Delegate Recruitment 2024: Young ASEAN Leaders Policy Initiative (YALPI)

14 November 2023

What is YALPI?
Young ASEAN Leader Policy Initiative (YALPI) is an international forum initiated by students from the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. Each year, YALPI gathers young leaders to discuss and share ideas on various social issues under the regional framework and to foster networks among ASEAN youths and promote public awareness. Essentially, YALPI is a platform aiming to solve current social problems from the bottom-up aspect of the younger generation creating policy recommendations. This year, YALPI not only seeks to spark an exchange of opinions, but also aims to facilitate concrete youth action to tackle these social issues.

Activity Description 
Young ASEAN Leaders Policy Initiative (YALPI) is an international forum which gathers and empowers youths to initiate solutions for solving current social issues from the bottom-up aspect. Our goal is to create policy recommendations to influence the shaping of socio-political policy for tackling the ongoing social problems facing the ASEAN region. Within the forum, keynote speeches and panel discussions from experts in our focal areas will be provided for the YALPI delegates to gain the necessary information for designing policy recommendations. Also, delegates will be divided into groups and guided by the policy designing workshop, content discussions, and consultancy offered by our experienced mentors and student moderators to create policy recommendations with fellow group members. The two selected policy recommendations from each subtopic will be handed to the stakeholders in Thailand to encourage youths’ participation in policy making. Also, all policy recommendation pitching videos will be published on our social networks and other media outlets to ensure that youths’ voices are heard.

This year’s topics include:
Green Urbanism and Integration of the displaced

Eligibility:
1) Thai or international youth (not limited to ASEAN nationals)
2) Aged under 25 years old.
3) Currently be an undergraduate or have graduated with a university degree.

Fee:
110$ charged for accommodation (meals are covered)
Visa, insurance and return air tickets are self-funded

Tentative Program (5 February – 10 February 2024)
This conference will be operated in a six-day duration.

The tenetative program and further information can be found here.
Application link: https://bit.ly/YALPIDelegates

For more information, please contact yalpichula@gmail.com