promoting wellbeing, gender equality and empowering of women and girls, resilient infrastructure and fostering innovation, and conservation and using oceans and seas sustainably.
The theme of this year’s Youth Forum is ‘the role of youth in poverty eradication and promoting prosperity in a changing world’.
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