4-7th December is the date for the 3 day residential Muscat Youth Summit taking place next week in Muscat, Oman. The event brings together thousands of young people from around the world to empower young people through interactive workshops, presentations and debates on youth development, leadership and participation. YOURS has the pleasure of running a day long workshop with young people at the summit on global youth and road safety issues.
The Muscat Youth Summit (MYS) is a flagship annual summit that takes place in Muscat, Oman and brings together over 1000 young people to empower them with key skills and knowledge to become active citizens, participants and future leaders.
This year, the summit is orientated around three key areas of focus; Social Entrepeneurship, Digital Participation and Urban Arts and Culture. From sustainable cities, graffiti art, filmmaking, creating social media to hybrid cities and digital empowerment. The Muscat Youth Summit has focusses on themes of immediate importance to young people in a contemporary changing world.
YOURS has the pleasure of delivering a workshop amidst this dynamic agenda. Our workshop – The Global Road Safety Crisis focuses on the following:
At a time when the world is facing many problems such as hunger, poverty, natural disasters, and wars, why focus on road safety? Aren’t there more important things to work towards? How is road safety a global humanitarian crisis and why does it deserve our attention now?
Young people under the age of 25 years are the main victims of road crashes worldwide. More young people die from road crashes than from HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, or cancer. This means that road safety is a serious threat to youth no matter where they are. Why are young people overrepresented in road traffic injuries and deaths? What are the main risk factors?
Getting involved (1): Where to Start
Youth around the world are taking the lead on exciting and innovative road safety initiatives. How can you get involved? Where do you start? What are existing opportunities you can seize? What are the challenges and how can you overcome them?
Getting involved (2): Advocating for Road Safety
What do you want others to know about road safety? How can your message reach different audiences, friends, parents, governments and community organizations?
What tools and media are available? What else can you use?
Workshop Deliverables
Participants will be encouraged to use the knowledge, skills and tools they gained in previous MYS workshops to create road safety messages using different media. A range of outputs will be produced:
Films/videos/advertisements Photos Graffiti/ illustration/ posters Song/ music track A “Declaration” or recommendations
YOURS will be reporting from the summit on Monday and you can expect to see a full report next week including pictures and video report!