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Evaluation of The National Youth Policy of Barbados 2011—2016 countries, possibly due to the lack of affordable household solutions. The dynamic nature and cost factors in the use of land and rental of properties made this objective much more difficult to achieve in spite of the fact that the GOB would want to ensure that young citizens can have affordable housing solutions (whether owned or rented). Nonetheless, a number of the objectives in relation to providing information about housing solutions and provision of housing for the vulnerable were achieved. However, it appeared evident that overall the nature of free market forces tended to stymy the full achievement of this Goal more than when the NYP was designed. GOAL (G): To enable young people to tackle LIFESTYLE DISEASES, especially HIV/AIDS. The goal was a cross-cutting theme which was addressed by several public/private stakeholders. The available evidence suggested that much success was achieved in meeting the objectives of prevention at primary and secondary care levels. HIV Infection rates had generally trended downwards with neo-natal care being consistent with first world standards. In addition, much of the stigma and discrimination about HIV/AIDS was addressed and reduced through the extensive psychoeducational campaign embarked on by public/private sector agencies. GOAL (H): To facilitate more adequate participation by young people in the POLITICAL PROCESS. Notwithstanding that a number of objectives were written in an aspirational format and were outside of the scope of the DOYA, the overall goal of enhancing participation of young people in the political process was generally achieved in the creation of the Barbados National Youth Parliament (BNYP). The BNYP emerged as a dynamic platform for young participants which not only taught young people about governance systems but provided an environment from which the next generation of political leaders could emerge. In addition, a number of CSOs and NGOs had presented a variety of philosophies that challenged the traditional political assumptions. It was fair to say nonetheless that youth advocacy has not resulted in any significant 5
Evaluation of The National Youth Policy of Barbados 2011—2016 change in the political process. GOAL (I): To get young people to better protect our ENVIRONMENT practices to sustain the environment. In this regard, the recommendations from the Green Environment Scoping Study 2014 would seem to provide a necessary policy roadmap (GESS pp13). Overall, the objectives of this goal were met with varying levels of success. There was evidence that both public and private agencies were working to protect the environment and that young people were involved in a number of initiatives to preserve and protect the environment. The general feeling was that there appeared to be a significant gap between awareness and availability of requisite skills and expertise in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of the green economy. One of the challenges however was the limited public/private financing in this area which reduced the reach of sustainable environmental programmes. Another challenge found was that a number of young people were still not fully cognizant of the value added from the environment and took its benefits for granted. There was therefore a need for continuous education and involvement of more stakeholders at the community level in delivering sensitization campaigns and promotion of healthy 6
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