Government and Youth Engagement in the Pacific.

Pacific Leaders gathered in Papua New Guinea just recently to discuss initiatives that their Governments must take to ensure that the effectiveness of its services is distributed to the vast majority of its rural populace in transparent and accountable way.

Pacific Island Countries like many other developing countries faces a lot of problems related to social welfare. Youth issue is one of the most important and talked about on the high level of decision making. But the outcome has never met the need of social break down among youth populace.

Not an issue was raised to help the problematic nature of Youth problems faced largely within the Pacific community. Papua New Guinea where youth population makes half the Population is badly affected with ever increasing crime mostly committed by youths.

The Pacific Leaders attending the Pacific Island Forum in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea left unsatisfied due to Australia and New Zealand?uctant to approve seasonal labor in both countries.

We still don not know the reason behind both Howard and Clark?d. Mr. Howard proposed for a Technical Institution for Pacific; which sounds great. But within minds of many leaders of the Pacific that does not satisfy their desire to send down labors to Australia and New Zealand. Why? Papua New Guinea?me Minister Say? will be opportunity for young people in the pacific to experience and learn news thing while working abroad.

Well that?t they say. But asking young people around Papua New Guinea, you find a different view. Young people want better government services. They want protections of Police Brutality.

They want better education, health services provided to their discretion. One thing we Pacific youths need to do is that we need to network together and work towards archiving betterment of the social environment we live in.

There are a lot of initiatives in place already to help enhance, train, empower young people in the Pacific. Most Pacific Island nations are members to both United Nations and Commonwealth community. But our governments fail to carry out their mandate in recognized that opportunity in ratifying most legislation and policy related to the youth development. United Nations Youth Delegate to General Assembly every year is on existence in most countries of the Pacific yet their Governments send Ambassador to United Nations in New York

Not only do we have that but UN has another policy that member states are required to implement the UN compulsory Education. This is to ensure that there is free education in certain level. (Prep to Grade 6) this program is helping reduce the number of illiteracy in most parts of the World. But if our Governments fail to address our issues, we must not let that hinder our progress in life in resorting to crime or other activities that is unlawful.

So Pacific youth never give up with running will get there.