This cogent event, accustomed by the Commonwealth Secretariat, was a key allotment of the 2023-24 year's calendar of activities.
It brought calm about 200 adolescent people, including 150 assembly apery the interests of the 56 Commonwealth affiliate states.
The acme aimed to empower adolescent bodies by accouterment them with a belvedere to accept the assignment of the Commonwealth and accord their perspectives on key issues impacting the region.
This accumbent with the broader goals of the Commonwealth Year of Adolescence in accretion the afterimage of adolescence work, highlighting their talents, and highlighting the absolute contributions of adolescent bodies to democracy, acceptable development, and peace.
The Commonwealth Year of Adolescence activity declared at the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda emphasizes the analytical role of adolescence in abstraction the approaching of the Commonwealth. This initiative, which initially spanned 2023 and was continued to 2024, promotes youth-led activity for acceptable and across-the-board development.
It commemorates cogent milestones, including the 50th commemoration of the Commonwealth Adolescence Program, the 10th commemoration of the Commonwealth Charter, and the enactment of the Commonwealth Adolescence Council.
With over 60% of the Commonwealth's 2.5 billion citizenry age-old 29 or younger, the acme accent the analytical role of agreeable this demographic - a
population of 1.5 billion adolescent people-in abstraction the approaching of the Commonwealth.
The summit's aperture commemoration featured astute speeches by arresting figures, including H.E. Ms. Christabel Derby, Chairperson of the Commonwealth Year of Adolescence Advisory Board and Vice Chairperson of the CYC, and Mr. Nelson Owusu Ansah, Deputy CEO of the NYA.
Mrs. Freda Bediako-Puni, Director for the Commonwealth Back Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, apery the Foreign Affairs Minister, commended the summit's alignment with the minister's attack priorities for the role of the Commonwealth Secretary-General, decidedly youth, education, skills, innovation, and start-ups.
Furthermore, Mr. Richard Sandall, Development Director at the British High Commission, emphasized the accent of adolescent bodies all-embracing Commonwealth ethics in architecture a added airy approaching and the opportunities it holds for them.
The acme additionally accustomed Silvia Tizzi, Programme Officer from the European Union Delegation to Ghana, and Mr. Daniel Aryee, Policy Advocacy Lead from the Office of the African Union Chairperson's Adolescence Envoy, who bidding their adherence and abutment for the summit's efforts in amplifying adolescence choir and contributions.
"The Model Commonwealth Acme is added than aloof a simulation; it is a belvedere for absolute change. I am assured that the discussions, lobbying, debates, collaborations, and networking that will booty abode actuality will affect you to booty adventurous accomplish appear creating a added inclusive, equitable, and affluent Commonwealth," Christabel Derby added.
One of the summit's highlights was the mentorship provided to assembly on address and networking. These sessions aimed to enhance the participants' skills, advancing them to become amenable leaders able of accidental to the Commonwealth's development.
This allotment of the acme was decidedly cogent as it covered adolescence empowerment activities, adopting stakeholder discussions on developing the abeyant of the adolescence in utilising opportunities and initiating acceptable initiatives accordant aural the Commonwealth affiliate states and the Commonwealth Community at large.
Delegates were aggregate into three axial committees: the Board on Governance, Security, and Internationalization (C.GSI), the Board on Education, Social, and Environment (C.ESE), and the Board on Cooperation, Inclusivity, and Development (C.CID).
Each board affianced in absolute discussions, acclamation analytical issues accordant to their corresponding domains. The resolutions formulated by these committees will be forwarded to the Commonwealth Secretariat and added accordant stakeholders.
With the alive captivation of the Commonwealth Secretariat and added stakeholders, these resolutions are advised to be chip into policies, ensuring that the choir and account of the adolescence are represented in the controlling processes that appearance the approaching of the Commonwealth.
The acme provided a belvedere for adolescent leaders to assemble, allotment ideas, and advance actionable resolutions. It accent the immense abeyant of adolescence to drive absolute change and absolute a faculty of pride and optimism in all those involved.
"As we reflect on this summit's accomplishments, it is axiomatic that the Commonwealth's approaching lies in the easily of its youth. The Model Commonwealth Acme has laid a able foundation for advancing assurance and development, ensuring that adolescent bodies abide at the beginning of the Commonwealth's eyes for a added inclusive, cooperative, and affluent future," said Mr. Martinson Yeboah, Executive Director of the Model Commonwealth Acme and Founding Director for the Organization for Policy and Leadership Development (OPLD).