8CYMM

The 8^th Meeting of Commonwealth Youth Minsters (8CYMM) will be held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from 15-19 April 2013. With 60 per cent of the Commonwealth’s 2 billion people under the age of 30 years, the meeting's theme will be ‘Young People at the Centre of Sustainable Development’.

Ministers will explore such topics as:

• The economic, social and political empowermentof young people;
• The importance and capacity of young people to take on integrated roles in all aspects of development;
• Cross border, cross sector, cross generational collaboration leading to greater impact;
• A new era of youth development;
• Challenges faced by both governments and young people and successes achieved.

8CYMM will be preceded by the Youth Leaders Forum (15-16 April), Senior Officials Meeting (16 April) and a Stakeholders meeting (16-18 April).

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