CO-Support Mali Youth to Youth forum2016 Context : Youth citizenship and unemployment is a part of Oxfam Country strategy. This project will support One Youth participationto world social forum. Young people are not remaining passive in the face of this situation. They are mobilizing and generating significant change on all continents. Through their skills, energy and creativity, young people have the potential to transform power relations and build inclusive and sustainable societies. Taking as a starting point the importance given to youth in its 2013-2019 Strategic Plan, Oxfam is working together with young people and their organizations to eliminate the obstacles that prevent  them fromexercising their rights, participating fully in the development of their society, and making their voices heard effectively in decision-making processes. In this spirit, in 2015 Oxfam initiated a cross-affiliate collaboration on Youth Active Citizenship YAC to support and strengthen youth initiatives at the local, regional and international levels.

This is the backdrop against which Oxfam, together with youth partners and allies, is organizing the Youth Summit on Inequality on August 10-11, 2016, as part of the 2016 World Social Forum to be held in Montreal from August 9th to the 14th. The World Social Forum (WSF) is the largest gathering of civil society working to find solutions to the problems of our time. Each edition brings together tens of thousands of participants attending more than a thousand activities (workshops, conferences, artistic performances, etc.) on various themes (social, solidarity, economy, environment, human rights and democratization). The Youth Summit on Inequality will form part of the WSF Youth Space with the aim of linking together and channelling youth proposals to fight the extreme inequalities that form a major barrier to their fulfilment.
Purpose and objectives

Purpose: To consolidate a network of young people who will propose solutions and drive initiatives to reduce inequalities that affect them
Objectives:
 Fosterexchanges and networking between youth organizations, networks and movements working towards social and climate justice;

Support the articulation and dissemination of youth agendas for fighting inequalities;

Strengthen the Youth Active Citizenship Community of Oxfam and its youth partners.

Methodology

This second global gathering of the YAC community will innovate by holding its event within the World Social Forum#s Youth Space. This formula will enable participants to benefit from the WSF experience, with its great intensity and mobilizing force, while contributing actively to a highly importantyouth event. Accordingly, the spirit of the methodology proposed for the Youth Summit on Inequality will be closely tied to the spirit of the World Social Forum, which aims to be an open, pluralistic space for meetings, debates and agenda building. The methodology will be developed by an organizing committee made up of Oxfam staff and youth representatives, taking its cues from the highly dynamic, participatory and creative Istanbul workshop of June 2015. The Youth Summit will be hosted in French, English and Spanish by young facilitators, and will include artistic elements. One of the main outcomes of the Summit will be youth agendas to fight inequalities, twinned with an action plan by the YAC community to put them into practice. Lastly, the methodology will strongly promote peer learning and networking, and will incorporate gender justice principles.