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Hello!

This is an invitation to apply for an online training offered by the Global
Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA). GYCA is a youth-led and youth-serving
alliance of over 1000 young people and adult allies that focuses on capacity
building and technical assistance, information sharing and networking,
advocacy training and ensuring youth participation at international AIDS
conferences. In this way, GYCA  empowers youth with the skills, knowledge,
resources, opportunities, and credibility they need to scale up HIV/AIDS
interventions for young people, who make up over 50% of the 3 million people
infected with HIV each year. For more information on GYCA and its origins,
please see www.youthaidscoalition.org .

As part of the advocacy training component, GYCA offers a peer-to-peer
training to educate young people about effective political advocacy
methodology. Specifically, the course will train young people to hold their
governments accountable to commitments made at the United Nations General
Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001. The course focuses around
the following areas:

1) To create an action plan for research on government commitments to date

2) Establish solutions based on needs with a focus on youth-adult
collaboration
3) Learn how to approach government officials and present those solutions
effectively
4) Learn how to monitor and evaluate their work
5) Follow up activity by facilitators with course participants The course
will take four weeks and at least 6-8 hours/week. Participants are expected
to be dedicated and committed to the course. Participants will end the
course with an action plan and will be expected to follow up on it.

The course is solely for people who are actively interested in learning
about approaching their governments and taking action towards
accountability. Additionally, participants will be encouraged to share their
experiences about youth-government collaboration and learn about new
approaches to enhance it.

Criteria for a certificate of course completion is as follows:

Submit answers to weekly questions by the end of each week in order to
complete their final project plan.
Check discussion board frequently (every other day) and look out for mention
of their name and requests for them to contribute to the discussion.
* Meaningfully* contribute to the discussion board at least once for each
discussion topic (there will be three topics assigned per week)

Final Project plan should be completed and satisfactory (all questions
answered fully and coherently)


It is crucial that if you are considering applying, you must be devoted to
follow up post-course on a weekly basis. You will be obligated to
communicate with a facilitator about the progress of implementing the
information you learned. We hope to showcase successful research and
advocacy work at the UNGASS +5 Review in June 2006 in NY. We will also
connect you to previous Political Advocacy E-course participants who are
currently doing amazing work in their countries. If you are from the same
country as previous participants, we will encourage you to connect with one
another and perhaps work together.

*IF YOU WILL BE TRAVELLING THROUGHOUT APRIL AND HAVE LITTLE to NO INTERNET
ACCESS  DO NOT APPLY!!!!! THIS IS STRICT!*

*The deadline for submission is Wednesday, April 12, 2006. SUBMIT TO:
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Selected participants will be notified by or on April 15th. Participants who
do not get selected will not here from me and should re-apply at a later
time. Please fill out the attached application if you are interested.

International Youth Development Agency is a non-governmental organization whose aim is to develop, enhance and increase the role of the youth in a rapidly globalizing world.

The goals of Organization:
To improve and extend the youth work and services
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society
To promote effective youth policy
To organize international network of NGOs working towards the development of youth work
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings
To maintain international youth exchange programs