National Youth Equity Forum (NYEF) is a membership based collective of/for socially excluded young people striving to promote leadership and equal opportunity for youth towards achieving their social, education, economic and cultural rights with a vision to build a just and socially inclusive society for all. Currently, NYEF is evolving as a membership based youth led movement consisting over 8000 members across structured and organised youth led collectives as Bihar Ambedkar Students’ Forum (BASF), Uttar Pradesh Youth Equity Forum (UPYEF) and Delhi Youth Equity Forum (DYEF). NYEF vision is to nurture young leadership among socially excluded communities i.e. Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim, Nomadic Tribes & DeNotified Tribes, voice out their concerns of growing inequalities and align together for community based actions to transform and influence their self, society and governance ! On the principle of educate, agitate and organize, around 150 fellows and thousands of motivated cadres across states is able to push the agenda of social equity & inclusion and act in the area of education, health (SRHR), employability and entrepreneurial education on ground by keeping the national and global goals of “Leave No One Behind” in the frame of SDGs and Constitutional mandate of promoting equity, liberty, fraternity and justice for all!
Dalit (16.6%), Tribal (8.6%), Muslim (14.2%), Nomadic and De-Notified Tribal community (approx 10%), face social exclusion in India on the basis of their social and religious identities constitute around 49.4 % (490 million +) population of India and around 60% are below 25 years of age. All these communities, also known as socially excluded communities, are living in abject poverty across India. Women and girls, additionally, face gender-based restrictions and exclusion among them. Children, adolescents and young people from the communities who have new aspirations can contribute positively to change the narratives of exclusion and discrimination while also influencing the community on the development path.
Recognizing this, we believe that empowered young people hold the potential for transforming socially excluded communities by transforming themselves into “role models” and be the ‘link and bridge’ between the adults/elders who have lived in social exclusion and the children who are growing up to become the youth. The process includes important dimensions of empowering the young people through various tailor-made fellowship programme internally designed based on self to society module, and facilitating the young people to engage with larger community, especially adolescents and youth through formation of “Youth Equity Forums (YEFs) linked with community library as part of Community Action Projects (CAP) and providing citizenship education towards making governance inclusive commonly recognized as youth development and youth for development.
A just and inclusive society where every child and young boy and girl have equitable opportunities and resources, and adequate capabilities to harness their potential, realize their rights, and fulfill their responsibilities to live in fellowship, with dignity and liberty
Nurturing 1st generation children and youth among socially excluded i.e. Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim, Nomadic/De-Notified Tribes (NTs/DNTs) communities through citizenship education based on constitutional values, leadership building, improving transition rate in to higher education, enhancing employability and entrepreneurial education and creation of equal opportunity towards achieving their social, education, economic and cultural rights with a vision to build a just and socially inclusive society for all
