5th Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave
‘’Build Back Better”


Date: Dec 26-27, 2021
Venue: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), Kathmandu, Nepal

Organizer:
Youth Development Center (YDC) and Sanitation, Environment and Energy Nepal (SEE) in Collaboration with Embassy of Bangladesh in Nepal

Conference Theme:

• Youth for Climate Change
•  Youth Involvement for Equitable Development to Achieve SDGs
•  Nepal- Bangladesh Trade Opportunities
• Youth Policies & Meaningful Participation

Expected number of delegate: 60 (30 from each country)

Conference fee: Rs. 3000/- (non-residential), Rs. 10,000/- (residential)

5th Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave (NBYC)
Secretariat: Youth Development Center (YDC)
Minbhawan Kathmandu
ydc.network@gmail.com

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Concept
Fifth Nepal-Bangladesh Youth Conclave is a collaborative initiative of prominent personalities and institutions from Nepal and Bangladesh that aims to link the young leaders of two countries. The initiation will create a common forum to foster the regional cooperation for collaborative approaches to contemporary issues in the region.
This conclave will craft foundations to promote Nepal-Bangladesh bilateral connectivity and strengthen ties among the citizens of both the countries. The conclave will also provide connecting platform for youth leaders from diverse fields. The call for such conclave is felt more in the present days than any other time, not just between Nepal and Bangladesh but also among the other countries in South Asian region. The countries lying region is characterized by similar nature of problems. Such forums generate an opportunity to share their problems and work together to explore common solutions for them.
. In this context, the conclave aspires to explore more avenues for or people from these two countries and connect with each other by bringing together leaders representing the assorted sectors who will work to promote the bilateral relationship when they join their workplace subsequent to their partaking in this forum.
The forum will also have delegates from ,India ,Bhutan, Belgium and Vietnam. We already had our First Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave in 2017 which gathered around 60 youth from Bangladesh ,60 Youth from Nepal and  from India. The second Nepal Bangladesh youth conclave held in Itahari which is in centre of Province no 1.which gathered around 90 youth from Bangladesh ,90 Youth from Nepal and  from 3 from India.2 from Srilanka and 2 from Afghanistan.
Third Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave was held in 2020 February which gathered around 30 delegates from Bangladesh,80 From Nepal,5 from India and 1 from Afghanistan and 3 from Netherland. Fourth conclave was held on February 2021 in Kathmandu in presence of 27 delegates from Bangladesh and 41 delegates from Nepal.

1. Objectives:

The overall objective of the Fourth Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave is to gather young leaders, innovators, peacemakers, youth activists and civil society pioneers from around the region in a single forum to share their experiences and knowledge on pertinent global issues. However, the specific objectives of the conference are as follows:
• To share the best practices through mutual learning on ideas and initiatives of advocacy tools to achieve sustainable development goals from the youth perspective and encourage youth to lobby them in their own respective governments
• To share and explore the different ideas of inclusive policy-making, good governance, entrepreneurship development and SDGs among each other
• To promote the idea of cultural diplomacy through inter-cultural dialogue, cultural exchanges and sharing of experiences to achieve peaceful solutions to conflict
• To enhance and promote the principle of joint advocacy and action to achieve global peace through shared responsibility

6. Participants and Resource Persons:

“Fourth Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave” will host approximately 150 national and international national delegates aged 16-40 from across the globe. The attendees will be from diverse background and nationalities and will be balanced in terms of gender. In addition there will be around 50 volunteers and speakernational delegates and observers participating in the conference. Thematic experts and both national and international academicians will facilitate thematic sessions. Thematic sessions will be moderated by professionals representing different organizations.
“Fourth Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave” will be inaugurated by Vice president of Nepal as chief guest and Honorable Tourism Minister of Federal Government and Ambassador of people Republic of Bangladesh In Nepal as special guest.  The official inauguration of the event will be graced by Member of Parliament, Member of local assembly, senior bureaucrat and diplomats.

7.  Conference Program:  

@The will last two days and will have a grand opening and closing sessions and in between five intimate discussion and mutual sharing sessions. Day I will begin with a grand opening session followed by the opening plenary Tourism Minister of Federal Government of Nepal will officially inaugurate the conference in the role of Chief Guest; other notable guests of the inauguration session include Honorable Ministers of Province Government, A. Resident Ambassadors, Senior Diplomats and UN officials will be invited as the special guests in the opening session.   On the opening day two thematic sessions will followed after the official inauguration on the theme of

(I) Youth for Climate Change
(II)  Youth Involvement for Equitable Development to Achieve SDGs
(III)  Nepal- Bangladesh Trade Opportunities
(IV) Youth Policies & Meaningful Participation
                   

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5th Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave
‘’Build Back Better”


Date: Feb 27-28, 2021
Venue: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), Kathmandu, Nepal


Event Schedule

26-12-2021  
Inauguration and Cultural Program

10:00-11:00 AM : Inauguration and Cultural Program
10:00-10:05 AM : Seat Arrangement  
10:05-10:10 AM : Welcome Speech
10:10-10:15 AM : Inauguration by Chief Guest and Special Guest  
10:15-10:25 AM : Speech by Special Guest Her Excellency Ambassador of Bangladesh Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury
10:25-10:45  AM : Speech By Chief Guest DPM of Nepal Hon. Ishwor Pokhrel  
10:35-10:55 AM : Token of appreciation to all guest
10:55-11:00 AM : Closing remarks by Program Chair Abhinav Kumar Chaudhary  
11.00-11.30 AM: Speech on “Nepal- Bangladesh Trade Opportunities”
11:30-12:30 PM : Cultural Program  
12:30-13:30 PM : Lunch  
13:30-15:00 PM : Panel discussion on UNSDGs and 2030 agenda for Youth
15:00-15:15 PM : Tea Break  
15:15-17:15 PM : Idea Pitching session, Entrepreneurship (Best Idea to be awarded)
17:00- 19:30 PM onward : Dinner at Resided Hotel.  

27-12-2021
Themetic session & closing

09:00-10:30 AM : Session on “Environment Protection and Sustainability Development”  
10:30-10:45 AM : Tea Break  
10:45-12:15 PM : Session on “Youth Policies & Meaningful Participation”
12:15-13:00 PM : Lunch  
13:00-14:00 PM : Sharing and Feedback Session  
14:00-17:00 PM : Award giving and Closing ceremony  
19:30 PM onwards : Dinner at Resided Hotel .


B. The conference will have a mega cultural program where popular singers from Nepal and Bangladesh will perform.


8. Venue, date, organizers and sponsors:
The inauguration of the “Fourth Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave” will be organized at Main Hall of  “Nepal Tourism Board Bhrikutimandap”, or the that is ideally located in center  of Kathmandu where as the thematic seminars will be held in a close at conference hall of Nepal Tourism Board .
The organizer of “Fourth Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave” is Sanitation, Environment and Energy Nepal and Youth Development Center (YDC) Itahari in collaboration with Embassy of Bangladesh In Nepal.


4th Nepal Bangladesh Youth Conclave (NBYC)
Secretariat: Youth Development Center (YDC)
Minbhawan Kathmandu
ydc.network@gmail.com