Host: The Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade of Uganda – National Secretariat.
P.O. 14252 Kampala, Uganda
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FACEBOOK: YOUNG LEADERS' FELLOWSHIP
Global Fellowship of Christian Youth is a Registered Charity in England – No 27503
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The Young Leaders’ Fellowship is a program bringing together young individuals below the age of 35 years. These have recently joined or are preparing to enter the workforce and are dedicated to supporting their communities through volunteering, education and social activities.
HISTORY OF THE YOUNG LEADERS' FELLOWSHIP
The Young Leaders' Fellowship program was launched in August 2006 and has since then registered tremendous achievements. Many other Youth organisations have joined the Fellowship since then,which has given it exuberant momentum to formulate, adopt and establish various activities that are geared towards the enhancement of and capacity development through Life Skills Development.
Mission
Our mission is to create a hub of experience acquisition where young people can network, train and serve their communities through volunteering and social activities that enhance leadership and capacity development.
Activities of the Young Leaders' Fellowship
The Fellowship conducts various innovative, interactive and educative programs and activities with a goal of creating a Hub for experience acquisition. these activities include:-
1. Annual Young Leaders' conference every spring
2. Two Bi Annual Young Leaders' training workshops geared towards individual and organisational Capacity building.
3. Life Skills trainings in schools across the Country
4. Participation in the East Africa Regional Fellowship activities
5. Patricipation in an annual International Young Leaders Conference in August
6. Volunteer placements in Youth organizations in and outside Uganda
TARGET GROUP
The fellowship targets young people between the ages of 15 to 35 years around the country and those willing from other countries
Key achievements since inception in 2006
2007- Trained over 50 Young Leaders from the Boys' and Girls' Brigade of Uganda in Leadership for Development
2008-2009 Trained 50 Youth Leaders' from 35 Parishes in Paralegal training and Peacemaking. This was conducted through the Steadfast Peace and Human Rights Network Human Rights Awareness Programme.
2009- Hosted and Organised the First International Young Leaders' Conference held from the 22nd to 28th August 2011 in Namirembe, Kampala- Uganda
Participants of the 2009 International Young Leaders' Fellowship at an Excursion to the Bujagali Falls on River Nile
June 2010: Young Leaders from Uganda chaired the regional Young Leaders' Fellowship Meeting held on the shores of Lake Victoria at Musoma.
August 2010: Organised the First National Young Leaders' Conference from 15th to 18th August 2010 Naalya Secondary School Lugazi Campus. Over 100 participants gathered from different parts of Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Theme: "TELLING OUR STORIES"
Young Leaders' organizing team Lady Justice Faith Mwondha was among the facilitators
Participants of the 2010 Young Leaders' conference. Facilitators with Bishop Dr. Sekamanya
Presentations for 2010 Young Leaders' Confeence
- Effective Communication: Canon Godfrey Njagala- Station Manager- Namirembe FM
- Mentoring in Leadership: Mr. Stephen Mwebe Sendikadiwa: Central Bank of Uganda
- Leadership Development: Mr. Patrick Bakka Male, Head Teacher: Kings' College Buddo
- Role of Young Leaders in HIV/AIDS prevention: Mrs. Nyombi, Head of Capacity Development for TASO Uganda
Inspirational Stories shared in 2010 conference
- Perseverance in Service: by Lady Justice Faith Mwondha, High Court Judge
- The Road to being an Entrepreneur: Mrs. Miriam Kanakulya, Director GNLD
and Mr. Andrew Bugembe from GNLD
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL YOUNG LEADERS’ CONFERENCE?
The National Young Leaders’ conference is an annual event bringing together Young Leaders under the National Young Leaders’ fellowship to interact and share experiences with an aim of empowering them to serve their respective communities more effectively. The inspiration to hold this conference came with after the Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade of Uganda hosted the first International Young Leaders’ Workshop from the August 22nd -28th 2009 under the Global Fellowship of Christian Youths with the theme “Telling Our stories.”
Among the issues that were agreed upon in this workshop was establishing strong and efficient networks for Young Leaders within the designated nations and regions. Participants recommended that Regional Fellowships advocate for the establishment of National Fellowships to plan and coordinate national wide activities that enhance holistical development of young leaders.
The first National Young Leaders’ conference was held from the 15th to 19th of August 2010 at Lugazi Mixed Secondary School under the theme “Telling Our Stories.” The conference adopted the 2009 International Young Leaders’ Workshop theme but added a sub theme “Enhancing the capacity of Young people for development.” Over 100 participants across the country as well as the East African region including Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania shared their experiences and acquired practical leadership skills from various well selected, experienced facilitators.
2011 YOUNG LEADERS' CONFERENCE
The 2011 Young Leaders’ conference Theme
The 2011 theme “Faces of the World, Facing the World” embraces the cardinal need for people to come together in addressing the common human challenges. The theme acknowledges the diversity of human racial, religious, cultural and historical backgrounds but reckons for unity to address the common tests to human development.
The theme was adopted from the 2010 International Young Leaders’ Conference that was hosted in Accra Ghana from the 20th to 28th of August 2010.
THE SUBTHEME
“Communication a common challenge for young people.”
Communication is a pre-requisite for all social, economic and political progress in all societies. It is a conduit to channel all information necessary for development. Thus when working towards development, it is important to make communication efficient and effective. Similarly, when dealing with social protection a simplified but efficient mechanism of information exchange has to be established and maintained.
At both the individual and organizational levels, communication enhances a common understanding of the challenges affecting society. This makes it very easy to come up with possible remedies. However it is sad that young people have not been adequately sensitized about the basic framework of communication. Consequently, this has caused numerous problems including being left out in many development processes.
To bridge this gap and enhance more participation of the young people in the development process, this conference aims to empower young people by identifying the common communication challenges they face. Thereafter equip them with practical skills in communication that they can use to face the dynamic tests of communication.
Conference slogan
Identify, acquire, use, face the world
The conference aim.
The National Young Leaders’ conference is aimed at enhancing leadership and capacity development of young people through life skills empowerment.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. To identify the communication challenges facing young people
2. To equip young people with communication skills
3. Enable young people to use communication skills for peace building
Venue, date
The conference is planned to take place at Kings’ College Buddo from Wednesday, 27th April to Sunday, 1st May 2011.
Target group
The conference targets 150 young people between the ages of 15 to 35 years. These will come from different Youth organizations and different learning institutions across the country.
PRE CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Pre-conference activities will include:
1. Regional training of young leaders around the country between the months of January to April 2011,
2. Radio talk shows
3. Live Television shows.
4. An online discussion forum on FACEBOOK to involve at least 500 young people.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
The conference will involve a variety of activities all of which are geared to achieve the above objectives. These will include:-
1. Paper presentations: by distinguished individuals who are leaders at different levels
2. Workshops
3. Focus group discussions
4. Recreational activities such as aerobics, sports such as football, lawn tennis, netball and volley ball.
5. Music dance and drama
6. Watching educative documentaries
PRESENTATIONS TOPICS
1. The challenges of communication among young people
2. Communication across Cultural Boundaries
3. Communication for Behavioral Change
4. Communication in Peace Building
WORKSHOPS
1. ICT as a tool for development
2. Communication in networking
Expected out comes.
By the end of this conference, participants should expect the following outcomes
1. Participants will have fully understood the communication challenges faced by young people.
2. Participants will have acquired communication skills and will be able to use these skills in building peace in their communities.
3. Participants will be able to face the world and would be able to cope with the dynamics of communication.
POST CONFERENCE PROJECTION
1. After this conference, participants will have built a strong peer to peer network through which they will be encouraged to work together in empowering their fellow young communities.
2. There will be two major trainings that will be carried on one in August and another during the January holiday. One will be on Individual capacity development while the other will focus on organizational capacity development respectively. During these trainings, participants of this conference will be considered first.
3. Participants will enjoy a one on one mentoring relationship with the organizers even after the conference.
