vulnerable achieve their full potential through the creation of a supportive environment that upholds their right to survival, development, protection and participation.
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The specific article in Guyana’s constitution (28) Chapter 2 stipulates: Every young person has the right to ideological, social, cultural and vocational development and to the right of the socialist order of society. There are a few programmes which provide support for underprivileged youth and who are soon to be illegible for work. These programmes are: work readiness skills training/ work ready NOW, technical skills, and entrepreneurship skills. There are few nationally and regionally accredited training programmes available, and a number of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that offer these programmes in remote and underserved communities across Guyana. The Government of Guyana recognises and embraces its responsibility to support youth development, it also understands that it cannot advance the youth development agenda on its own and therefore recognises the role and importance of the other actors. The buy-in and continued support of these stakeholders are key to the success of the youth development movement. The youth actors are depicted below. Key Youth Development Actors • • • •
Youth Government and Public Sector Religious Insitutions Justice Systems
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Family and Kinship Units Sports International and Regional Agencies Private Sector Media CSOs, IGOs, and NGOs Educational Institutions
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Youth work covers a large scope of social, cultural, educational or political activities by, with and for young people. It is about ‘out-of-school’ education and leisure time activities managed by professional or voluntary youth workers and youth leaders. It is based on non-formal learning and voluntary participation. Italy is still one of the few European countries where there is not a specific legislation on youth. Even the youth representative body (the National Youth Forum and the Ministry for Youth (or Department of Youth) have been established rather recently, respectively in 2005 and 2006. The Department of Youth and national civil service is the support structure to the President of the Council of Ministers for the promotion and the fitting of government actions to ensure the implementation of policies for youth. It is also in charge in the development of the community service and conscientious objection. Regarding the legal framework for youth work in the country, youth work is new profession, not yet recognised in Italy and not yet recognized by the education and vocational training systems. It comes from EU strategy and Youth program (White paper, EU Commission 2001) and it is often identified as a Community centres animator; it differs from the educator. Youth worker can be a man or a woman, aged between 20
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