Punjab Youth Policy 2012 Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik

Government of the Punjab
Punjab Youth Policy 2012
Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik PhD

Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department
Punjab Youth Policy 2012 Contents
Map of the Punjab Province ........................................................................................................................ IV Preface .......................................................................................................................................................... V Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................. VIII Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................................... X 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 1 2.Contours of Punjab Youth Policy 2012 .3 3. 4 Punjab Youth Policy 2012: Salient Features 5 Mandate, Principles and Objectives ...................................................................................................... 7 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 6 6.1 Mandate......................................................................................................................................... 7 Vision.7 Definition of Youth Development ................................................................................................ 7 Core Values and Principles of Policy............................................................................................ 7 Aim and Objectives of the Punjab Youth Policy 2012 ................................................................. 9 Economic Challenges.................................................................................................................. 11 Education for Youth Development ............................................................................................. 11 Youth Population and Health ...................................................................................................... 12 Social Empowerment .................................................................................................................. 13 Political Participation and Engagement of Youth ....................................................................... 13 Challenges of Governance: Mainstreaming Youth Development in Public Policy ................... 14 Economic Challenges.................................................................................................................. 16 Skill Development and Vocational Training....................................................................... 16 Entrepreneurship ................................................................................................................. 17 Hassle Free Loaning............................................................................................................ 18 Internships, On Campus Job and Job Placements ............................................................... 18 Education for Youth Development ............................................................................................. 18 Youth Population and Health ...................................................................................................... 19 The Youth Bulge and Demographic Transition in Pakistan ............................................... 19 Adolescence and Youth Health Rights ............................................................................... 19 Pro-Youth Legislative Measures on Marriage .................................................................... 20 Youth Health and Sports ..................................................................................................... 20
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Challenges to Youth in the Punjab ...................................................................................................... 11
Strategic Action Plan: Guidelines for Youth Development in the Punjab .......................................... 16 6.1.1 6.1.2 6.1.3 6.1.4 6.2 6.3
6.3.1 6.3.2 6.3.3 6.3.4

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Social Empowerment .................................................................................................................. 20 Youth Volunteerism and Community Service .................................................................... 20 Youth Mobility and Group Tourism ................................................................................... 20 Living with Cultural Diversity - Pluralism, Peace and Harmony ....................................... 21 Identity Issue and the Role of Local Languages, Arts and Music....................................... 21 Civic Responsibility and Citizenship .................................................................................. 22
6.4.1 6.4.2 6.4.3 6.4.4 6.5 7 6.5.1 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 8 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 9 9.1 9.2 10
Political Participation and Engagement of Youth ....................................................................... 21
Institutional Mechanism for Implementation ...................................................................................... 23 Punjab Youth Development Foundation ..................................................................................... 23 Punjab Youth Commission ......................................................................................................... 24 Advisor to the Chief Minister on Youth Development ............................................................... 25 Youth Development Organizations ............................................................................................. 25 District and Tehsil Youth Councils ............................................................................................. 25 Punjab Youth Endowment Fund ................................................................................................. 26 Monitoring and Evaluation ......................................................................................................... 26 Chief Minister Youth Development Programme ........................................................................ 27 Chief Ministers School Roadmap .............................................................................................. 28 Enhancing the Quality of College Education .............................................................................. 28 Focus on Special Education ........................................................................................................ 29 Modern Education for Students of Deeni Madaris ..................................................................... 29 Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion ................................................................... 29 Women Economic Empowerment .............................................................................................. 29 Special Initiative for Youth in Jails............................................................................................. 30 Vocational Training Programmes ............................................................................................... 30 Youth Policy in Pakistan ............................................................................................................. 31 Youth Affairs in Punjab .............................................................................................................. 32 Evolution of Youth Affairs Department in Punjab ............................................................. 32
Youth Development: Achievements by Government of the Punjab ................................................... 27
History of Youth Policy ...................................................................................................................... 31
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Bibliography ....................................................................................................................................... 35
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1. Map of the Punjab Province
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Preface
Punjab Youth Policy 2012 is an expression of unswerving commitment of Government of the Punjab, to empower youth in the province. The policy provides a comprehensive framework, for integrated visioning, planning, implementation and coordination, among all Provincial Government Departments and stakeholders. The subject is a cross-cutting thematic area directly dealing with the matters related to youth development especially working in both public and private sectors. Punjab Youth Policy is also looking at operations in public private partnership paradigm since Government of the Punjab has enacted a new legislation1. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 also acknowledges the work done by the former Ministry of Youth Affairs, Government of Pakistan Islamabad2, academics, donors, youth development organizations, public and private sector organizations, foundations and local community based groups, civil society organization, all positively contributing towards youth development. The need for the Punjab Youth Policy is necessitated by the convergence of perceptions, workable and viable understanding points, among multiple stakeholders regarding youth issues. This has been complemented with a province-wise consultative process among different public, private and policy stakeholders for agreed direction and ownership of the policy. Many wide ranging formal and informal consultations with all stakeholders were held. Youth from all walks of life; minority, rural, urban, literate, illiterate, ensuring gender balance, were engaged in the consultation. The policy also engaged elected and non-elected members and officials of relevant policy making bodies and Government Departments, civil society organizations, media, public interest leaders and youth experts. The youth has been involved including students of many universities, CSOs and international development agencies, Government Departments, Secretaries to the Government of Punjab, members of legislature and media concurrently. Gender balance in all the consultative meetings was another unique mark of the process. The contents and contours of the policy were shared with the Administrative Secretaries of the Government of Punjab in a special session chaired by the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab on April 13, 2012. The session set the strategic direction of the policy in consonance of the vision of the Chief Minister Punjab. The session invited esteemed views and valuable inputs from Secretaries to the Government and heads of autonomous bodies to further chisel and hone the policy. Secretaries to the Government of Punjab have optimally contributed and the policy has been redrafted, to accommodate and highlight the organic incipient initiatives by Government of the Punjab. The policy is not just a wish list but a continuation of many educational, professional and skill development programmes for the
Government of the Punjab: The Public Private Partnership and Infrastructure Act 2010 (Act IX of 2010) http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws/2428.html Government of Pakistan 2009: Ministry of Youth Affairs, National Youth Policy V GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
youth in addition to other co-curricular programmes designed for youth amelioration. The best minds in the Government and the renowned academics of eminence and erudition have also been consulted in the process3. The policy is a dynamic and vibrant document, quite amenable to accommodate the emerging realities and contours of knowledge management with the passage of time, since the frontiers of knowledge are expanding at cyber-speed and unprecedented pace. Government of the Punjab, have stoic determination and firm resolve to engage the youth and to inculcate the core values of hard work, honesty, integrity, patriotism, professionalism, Islamic ideology, ideology of Pakistan and benign motivation for the noble cause of progress and prosperity of Pakistan. The document will serve the purpose for the national harmony and integration and will imbibe the attributes of peaceful friendship, diversity, pluralism, tolerance and respect for mutual coexistence for all in Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Punjab Youth Policy (2012) is informed by emerging realities and the incessant need to combine youth development work spread over various sectors (i.e. youth, labor, health, education, population, sports, culture, finance, human development, continuous professional development etc.) within the framework of a comprehensive youth policy that tries to integrate efforts of multiple stakeholders and turn youth into a dividend for the nation, in a country like Pakistan, facing youth bulge and massive growth of young people, amidst less investment in social and human development sectors. The policy aims at mobilizing all resources for more investment in social and human development sectors in order to accomplish the goals and objectives in the document. The policy covers all aspects of life relating to the youth and their activities. Policy comprises of three main pillars: social, economic and political empowerment of youth. The central theme of the policy is integrated youth development, by creating an enabling environment to help them develop skills, competencies and a passion for a positive contribution to the society. The policy aims to develop human didactic resource base of the youth and transform them into knowledge workers and much needed human social capital through affordable and equitable quality education4. The qualified and groomed knowledge workers will lead the nation and transform the country into knowledge society and knowledge economy and by the Grace of God Almighty, the nation will find a place of honor and dignity in the comity of nations5.
Minutes of the Meeting of Provincial Secretaries with the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister on April 13, 2012 held at 7 Club Road, GOR-I, Lahore and a formal presentation by Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik Secretary Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department Malik, A.B. (2005). The Foundations of Success: The Impact Study of Early Childhood Education and Development on the Personality of Child, Tariq Printers Lahore, Pakistan. UNESCO Islamabad Pakistan 2011: Policy Analysis of Education in Punjab Province- Compilation and Analysis by Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik for UNESCO Islamabad (Pakistan) http://unesco.org.pk/education/documents/situationanalysis/Education_Policy_Analysis_for_Punjab.pdf VI GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
Social volunteerism is at the heart of the policy for youth mobilization to deal with any natural calamity or national emergency. The policy focuses the youth in every segment of society irrespective of caste, creed, status, gender, level of education, skill or geographic location. Government of the Punjab promised to the people for education, health, employment, hope, equal opportunity, equity, merit and transparency and the system of good governance and the policy aims to achieve all these objectives6. We hope and pray for the virtuous, visionary and talented youth with impeccable moral, financial and professional integrity, enabled in a suave environment with positive externalities, to provide future leadership for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. May God and His Prophet (PBUH) may continue blessing Pakistan and all of us.
Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik PhD UN Confucius Laureate Secretary to the Government of Punjab Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department
Malik A.B. (2012). Education Matters: Policy Analysis and State of Education in Punjab, Maqbool Academy, Lahore, Pakistan. VII GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
Acknowledgements
The formulation of the Public Policy is a slow, gradual, time consuming, huge and gigantic task. The job becomes more daunting and challenging once the number of stakeholders is large, multidimensional and multi-faceted and there are varieties of contributions, often conflicting and at times challenging each other. In case of preparation of Punjab Youth Policy 2012, the youth of Punjab has been the centerpiece of the theme and the whole gamete rests upon the formation of human social capital. The valuable contributions by the youth, parliamentarians, civil society organizations, community based organizations, faith based organizations, international organizations and donor agencies, officers in Government of the Punjab, Secretaries to Government of the Punjab and other colleagues is thankfully acknowledged. We are grateful to Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Chief Minister Punjab for his vision and guidance. Thanks to Mian Hamza Shahbaz Sharif MNA/Chairman Punjab Sports Council and Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly/Chairman Steering Committee, for guiding the overall work and direction of the Punjab Youth Policy. Several honorable Parliamentarians/Members of National and Punjab Assemblies took part during consultations including Ms. Arifa Pervez Khalid, Mr. Mohsin Latif, Mr. Muhammad Khurram Gulfam, Mr. Baleegh-ur-Rehman, Ms. Marvi Memon, and Ms. Maiza Hameed. We are grateful to all of them. Our gratitude to Mr. Rabbi Royan Country Representative UNFPA and Ms. Sadia Atta Mehmood National Program Officer UNFPA for providing logistic support during some segments of the consultative process. We also acknowledge the efforts and contribution of M/S Bargad- Organization for Youth Development and its Executive Director, Ms. Sabiha Shaheen for arranging consultative sessions. It is pertinent to mention here the efforts of Mian Khuram Shahzad, Ms. Salma Butt, and Mr. Nauman Ali Chaudhary for their valuable inputs for providing timely logistical support to carry out field work for policy development. Thanks are due to Ms. Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rehman Vice Chairperson Bunyad Foundation, Mr. Innayatullah Chairman PACADE, Prof. Col. Ikramullah Chairman AVICENA, Mrs. Shaista Pervez Malik Chairperson SERVE, youth representatives, youth networks, CSOs, FBOs and CBOs for their active participation and contribution. My heartfelt thanks are due to Mr. Nasir Mahmood Khosa, Chief Secretary Punjab, Mr. Javaid Aslam Chairman P&D Department, Mr. Nadeem Hasan Asif, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab, Dr. Tauqir Shah, Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. Aslam Javaid , Chief Industries P&D Department, Mr. Arshad Bin Ahmad, Secretary Human Rights & Minorities Affairs, Mr. Khizar Hayat Gondal, Secretary Local Government Department, Mr. Mohiy-ud-Din Wani, Secretary Information & Culture Department, Dr. Shujjat Ali, Secretary Industries Department, Dr. Ijaz Munir, Secretary Higher Education Department, Mr. Abdullah Sumbal, Secretary Special Education Department, Dr. Pervez Ahmad Khan, Secretary Literacy& NFBE Department, Dr. Syed Abdul Hassan Najmee, Secretary Law & Parliamentary Affairs Department, Ms. Irum Bukhari, Secretary Women Development Department, Mr. Farhan Aziz Khawaja, MD Punjab Small Industries Corporation, Mr. Tariq Mehmood Pasha Secretary Auqaf Department, Sardar Akram Javed, Secretary Social Welfare Department, Mr. Qaisar Saleem DG Population Welfare, Mr. Shahid Ahmad Bhutta Additional Secretary Home Department, Mr.
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Hasan Iqbal, Secretary Labor and Human Resource Department, Syeda Kulsoom Hai Deputy Secretary CM Secretariat and Mr. Humayun Mazhar DG Labour Punjab for their valuable inputs and esteemed contributions. Thanks are due to Mr. Timmo Pakkala Resident Coordinator UN Pakistan, Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata Director UNESCO Pakistan, Mr. Arshad Saeed Khan, Senior National Education Specialist, Mr. Jawad Aziz Project Officer, UNESCO Islamabad, Mr. David Martin Director British Council Pakistan, Mr. Darrin Vardon Director British Council Lahore, and Ms. Nishat Riaz, British Council Islamabad for their valuable inputs. We acknowledge the experts from the civil society for their input and in particular, Dr. Kaiser Bengali, Mr. Muhammad Tahseen, and Mr. Amir Riaz; and also for suggestions from Mr. Mohsin Abbas Syed, Director Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of the Punjab. Thanks are also due to Mr. Iqbal Haider Butt for analyzing the situation of youth in consultation with the stakeholders. We are grateful to Mr. Ali Salman Managing Partner Development Pool for his valuable and worthwhile contribution during the formulation of the policy and fine tuning mission, goals and objectives of the policy. With his expertise in public policy, the document has been not only enriched but further chiseled and honed. We owe deep gratitude to Mr. Qamar Abbas for his dedicated hard work. He provided secretariat support especially without caring for official timings, during the preparation of Punjab Youth Policy 2012. Thanks to Rana Muhammad Tahir Khan Additional Secretary, Mr. Ishrat Ullah Khan Niazi Deputy Secretary (Admin), Mr. Shabbir Bhatti Deputy Secretary (Planning), Mr. Riaz Qureshi Section Officer and Mr. Ijjaz Malik Section Officer (General), Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department for their support. We thank each of those individual youth who took time to reflect on a policy of their own and hopefully they will find it representative. They all are our magnificent nation builders, indeed pretty portents of hope, bright future, peace, security, prosperity and development for Islamic Republic of Pakistan Inshallah.
Dr. Allah Bakhsh Malik PhD UN Confucius Laureate Secretary to the Government of Punjab Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department
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Abbreviations
ADB ADP AEPAM CBO CIDA CM CSO DCO DFID DMO DYA DYC EDO EEA EFA ESR FBO GDP GER GNI GNP GPI GRE HDI HEC HED IDSP IYF JBIC JICA KM LHV L&NFBED M&E MBA MBBS MDGs MICS MIS NAR NCHD NEAS NEC NEMIS NEP NER
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Asian Development Bank Annual Development Programme Academy for Educational Planning and Management Community Based Organization Canadian International Development Agency Chief Minister Civil Society Organization District Coordination Officer Department for International Development District Monitoring Officer Directorate of Youth Affairs District Youth Commission Executive District Officer Education & Employment Alliance Education For All Education Sector Reform Faith Based Organization Gross Domestic Product Gross Enrollment Ratio Gross National Income Gross National Product Gender Parity Index Graduate Record Examination Human Development Index Higher Education Commission Higher Education Department Institute for Developing Studies and Practices International Youth Foundation Japan Bank for International Cooperation Japan International Cooperation Agency Kilo Meters Lady Health Visitor Literacy and Non Formal Basic Education Department Monitoring and Evaluation Master of Business Administration Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Millennium Development Goals Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Management Information System Net Attendance Rate National Commission for Human Development National Education Assessment System National Education Census National Education Management Information System National Education Policy Net Enrolment Rate
NFBE NGO NIPS NLC NOC NTBP NTS NUML PDWP PEF PEEF PESRP PSDF PhD PMIU PPIU PPP PSDP PSIC PSLM PYC PYDF PYEF PYP QAT TVE TYC UNESCO UNFPA UNICEF USAID WB YASAT
Non Formal Basic Education Non-Governmental Organization National Institute of Population Studies National Logistic Cell No Objection Certificate National Textbook Policy National Testing Service National University of Modern Languages Provincial Development Working Party Punjab Education Foundation Punjab Education Endowment Fund Punjab Education Sector Reform Programme Punjab Skills Development Fund Doctor of Philosophy Project Management and Implementation Unit Policy Planning Implementation Unit Public Private Partnership Public Sector Development Programme Punjab Small Industries Corporation Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey Punjab Youth Commission Punjab Youth Development Foundation Punjab Youth Endowment Fund Punjab Youth Policy Quality Assurance Test Technical & Vocational Education Tehsil Youth Council United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations Population Fund United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund United States Agency for International Development World Bank Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology & Tourism Department
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Pakistan is proud of its youth, particularly the students who have always been in the forefront in the hour of trial and need. You are the nation-builders of tomorrow and you must fully equip yourself with discipline, education, and training for the arduous task lying ahead of you. You should realize the magnitude of your responsibility and be ready to bear it.
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah 31st October 1947
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1. Introduction
Punjab Youth Policy 2012 comes at a very crucial time in the history when youth is destined to play a very decisive, effective and meaningful role for the development of the nation. The challenges ahead, for the Government and all other stakeholders, are to groom and guide the youth, to live in peace and harmony following the cardinal principles given by the founder of the nation i.e. Unity, Faith and Discipline. The demographic increase in the population of youth can help to translate it into an economic dividend by engaging the youth in knowledge management and economic activities. The policy will help to create an enabling environment to facilitate the youth, in exploiting their full potential to access the facilities and socio-economic opportunities for their self-development. The youth have the immense potential because they have the will vigor, enthusiasm, energy, initiative, drive and have endowed wherewithal of extensive thinking, passion for struggle, resilience, perseverance, creativity, innovation and advancement imbibed in the tapestries of mind. The youth are ready and amenable to adapt to constant changes because they are young and are in search of truth and destiny and understand that the change is the only constant in the universe. The youth of Pakistan is dedicated and enthusiastically charged and patriotic but emotions are not enough. We as a nation have to channelize the youth, simultaneously for their educational social economic and professional development and direct them to the noble cause of nation building as owners of the destiny of the nation. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 defines youth as a period in which young people prepare themselves to be an active and responsible citizen of the society. It is a period of transformation from family dependent childhood to independent adulthood and integration in the society as a responsible and graceful citizen. Age factor is a useful but possibly an insufficient indicator to characterize the transition to adulthood and the other independent variables may include the increasing maturity of young people as defined differently by different cultures. Development practitioners consider a particular age cohort as an agebracket because of its tangibility being measurable, identifiable and verifiable. Other key milestones may include the increasing maturity of young people as defined differently by different cultures; the age limit of child benefits; the end of full-time compulsory schooling; the voting age, and the minimum age for standing for elections.7Among such various indicators, practitioners consider Age as a working definition of youth because of its tangibility. The governments also adopt this definition. According to the Pakistani official standards, young people between 15-29 years of age are considered as youth, while the United Nations regards youth as those falling between the age brackets of 15-24 years.
European Union: Youth - Investing and Empowering, EU Youth Report, Commission Staff Working Document, Brussels 27 April 2009. 1 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
The Punjab Youth Policy comes at a time when the province is pressurized by increasing population especially, youth bulge. The poverty also continues to suppress the Punjab population, despite relatively high availability of health and education facilities in the province and is limiting its efficiency to translate into favorable outcomes in health and education. While the Punjab Youth Policy adopts holistic approach catering to all incessant needs of the youth, its key test is to amicably equip youth with social, political and economic empowerment and contribute to the Punjab-Poverty Reduction Strategy. Moreover, it also designed to meet the challenges of governance and institutional mechanism for youth development. We are sanguine that the best way to empower the youth is through education and skill development. We know that education is expensive and higher education is a capital investment8. It has been proved through research that poor and inadequate education may have public and social consequences that are even costlier. It has also been proved that educational attainment is one of the most determinants of the chances in life for employment, income, health status, housing and other amenities9. This policy caters to the contextual needs and situation of the Punjabs youth. It has been prepared after thorough literature review and consultation with multiple public and policy stakeholders including youth belonging to different backgrounds across the province. It is also informed by relevant national policy documents10 and has benefited from previous consultative process over the formulation of National Youth Policy of Pakistan11.
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Malik A.B (2004) The Higher Education in Pakistan, Maqbool Academy, 199 Circular Road, Chowk Urdu Bazar Lahore, Pakistan Henry M. Levin, Clive R. Belfield (2007) The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education, Brookings Institution Press Washington DC USA. National Labour Policy (2010), National Education Policy (2009), Health Policy (2009), Population Policy (2010) and National Youth Policy (2009) http://www.planningcommission.gov.pk/policies.html Ministry of Youth Affairs, Government of Pakistan (2009); National Youth Policy outlined, inter alia, the following core principles:a. Reinforce sense of pride, awareness and motivation. b. Reinforce the sense of pride by creating awareness about our history, heritage and achievements. c. To expose youth to works and examples of high achievers in the world in various walks of life and to instill a passion to excel and achieve excellence. d. Develop amongst the youth an international outlook, a desire to compete an insight into other cultures and desire to learn lessons from achievements and errors of others. e. Promote national harmony and integration f. Promote mutual friendship, tolerance, understanding and values and social interactions. g. Enabling prospects of income generation for the youth. h. Promotion of sports and recreation i. Patronize sports and recreation activities, sports competition, expansion of sports facilities at all administrative levels on sustainable basis with special emphasis for young females. j. Academic and intellectual development. k. Youth will be encouraged to undertake voluntary social service. l. Skill development of the youth in all areas/regions m. Envisage training for foreign job markets where Pakistani youth can find jobs 2 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
2. Contours of Punjab Youth Policy 2012

Punjab Youth Policy 2012 is cognizant of the fact that Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan and the estimated population of the province is 90.51 million. The province has an area of 2, 05,344 square kilometer; with the average population density of 441 persons per square kilometer. Around 48.4% (i.e. 43.77 million) population of Punjab province comprises females. Literacy rate of the province (10 years and above) is 60% (male 70% and female 51%). ( NIPS, 200912, Punjab Development Statistics, 201113, PSLM 2010-1114). Punjab Youth Policy 2012 presents a strategic framework of youth development for helping the young individuals to acquire social, moral, physical, spiritual, cognitive, psycho-somatic and emotional competencies. Education plays a decisive role in building human capabilities to accelerate economic growth through knowledge, creativity, innovation and skills. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 emphasize that education is sine qua non to create awareness, tolerance, self-esteem and confidence to empower people to defend their rights. Education helps in creating knowledge based societies and knowledge based learning organizations. Education is not just preparation for life but a life in itself (Malik, 200615). The nation has to be cognizant of the fact that no country can be secure or have economic growth without quality education. Despite the enormity of Pakistans challenge, change is possible and youth of Pakistan will lead the change16. Punjab aims to achieve the stated vision within a generation, in a manner that sustains a high quality of life and provides equal opportunities to its citizens to reach their true potential. Punjab plans to meet contemporary and future challenges by deploying knowledge inputs and human social capital. Its goals reflect the aspirations and potential of the people of the

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Encourage youth for entrepreneurship and support them to establish self employment businesses and start new ventures. Enhance internship programme Eradicate disparities related to social and economic opportunities Support character buildings Inspire Islamic values and ideology of Pakistan Develop sense of good citizenship, high standards of morality and discipline Educate, motivate and guide against extremism, terrorism, anti state and inhuman activities
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GovernmentofPakistan:NationalInstituteofPopulationStudies(NIPS2010) PunjabDevelopmentStatistics2011,BureauofStatistics,GovernmentofthePunjab,Lahore http://www.pndpunjab.gov.pk/page.asp?id=65 14 PakistanSocialandLivingStandardsMeasurementsSurveys(PSLM,200708and201011) 15 Malik,A.B.(2006)TheHumanDevelopmentNexusProfessionalDevelopmentandCapacityBuildingin PublicPrivatePartnership,MaqboolAcademy,Lahore.Pakistan 16 Education Emergency Pakistan 2011: March for Education. Pakistan Education Task Force www.educationemergency.com.pk 3 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
province in the context of a fast-changing world. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 frame work considers a range of concomitant strategic alignments. The underlying theme is to embrace much desired, the most demanded and urgently needed transformation to create new opportunities based on strengths and utilization of national resources. The policy envisages the citizens having greater access to quality education, as well as basic amenities like health, water and sanitation. Freedom of enterprise and enlarged opportunities will have the potential to transform the lives of the majority but the benefit of social protection will also provide sufficient cushion to the most vulnerable, neglected, less-affluent, marginalized, unreached and disenfranchised. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 acknowledges the forces of globalization and dissemination of information and technology, likely to change the scale and character of human enterprise. The policy particularly aims to use ICT for wider dissemination of knowledge for the empowerment of those at the brink of society. In pursuance of Punjab Youth Policy 2012, Government of the Punjab, affirms its commitment to establish the rule of law as a bedrock principle impacting on all walks of life and encourage freedom of enterprise and innovation in the market place together with state responsibility for the provision of basic services to all citizens, including education, healthcare, water and sanitation, shelter and security. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 recognizes that Islamic ideology is not merely a matter of belief, dogma and ritual. It is a religion in the wider sense of the word. It is a way of life, a whole complex of social and moral norms. Belief in God, and His Prophet (PBUH), human rights and social justice, rights and respect for minorities, management of affairs through consensus, moral values of charitableness, equality and equity as citizens, tolerance and universal brotherhood; these are sonic of the cardinal principles enshrined by the Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH). Punjab Youth Policy offers both policy and programmatic interventions to be implemented for youth between the ages of 15 to 29 years. Various departments of the government in many ways are already investing on youth in general through technical education, health, population and agriculture, etc. But it can be said that the cumulative effect of youthoriented schemes cannot be estimated both in terms of short term gains and long term outcomes, solely because of the fact that we need to concentrate on integrated policy, coordinated implementation and mechanism among multiple stakeholders in the public sector. It is with this approach that a provincial youth policy; a cross-cutting thematic area, has the potential to integrate youth empowerment work into the government structures. The policy concentrates on incessant emerging and dire needs to combine youth development work spread over various sectors i.e. education, social welfare, literacy, skill development, entrepreneurship, youth, labor, health, population, sports, finance including all
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parameters of holistic development of young people within the framework of a comprehensive youth policy that tries to integrate efforts of multiple stakeholders, both in public and private sector and turn youth into a dividend.
3. Punjab Youth Policy 2012: Salient Features

This policy proposes concrete mechanisms for economic, social and political empowerment of youth. The policy proposes creation of a Job Bank On-Line, a Provincial, National and International Job Market Survey and Database to inform the youth about potential openings and to guide the educational and vocational training institutes. The policy also envisages establishment of Youth Venture Capital Fund by public-private partnership to support new business ideas and entrepreneurship amongst young men and women. The Youth Policy will encourage all universities to provide on campus jobs and setup career placement offices. It will also start Punjab Internship Program with public-private partnership to maximize opportunities for fresh graduates. The Youth Policy will encourage and facilitate the institutional arrangement for career counseling in educational institutions at all levels to guide the youth to have a freedom of choice for future career in life. Mainstreaming public policy with youth development as a cross-cutting theme, the youth policy will, for instance, facilitate in setting uniform standards and competencies for students at different education stages irrespective of public, private or religious schooling backgrounds and for advocating safe and violence-free campuses. The policy proposes to address holistic health needs of youth; strict measures for implementing laws against forced and early marriages; concept of volunteerism at school level; student unions/councils with pro-peace, women friendly and student centered politics at campuses by delinking them with mainstream political parties. In order to implement its objectives and plans, the Punjab Youth Policy 2012 calls for establishing an independent, autonomous, robust and efficient institutional mechanism for implementation of programs through a statutory body, enacted by the provincial legislature to be called Punjab Youth Development Foundation (PYDF). The Foundation will be headed by a Board of Directors that shall constitute Punjab Youth Commission (PYC). The projects under the Punjab Youth Development Fund will be financed from a Punjab Youth Endowment Fund by one-time seed money from the government but eventually to be run on the public-private partnership basis. The policy makers around the globe have unanimity of views and complete consensus that young people will greatly influence the future of their nations17. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 is cognizant that young generation is the most precious and productive asset for us. It is the
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primary responsibility of the state to help the youth to transform into human social capital, ultimately responsible to trampoline the economic, social, cultural, sociological and political growth in the country. The current state of affairs of the youth presents the world with an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate growth and reduce poverty. In order to succeed in todays competitive global economy; our youth must be equipped with advanced skills beyond literacy18. The young people have talent, dynamism, imagination, ideals, considerable energies and vision. The development and empowerment of youth is all the more challenging in developing countries like Pakistan with many competing and at times conflicting demands19.
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World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation 2007. The World Ban k 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 Malik, A.B (2005). The Foundations of Success: The Impact Study of Early Childhood Education and Development on the Personality of Child. Tariq Printers Lahore, Pakistan. 6 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
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Mandate, Principles and Objectives

Mandate
The mandate of Punjab Youth Policy 2012 is to facilitate the grooming and guiding the youth to live in peace and harmony, promoting attitudes, skills and knowledge and prepare them to shoulder responsibilities in the new millennium. Youth Policy 2012 caters to the contextual needs and situation of the youth with the unique perspective of advocating, informing and catalyzing a comprehensive conception of youth development across the public policy domain. Considering the input from the government departments, national and international organizations and donor agencies, the policy also proposes a cross-cutting agenda for youth development for all the partners. The elixir of Punjab Youth Policy 2012 is that document will serve as the software of youth development as designed by the youth themselves.
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Vision
To create an enabling environment for the youth through adequate education, skill development, modern technological applications, professional development and knowledge based management and by providing them equitable opportunities to realize their full potential in a safe, secure, conducive and congenial environment to work for the developed and prosperous Pakistan, being the future custodian of the destiny of the nation and the most precious human social capital of the nation20.
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Definition of Youth Development

The literature offers various perspectives on youth development however given the context and perspective of youth in Pakistan, youth can be defined as, Youth Development is the phase of physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual growth, between the age cohorts of 15 to 29 years, when youth are actively engaged to develop attitude, skills, knowledge and competencies to realize their potential and strength at optimal level for the amelioration of themselves, their families, communities and the nation21.
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Core Values and Principles of Policy

1. a) b) The Punjab Youth Policy seeks to promote the following core values: Youth as agents of change and symbol of hope and aspiration for the nation; Youth as the positive potential and strength for the national development rather than as an instrument serving the vested interests;
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Character, courage, excellence, tolerance, team play and perseverance as pillars of the superstructure of life of the youth; Adherence and implementation of the Objective Resolution Principles of Policy, Fundamental Human Rights, enshrined in the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973 Respect of human rights as enshrined in the Last Address of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW); as adopted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 194822; and as Fundamental Rights endorsed by the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 The core principles of the Punjab Youth Policy are laid as under: Youth Development: The central theme of the policy is the development of human didactic resource base of the youth. The ultimate aim is to equip them with right education, marketable skills and professional development. Youth Centric: The promotion of social, economic and political empowerment as well as engagement of youth into the mainstream of society, economy and governance. Diversity: Youth empowerment interventions would recognize and acknowledge the diverse backgrounds from which youth come from and celebrate the roles played by different segmentation of the youth communities, gender, tradition and location i.e. rich, poor, urban, rural, male, female, etc. Integration: The need for different key role players such as government, civil society, private and business sectors to coordinate their multi-sectoral efforts to ensure greater and coordinated impact in empowering youth. Holistic: Youth empowerment initiatives would include all aspects of youth life and respond to their social, political and economic needs: so that they gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience required ensuring smooth transition into practical life. Accessibility: Male and female youth of diverse backgrounds would access resources and services crucial to their integrated development. This would be done by oversight work within the framework of the Punjab Youth Policy: tracking progress of constitutional guarantees of free and compulsory education within minimum possible period: making technical and professional education
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generally available: ensuring the right of decent work, and provision of services against health and drugs risks. g. Non-discriminatory: All youth empowerment initiatives would treat the youth equally irrespective of the biases of age, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability or any other form of discrimination as enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan. The Policy shall discourage prejudices among the youth. Moreover, in the spirit of non-discriminatory approaches there is a need to encourage affirmative and equity-oriented actions that would create equal opportunities especially for the vulnerable communities. This principle is informed by the values of human dignity and respect for the human rights. Transparency: Institutions and organizations involved in youth empowerment would operate in a transparent and accountable manner. Participation and inclusion: Service providers would design policies, strategies and programmes for and with youth by sharing information, creating opportunities and involving them in decision making as active participants in their own development. Youth should own the outcomes of the development process and should view human rights as a fundamental basis for human development. They would be treated as equal partners in development programmes. Social cohesion: Youth empowerment interventions would promote inclusion of young people as significant part of societal structures by involving them in democratic and nation-building activities. For that, their organized actions would be encouraged. Respect for difference of opinion, freedom of expression, tolerance and mutual coexistence. Social protection: Various youth development interventions would seek to promote youth wellbeing by putting in place measures that seek to protect and address the needs of youth and reduces their vulnerability. Public-Private Partnership: The objectives and plans of Punjab Youth Policy 2012 shall be, wherever possible, materialized by following public-private partnership approaches.
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Aim and Objectives of Punjab Youth Policy 2012

The Punjab Youth Policy 2012 aims to provide means and an enabling environment for youth development by informing the public policy domain and by facilitating the work of youth-led and youth-serving agencies. Its specific objectives are to:
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Mainstream youth on the agenda of public policy of the province as a crosscutting theme; Promote and support the Youth Development Organizations by recognition, facilitation and coordination; Define and enforce standards for Youth Development Organizations within its mandate to ensure quality, transparency and accountability; Create incentives for promotion of volunteerism, civic participation, political engagement and responsible citizenship in the youth; Identify, promote and network young leaders (men and women) from business, academia, politics and civil society; Contribute to economic empowerment of youth by facilitating in job placement and internship placement; Increase in investment in relevant skills training, emphasizing training appropriate to the job market and the informal sector by among other things, greater collaboration between employers and training providers; Promote entrepreneurship among young women and men by the provision of better information on market opportunities, training in business skills, access to capital (credit and other financial services), mentoring by qualified persons, and other business support services; Help bridge digital divide by promoting positive use of ICT in the marginalized youth especially in the semi-urban and rural areas; Focus on efforts and projects to improve the conditions of youth from minorities; economically backward districts; youth with disabilities and youth with special needs; Encourage and facilitate domestic and international youth exchange for improving peace, harmony, and mutual cooperation; Create awareness on high risk behaviours such as HIV/AIDS and increase availability of integrated reproductive health information and services for adolescents and youth, especially the most marginalized and help prevention HIV/AIDS. Help decrease gender discrimination in the youth behavior and conceptions and to improve gender equity; Promote healthy behavior in youth by facilitating their access to sports facilities; and Contribute actively to the World Youth Agenda as declared in the UN World Programme of Action for Youth, Commonwealth Youth Programme, SAARC Social Charter and the OIC International Forum for Youth.
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Challenges to Youth in Punjab

Today, the youth issues are fast pacing towards debates in the public sphere and there has been gradual increase in investments on youth from the development donors and the government. The ascendance of youth issues to national priorities has primarily come from realization of youth bulge in the country and its potential implications that can catch the public eyes. The potential of youth is often repeated and benefits of youth empowerment are substantial. However, addressing youth requires an understanding of issues and challenges they are facing in the Punjab. Knowing these challenges will help us identifying areas where the Punjab Youth Policy should put its premium. Broadly the challenges being faced by our youth can be classified into economic, social and political spheres.
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Economic Challenges
The nation will not be able to face the economic challenges without competent human social capital. The formation of human development is a slow and gradual process, requiring political will and consistent capital investment in Higher Education. The research reveals that possibility of employment rate is much higher for better-educated youth. It has been proved beyond any shadow of doubt that there is an estimated 500% return on every dollar invested in Higher Education System. At the same time, under investment in Higher Education represents a formidable opportunity cost for the state23. Besides unemployment, youth aspiring to be self-employed and become entrepreneur face a series of hurdles ranging from lack of access to credit to absence of mentoring arrangement at a larger level.
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Education for Youth Development

Education is sine quo non for the development of the nation. Lack of opportunity is a social threat because inadequately educated people are threat to the repose of society. At the outset, we have to ensure 100% enrollment and retention in schools, better progression to Higher Education than the current rate and find alternate streams of technical education for early drop-outs. We have to ensure that Pakistan is on the track to achieve Millennium Development Goals for education. We need to take stock of the situation and realize that 30% of Pakistanis live in extreme educational poverty, receiving less than two years of education. We must be cognizant that education of women is the most important investment and failure to provide education is self inflected disaster24. we have to make a radical shift from the conventional thinking of looking at
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education/schooling as an automatic process for youth development. Schooling can at best indicate educational attainment, literacy and student enrolment on campuses. Equality of schools alone does not guarantee equal educational opportunity. Schools are merely one aspect of a childs education, much of which occurs beyond the school doors, beyond the school day, and beyond the realm of academics.
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Youth Population and Health

1. The Youth Bulge and Demographic Transition: Pakistan is undergoing a dramatic demographic transition. According to the recent projections made by US Census Bureau, population of Pakistan in 2011 is estimated to be 187,342,721 and the active age group of youth falling between the age of 15-29 years (56,594,173) contributes to 30.2% of this total projected population. Youth under 29 years of age are estimated at 122,966,488, which is 65.6 percent of the total Pakistani population25. Adolescence and Youth Health Rights: Contemporary health practitioners see health not as mere absence of disease. Rather it is established that the health encompasses aspects of physical, mental, and social well-being and operates within overall population, development and environment needs of the country. Early and Forced Marriages: Young people especially the female youth are faced with many deviations over the issue of marriage. There still exist marriage practices that involve criminal activities i.e. forced and early marriages, etc. Girls are further taken as economic burden due to poverty and they are deprived from schooling and the possibility of making choices in marriages. Gender discrimination is another factor behind restricting girls to homes as soon as possible. The conflicting laws also make room for exploitation of girls into forced and early marriages. Youth Health and Sports: Sports is defined as all forms of physical activity that contribute to physical fitness, mental well-being and social interaction, such as play, recreation, organized or competitive sport, and indigenous sports and games. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 recognizes that many emerging factors are now hindering youth to go to the playgrounds and take care of their physique through sports and exercises. These would include growing urbanization and the shrinking urban space for playgrounds, the availability of playgrounds and the rise of indoor youth activities i.e. the use of modern gadgets like TV, mobile phones, internet and watching TV. All this is depriving youth to express their physical energies with the spirit of fair-play. Another casualty is the sense of community harmony and unity that comes along team-working for sports. Labour and Human Resource
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Department, Government of the Punjab has suggested that industrial and commercial establishments will be made legally bound to allocate some budget for sport. Such establishment will focus on women employment and will arrange for their recreational facilities. Institutional arrangements should be raised awareness among women workers about reproductive health and medical complications. The Government will also allocate resources to promote vocation training, apprenticeship and other initiatives focusing professional development of the youth especially to facilitate young entrepreneurs through public private partnership programmes.
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Social Empowerment
Youths healthy development and integration into the community for common good not only grooms individuals but it also would empower families, organizations, and communities gaining control and mastery, within the social, economic, and political contexts of their lives, in order to improve equity and quality of life. The forms of such social empowerment can be: (i) youth volunteerism and community service, (ii) youth mobility and group tourism, (iii) living with cultural diversity - pluralism, peace and harmony, and (iv) identity issues and the role of local languages, arts and music.
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Political Participation and Engagement of Youth

One of the key indicators of youth development is to see how youth are engaged in affairs of communities, schools, governments, civil society organizations and other located structures where youth can learn and demonstrate their potential to act in different learning and caring roles and be mentored for the future roles. All youth are citizens and like adults need to gradually learn and practice their citizenship to be active part of their respective societies. Rather if conscious of their civil, political, social and economic rights, they can provide the sound basis for active citizenry. Once sensitized, they will easily practice their citizenship. The youth need to be familiar with the concept of green societies that embraces the principles of social inclusion and equity. The concept helps for poverty reeducation and sustainable development26.
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Challenges of Governance: Mainstreaming Youth Development in Public Policy

1. Marginality of Youth Affairs in Policy Circles: The diversity of youth and its cross cutting nature across sectors and provincial departments radically cuts it from the traditional rhetoric about the cursory mentioning of the potential of youth. Its a sector in evolving and has been taking the center stage for policy work unlike the past when the very definitions and needs of youth were blurred and confused with education, health, sports and employment for young people. This shift from marginality to the center-stage needs a matching political willingness to make youth part of our national and provincial development plans. Integration of Youth Development from Multi-Sector Perspectives: Another challenge is to invent a horizontal governance support system for youth development in the province, because unlike other sectors youth affairs are spread over different provincial departments (i.e. youth affairs, education, population and health, labour, women development, finance, etc.,) and need a coherent and coordinated system for its smooth operations, review and redressed mechanism. Arrangements for Public-Private Partnership: Due to little youth policy work in the past the bureaucratic and governance structures will have to be adjusted to multiple partners from the civil society and the private sector and give them space in implementation. Punjab Youth Policy envisages and demonstrates the unswerving commitment of the Government of Punjab to empower youth in the province and provides a comprehensive policy framework for integrated visioning and planning, implementation and coordination in all government departments and initiate programmes in public-private partnership with regard to matters relating to youth development in the Punjab. Government of the Punjab has already legislated law on public private partnership and a dedicated institutional arrangement exists in P&D Department in the form of Public Private Partnership Cell27. The policy concentrates on incessant emerging and dire needs to combine youth development work spread over various sectors i.e. education, social welfare, literacy, skill development, entrepreneurship, youth, labor, health, population, sports, finance including all parameters of holistic development of young people within the framework of a comprehensive youth policy that tries to integrate efforts of multiple stakeholders, both in public and private sector and turn youth into a dividend. Information Gap on Youth: Despite much nuisance and the centrality of youth bulge issue, there is too little data available on youth issues in Punjab. We have to
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mainly generate information from the international and national sources. Relying on the existing information will create information dependencies. On the practical level, resources input for youth can be based upon eight key principles, which are: an organizational structure that is supportive of youth development: a safe, physical environment that is supportive of the youth and staff's needs; a holistic approach to all youth; youth contribution and collaboration; supportive relationships; high expectations and clear limits; activities that are engaging and that foster learning, and mechanisms in place to help youth move forward as young adults. In the nutshell, the youth investment is to promote youth-led initiatives and allowing youth to contribute their ideas for programs, services and special events and projects. The desired paradigm thereby recognizes agency role of the youth to ensure that youth are consulted and included at every stage of reflection, visioning and materializing strategies as dynamic agents of change rather than passive recipients or mere beneficiaries28. Levy and Murnane have divided skills into five broad categories: expert thinking, complex communication, routine cognitive tasks, routine manual tasks and non routine manual tasks29.
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6. Strategic Action Plan: Guidelines for Youth Development in the Punjab

Strategic Action Plan outlines specific actions, as well as advisory guidelines for mainstreaming youth in the public policy making. These guidelines are non-binding in nature however Punjab Youth Policy 2012 considers their adoption as progress towards moving an integrated approach to youth development.
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Economic Challenges
Proposed Guidelines: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Diversification of employment sectors and comprehensive awareness to youth on the available job market; Mapping of skills and demands of multiple sectors in the job market; Establishing a programme for certified and standardized technical training for literate and illiterate youth; Encouraging youth in promotion of local crafts through exhibitions and trade fairs in a collaborative role under the flagship of concerned departments; Encouragement of entrepreneurship for youth especially vulnerable youth.
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Skill Development and Vocational Training 1. It is proposed to carry out an assessment of the demand/ requirements and capacity of the skills development facilities in the Punjab. Based on this assessment technical and skill development programmes will be enhanced. It is proposed that existing schools may be inducted in this programme and a substantial number of schools in public and private sector may start regular evening and weekend programmes for skill development and technical training for which funds would be provided by the government, private sector and development agencies; The government intends to assign high priority to promoting technical education in the province. A crash programme would be launched to impart technical education to unemployed educated youth and then provide micro-credit to them so that they can become self-employed; National and international job market analysis would be carried out to identify the requirements of skills in various target markets and our youth be trained in the relevant fields. Besides, support will be extended to our youth to seek jobs and placements locally and in foreign markets; Vocational Training Institutes in the province will update curriculum in accordance with current requirements and job-opportunities in the Agriculture/ Industrial and Services sectors and prepare a phased expansion programme of
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such training facilities in rural/ urban areas keeping in view regional considerations regarding youth population, prevailing skill-levels, and unemployment; Soliciting funding through public/private collaboration for human resource management; Establishment of job banks, employer online concept to promote youth employment; Fully activating the concept of Employer on line and Job Bank on line; Specialized institutions for providing training in area specific needs will be opened e.g. training of agriculture, labor, and business on the pattern of Punjab Skills Development Fund. Similarly training to support tanneries, fans, cutlery, garments industries in relevant industrial areas etc. Sectoral initiatives in livestock and dairy development i.e. Rehabilitation of Mustahqeen-i-Zakat (eligible to receive alms money) by promotion of livestock keeping, training of unemployed youth as veterinary workers, replication of Idarae-Kissan model, provision of milk cooling tanks and promotion of livestock under the Barani Village Development Project. Establish and encourage local crafts based youth enterprises for incomegeneration at village and urban-neighborhood level and provide professional assistance for marketing of such enterprise products; Institute a programme of certification of informally acquired skills by technicians and workers to enable them acquire suitable jobs and financing. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
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Entrepreneurship 1. To mitigate risks in new ventures, it is necessary that the risk of trying bright ideas be underwritten by entrepreneurs and our talent is given a chance to succeed. For this purpose the programme envisages creation of a youth venture capital fund to support new developments and implementation of new ideas. This Fund can be subscribed by government, entrepreneurs, corporations, donors, beneficiaries etc; 2. Creation of small incubator offices equipped with all office facilities for young graduates so that they may work in these incubators to polish up their ideas and implement to venture activities. Such incubators may be set up in universities; 3. Support and promote Innovation Competition to attract and fund best business ideas. 4. To facilitate and guide young entrepreneurs regarding procedures for opening of new companies and provide legal advice as needed;
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Arrange entrepreneurship and training programme to enable youth to learn from existing enterprises and the companies. Learn the art of making business plans and selling it to the venture capital and other funds; Enhance the outreach of programmes of the Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC); Guide and train youth to do business, to innovate and expand business. Guide and train small and poor service providers to grow from small occupations into large enterprise; Create respect for poor and small entrepreneurship (rag to riches empowerment).
6.1.3 Hassle Free Loaning 1. Provide financial resources/loans to increase access of poor/low income family youth to training institutions and facilitate those seeking self-employment; 2. Expansion of micro finance sector in terms of outlets, products and access by the young; 3. Create a centralized Information-System/Data base on job opportunities for Youth in public and private sector to guide and counsel job-seeking youth. 6.1.4 Internships, On Campus Job and Job Placements 1. Developing and promoting Punjab Internship programme through public-private partnership that would seek to offer maximum internship opportunities to the youth in government departments, private sector and within the civil society organizations (CSOs); 2. In addition to Government programme, encourage large organizations, companies and enterprises to provide internship opportunities equal to at least 5% of their sanctioned/approved strength of officers to young people/graduates with stipends equal to or more than the Government programme; 3. Require all universities to provide on campus jobs equal to at least 5% of their full time student population; 4. Encourage all universities to set up offices for awaiting graduates in job placements. The government may also support programmes for job counseling and placement services; 5. Institute Placement Bureaus through IT interface with all stake holders and maintaining up to date, accurate and increased information flow. 6. Require all autonomous bodies and state owned enterprises to appoint Youth Ambassadors on their boards.
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Education for Youth Development

Proposed guidelines: 1. Broaden the definition of education outcomes beyond literacy; 2. Clarifying educational aims and objectives so the disparities resulting from
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multiple school systems can done away with; Uniform basic and secondary education to promote integration and social cohesion; Clarifying set of standards and competencies for students at different education stages irrespective of public, private or religious schooling backgrounds; Safe/violence free campuses that would attract students instead of hurling fear in their minds; Women participation and leadership programmes; Promotion of Non formal basic Education programmes; Public-private partnerships to extend the scope and outreach of education; Introduction of service learning and community service programmes; Enhancing Job-skills and aptitude centers/career counseling/placement services on campuses; Books and research materials and facilities would be made available to the young researchers through internet access, libraries, book banks or book loaning programmes; Scholarship programmes to include the marginalized areas; Inclusion of leadership programmes at school, college and university level for grooming students on non-academic basis as well; Reaching to illiterate youth in streets, towns and villages through literate youth as part of their community service. This two-pronged strategy will not only engage the literate youth in a productive manner but also will help to build the capacity of illiterate youth for becoming more responsible citizens; Promotion the culture of peer education on life skills, interactive and leadership skills etc. to equally benefit the literate and illiterate youth.
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Youth Population and Health

The Youth Bulge and Demographic Transition in Pakistan 1. Initiate quantitative researches on the regional scale and depths of youth bulge in the Punjab; 2. Undertake researches on impact of youth bulge in the Punjab, especially focusing upon its link with aspects of development, peace, economy and politics; 3. Devising sectoral strategies to turn youth bulge into a dividend for the province; 4. Coordinate youth debates on youth bulge; 5. Run youth-led mass awareness campaigns for promoting family planning in the province.
6.3.2 Adolescence and Youth Health Rights 1. Adopt policies to address holistic health needs of the youth; 2. Protection, survival and development of children and youth;
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Undertake education and communication activities in reproduction rights at the school level with cultural sensitivities of the regions in view; Portrayal of equality of boys and girls through all public messages and curricula, and Initiate life-skill programmes for children and youth.
Pro-Youth Legislative Measures on Marriage 1. Strict measures for implementing laws against forced and early marriages; 2. Involve religious scholars in the debates against forced and early marriages, and 3. Essay writing competitions among students on forced and early marriages.
6.3.4 Youth Health and Sports 1. The over-all aim is to facilitate actions of concerned departments with collaboration of civil society and the corporate sectors to ensure physical, mental, and social well-being of youth in the Punjab. Mapping of existing sports facilities and playgrounds in the Punjab and cost planning of the missing facilities; Ensure that no school without sports facilities is registered; Provision of playgrounds on the minimum basis of area population; Organize school level tournaments with the help of local elders and private sector; Funds generation with the help of private sector by using space of playgrounds; Persuade young entrepreneurs to run sports events for earning; Encourage the private sector to spend on sports as part of corporate social responsibilities, Run youth-led mass campaigns to promote sports by involving celebrities
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Social Empowerment
Youth Volunteerism and Community Service 1. The concept of volunteerism would be started at school level: community service would be made complimentary to promote volunteerism; 2. Re-activation of Boys Scout and Girls Guides at school level; 3. Mentoring of youth on disaster management will also be ensured at school level; 4. Volunteerism promotion would ideally get pace with excellent results in an efficient way at the schools where the students would be assigned various community service tasks for out of school youth and the youth on streets, so the two-pronged strategy can simultaneously engage and target diverse groups of youth which would be a huge success. Youth Mobility and Group Tourism 1. Building of new youth hostels;
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Inter-provincial youth exchange programmes hosted by local colleges and universities; Special travel packages for group tourism; Encouraging the private sector to invest on tourism publishing; Promotion of local festivals with fundraising potential, and Use of social media to inform about historical and interesting local places and about private travel and accommodation operators.
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Living with Cultural Diversity - Pluralism, Peace and Harmony 1. Youth-led mass campaigns for inter-faith and intra-faith harmony; 2. Strict implementation of laws against hate speech; 3. Involve public interest groups including academicians and students in the screening of literature and text books to celebrate cultural and religious diversity of Punjab. Identity Issue and the Role of Local Languages, Arts and Music 1. 2. 3. 4. Prepare teacher training material for the primary level schooling in Punjabi; Encourage public and private sector to promote local arts, Sufi festivals and music; Link business and management schools with entrepreneurial projects of local arts and music; and Devise strategies to promote local festivals with business potential.
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Political Participation and Engagement of Youth

1. Democratic and politically empowered youth is need of the hour. Political empowerment of youth would be materialized by instilling a sense of ownership and legitimacy through their involvement in electoral and legislative process; The Political Parties Order 2002 needs a thorough revision to incorporate the democratic and political rights of youth and the due consideration thereof; Manifestos of political parties should elaborate their youth development agendas; The local government needs to spell out inclusion of community youth in their working; Sensitization of teachers and parents to discontinue asserting politics a futile exercise calls for serious attention. The concept of monitor at schools is as much political as is the election of a parliamentarian so it needs to be encouraged to instill the right skills among youth at their early ages for better future roles; and Student unions/councils with pro-peace, women friendly and student centered politics need to be established at colleges and universities. Such unions should have minimum criteria for their leaders and have to be delinked with mainstream political parties.
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Civic Responsibility and Citizenship 1. 2. Encourage private sector companies to dedicate a substantial part of their Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes on youth development; The youth policy encourages and supports the initiatives that contribute to environment friendliness and a greener Punjab, in unison with the latest trends around the globe; Civics topics should be part of curricula; Promotion of youth associations on campuses and communities; Engaging youth in mass campaigns and emergencies; Annual awards to those youth group which have successfully implemented projects to promote youth rights.
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7. Institutional Mechanism for Implementation

In order to implement the organic incipient initiatives in the Punjab Youth Policy 2012 requires implementation strategies dovetailed with framework of action with detailed plans and sequential matrix. In order to establish a robust, workable, viable and efficient institutional mechanism for implementation, there is a need to establish an autonomous organization. The proposed organization i.e. Punjab Youth Development Foundation (PYDF) will have a legal cover through an act of legislature. Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department will prepare a draft for a new legislation with the nomenclature of Punjab Youth Development Foundation Act 2012, after the approval of the policy by the competent forum. The Foundation will be headed by a Board of Directors. The members of the Punjab Youth Commission will be also members of the Board of Directors of Punjab Youth Development Foundation.
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Punjab Youth Development Foundation

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Chief Minister Punjab will nominate the Chairman of Punjab Youth Development Foundation Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department will be the administrative department for Punjab Youth Development Foundation. PYDF will be a body corporate with independent in terms of management, finance and implementation of the programmes PYDF will have an independent system of monitoring and evaluation directly reporting to the Chairman instead of Managing Director/CEO PYDF will be headed by a Managing Director/CEO reporting to the Board i.e. Punjab Youth Commission; PYDF will comprise of professional and technical staff to carry out the purpose of Punjab Youth Policy 2012. PYDF will lead the process of mainstreaming the public policies of the province with youth development as a cross cutting theme; PYDF mission would be to help public sector institutions, NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, civil society organizations and the corporate entities to increase efficiency, effectiveness and responsiveness to the development needs of youth and adolescents. PYDF, following the principle of Public-Private Partnership will create partnerships with organizations in the public sector, private sector and the civil society to achieve the aim and the objectives of the Policy. PYDF will also act as custodian and secretariat of the Chief Ministers Youth Development Programme.
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PYDF will create and maintain a database and mapping of youth development organizations, support organizations and donors working in Punjab as well as a database of youth classified with respect to socio-economic backgrounds; PYDF will coordinate, regulate and promote youth development organizations PYDF will operate the Punjab Youth Endowment Fund to carry out its activities. PYDF will be a body corporate created as a result of an enactment by the Punjab Assembly.
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Punjab Youth Commission

A number of provincial departments, organizations, NGOs, various international donors, philanthropists, corporate bodies, NGOs and community-based organizations are already engaged in youth empowerment activities in their respective fields. The implementation of the plan will thus heavily rely on the existing institutions. Essentially it will require these institutions to pay specific attention to youth development by enhancing and augmenting existing programmes, capacity building and increased financing in consonance with the Punjab Youth Policy 2012. To create synergy, harmony and increased coordination in programmes of various institutions, a Punjab Youth Commission will be set up comprising youth members from civil society organizations, youth affairs department and other stakeholders. The members of the PYC shall together constitute the Board of Directors of PYDF and the PYDF will form its Secretariat. The main function of this commission will be to give impetus to harmonious implementation of Youth Policy, monitoring of performance and to provide overall guidance. The Commission will comprise of: i. Chairman, to be nominated by the Chief Minister Punjab ii. Secretary, Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Sports Department iii. Elected members of National and Provincial Assemblies iv. Youth Representatives v. Heads of Youth organizations vi. Head of civil society organizations vii. Head/Senior Management of Corporate bodies/Private Sector entities viii. Academics of very high eminence and erudition nominated by Higher Education Department after seeking approval of the Chief Minister Punjab ix. Media x. Religious Scholar The Commission will: 1. Give vision, strategic directions and institutional roadmap for the empowerment of youth in the social, economic and political life of the youth as enunciated in the Punjab Youth Policy 2012;
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Monitor achievement of strategic goals and the progress of action points/ strategies by the Foundation; Support the Foundation to build public-private partnerships; Ensure adequate resources to achieve the mission, including assisting in fund raising for youth development in the Punjab; Maintain transparency and ethical standards and enforce the Code of Corporate Governance on the Foundation; Submit an annual report on the Status of Youth in the Punjab.
Given the scope of Foundations work, it is recommended that necessary legal and procedural arrangements, in the form of an enactment by the Punjab Assembly, are made for its smooth working in an autonomous manner.
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Advisor to the Chief Minister on Youth Development

In pursuance of the establishment of the Punjab Youth Commission, the Chief Minister of the Province shall appoint two Advisors on Youth, one male and one female, who will report to the Chief Minister and shall act as liaison between the Chief Minister and the Foundation.
7.4
Youth Development Organizations

Punjab Youth Policy 2012 acknowledges any organization working for youth development, as defined earlier, either as its main mission or as a part of its programs, duly registered and functioning under an appropriate law, but necessarily affiliated and enrolled with the proposed Directorate of Youth Affairs, will be considered and called a Youth Development Organization (YDOs) for the purpose of qualification of working with the Directorate. YDOs can be broadly classified as Youth-led and Youth-serving; whereby a youth-led organization is primarily led by young people; and a youth-serving organization, may or may not be youth-led, performs, fully or partially, youth development functions. Punjab Youth Policy 2012 also acknowledges the work done by the donors, private sector, charities, foundations and local community based groups and organizations all working for youth development to some or greater degree. Thus, the youth development organizations, groups, private sector organizations, donors, and other support organizations working for youth together comprise a constituency of the proposed Directorate.
7.5
District and Tehsil Youth Councils

District and Tehsil Youth Councils will ensure youth participation in the implementation of policy with the help of youth from community organizations and local administration. These councils will be strictly voluntary in nature to be formed by the youth themselves essentially to forge a direct link between the youth and the policies of the PYDF.
7.6
Punjab Youth Endowment Fund

Establishment of the Punjab Youth Endowment Fund will be materialized through public-private partnership and collaboration of national and international development agencies. The Punjab Youth Development Foundation will administer the fund. Government of the Punjab will make available one time grant as seed money and resources will be generated by the Punjab Youth Commission through donations and contributions in the form of cross cheque into the accounts of Punjab Youth Endowment Fund.
7.7
Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation units should be made for policy implementing departments or organizations to assess the impact and progress of the policy. The Punjab Youth Commission shall prepare an annual progress report on state of youth in the Punjab during the preceding year and convey it to the government for its submission in the Punjab Assembly for discussion.
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8. Youth Development: Achievements by Government of the Punjab

Punjab Youth Policy envisages and demonstrates the unswerving commitment of the Government of Punjab to empower youth in the province and provides a comprehensive policy framework for integrated visioning and planning, implementation and coordination in all government departments and initiate programmes in public-private partnership with regard to matters relating to youth development in the Punjab. Some of the initiatives undertaken by the Punjab Government for youth development and youth empowerment are reproduced here.
8.1
Chief Minister Youth Development Programme

Under Chief Minister Youth Development Programme, three landmark initiatives have been taken and are now being implemented. They include: Laptop Awards, Daanish Schools, and PEEF Scholarships. An exclusive website www.youth.punjab.gov.pk has been set-up to provide details of these initiatives. In order to address the issues of equity, Government of the Punjab has already established Punjab Daanish School System &Centers of Excellence Authority. Provision of quality education is priority area of the Government of the Punjab, Daanish School and Center of Excellence Authority has been established recently in 2010. Poorest of the poor will get education of International Standards in these institutions. Six Daanish Schools have already been established and fifteen will be established in next one year. 72 existing schools will be converted into Centers of Excellence in Phase-1.Major components of the scheme include: Provision of infrastructural facilities; boarding and lodging facilities; Establishment of science and I.T. Labs; Establishment of Libraries and Provision of transport facilities; Construction of state of the art buildings for Daanish Schools30. The objective of laptop award Programme is to provide free laptops to 100 thousand brilliant students currently studying at public sector colleges and universities or high achievers of the Boards of Punjab in Matriculation Examinations. The Programme is being extended to the brilliant students of other provinces including Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. The motivation and enthusiasm behind this scheme is to help students rise above problems and hurdles they face in their path to gain knowledge and excel professionally. The policy recognizes that Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF) is an initiative of Government of the Punjab with the objective of providing scholarships/monetary
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Malik A.B (2012). Education Matters: Policy Analysis and State of Education in Punjab, Maqbool Academy, Lahore, Pakistan. 27 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
assistance to talented and needy students for pursuing quality education with equal opportunities. To make it more efficient, transparent and autonomous in its functioning, it has been established under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984. The Endowment fund has been established with initial seed money of Rs 2 billion, which is proposed to be raised subsequently. Investment proceeds out of this fund will be utilized for providing the scholarship. At this point, students belonging to Government institutions are considered for these scholarships, however, it will be extended to other sectors in due course of time. Allocation of these scholarships will be on this basis of Tehsil and district wise results of students. Special treatment will be given to the students of fifteen less developed districts of the Southern Punjab, Special quotas for orphans, children of Government employees (up to BS-14), disabled, minorities and widows have also been allocated. Bright and needy students of other provinces including Azad Kashmir will also be provided opportunities for higher education through this programme31.
8.2
Chief Ministers School Roadmap

The Government of Punjab is resilient to achieve the Constitutional and Statutory obligations and political leadership has expressed firm commitment for the enforcement of Article 25-A. A comprehensive strategy is being formulated to achieve the goal and assume new roles and responsibilities after the 18th Constitutional Amendment. The Chief Ministers School Roadmap is a step in this direction32. The education system in Punjab is diverse and rich at primary level. There are varied kinds of institutions, imparting education to the masses. The educational institutions range from Provincial Government Public Schools, Federal Government Schools, Madrasahs, Cadet Colleges, Missionary Schools, Garrison Institutes and Privately owned low cost and Elite Schools.
8.3
Enhancing the Quality of College Education

Government of the Punjab has embarked upon a comprehensive plan to enhance the quality of college education with special focus on improvement of physical infrastructure of college. Under PESRP, the department is providing missing/additional infrastructure facilities like boundary wall, toilets, building, furniture etc. to the colleges all over the Punjab. For provision of facilities to colleges like transport and equipment, an umbrella scheme has been approved by the PDWP for a cost of Rs 1068.810 million. In financial year 2009-10, 900 computers were purchased for 376 colleges of the province. Other items will be purchased for all the colleges in the financial year 2010-11. It is pertinent to mention that 14 items are meant to be provided under the mega project.
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Malik A.B (2012). Education Matters: Policy Analysis and State of Education in Punjab, Maqbool Academy, Lahore, Pakistan. Government of the Punjab, Chief Ministers Secretariat: School Roadmap for 100% Enrolment and Retention (2011) 28 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
8.4
Focus on Special Education

After the creation of an independent department of special education in October, 2003, a substantial increase in enrollment of students in the institutions of special education has been achieved, 300% increase during the period 2005 - 2009. This has been possible due to various incentives, by Government of the Punjab, Special Education Department that includes: Stipend @ Rs.200/- per month per student; Free uniform; Free text & Braille books; Free pick & drop facility; Free boarding & lodging facility; Free milk pack of 250 ml daily; Merit scholarship; 36-buildings with special facilities to special education centers; Cochlear Implant Devices to Hearing Impaired Students; Up-gradation of Institutions of Special Education.
8.5
Modern Education for Students of Deeni Madaris

Government of the Punjab has introduced formal subjects including market-oriented and skills-based subjects that would enable the children graduating from Deeni Madaris to have more employment options. Government of the Punjab made arrangements for printing of rare books on Islam, charts and materials relating to Islamic injunctions and their distribution amongst libraries of schools, colleges, universities, research institutions and Deeni Madaris. Government of the Punjab has ensured that textual and other learning materials do not contain anything repugnant to Islamic injunctions and controversial material against any sect33.
8.6
Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion

Punjab Small Industries Corporation is endeavoring to help the skilled unemployed youth through self-employment, entrepreneurship and starting small businesses. The Government of the Punjab allocated Rs.1000 million in Budget Estimates of 2011-12 as interest free loan to PSIC through Public Private Partnership34. The initiative has been piloted and can be skilled up after initial evaluation of the micro finance scheme and third party evaluation. The loan parameters are: Total loan portfolio of PKR 1,000 million; interest free loan size: up to PKR 50,000/- only; repayment period from borrowers: up to 3 years; mode of repayment of interest free loan: on monthly basis; interest rate to be charged from borrowers: 0%; loan application fee: up to PKR 200.
8.7
Women Economic Empowerment

Punjab Bank initiated Women Entrepreneurship Financing Scheme for loans for commercial ventures by women for initiatives including: day care centers, bakeries, eateries, catering, furniture, interior designing, boutiques, fitness gyms, event
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Malik A.B (2012). Education Matters: Policy Analysis and State of Education in Punjab, Maqbool Academy, Lahore, Pakistan. Farhan Aziz Khawaja, Managing Director Punjab Small Industries Corporation, minutes of the meeting on draft youth policy, April 13, 2012 29 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
management, vocational institutes, driving schools, jewelry, clothing and accessories, and any other feasible projects. Business Development Services to be extended by Bank of Punjab; Job creation shall be one of the criteria for approval of loan application by the Bank of Punjab; Green field projects shall also be eligible.
8.8
Special Initiative for Youth in Jails

Punjab Youth Policy 2012 recognizes that the youth in jail needs to be rehabilitated through counseling, that is the only way to helps them relate back to a normal life. Two special Jails for keeping juvenile prisoners are functioning at Bahawalpur and Faisalabad known as Borstal Institution and Juvenile Jails (B.I & J Jails). In other jails, one special portion as set apart for keeping of juvenile prisoners. After conviction, these prisoners are shifted to B.I & J. Jails., located at Bahawalpur, Faisalabad where they are imparted training in different trades for the reformation of the Juvenile Prisoners and transforming them into better human to reintegrate them in the society by enlightening them with general education, vocational training, religious education and other moral developments35.
8.9
Vocational Training Programmes

Vocational training programmes have been started in trades like computer training, electrician course, electrical wiring, tailoring and sewing. Cultural complex facilities are provided for indoor games36. Government of the Punjab has formulated a policy for the Home Based Workers covering the strategies, plans and programs for the protection and promotion of rights and benefit of Home Based Workers, mostly comprising female workers.
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Shahid Ahmed Bhutta, Additional Secretary Home Department Letter No. PS/AS(H)Y.A/2012, April 17, 2012 Ibid. 30 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
9.
History of Youth Policy

The mentioning of youth brings along a field of promise and potential for the national life. Both our public and policy circles frequently repeat their allegiance to the idea of youth participation in the state and society. However, in the procedural and policy framework of the country it was not until June 1989 that a youth affairs division was established at the federal level. It further took 21 years to formulate the first national youth policy in 2009. With the devolution of the federal youth ministry (2010) under the Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act 2010, now the provinces have exclusive authority over subject of youth affairs.
9.1
Youth Policy in Pakistan

The Federal Ministry of Youth Affairs was created on November 18, 2005. It presented the National Youth Policy (NYP) in December 2008 which was approved in February 2009.Before the formulation of National Youth Policy, there were a number of ministries and organizations that were working in various areas related to youth. However, the aim of the policy was to integrate their programmes and provide overall sense of direction consistent with the needs of the country. Prior to this, four drafts of the National Youth Policy were prepared: in 1989, 1993, 2002 and 2004. The NYP draft prepared in 1989 wasnt presented to the Cabinet and was only issued to the press on 21 June 1989. The second draft of the NYP (1993) was prepared by a foreign consultant, but not presented to the Cabinet. The key policy change came in 2001 when the government started consulting with civil society on the National Youth Policy. Between May 2001 and January 2002, the Federal Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs organized consultative provincial and national workshops for the first time. In the light of these consultations, the Pakistani Ministry of Youth Affairs with the active participation of provincial youth departments, civil society organizations and students were able to prepare a comprehensive NYP (2002). And it is through this process that the 2004 draft was prepared.37 The approval of the first Youth National Policy by the federal cabinet in 2009 could not be developed as an opportunity to start an integrated process of youth development. The President of Pakistan signed the 18th amendment to the constitution into law on 19th April 2010, which proclaimed provincial autonomy, abolished the Concurrent Legislative List and shifted powers to the provinces. The Federal Government initially devolved five
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Shahab, Zahid. Interventions of CSOs towards the First youth Policy of Pakistan, in Good News for Troubled Contexts: Lessons learned from case studies on how civil society organizations influence policy processes, Enrique Mendizabal (EDT.), Overseas Development Institute: London UK, May 2006. 31 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
federal ministries including Ministry of Youth Affairs to provinces in 2010 to give effect to the devolution of powers under the Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act 2010. According to the new arrangements under the devolution plan, international affairs, foreign aid and inter-provincial matters would now be overseen by the federation while legislation powers regarding youth, youth organization forum and youth centers have been delegated to the provinces. Economic Affairs Division (EAD) in Islamabad would handle international aspects/ agreements and aid coordination. National Internship Programme and National Volunteer Movement would be the responsibility of the Establishment Division and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)/ Interior Division would run youth centers and hostels in the ICT.
9.2
Youth Affairs in Punjab

In the wake of the Constitution (18th Amendment) Act 2010, the subject of youth affairs has been devolved to provinces. In the Punjab, the Information, Culture & Youth Affairs (ICYA) department initially took this responsibility and eventually prepared the first draft of Punjab Youth Policy in August 2011 to address youth issues at priority. The draft was then put before the civil society for their feedback and recommendations in a thorough consultative process engaging almost all stakeholders.
9.2.1
Evolution of Youth Affairs Department in Punjab

On 24th February 1999, a notification No.CAB-1/2-1/96 added the following clauses concerning youth in the domain of Information, Culture & Youth Affairs Department:
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Coordination of activities of Youth Organizations. Arranging seminars/exhibitions etc. relating to such events as International Youth Year, National Youth Festivals, Sports events, etc. Arranging Inter- Provincial and International visits by the Youth delegation
On 14th Oct 2011, a new Department of Youth Affairs, Archeology, Sports and Tourism was created and the subject of Youth Affairs was assigned to this newly created department of Government of the Punjab . The notification for creation of this new department states as follows:
In exercise of the powers conferred under Article 139 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan read with Rule 3 (2) of the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011, Chief Minister has been pleased to constitute a new department namely Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology and Tourism Department by separating Youth Affairs Wing & Director General of Archeology from
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IC & YA Department, Sports Wing from Higher Education Department and Tourism from Forestry, Wildlife, Fisheries & Tourism Department, with immediate effect.
Government of the Punjab formulated the Rules of Business 201138 for the new department i.e. Youth Affairs, Sports, Archaeology and Tourism Department:1. 2. 3. Legislation, policy formulation and sectoral planning regarding Youth Affairs, Archaeology and Tourism Management of and regulations relating to Archaeology Coordination with: (a) Federal Government on all matters relating to youth organizations and (b) Federal and other Provincial Governments for arranging visits of the youth delegations Conservation of all ancient and historical monuments, archaeological sites and remains in the Province Promotion of sports through: (a) Infrastructure development (b) Talent scouting, sports competitions etc (c) Production of films and literature/reading material and (d) Technology Sports facilities including stadia, gymnasia, play-fields and sports hostels Training, coaching programs and sports workshops Coordination with: (a) Pakistan Sports Board (b) Sports Boards of other provinces and federal territories and (c) Sports federations, associations, organizations and clubs Sports event management Welfare of the sportsmen Promotion of tourism and hotel industry in the Province of the Punjab Research and training in various disciplines of tourism Regulations and control of tourist industry and allied services, including hotels, restaurants, travel guides and travel agents Organization of inland and foreign tours Budget, accounts and audit matters Purchase of stores and capital goods for the department Service matters except those entrusted to Services and General Administration Department
4. 5.
6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
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Rules of Business 2012, Government of the Punjab Lahore. Rules 1 and 3 are directly relevant with the subject of youth affairs. 33 GovernmentofthePunjab YouthAffairs,Sports,TourismandArchaeologyDepartment
Basic functions under youth affairs include: 1. International youth exchange programme 2. Development of youth centers 3. National youth award programme 4. Youth conferences 5. National youth camps 6. Youth programmes for computer literacy 7. Youth conventions 8. Youth literary competitions 9. Recognition of top position holders in education at National level 10. Development of the Chief Minister Youth Commission 11. Projection of Punjab Youth Councils
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Punjab Youth Policy 2012 Contents

Challenges to Youth in the Punjab ...................................................................................................... 11

6.3.1 6.3.2 6.3.3 6.3.4

Political Participation and Engagement of Youth ....................................................................... 21

Youth Development: Achievements by Government of the Punjab ................................................... 27

History of Youth Policy ...................................................................................................................... 31

1. Map of the Punjab Province

Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah 31st October 1947

2. Contours of Punjab Youth Policy 2012

3. Punjab Youth Policy 2012: Salient Features

Mandate, Principles and Objectives

Definition of Youth Development

Core Values and Principles of Policy

Aim and Objectives of Punjab Youth Policy 2012

13) 14) 15)

Challenges to Youth in Punjab

Education for Youth Development

Youth Population and Health

Political Participation and Engagement of Youth

Challenges of Governance: Mainstreaming Youth Development in Public Policy

6. Strategic Action Plan: Guidelines for Youth Development in the Punjab

Education for Youth Development

12. 13. 14.

Youth Population and Health

Political Participation and Engagement of Youth

7. Institutional Mechanism for Implementation

Punjab Youth Development Foundation

12) 13) 14)

Punjab Youth Commission

Advisor to the Chief Minister on Youth Development

Youth Development Organizations

District and Tehsil Youth Councils

Punjab Youth Endowment Fund

Monitoring and Evaluation

8. Youth Development: Achievements by Government of the Punjab

Chief Minister Youth Development Programme

Chief Ministers School Roadmap

Enhancing the Quality of College Education

Focus on Special Education

Modern Education for Students of Deeni Madaris

Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion

Women Economic Empowerment

Special Initiative for Youth in Jails

Vocational Training Programmes

History of Youth Policy

Youth Policy in Pakistan

Youth Affairs in Punjab

Evolution of Youth Affairs Department in Punjab

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

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