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The International Association for National Youth Service
 
9
th
Global Conference on National Youth Service 
Bibliotheca AlexandrinaAlexandria, Egypt 25-27 October 2010
Final Report 
 
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CONTENTS
 About IANYS
..................................................................................................................... 3
 
Lifetime Achievement Award to Donald J. Eberly,IANYS Founder and Honorary President 
................................................................... 4
 
Executive Summary
........................................................................................................ 6
 
Introduction
................................................................................................................... 10
 
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Creating an enabling environment for youth civic participation
.................. 15
 
Considerations for the youth civic engagement field ....................................................... 15Supporting legal, institutional and social conditions foryouth civic engagement ................................................................................................................ 18Policy and youth service infrastructure as enabling factors.......................................... 20
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Youth service and transitions to adulthood
.................................................... 23
 
Youth leadership ............................................................................................................................. 23Youth employability ....................................................................................................................... 25Youth social entrepreneurship .................................................................................................. 29
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Youth service contributions to development and peace
.............................. 32
 
Meeting community needs .......................................................................................................... 32Promoting social cohesion .......................................................................................................... 34Peace-building .................................................................................................................................. 37
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 Assessing the impact of youth service
.............................................................. 39
 
How to measure impacts in NYS programs? ........................................................................ 39Methods for assessing impact .................................................................................................... 41How to measure the cost-effectiveness of NYS programs? ............................................ 43The need for shared tools and experience ............................................................................ 44
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How IANYS Can Respond to the Needs of the Field
........................................ 45
 
Strengthening the knowledge base for national youth service .................................... 45Improving program design and practice ............................................................................... 46Promoting strong policy for youth civic engagement ...................................................... 47Facilitating the exchange of information and resources ................................................. 48
 APPENDIX 1: IANYS 9
TH
GLOBAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT LIST
................... 51
  APPENDIX 2: CONFERNCE AGENDA WITH SESSIONS AND PRESENTERS
........... 61
 APPENDIX 3: Acknowledgements
............................................................................. 71
 
 
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Preface
 The International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) is a unique global net-work of practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and other professionals actively workingto encourage countries worldwide to implement policies and programs that support youthcivic engagement. Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) is the permanent secretariat of IANYS. The Association was formed in 1996 at the third Global Conference on NationalYouth Service, and has grown to include participants from 48 different countries on sixcontinents. Its steering committee, the Global Council, consists of 14 experts on youth ser-vice from 13 countries around the world.In 2007, Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) was selected as the permanent secretariat for IANYS on the basis of its experience and expertise as a leader in the global movement topromote sustainable development and social change through youth community engage-ment. Since then ICP has expanded the IANYS network and is working to strengthen thecapacity of IANYS to support youth service professionals in increasing and improving op-portunities for young people to participate in addressing critical national and communityneeds while building essential skills for future success.As youth civic engagement becomes increasingly recognized worldwide as a strategy foraddressing critical social and development issues, IANYS has witnessed growing demandfor technical assistance and expertise in designing, implementing, evaluating, and refiningyouth programs and policies. IANYS meets this demand by:Building the professional capacity of practitioners and policymakers;Facilitating the exchange of information, resources and program models;Promoting strong youth policy that supports youth civic engagement; andConnecting programs to experts and consultants worldwide.These activities have cultivated a global community of well-informed and resourceful prac-titioners, policymakers, and researchers dedicated to creating high-quality and effectiveopportunities for young people to pursue economic, social, and academic success whilecontributing to positive change in their communities.The IANYS Global Conference is held every two years in a different region of the world andprovides a unique and stimulating forum for professionals to share information and cur-rent developments with other policymakers, practitioners, and researchers. It nurturesconnections for developing future projects and explores the potential impact of youth civicparticipation on community and youth development. Past conferences have been held inFrance, Ghana, Argentina, Israel, the UK, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria and the US.This report summarizes the outcomes of the IANYS 9th Global Conference. For more infor-mation about IANYS, visit www.icicp.org/ianys.  Susan Stroud, Director, IANYS and Jean Manney, Lead Conference Organizer, IANYS
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