To the contents page | Chapter oneThe second Global Conference on national youth service was held in Nigeria, in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city, from 10-14 October 1994.
The conference provided the opportunity for concerted efforts to increase ties among youth services in order to enrich individual youth service programs, drawing up of guidelines for multilateral co-operation in tackling social ills, youth research and development, et cetera. Deliberation centred on nine papers presented under the following sub-themes:
The conference had the following objectives:
- to move the proposals made at the last conference to the state of strengthening the mechanism for international co-operation with a view to heightening the potential of the youth service programme as an instrument for global understanding;
- to stimulate greater interest within countries in programmes of youth development and widen the scope available to young people for youth service;
- to foster greater collaboration between youth service organizations and other organizations with like objectives, globally, thereby opening up new vistas for youth;
- to help refine the approaches for youth involvement in national / community development while facilitating greater youth participation.