Ministry of Youth Development, Sport and Training Country Resources Child and Youth General Policies, Laws, Strategies & Plans, Service Standards Vanuatu Policy document

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This policy aims to achieve the government‘s Planning Long Acting Short (PLAS) priorities for 2009-2012 for Education and Youth under the Priorities and Actions Agenda (PAA) 2006-2015 thematic areas of Basic Services and Social Development and Education and Human Resource Development.

Vanuatu as part of the global community is bound by its international commitment towards ensuring that its priorities are geared towards achieving the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Thus, the government recognizes that young people are a key partner in decision making and development and have a high stake in the realization of the MDGs. This policy recognizes too the efforts expended by non-governmental youth organizations, community based organizations, the National Youth Council or youth advisory boards and committees as well as programmes of line ministries that target alleviating poverty in all its forms.

The pivotal role of this policy will be in building the capacity of and creating sustained partnerships with young people and these various youth organizations as a crucial strategy to achieving the MDGs that have not been realized fully. This policy aims to build on youth participation as it currently exists and to provide ‘Options for Action’ that the governments, the United Nations system, donors and other actors can harness, support, and scale-up in order to support young people in making significant contributions to achieving the MDGs in Vanuatu as prioritised by the Government through the PAA and PLAS.

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