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• Resolutions agreed
• New signatories to the Charter of the IANYS
• Plans for the 5th Global Conference in Israel in the year 2000

• Global Conferences on National Youth Service (NYS) - Donald J. Eberly
  
  
• Presidential Position Statement on the International Association for National Youth Service (issued in August 1998) - Donald J. Eberly
  

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• FROM THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, MR. TONY BLAIR
• MESSAGE TO THE CONFERENCE FROM HARRIS WOFFORD,CEO OF THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL SERVICE, USA

• by The Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP,
  Secretary of State for Education and Employment, The British Government

CITIZENS' SERVICE AND MILLENNIUM VOLUNTEERS
Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director of CSV, and Host of the Conference

• CSV's `Citizens' Service'
• Millennium Volunteers
• Millennium Volunteers - Setting the Framework

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This section includes expanded updates for Argentina, Australia, Germany, India and the People's Republic of China using information taken from their main conference presentations, as their main presentations focused on detailing the NYS schemes they had outlined in their updates.

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• NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE: EMERGING ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
  
  
• FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF YOUTH POLICY IN EUROPE
  
  
• NATIONAL SERVICE AND SERVICE-LEARNING: PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION REFORM
  
  
• SERVICE-LEARNING: EDUCATION TO PROSOCIALITY
  
  
• MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE PROGRAMMES - THE CASE OF THE CITIZEN'S SERVICE PILOT SCHEMES IN THE UK
  
  
• TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH VOLUNTEERING: ITALY AND THE UK IN THE EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE (EVS)
  
  
• INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES BETWEEN NYS PROGRAMMES
  
  
• WORKSHOP: IS NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE A RITE OF PASSAGE?
  
  
• ON MAKING NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE A MAJOR POLICY: BUILDING THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION
  
  
• REGIONAL & INTER-STATE YOUTH SERVICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  
  
• YOUTH SERVICE AND ALTERNATIVE CIVILIAN SERVICE IN RUSSIA
  

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• Service-learning
• Monitoring and evaluation of NYS Programmes
• NYS and military service

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• THE GAMBIA: THE GAMBIA NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE SCHEME (GNYSS): A POLICY TO THE RESCUE
  - Isatou Baldeh, Service Member, Gambia National Youth Service Scheme
  
  
• ZAMBIA: NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE - WHAT IS THERE FOR THE YOUTH?
  - Oliver Sepiso Shalala, Publicity Secretary, University of Zambia Students' Union (UNZASU)
  
  
• RUSSIA: THE ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG LEADERS (AYL), MOSCOW
  - Elena Panova, Co-ordinator of Volunteer Programmes, AYL
  
  
• INDIA: NATIONAL YOUTH PROJECT: YOUTH ACTIVISTS' VIEWS
  - Rajeev Bukralia, The Inspiration Courses, and Madhusudan Das and Debajani Das, National Youth Project
  
  
• GHANA: NYS EXPERIENCES IN GHANA
  – Clement Totimeh, President, National Service Personnel Association (NASPA)
  
  
• NIGERIA
  - Garba Sani Alhaji, Serving Corps Member, National Youth Service Corps
  
  
• UNITED KINGDOM: CSV's Citizens' Service: Young participants' views
  

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Appendix 1: Conference programme

Appendix 2: List of participants

Appendix 3: Charter of the International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS)

Appendix 4: Select bibliography on NYS

Appendix 5: Conference organisers:
Community Service Volunteers (CSV), UK