The aim of #IYD2020 is to shed light on the need to enable the #engagement of #youth by making local, national and global institutions more inclusive for the purpose of strengthening their capacity (and relevance) to achieve #GlobalAction.
#HappyInternationalYouthDay!
“Sometimes you are too busy competing and trying to kill each other rather the co-operating and helping to boost the nation as a whole.”
-Ram Bajekal
#ResetFiji#Season1Finale
“Our #communal systems always had really good quality food, that are not processed or full of chemicals that can provide food security for our families and it can also become a commodity.”
“Communal farms; that’s not new, that’s something that was part of our tradition, we used to have communal food reserves in each village.”
Sashi Kiran,
@FriendFiji#ResetFiji#season1finale#teamfiji
Intangible Cultural Heritage: “It means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills as well as the instruments, objects, artifacts, cultural spaces associated with it that communities, groups and in some cases individuals"
Simione Sevudredre, @ItaukeiAffairs
"We need to put money into the rural sector, health services, housing. unless you have those amenities, people will come to where life is easier."
Wah Sing Yee
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“The resilience of our nation lies in our environment, our good climate and our connection to the land.”
Wah Sing Yee
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“I think this #COVID19 pandemic was a wake-up call, on how vulnerable we are as a nation for financial inflows and so on.”
Wah Sing Yee
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“I think for the last few years, we’ve been lulling to a sense of complacency relying on tourism and largely remittances.”
Wah Sing Yee
#ResetFiji#season1finale#teamfiji
What we need are genuine conversations and dialogues not unilateralism where somebody thinks he has all the solutions. I think this is an opportunity to talk about #reset and not #relief and spaces like this allow that to happen.
Ram Bajekal
#ResetFiji#season1finale
“We have a young country and some of the countries like Vietnam have been speaking about challenges they faced, mainly being soft-skills being not available.”
“I think that that is something we need to look at, what is the direction that the national budget is seeking to set.”
Ram Bajekal
#ResetFiji#Season1Finale
“I think there needs to be a bit of balancing out and when we are looking at inequities or resilience or proneness to impacts of what has happened now in the pandemic, what do we need to do to make the country more resilient?”
Ram Bajekal
#ResetFiji#Season1Finale