Green Economy Eco-Business Innovation Challenge

The Green Economy Eco-Business Innovations Challenge (GEEBIZ) is a global business innovations challenge for young people to express their vision and entrepreneurship skills and apply them to the building of a green economy. The ultimate goal is to ENCOURAGE young people (up to age 30) to put forward innovative business ideas that can form the building blocks of a new, clean green economy based on renewable energy, resource efficiency, social equity, and the restoration as well as the conservation of the earth's eco- systems

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Call For Papers: 2010 National Youth Conversation Conference on Peace, Reforms and Youth Economic Empowerment, 12th-16th Oct 2010

Kenya Youth Parliament, the organizers of the 2010 National Youth Conversation; Conference on Peace, Reforms & Youth Economic Empowerment in Nairobi, Kenya from Oct 12th to 16th, 2010 invites you to participate in the oncoming largest gathering that brings together social activists, peace builders and  youth leaders in the pursuit and defining of a Better Kenya.

This conference brings together only four (4) participants from every constituency as a ‘Call to Action’ to assist young people ‘learn’ and ‘understand’ their roles in Building a Peaceful Kenya and provide them with tools, information and ideas of participating and influencing the Reforms Agenda at the grassroots levels.

This will be achieved through the design of Individual Action Plans (IAP’s) to be implemented at grassroots level and coordinated Constituency Actions Plans (CCAP’s) to be coordinated by Kenya Youth Parliament and its partners.

This conference is a follow-up of activities being ran under the aegis of the Youth Platform for Change “YP4C” namely the National Youth Conversation Café’s in the grassroots areas, the Koffi Annan Justice and Peace National Tournament Coordinated by  Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) and Sports Connect Academy (SCA) , and a play which has been specifically scripted to capture the issues in the proposed constitution as well as the events during and after the post-election, radio drama and stage play to be staged at different venues of the country by Artists Forum International (AFI).

To learn much more about Youth Platform for Change (YP4C) and its partners, write to info@kenyayouthparliament.org, copa@copafrica.org and safer. Nairobi@gmail.com

Community Youth Katiba meetings

Following the publication of the Harmonised Draft of Kenya's Constitution, the Community Youth Katiba meetings have now been confirmed.

The community meetings will be low cost activities whose purpose is to collate the views of the youth in the draft constitution. The meetings in the provinces will last between 3 and 5 hours maximum.

The Community Youth Katiba meetings schedule is:

1. Western Province (Busia, Bungoma, Kakamega) 7th December 2009

2. Nyanza Province (Kisumu, Kisii, Siaya) 8th December 2009

3. Rift Valley Province (North Rift, Nakuru, Narok) 9th December 2009

4. Central Province (Nyeri, Thika, Kiambu) 10th December 2009

5. Nairobi Province (North, South, East) 8th and 11th December 2009

6. Eastern Province Embu, Meru, Machakos) 12th December 2009

7. North Eastern Province (Wajir, Mandera, Garissa) 14th December 2009

8. Coast Province (Voi, Mombasa, Malindi) 15th December 2009

9. Collating of the views and Presentation of the memorandum to the CoE on 17th December 2009 

For more information, contact:

Emmanuel Dennis Ngongo
Convener - NYC

P.O. Box 8799 - 00200
Nairobi Kenya
Cell: +254 722619005
http://emmanuel-ed.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Emmanueldennis
www.nyckenya.org

Read the Harmonised Draft of Kenya’s Constitution here