ICYO- Youth Information

No. 2009/47

(E-Newsletter from network of youth organizations in India)

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ICYO - Platform of 358 Youth Organizations in India.       

ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural youth.

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Announcement of Annual Stepping Stones Training

 

ActionAid and CYDA is pleased to announce the 2009 SS TOT in English  to be held from 3rd to 13 November 2009 at Ecumenical Christian Centre, Bangalore, India.  Working with communities on the issues of gender, sexuality and HIV and AIDS requires constant innovation and participatory approach. Stepping Stones offers a unique opportunity to explore these aspects and equips participants with better skills to deal with them. Participants from diverse backgrounds who have undergone this training have reported at as ‘a life changing experience’. Personal, family  and community changes as a result of Stepping Stones have been documented in many countries including India.

 

About Stepping Stones:

·        Stepping Stones is a unique training methodology which can be applied with all sections of population irrespective of gender, sexuality, language, culture or education. The training aims to equip the participants with skills in the areas of communication relationship, gender, sexuality, reproductive health and HIV and AIDS.

·        The training provides an opportunity to look into the very core and essence of individual behaviour, social/community attitudes and their impact on relationships and lives of people.  It also provides a platform to voice opinion and share experiences to arrive at multiple solutions borne out of varying perspectives for the issue at hand.  

·        Stepping Stones uses a participatory approach which believes in fission-fusion methodology, where women & men discuss sensitive issues separately in peer groups and then learn from each other through fusion. This has been proved to be very effective both in building perspective as well as encouraging sustainable behavior change.

·        The TOT will give the participants an opportunity to learn about HIV and AIDS and related issues through special sessions by technical resource persons.
          Those who are interested please apply in the prescribed form to Mr. Mathew Mattam- CYDA email cyda@... or call 9423180160.

 

Youth Information is published by

Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO)

194-A, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjang Enclave

New Delhi 110029, India

Phone: 91 9811729093  / 91 11 26183978 Fax 91 11 26198423

Email: icyoindia@... / icyo@...

Web:  www.icyo.in

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Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) is a registered non-profit, non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in India. 

ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of
over 356 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Our goal:
To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth Organizations;
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
To promote effective youth programmmes;
To organize network of civil society organizations working towards the development of youth work;
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
To maintain international relation with organizations promoting young people in their programmes and activities

Affiliation: 

Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC);
 CRIN, South Asia Youth Environment Network (SAYEN),

Affiliate group of ECPAT International, Thailand;
ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO);
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD);
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.