Preparing for the World Conference on Youth

In about a week from today (I'm still not quite sure when I'll depart as I haven't seen any tickets or itinerary...) I will be setting off for Sri Lanka, where I will be facilitating one of the Gender Equality round tables at the World Conference on Youth. Ahead of the event I will be taking over the @gguidinganglia twitter account for a chat about my role and WAGGGS priorities on Thursday evening. I will be online from 7-8pm BST to answer any questions about what I am doing and how you can get involved in advocacy through Guiding and Girl Scouts. Tweet any questions you might have to @Pippab3 or @gguidinganglia in the meantime and I will answer them on Thursday.

Inputs for suggested amendments to the zero draft or the outcome document had to be in by Friday and the youth task force is now looking at these ahead of the start of negotiations with governments during the conference. My role at the conference, facilitating a round table, will feed into an appendix to the outcome document highlighting the discussions had. I'll also be speaking in one of the plenaries about Gender Equality. There is also already a zero draft of is document on the WCY2014 website, as well as a series of issue briefs giving a background to each of the thematic areas we will be talking about.

I will also be doing another chat on the 14th May to fill you in on what happened at the conference and more ways for you to get involved!