<div><STRONG>Dear All</STRONG></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5>The Youth for Community Academic and Development Services (YOCADS) Has been invited through its Executive Director, Alphonso K. Weah to attend the UNIDO/AU High-Level Consultative Meeting on Productive Work for Youth In <SPAN id=lw_1171648883_0 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">West Africa</SPAN> with emphasis on the Mano River Union, to be convened in <SPAN id=lw_1171648883_1 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Accra , Ghana</SPAN> , on 19 and 20 February 2007. The Meeting is being organized in close cooperation with the Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN) and United Nations Office for <SPAN id=lw_1171648883_2 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">West Africa</SPAN> (UBOWA)</FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5>The High-Level Consultative Meeting is one of the preparation events designed to support discussion at the Summit of the Africa Union (AU) Heads of State and Governments in July 2007, which will focus on Africa ’s Industrial Competitiveness and Trade. It is also a follow up to a Ministerial Breakfast Roundtable Meeting hosted by UNIDO Director-General with the support of the secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN) at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) High Level In Geneva.</FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5>Further more, the Meeting aims to generate a better understanding of what works where and why in stimulating employment for youth and to identify concrete initiatives, which governments and their development partners
may wish to undertake. The meeting will bring together Ministers from the region, High-Level representatives of regional intergovernmental organizations from <SPAN id=lw_1171648883_3 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">West Africa</SPAN>, UN agencies, the donors community, private sector representatives, academia, <SPAN> </SPAN>parliamentarians, media ,and organizations of the private sector and civil society particularly youth organizations. TYherefore, I will be in <SPAN id=lw_1171648883_4 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Accra , Ghana</SPAN> from 18-23 February 2007. Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5>Alphonso K. Weah</FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5>Executive
Direcote</FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Cordia New" size=5>YOCADS</FONT></DIV> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Meigs <meigs@wanadoo.fr></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]<BR><BR>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!<BR>_______________________________________<BR><BR><BR><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>Many of you have expressed their interest in the media education kit but<BR>some also have signaled their difficulty in accessing it. Abubakar Alhassan<BR>and Lisa McLaughlin have just explained to me that the error comes from a<BR>wrong segmentation of the word SECTION. The correct URL should keep it all<BR>in one piece, with no space in between the 'S' and the 'E'
. It should read:<BR><BR>http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23714&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_<BR>SECTION=201.html<BR><BR>Many thanks for all your shows of interest. This kit is YOURS to<BR>appropriate, to adapt, to criticize, to improve, etc. In my mind, and the<BR>mind of the Mentor association members, this kit is just a small<BR>contribution to the beginning of what must be a major shift and change of<BR>scale in education worldwide, with sustainable development and cultural<BR>diversity in mind. <BR><BR>We will be testing some sections of the kit in France as a means of<BR>celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Grunwald declaration with a<BR>conference planned in June. Also the kit will be officially launched by<BR>Mentor in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, the 4-7th of March 2007. Among those<BR>attending the conference will be the Ministers of Education from the<BR>countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and other Arab states, as well as<BR>representatives
from developing countries in Asia.<BR><BR>Any initiative of this kind is welcome in other regions of the world. We<BR>need you to raise awareness about currently available research, tools,<BR>pedagogies. We need you to support policies facilitating integration of<BR>media education in national and local curricula. We need you to promote<BR>collaborative efforts among researchers and teachers, internationally. We<BR>need you to connect these efforts with the WSIS e-learning and media action<BR>lines. Education is the key to many doors and many minds. Let's use it,<BR>together.<BR><BR>Best<BR>Divina <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Plenary mailing list<BR>Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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