BACKGROUND

Three decades after ASEAN was established, ASEAN leaders recognised that: there remained inadequate shared prosperity, ASEAN awareness and contact among people of ASEAN. It was of this concern that ASEAN leaders established the ASEAN Foundation during ASEAN’s 30th Anniversary Summit in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 15 December 1997. The ASEAN Foundation is an organisation from and for the people of ASEAN and exists because of one vision: to build a cohesive and prosperous ASEAN Community. As an ASEAN’s body, the Foundation is tasked to support ASEAN mainly in promoting awareness, identity, interaction, and development of the people of ASEAN. For more information, visit: aseanfoundation.org.

EMPOWERING YOUTH ACROSS ASEAN

The eMpowering Youth Across ASEAN (EYAA)—launched in conjunction with the ASEAN Day on 8 August 2018—is a collaborative programme by the ASEAN Foundation and Maybank Foundation dedicated to empowering youth and communities across the region. The programme provides an experiential and educative learning platform for youth through social volunteerism. They collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds to implement their ideas and advocate solutions to grounded issues in local communities across ASEAN. They delve into an impactful journey to make a tangible, meaningful change among target communities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Since 2018, the programme has empowered 175 youths, collaborated with 20 civil society organisations (CSO) and Social Enterprises (SE), and directly impacted 38,933 community members across in ASEAN. Learn more at aseanfoundation.org/empowering_youths_across_asean.

OBJECTIVES

The regional capacity building training and orientation workshop aims at the following objectives:

1. To connect all participants with CSO/SE representative a platform to meet in-person and connect with each other prior to implementing their projects
2. To equip the selected Youth Volunteers and CSO/SE representatives with the necessary information and resources to ensure effective implementation of their respective projects in the assigned project sites across Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore
3. To provide the selected Youth Volunteers and CSO/SE representatives with an opportunity to explain and pitch their proposed projects and receive feedback from relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to, ASEAN Foundation, Maybank Foundation, ASEAN Secretariat, and Senior Official Meetings on Youth (SOMY)

PARTICIPANTS 

The event will invite the followings:

1. VIP: ASEAN Secretariat 
   • H.E. Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary General, to deliver a remark on the role of youth in ASEAN 
   • Ms. Rodora T. Babaran, Director of Human Development, to attend the project proposal pitching and give inputs to the CSO/YV groups Mr. Lee Yoong Yoong, Director of Community Affairs, to deliver a session on ASEAN Introduction 
2. VIP: MOFA Thailand (TBC) 
3. VIP: SOMY 
   • H.E YBhg. Dato’ Jana Santhiran Muniayan, Secretary General of Ministry of Youth and Sports, SOMY Chair (or SOMY Representative from Thailand), to deliver a keynote speech on ASEAN Workplan on Youth 2021-2025 
4. VIP: ASEAN Foundation 
   • Dr. Piti Srisangnam, Executive Director 
5. VIP: Maybank Group 
   • Datuk Nora Abd Manaf, Group Chief Human Capital Officer 
   • Mr. Shahril Azuar Jimin, Chief Sustainability Officer 
6. VIP: Maybank Foundation 
   • Ms. Izlyn Ramli, Chief Executive Officer 
   • Mr. Ahmad Hilmi Bin Hashim, Executive Vice President and Senior Project Manager 
   • Mr. Ahmad Firdaus Bin Abdul Hamid, Senior Analyst and Project Outcome Coordinator 
7. VIP: Maybank Thailand 
   • TBC 
8. VIP: Chulalongkorn University 
   • Professor Bundhit Eua-arporn, Ph.D., President 
   • Associate Professor Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin, Ph.D., Dean of Faculty of Economics 
   • Associate Professor Dr. Suthiphand Chirathivat, Executive Director of ASEAN Studies Center 
9. 10 CSO/SE representatives: 
   • 2 persons from Cambodia 
   • 2 persons from Indonesia 
   • 2 persons from Malaysia 
   • 2 persons from the Philippines 
   • 1 person from Singapore 
   • 1 person from either Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, or the Philippines 
10. Youth Volunteers: 
    • 12 persons from Brunei Darussalam 
    • 12 persons from Cambodia 
    • 12 persons from Lao PDR 
    • 12 persons from Indonesia 
    • 12 persons from Malaysia 
    • 12 persons from Myanmar 
    • 12 persons from the Philippines 
    • 12 persons from Singapore 
    • 12 persons from Thailand 
    • 12 persons from Vietnam 

METHODS

The event will run onsite. All participants and stakeholders will fly to Bangkok, Thailand, to attend the Regional Orientation Workshop.

VENUE

TBC 

SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES AND TIMELINE*

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*Please note that this scope of activities is subject to change and will be updated regularly

RESULTS

· Survey Results

· 10 Final Project Proposals with Feedback

· Activity Report