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MEDIA STATEMENT NATIONAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NYDA Chairperson to embark on provincial road-shows towards the establishment of NYDA provincial chapters The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Board Chairperson Andile Lungisa will embark on countrywide provincial road-shows from 22 October to 12 November 2009 starting from the Eastern Cape on 22 October and finishing in the Western Cape. The road-shows are part of the processes of popularizing the NYDA and outlining its 8 key performance areas namely Economic Participation, Education and Skills Development, Effective and Efficient Resources Management, Information Services and Communication, National Youth Service, Policy, Lobby and Advocacy, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation and Social Cohesion. During the road-shows Lungisa will meet with strategic stakeholders in the youth development sector including Premiers, government and municipality officials, traditional leaders and civil society organizations. He will take this time to outline to the different stakeholders the process towards the establishment of the NYDA provincial chapters. "It is fundamentally important that we go to provinces to sell the vision of the NYDA, outline our strategic direction and receive inputs from different key role-players, where necessary as the success of our work will depend on their support." says Lungisa. He says since the merger of the National Youth Commission and Umsobomvu Youth Fund to form the NYDA, a number of provinces have moved to repeal the Acts that established the Provincial Youth Commission (PYCs). "It will not be an ideal situation to create a vacuum at that level, provinces are an important tier of the structure of government, so we also want to move with speed in closing that gap," says Lungisa. Further to that the NYDA is planning to establish local NYDA offices in all the 283 municipalities in the country to ensure accessibility to young people. Lungisa says unlike in the past, the NYDA will ensure that young people do not walk more than 50 kilometers to access NYDA services. "We will also have mobile offices to reach even the most remote rural areas. During our provincial visits we will outline all these processes to our provincial and local counterparts," concludes Lungisa. During the road-shows Lungisa will be accompanied by other NYDA Board members; they will also visit projects run by young people including National Youth Service (NYS) projects. This forms part of the first phase of the NYDA's provincial visits and will be followed by Izimbizo where the NYDA will meet young people. Details of the visits are as follows: 22 to 23 October 2009 Eastern Cape 26 to 27 October 2009 Northern Cape 28 to 29 October 2009 Free State 30 to 31 October 2009 North West 02 to 03 October 2009 Limpopo 04 to 05 November 2009 Mpumalanga 06 to 07 November 2009 Gauteng 09 to 10 November 2009 KwaZulu Natal 11 to 12 November 2009 Western Cape FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT: Siyabonga Magadla Refilwe Mphane National Youth Development Agency National Youth Development Agency 083 686 9016 084 308 5860 [email protected]<http://us.mc543.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> [email protected]<http://us.mc543.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> <http://www.youthportal.org.za/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
