Many young people in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have become interested and actively engaged in the world development process, and some are continuously making efforts to have their voices heard when policies are considered that affect them.

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• Featuring
• Moderator - Nina Bhatt (PhD), Social Development
  Specialist, Social Development Sector, World Bank
• Key Note Speaker - Emmanuel Y. Jimenez, Director,
  World Development Report 2007 and Director, Human
  Development (Education, Health, Nutrition and
  Population), East Asia and Pacific Region, World
  Bank
• Youth Presenters -
• Speaker 1 - Chalongkwan Tavarayuth,
  Representative of the Youth, Development, and
  Peace Network Steering Committee, Thailand
• Speaker 2 - Chanthalangsy Sysouvanh, PADATC Team
  Building Trainer, Member of Youth Council, Lao
  PDR
• Speaker 3 Tsutomu Yasui, Member of the
  Executive Board of YDPJN (Youth, Development
  Peace Japan Network), Japan
• Speaker 4 - Anarbold Odonkhuu, Coordinator of
  youth self organized network, Mongolian National
  Authority for Children, Mongolia
• Locations, Local Times, Contacts
• Bangkok, World Bank Office, 1000 AM - 1230 PM,
  April 19, Tinnakorn Sareenun. Email
  tsareenun_at_worldbank.org
• Hanoi, Development Information Center, 1000 AM -
  1230 PM, April 19, Mai Thi Hong Bo. Email
  mbo_at_worldbank.org Nuong Dieu Nguyen. Email
  nnguyen2_at_worldbank.org
• Jakarta, World Bank Office, 1000 AM - 1230 PM,
  April 19, Wiwiek Sonda. Email wsonda_at_worldbank.or
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• Phnom Penh, World Bank Office, 1000 AM - 1230
  PM, April 19, Bou Saroeun. sbou_at_worldbank.org
• Port Moresby, Development Learning Center, 1300
  Pm - 1530 Pm April 19, Dwain Brian Tomavoko
• Email dtomavoko_at_worldbank.org
• Singapore, World Bank Office, 1100 AM - 1330
  PM, April 19, May Ann Lim. Email
  mlim3_at_worldbank.org
• Tokyo Development Learning Center, 1200 PM -
  1430 PM, April 19, Mika Iwasaki. Email
  miwasaki_at_worldbank.org
• Vientiane, World Bank Office, 1000 AM - 1230
  PM, April 19, Viengsamay Srithirath. Email
  vsrithirath_at_worldbank.org

Introduction Many young people in the East Asia
and Pacific (EAP) region have become interested
and actively engaged in the world development
process, and some are continuously making efforts
to have their voices heard when policies are
considered that affect them. The objectives of
this seminar is to support those efforts. This
seminar will bring together youth leaders, Bank
staff, and policy-makers from the region, to
discuss development programs initiated by youth.
The seminar will also explore the potential for
increasing youth participation in the
decision-making process at national levels. The
focus of this seminar is in line with the key
message of the World Development Report 2007
Development and the Next Generation, which
emphasizes youth as partners in the development
agenda. By acknowledging the efforts of youth and
their potential as effective partners, this
seminar should serve as first step toward the
creation of a more permanent dialogue between
youth, the Bank, and national policy-makers on
issues of mutual concern relating to
international development. For further
information, visit http//www.worldbank.org/wdr200
7 or http//www.worldbank.org/eap Seminar This
seminar is the first of two that will be
implemented. Supported by the key writers of the
World Development Report and the Bank's youth
focal points in each participating country, the
seminar will include presentations by selected
youth who have had the opportunity to work in
development projects or participate in
organizations with strong involvement in their
respective country's development agenda. The
seminar will seek to stimulate discussion and
dialogue among the participants with the goal of
finding ways for youth to become more engaged in
development issues. World Bank specialists will
also participate. Seminar Two (scheduled in
June) will focus on increasing youth
participation in the decision-making process at
the national level, inviting key policy-makers to
the session.
  Global Development Learning Network
An Inter-Regional Knowledge Sharing Series on the
2007 World Development Report
Seminar One of a Two-part Series Supporting
Youth Voices A distance learning seminar
organized by the World Bank, and the Vietnam
Development Information Center
April 19, 2007
In cooperation with the following World Bank
Offices and GDLN affiliates
Vietnam Development Information Center Tokyo
Development Learning Center WB Office
Thailand U.S.A. (Washington D.C.) GDLN Studios WB
Office Indonesia WB Office Lao PDR WB Office
Cambodia Mongolia Development Learning Center WB
Office Singapore Papua New Guinea Development
Learning Center