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An Inaugural conversation for a Youth Mainstream Technical Taskforce has been finalized between the Belize City Council, the Department of Youth Services, UNICEF, and other partners. Love News spoke with Malcolm Nunez, Councillor responsible for Youth at the Council, on the primary focus of the technical task force.
Malcolm Nunez: “Youth Task Force: Although I’m still considered a youth, it is important that young people are actually at the decision-making table. So the meeting that was held was to have us, the policymakers, come together and put the work in a stage where we could then invite young people to have them actually have a say in the way forward.”
Nunez also spoke on the outline of the project and its official launch.
Councilor Malcolm Nunez:“I am a member of the Belize City Council so it is my honor to first represent the city but the agencies that are also partners are responsible to take care of Youth development in the entire country so while we wish to launch in Belize City, we wish to reach all the little villages in Toledo, the villages in Corozal and every aspect of this country to have our young people really be a part of youth development. We were set for six months but we don’t know what the work plan with look like because we all have our own different work schedule but it’s just for us to really find time to come together and to make this a reality for the young people across the country.”
The Youth Technical Taskforce, set to launch in six months, will provide a space for youth across the country to participate in policy making and other matters that will reshape Belize’s development.
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