Youth Parliament: Pildat invites EOI from potential candidates

Project offers participants to have in-depth glimpse into working of legislative discourse and procedures.


News Desk May 09, 2014
Project offers participants to have in-depth glimpse into working of legislative discourse and procedures. PHOTO: FILE



Aimed at fostering democratic values among the youth, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has called for expressions of interest (EOI) for this year’s session of the Youth Parliament Pakistan (YPP).


The project offers participants to have an in-depth glimpse into the working of legislative discourse and procedures as well as its significance.

Initiated in 2007, the YPP’s forthcoming sixth batch will debate national security, foreign affairs, energy, transport, education and youth affairs, and finance, economic affairs and planning. Standing committees will be working on each of the topics.

Members of the YPP are selected from youth aged between 18 and 29 years, from all over Pakistan on an open merit basis.

The potential candidates are shortlisted proportionally based on population, much like the National Assembly.

Designed as a forum for the articulation of youths’ concerns about a range of national and international issues, the YPP offers solutions to all-encompassing problems. Furthermore, the devised strategies are then conveyed to the parliament for consideration.

The forum also provides opportunities to its members to meet and interact with politicians.

YPP members are also assigned duties with members of national and provincial assemblies of the same constituencies to observe their work routine, predominant issues under government consideration and ways of working them out.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9th, 2014.

COMMENTS (1)

Abdullah MALIK | 9 years ago | Reply

sir youth parliment Pakistan selected people only on refrence base really sorry..

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