On April 12, 2019, Kathmandu University SDG Students Hub came to an agreement with Youth Opportunities Nepal by signing the memorandum of understanding on partnering for youth development and designing strategies to ensure inclusive and sustainable development of youths through opportunities.
Country Ambassador of Youth Opportunities Nepal Mr. Tej Raj Upreti and SDG Coordinator of Kathmandu University SDG Students Hub Mr. Ajit Bhatta had some great discussion about the role of such youth platforms in creating opportunities for youths and grooming the youths to be sustainable development practitioner. Reaching to an agreement, to work closely with each other with an aim of meeting common agendas, both the side has planned to schedule a workshop very soon on ‘Youth Opportunities and gateway to SDGs’. Youth Opportunities is already a global partner with SDSN (Sustainable Development Solution Network) youth which made the excitement more induced for signing the MoU between both parties. Observing the local issues and youth’s lacking in access to information about opportunities, the parties have agreed to work collectively in creating a better space for youth and shape their ideas into the initiative. Youth Opportunities Nepal a global online community has been tremendously doing a gem work, working as an information hub about multiple opportunities and openings that has hugely benefitted the youths over the world. YO Nepal has been a key instrument in transforming the dream of most of the youths into reality by linking them with their vision. This could be a huge milestone for both the parties for a joint initiative in mobilizing university students into the learning and action platform that best transform them from a development learner to the practitioner.
During the orientation and partnership program, most of the participants were found to be bewildered regarding the type of opportunities, Country ambassador on behalf of youth opportunities Nepal, helped them clarify about various types of opportunities that youth can be benefited by. In addition to that, Mr. Upreti helped the youth students to be linked with the important web portals and media platforms to be regularly updated with the opportunities like- exchange programs, workshops, conferences, interaction program, cultural programs, scholarships and so on. The main idea was to introduce such youths into the learning and seeking platform where youths from the relevant background can apply for multiple scopes.
YO Nepal and KU SDG Students Hub together have come to an understanding to work for the common goal of providing youths with multiple opportunities, groom and facilitate them to work on their interested area of sustainable development. Also, both teams has agreed in linking university students to the professional learning and implementing arena by building better networking with global youth leaders, intellects, professionals and advocates working on peculiar issues of sustainable development. This initiative from both the team can ultimately help build a better human resource within the university by transforming the youth students to the development practitioner through the illustrious steps of empowerment, facilitation, mobilization and engaging the youth students to their area of interest in sustainable development.
It has been learned through this partnership that, we can imagine potential growth even inside the area of limitations. When many such youth-led organizations, clubs, and student union come together to meet at the common ground to work for sustainable progress against the local threats, this can further boost the country in moving one step ahead of achieving sustainable development goals by 2030. One important asset that youth of today’s generation strives for is to seek for an opportunity that can make their dream, a reality. And that transformed reality could be the major turnaround for the holistic development of the country that often gets shaped by the skilled, empowered and trained youths who elsewhere has been the owner of opportunities.
