Rationale
COVID-19 induced shutdown has resulted in education disruption
and job loss for the young population. The pandemic has decimated
the work landscape and has devastated the education system.
Psychological stress among young people has heightened due to
distancing from sports, socialization, and entertainment. During
this pandemic, youth have to adjust to new sets of employability
skills, a slow paced economy, extensive health measures, and new
learning modes.
This policy talk series offered an inclusive platform for a broad
range of stakeholders to emphasize on policy actions that would
collectively advance the post-COVID19 youth development agendas.
The insights and analysis presented in this policy talk series set
a significant cornerstone for the post-COVID19 deliberations and
will reinforce the promise of post-COVID19 youth development and
transform the lives of youth across the country. Through this
project, we can understand what this vast population of youth has
to say regarding matters that benefit their welfare in covid
situation and also how policy would help them to become more
efficient in society.
Objective
To identify and propose the action for youth to deal with
challenges related to Post-COVID19 youth development.
Activity
Details
The Talk Show was held on 04 September, 2020 via online social
media platforms. The talk show consisted of an Inaugural session
which was followed by five (5) thematic sessions which culminated
in a Plenary session on the agenda of Post Covid19: Youth
Development.
In the inaugural plenary Young Bangla presented a framework of
youth development integral to post Covid19 recovery plan for the
nation. This framework was based on the suggestions and
recommendations that were obtained during different consultations
and Let’s Talk organized by Young Bangla during the COVID19
pandemic, from March to June 2020. Five (5) parallel sessions
(Let’s Talk) were held on the following topics to facilitate the
discussion of the implementation of the post-COVID19 Youth
Development agenda:
- Youth in Covid19 Recovery
- Covid 19 Recovery: Education & Youth Employability
- Employment & Youth Entrepreneurship
- COVID 19 Recovery Plus: Health, Sports & Youth Wellbeing
- Resilient Youth & Creative Endeavors.
12 Panelists were present in the session of Inaugural Let’s Talk
on COVID-19:Youth Development. Where various youth representatives
from across the country actively took part in this series. They
were Youth leaders, achievers, academics, practitioners,
registered youth participants, and policymakers. Penalists talked
about the overall youth situation during covid-19. How they are
contributing to this pandemic and how different measures were
taken concerning them. Ex- BYLC youth training and mental health
program etc. how their contributions can be put into strong
recognition to encourage them to do more effective and
volunteering work for the community.
In the session of youth in Covid-19 Recovery they particularly
talked about the problems youth are facing in preventing covid-19.
How their situation can be improved in the post covid situation,
the health measures, education measures, volunteerism activities,
how can they contribute more to the society. In those
consultations and the talk show, panelists also talked about
education and youth employability situations, opportunities,
accessibilities, entrepreneurship, funding, limitations, their
health and other recreational , social activities throughout the
different sessions.
It created a platform for the youth to share their concern and
thoughts of the COVID-19 situations along with their
recommendations which will be shared with the policy makers of the
country. Panelists also recommended integrated youth-friendly
development policies and actions to be taken in the post COVID19
recovery phase.The recommendations were compiled and were shared
in the last day session. Based on the vetting, initiatives were
taken to combine the government and the policy makers for
contributing to an effective change.
