UN Analysis Final.pdf - United Nations in Cambodia

Led by the UN Adolescent, Youth and HIV Working Group in line with their planning document for 2009
UNCT will host a preliminary workshop to discuss the possibility of a comprehensive national youth
survey. Experiences from a range of other Asian youth surveys will be presented and time given to
consider and discuss the methodologies, scope of content, challenge of implementation, research
partners and opportunities for mobilizing resources.
UNICEF and WHO to provide resources for youth survey experts by end of July 2009.
3. Mainstream adolescent and youth needs and rights into the priority areas of UNCT work for
2009/2010 (through ensuring a deliberate lens on strategy development), into the UNDAF 2009,
and into new UN documents/publications including the Democracy and Development safety
nets in D and D.
4. Develop key messages focused on the risks and inequalities young people face, and advocate
for policy protection, improved programming and services, including mobilizing resources
for youth-focused and youth-led initiatives.
5. Mainstream youth focus on resource allocation and application of a youth lens in the poverty
reduction process
6. Require a disaggregation of findings by gender, age and geography (urban, rural, and remote)
in all UN agency documents, monitoring and evaluation methods and grants to other partners).
Youth-specific information should, where possible, be further disaggregated to reflect 10-14,
15-19 and 20-24 age groups.
Policy
Education Health Employment Social Protection Rights and
participation
Develop and enforce
pro-poor education
policies
with a focus on
1) inclusiveness of the
most vulnerable
and
marginalized
2) Support cash/kind
from public and
private institutions
to enable the rural
poor, especially
girls, to continue
their studies
in secondary and
post-secondary
education
3) Technical and
vocational
education and
training to respond
to market demand
and long-term
national
development
policy
Advocate for
implementation of
Cambodia’s signature
on tobacco and
alcohol control
Advocate for the
decriminalization of
drug use to protect
the rights of young
drug users and
prevent spread of HIV
Enforce the age of
marriage laws
Identify targeted
interventions for
MARA and EVA in
the next national HIV
strategy 2010-2015
(UNCT led by UNAIDS)
Expand health equity
funds to cover all
operational districts
to ensure the poorest
have access to free
services at the point
of delivery.
Review Labour law to
demonstrate specific
protection for young
people, with specific
reference to health and
safety in the workplace
Push for national policy
impacting on youth
employment including
subject areas of
labour market, land
reforms and
agriculture/irrigation
Finalize the draft
Juvenile Justice Law.
Mainstream
participation of young
people into the D &D
process by including
specific references in
UN & and government
documentation.
Develop mechanisms
and systems to ensure
youth have a voice
and are an integral
and dynamic part of
village/commune,
provincial and
national level
development
planning .
(UNDP, UNICEF,
UNFPA, UNV,
UNESCO,)
Volunteering Policy
developed and integrated
with Youth
Policy, Education Policies
and Employment
Policies.
( UNV, VIOs and NGOs)
By end 2009
98 Situation Analysis of Youth in Cambodia