Young Women’s World Forum 2010- registration open
21 October 2009
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts will celebrate 100 years of changing lives with a series of unique events taking place each year between 2010 and 2012. For the first time ever Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from around the world will participate in a world forum.
The first Young Women’s World Forum takes place in the United Kingdom in October 2010, and is open to two young women aged 18 to 25 from each Member Organization.
Who is invited to the 2010 Young Women’s World Forum?
All WAGGGS Member Organizations are being invited to send two delegates to the Young Women’s World Forum, who are:
- Young women aged 18 to 25 (at least 18 by 1 October 2010 and still under 26 years old on 31 October 2010)
- Active members of their organization, but do not need to have attended any previous WAGGGS events
- Very good French, English or Spanish speakers to be able to contribute and benefit fully from the Forum
- Committed to running projects or programmes as a follow-up to the Forum
Registration is now open and will take place through a Member Organization’s International Commissioner. If you are a young woman aged between 18 and 25 and a member of WAGGGS and would like to attend the event, please contact your International Commissioner.
The second forum will take place at all four World Centres simultaneously in March 2011. Girl Scouts of the USA will host the final event in 2012. All three events provide an amazing opportunity for young women from WAGGGS’ membership to come together and discuss the UN Millennium Development Goals. Focus on the MDGs
Whilst sharing experiences and ideas will play an important part in the forums they are also about taking action and making things happen. The outcome will be a declaration outlining what WAGGGS and its members, national governments, and other parts of civil society should be doing to achieve the MDGs by 2015. Delegates will also make a commitment to undertake a project in their own countries. More than 1,200 members participated in our survey conducted online and through the World Centres which helped to set the Young Women’s World Forum 2010 agenda. Participants were asked which MDGs are most important to them and their communities. As a result of this survey, the Young Women’s World Forum 2010 will address all of the UN Millennium Development Goals but will focus particularly on:
MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Your comments
Deniese, Trinidad and Tobago - 27 July 2010 - 1.37PM (GMT)
I'm excited about attending the conference. I know that great work is going to come out of this. I agree that eradicating extreme poverty and hunger should be a priority, and the other MDG's would lend support to that as they follow.
Prisca, Madagascar - 29 October 2009 - 12.22PM (GMT)
Sure that the eight goals are all very important but i think the most important is the first on which we, member of the wagggs have just showed we actively participated in and it's the Stand Up Against Poverty. If we manage to achieve this first goal: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, the rest would follow. We, Scouts and Guides are doing a lot for the GAT achivement, let's always keep on that way.
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