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Strategic Groups Key Areas Action Youth from Cooperatives in Asia and Pacific 6th Meeting of the ICA Committee on Youth In Asia Pacific Theme: Future Challenges for Youth as a strateg

Strategic Groups

Key Areas Action

Youth from Cooperatives in Asia and Pacific

6th Meeting of the ICA Committee on Youth In Asia Pacific

Theme:

Future Challenges for Youth as a strategic Group for

Co-operative Development Venue : Buldana, Maharashtra–India Dates:17 – 21 JULY, 2013

(1) Arrival to Mumbai(Int Airport)-Aurangabad-Buldana ~ 15-16/07/2013 (2) Visit to cooperative societies and farmer’s groups ~ 17/07/2013 (3) Asia Pacific Co-operative Youth Forum ~ 18/07/2013 (4) 6th Meeting {Election}of the ICA Committee on Youth Cooperation ~ 19/07/2013 (5) Recreational Trip to Ajanta Caves (ancient civilisation and culture) ~ 20/07/2013

(6) Departure from Buldana-Aurangabad-Mumbai-Respective Countries~ 21/07/2013

Background Information: The ICA Committee on Youth Co-operation in Asia Pacific (ICYAP) operates under its Constitution and the guidelines of the ICA Regional Assembly for co-operative development in Asia and the Pacific While honouring its mandate to meet once a year and to draw

up the committee plan for the period of 2013-2016, its members who were nominated by ICA members at the time of the 10th Regional Assembly of ICA Asia Pacific, opted to meet at Buldhana, Maharashtra-India during 2013

To maximise the opportunity of the meeting of International delegates and cooperative practitioners with this Meeting, an initiative in form of the Asia Pacific Co-operative Youth Forum is being organised on 18 July, 2013 in collaboration with Buldana Urban Co-operative Credit Societyin Buldana, Maharashtra

Governing Documents: The ICA Blue print for the Co-operative Decade (adopted in Manchester-2012) and the ICA Strategic Objectives (Adopted in Kobe-Manchester-2012) for 2013-2016 play a vital role in the committee’s future actions and plans It is noted here that the strategic groups such as women and youth are agents of change for the larger benefit of the world order given their comparative unavailability in mainstream policymaking in the past The marginalised sections are seen to be promoted today by the international community and the inevitable reason for this is the importance given to the notion of inclusive growth by the global leadership The Asia Pacific Co-operative Youth Forum aims to attract deliberations in identifying Youth as a strategic group/section/community in co-operatives and establishing a platform for exchange of ideas and solutions for the development of co-operatives The work-strategy is related to the directives under

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The focal areas of youth intervention vis a vis the Cooperative Decade in consonance with the ICA S.O (2013-16) are listed below and explained in form of the diagram in fig:1

 S.O.7 Promote cultural exchanges of youth cooperators

 S.O 9 Collect and disseminate ‘Cooperative Story’ in creating public awareness on cooperative and its business model

 S.O.5 Promote the technical exchanges and assistances in IT technology in the forms of workshop and training

SUB FOCAL AREAS

 S.O 4: Promote ‘Cooperative trade’ strategically by the modes of ‘Fair trade’ and ‘B to B trade platform’ through Internet

 S.O 6 Transfer the technical and managerial know-how, especially in the business areas of

‘Resource Recycling’ and ‘ Renewable Energy’ businesses

 S.O.10 Promote and deliver of ‘.coop’ domain and to create influential messages and media advocacies on cooperative and its business model

S.O.- ICA AP Strategic Objective

Asia Pacific Co-operative Youth Forum

Rationale and Theme

“Future Challenges for Youth as a Strategic Group for Co-operative Development” The importance of Information technology and the easy transfer of knowledge have been realised

by the co-operative movement in the previous decade The co-operative Principles lay down the value attached to education and training and the benefits of co-operation among co-operatives The ICA AP Youth Workshop in 2011 at the Institute of Co-operative Management in Kannur often

hailed as the ‘Rochdale of the east’, on the theme - Co-operative Entrepreneurship & Green

Innovations saw a participation of over 100 students and 25 staff members from co-operative

institutions along with ICYAP Members A session on Co-operative entrepreneurship was given by Prof Yashwanth Dongre (of the ICA Committee on Univ Campus Cooperatives) and a session on ‘Knowledge Platforms- UN Solution Exchange Community’ was taken by Dr R.K Jalan (Resource Person-United Nations Development Programme) The subsequent meetings of the ICA Committee on youth took place on the internet from the ICA AP Business Office in Singapore and a strategic plan to develop the skills and knowledge of the cooperative youth in IT technology was adopted It is the mandate

of ICYAP to continue exploring such avenues and make them available to a large section of youth associated with the co-operative sector and organise an internet platform based on the so called

‘Business Solutions’ This was initiated at the 5th Meeting by the Secretariat and the same will be given expert opinion on by the UNDP at the Asia Pacific Co-operative Youth Forum A relationship between ICYAP and UNDP will be pursued further as a strategy at the 6th Meeting A list of speakers

as their topics is as hereunder:

Speaker Background Theme

Ms Pratibha Sharma

Assistant Business Manager,

Solid Waste Collection and

Handling[SWACH] Plus

Pratibha has completed an MA in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, with a specialization in women centered social work She also holds a B.Tech degree from National Institute of Technology, Surat Keenly interested in working with women waste pickers, she joined SWaCH in January 2013 as Assistant Business Manager for SWaCH Her primary responsibilities currently involve Business Expansion of various activities under SWaCH Plus (like E-waste, ST Dispo Bags, V-Collect, Composting, and other SWaCH products), to be able to strengthen existing co-operative's activities and also create new business opportunities towards Cooperative's sustainable future

CASE STUDY OF The Solid Waste Collection and Handling Co-operative [SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit]

& the role of youth

in its affairs

Dr Ramesh K Jalan

Resource Person & Moderator,

Climate Change community,

Solution Exchange, United Nations

Development Fund

Dr Ramesh Jalan has over 25 years of experience

in the environment, sustainable development and climate change sector He holds a PhD in Municipal Solid Waste Management from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; Master

of Business Laws (MBL) from National Law School

of India University; Master of Science in Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial &

Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA and Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), Chemical Engineering, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India His past association with UNIDO as National Programme Officer (Energy & Environment) has provided substantial policy, technical advisory and project management experience He has over 100 publications in international and national journals of repute He has been awarded the “Sustainability Award” by Core Sector Communiqué, Kolkata The Solution Exchange platform in India was recently awarded the “Best Initiative Award for Localized Application/Content” by the eWorld Forum,

2012 The International Association of Educators for World Peace( NGO Affiliate of United Nations:

ECOSOC,DPI, UNESCO,UNICEF) at its 33rd World

Environment Congress held on 5-6th June, 2013

on behalf of The Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU) among others have awarded Dr Ramesh Jalan the Green and Clean International Development Award for outstanding contribution

in the area of climate change management

Knowledge Sharing :

Young and Co-operating.

The Successful case

of knowledge sharing community

of the UNDP

Mr Sangay Rinchen

Chief Executive, Happy Green

Co-operatives, Bhutan

Sangay went to High school in Bhutan and finished his Diploma in Agriculture Science from College of Natural resources after which he headed to the Cooperative College of Malaysia in Kulalampur to obtain his Certificate in Cooperative management He is associated with the 2013 – 2015, on global leadership program

on Gross National Happiness – a learning journey

He serves as a farmer and a part time advocate for the farmers & youth in Butan He founded the Happy Green Cooperative in July 2010 before which he was a founding member of Happy Valley Youth Group, the first youth formed group

in Bhutan He began his career as Jr Agriculture Extension Officer, Thimphu Dzongkhag and worked as a graphic designer and Communications officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests as well as the Assistant Cooperative officer in the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives, MoAF

The work-ethic and the Mission of

Cooperative-Bhutan A Case

organisation and mobilisation of youth for co-operative

entrepreneurship

Dr Bhagwati Prasad

Dr Bhagwati Prasad is the former Chief Executive of National Cooperative Union of India has been long associated with the Indian Co-operative movement while serving

as its prime executive He undertook numerous missions and projects during his tenure He was awarded PHD by Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana And serves as the Vice-Chairman of Sahkari Awas Nirman Evam Vitt Nigam Ltd in Lucknow

He is a celebrated speaker and thinker of co-operative influence on the society

Definition, Meaning and Scope of youth

in co-operatives

Mr Babak Khoshnevisan

Expert on International Affairs

and English Language

expert/lecturer/translator for

the Iran Chamber of

Co-operatives

Babak Khoshnevisan is the Expert of International Affairs, Interpreter, translator

at the Central Chamber of Co-operatives of Iran (ICC) He participated in the 9th Co-operative Minister's conference in Thailand

as an expert of international affairs of ICC and a representative of the Iranian Cooperative sector He also has participated

in the Austrian conference of cooperative development as interpreter, lecturer and expert of international affairs He is a published writer on subjects of linguistics

History and Status of Cooperatives in the Central and West Asia, particularly in Iran given the latest political and economic unrest in the country

Dr Chan Ho Choi (Ph.D)

Regional Director- ICA Asia

Pacific (2010-)

Dr Chan Ho Choi is the Regional Director of the ICA in the Asia Pacific He holds a Ph.D

in Development Communication, University

of the Philippines at Los Banos, MS in Agricultural Education, Seoul National University, Korea (August 1984) Dr Choi has served the NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE FEDERATION (NACF) for 32 years from 1978 and was the Member of the Presidential Consultancy Committee in Agricultural Trade and Negotiations, General Manager, International Cooperation Office, NACF and a Professor and Director for Academic and Student Affairs, Agricultural Cooperative College (NACF), Korea He also served the Agricultural Cooperative Advisor, International Co-operative Alliance, (ICA), Geneva-Switzerland He was also the team Leader for the International Trade in the International Cooperation Office; Senior Economist in the Research Department, NACF from 1996 to 2002 He has worked with the Food and Fertilizer Technology Center for the Asia and Pacific Region (FFTC-ASPAC), Taipei, Taiwan for three years He was inducted as an honorary Member of the ICA Committee on Youth Co-operation in Asia Pacific on 4 October 2012 during the 2nd

E-Meeting of the Committee held from Singapore

Moderator of the Open Session

Role of Youth in the Strategic Objectives

of ICA Asia Pacific

Macro Areas of the Session

-Climate Change and Natural Crisis

-Informatech and Media Development -Coop-Professionalism and Worth Ethic conducive to work for a coop

Country representatives

A speaking time of 2 minutes each || Theme: Youth in my country’s Co-operatives || Includes observers

Bangladesh

Ms Mahila Tasnin Bangladesh Jatiya Samabaya Union - BJSU

China

Mr LI Xingwen,

Ms Xiao Xue, Mr.HOU Zhenmin, Mr.WANG Pengliang

All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Co-operatives

Mr Amit Bajaj,

Mr Jaipal Reddy,

Mr M.A.Khan ,

Dr Sukesh Zamwar,

Mr Vishal Singh

National Labour Co-operative Federation National Federation of State Cooperative Banks Ltd.

Fisheries Co-operative Federation Asian Confederation of Credit Unions National Co-operative Union of India

Indonesia

Mr Ilham Nasai Dewan Koperasi Indonesia (Dekopin)

(Indonesian Co-operative Council)

Iran

Mr Babak Khoshnevisan,

Mr Mortez Abedinaddaf

Iran Chamber of Co-operatives

Malaysia

Ms Noor Shafeeza Binti Zainuddin

Co-operative College of Malaysia

Mongolia

Ms Zoljargal Munkhsaikhan,

Ms Munguntuya Bazar

Mongolian Cooperative Training and Information Center (MCTIC)

Mongolian Co-operative Alliance

Nepal

Ms Indira Pant

Sanchar Cooperative Ltd Board of Director Nepal Health Care Cooperative Ltd

Pakistan

Mr Ahsan Ali Thakur Karachi Co-operative Housing Societies Union

Ms Divina D Divinagracia National Confederation of Co-operatives

Sri lanka

Mr De Silva Wawlagala Roshan Priyanka

Mr.Ukwaththa Liyanage Udaya Prabath

Mr Babakattadige Suranga Chamara Kumara

Sri Lanka Consumer Cooperative Societies Federation Limited

In will be the mandate of the committee to create an influence on the youth in co-operatives through proper forum, and it shall be the committee’s objective to provide a platform for the youth

at the UN World Youth Conference in Sri Lanka in 2014 This objective is laid in order to create awareness on the co-operative model of enterprise and expose the co-operative-option to the future leaders of the world

The 6th Meeting of the ICA Committee on Youth in Asia Pacific is the major event taking place at the venue Due to the unavailability of the incumbent board during the 5th Meeting at Kobe, the committee in its collective wisdom chose to conduct the election to the ICA-AP Youth Board and nominated an interim chairperson in Mr Ahsan Ali Thakur (Karachi Co-operative Housing Societies Union-Pakistan) to conduct the 5th Meeting and also open the Election Meeting The 6th Meeting shall evaluate the message from the Co-operative Youth forum and address important constitutional matters such as the Rights and Duties of members, functions of the board; finance; IT support; media and publications; apart from the conduct of its election The task before the Committee is to arrive at a definition of ‘Youth’ in relation to the co-operative sector and draw a statement evidencing the collective Mission and Vision of youth in co-operatives A report on which will be sent to ILO’s Co-operative Department for its record

HERE PLEASE PLACE BULDANA MAP

Study visit programme of 17th

Programme

ASIA PACIFIC COOPERATIVE YOUTH FORUM

“Future Challenges for Youth as a strategic Group for Co-operative Development”

1000 hrs – 1700hrs || Thursday ||July 18, 2013

1 1000 – 1110

(Registration

at front desk)

Inauguration Progamme

a Opening Ceremony

b Watering the plant

c March with Countries

d Cultural Programme

e Speech by Chief Guest

f Address by ICA Regional Director

g Address by Dignitaries

Dr Sukhesh Zamwar – Host Organisation || CEO – BUCCS

2 1115 – 1135 Address by Country representatives

‘Youth in cooperatives in my country’ –

2 minutes per country

3 1135-1245

Session I

The Art of Knowledge Exchange for the Young and Co-operating

Knowledge Platforms – To lay foundation for Cooperative Business Solutions to provide easy

& free knowledge exchange among cooperatives.

Dr R.K Jalan – Resource Person and Moderator – United Nations Development Programme

4 1240-1400 Lunch Break and transfer to Meeting Hall

5

Definition, Meaning and Scope of youth in co-operatives

Dr Bhagwati Prasad, Chief Executive (former) , National Cooperative Union of India

The Solid Waste Collection and Handling Co-operative [SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit]

& the role of youth in its Management and affairs

Ms Pratibha Sharma , Assistant Manager: SWACH Plus

The work-ethic and the Mission of Happy green Cooperative- Bhutan

Mr Sangay Rinchen CEO- Happy Green Co-operatives

History and Status of Cooperatives in the Central and West Asia

9 1620 – 1655 Special Open Session

Role of Youth in the Strategic Objectives of ICA

The participants get a chance to freely interact with the Regional Director on issues pertaining

to cooperative development in the Asia Pacific region

Following topics to be addressed

CLIMATE CHANGE

IT DEVELOPMENT Coop PROFESSIONALISM and WORK ETHIC

COMMUNICATION

Dr.Chan Ho Choi, Regional Director Honorary Member – ICYAP

10 1655 – 1700 Vote of Thanks

Closing and Group Picture

Dr Sukesh Zamwar

Programme for the 6th Meeting of the ICA Committee on Youth for Asia Pacific