The Innovation Conference offers a unique opportunity to gather a variety of involved experts, civil society members, of the academic world and the private sector, in order to promote sustainable development. The primary objective of the fair, as defined by ECOSOC, is to: "Promote an exchange of practical examples of what has worked to help identify polices that merit scaling-up." Costa Rica, 18 - 19 June 2008.

Expert Group Meeting on Goals and Targets for the World Programme of Action for Youth: "Youth in Civil Society" and "Youth and their Well-being”. Resource persons and experts from various United Nations Agencies and Programmes, international organizations and youth representatives will meet in New York for three days from 19 to 21 May 2008.

Several NGOs from SADC regions fully participated in the conference which was held from 16th to 20th April in Mauritius. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a loose alliance of nine majority-ruled States in Southern Africa known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with the main aim of coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on the then apartheid South Africa.

The World Assembly of Youth (WAY) is the international coordinating body of national youth councils and organisations. The full members of WAY are national youth councils. WAY has 120 member organisations from all continents. In this bulletin: Ireland, Namibia, Fiji, St. Lucia, The Gambia, Swaziland, Botswana, Australia, Angola, USA, Pakistan, Rusia, Denmark, Taiwan, Jordan, New Zeland, Malawi, Belgium, Slovenia.

The Commonwealth Youth Programme Caribbean Centre continues to market the Commonwealth Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment.