JAKARTA, 20 July 2022 – ASEAN launched its first Youth Dialogue as part of the designation of 2022 as the Year of ASEAN Youth. The 1st ASEAN Youth Dialogue will take place on 25-26 July in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with 68 youth delegates participating from across the ASEAN region and the Republic of Korea (ROK).
The ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) and the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, jointly organised the dialogue with support from the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund under the 9th ASEAN-Korea Frontiers’ Forum. The areas to be addressed in the dialogue align with priorities under Cambodia’s ASEAN Chairmanship this year and the theme ASEAN A.C.T.: Addressing Challenges Together.
The dialogue’s theme focuses on Youth in the Era of Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges in Post-Pandemic Recover. The inaugural batch of youth participants are expected to deliver a set of policy recommendations on how to prepare the region for the fourth industrial revolution, in this case, through ASEAN’s cooperation with the ROK.
In Siem Reap, youth delegates will engage in a face-to-face dialogue with ASEAN youth ministers and high-level officials on youth empowerment, participation in pandemic recovery and regional integration.
There are eight thematic areas shaping the recommendations and dialogue, namely governance; science, technology and innovation; the future of work; infrastructure and connectivity; inclusive and sustainable growth; climate change; narrowing the development gap in ASEAN; and people-to-people exchanges.
The dialogue will also feature three main sessions, namely:
- Panel Discussion on Youth in the Post COVID-19 Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges;
- High-level panel discussion on How Youth Can Innovate for Human Resources Development; and
Dialogue with ASEAN ministers and high-level officials on policy recommendations from the youth delegates.
Speakers from the ASEAN Foundation, Maybank Foundation, Seoul National University, United Nations Population Fund, as well as young leaders and entrepreneurs, will be joining the event.
On 18-20 July, ASEC organised a three-day virtual pre-departure programme with 68 youth participants from across the region and ROK, through the collaboration of ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family of the ROK, and the ASEAN-Korea Centre.
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Sessions of the pre-departure programme can be viewed here:
