Hon. Godfrey Mgimwa, makes his point during the d ebating on the topic titled addressing socio-economic challenges from a you...
WORLD'S YOUNG MP'S MEETS TO TACKLE CONFLICT AND ECONOMIC
CRISIS
Owen Mwandumbya, Tokyo, Japan
More than 200 young MPs from around
the world, are gathered in Tokyo Japan from 27 and 28 May, 2015 to attending the
IPU Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians at the Japanese Parliament, organized
by the Inter–Parliamentary Union and the National Diet of Japan, aiming at identifying
solutions to key global issues that impact heavily on youth particularly
economic crisis.
The Conference is an annual global
youth-led political platform to define policies and action to tackle the
challenges faced by young people in the world who represents more than 60% population
of the world which are the youth.
The focus of this Tokyo conference is
on democracy, Peace and prosperity whereby statistics show that young people
are suffering a disproportionate and worsening impact in the global financial
and economic crisis, and are significantly more likely than the rest of the
adult population to be unemployed.
Among the attendee is the Tanzania
delegation of four young MPs from Bunge namely Hon. David kafulila, Hon. Ester
Bulaya, Hon. Godfrey Mgimwa and Hon. Neema Mgaya who also shared some practical
experience from Tanzania on the best way of involving young people in peace
building in the region:
Stressing on the issue Migration as
the result of conflict and Violence, Hon. Kafulila, said, Africa is the most
venerable continent and in so doing, Tanzania has managed to establish an
exchange programs with youth from neighboring countries which mostly suffer
from these conflict so that they can learn and engaged themselves in peace
building by advocating democracy in their countries.
“We have managed to change the mindset
of youth from our neighboring countries and now they are taking part in
democratic process in their countries instead of escalating violence particular
in Rwanda and Congo” Said Kafulila
Issues under the spotlight that
raised the attention was also the continuing impact of the economic crisis and
ways of working towards young people’s vision of a prosperous world whereby
they examined how they can empower their peers to address the socio-economic
challenges they are facing.
Earlier debating on the topic titled
addressing socio-economic challenges from a youth perspective, Tanzania made
remarkable contribution made by Hon. Godfrey Mgimwa which focused on strategies
and solutions that can address the issue of illegal migration from third Word
to the First World Countries by advocating the need of engagement of youth in
decision making and empowering them through SME’s Loans.
“ Migration is a serious challenge
to our economic growth in third word countries, youth are busy hunting decent
jobs and opportunities in first word countries, these is the manpower we are
loosing so easily, let us make them feel that they are party of our decision by
engaging them and we can also give them loans to start SME’s so that they can contribute
to our economic development” added Hon. Mgimwa
With UN figures suggesting that 600
million young people are living in conflict zones, and amid growing concerns
over the engagement of youth in violent extremism, the role of young people in
eliminating violence and conflict is also explored whereby special attention is
being paid to the issue of violence against youth, including young women and
girls.
IPU believes it is crucial for young
people to be fully engaged in the democratic process, and to be better
represented in the world’s parliaments.
Five years ago IPU adopted a major
resolution on Youth Participation in the Democratic Process, calling for fresh
action from states, parliaments, political parties and other relevant groups to
draw more young people into the formal democratic process. The Global
Conference of Young Parliamentarians will renew this world commitment for youth
in politics.
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