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CCIVS Youth Committee
The Youth Committee supports the CCIVS Executive Committee and Secretariat in developing the youth dimension and implementing the CCIVS strategic plan. It aims to communicate with young people directly, expressing their needs and advocating for their role in volunteering. CCIVS provides a space for young people to give direct input, learn to advocate for IVS, and give direction to CCIVS policies from their youth perspective.
The objectives are guided by the conviction that young people are powerful agents of change and that their involvement is essential for building a more just, inclusive and sustainable world. By working with CCIVS, we are committed to achieving the following objectives, they aim to ensure that the CCIVS Youth Committee effectively engages with young volunteers, supports their development, and integrates their perspectives into the organisation’s activities and policies. These objectives align with the justification and purpose outlined in the CCIVS Youth Committee Guidelines.
Represent diverse youth within CCIVS and at external events, focusing on youth issues.
Contribute to the internal agenda of CCIVS by being a part of the decision making process and create an exchange between the needs of IVS organisations on the one hand and youth on the other hand
Strengthen local, national and international networks by fostering collaboration among IVS organisations and multistakeholders
Share the mission and vision of the IVS and CCIVS to the world through youth advocacy
Integrate the youth perspective in order to develop a strong and efficient worldwide networking aiming to reach the IVS and CCIVS values.
Meet CCIVS Youth Committee Team
The Role of
The Youth Committee
Young people are key to the development and promotion of CCIVS. The Youth Committee representatives are designated by CCIVS member organisations and support the CCIVS Executive Committee (EC) and Secretariat with the development of the youth dimension of our activities
Functioning and Meetings
The Youth Committee meets online once in a month, the dates to be defined before the EC meetings in order to ensure that the content discussed is feeding and informing the discussions of the EC.
Where possible, members of the Youth Committee are encouraged to take part in CCIVS training programmes, to give them the opportunity to learn more about IVS and to develop their policymaking and advocacy skills.
Youth Committee Guidelines
The commitment of the members of the Youth Committee is to represent and advocate for the rights, values and concerns of youth and bring the youth perspective inside CCIVS, whether in decision-making, providing new opportunities, or being partofvarious projects/activities of CCIVS. With the hope that in the future it will be the youth themselves who lead, in a participatory way, the IVS movement with the objective of transforming to a morejust, honest, diverse and equal reality.