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 The Commonwealth Youth Programme Caribbean Centre continues to market the Commonwealth Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment.
 Members of the RYC play the PAYE card game.
The card game, christened ‘PAYE Up’ by the Caribbean Youth Caucus was first tested at a recent Directors of Youth Workshop in Antigua and Barbuda and then introduced to the Regional Youth Caucus (RYC) at a retreat in Dominica late March. The card game was used as a fun, innovative and educational tool for learning the PAYE objectives.
Using a pack of cards developed from the action points and indicators in the PAYE document, every time players make a trade for a card the person they are trading with is actually PAYE-ing them.
The principal objective of the game is to correctly match all the PAYE indicators in the players’ possession with their corresponding action points. Each action point is identified by a distinctively designed card with other cards equaling the number of indicators in that action point.
Amid the excitement of trading cards, bargaining with other teams and strategizing with team mates, RYCs found themselves more effectively learning about the PAYE through critical analysis and reasoning of the 13 action points and their indicators.
The game was also used to highlight the mainstreaming dynamics of the PAYE, as during the “trading” part, players were readily able to see how PAYE Action points fit together in a composite picture of youth empowerment, involving multiple government agencies and partners. The game was proven to be an integral tool in helping to effectively market the PAYE.
The Caribbean Regional Youth Caucus believes that the card game will be a driving force in CYP’s bid to get young people across the Commonwealth to learn more about the PAYE and what it represents for holistic youth development. They feel it will help them to get other young people to better understand and own the PAYE as a reference for all development work involving young people.
The Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment 2007 – 2015 is the blueprint for all Commonwealth action for and with young people. It is a call for young people and their concerns to be mainstreamed into all areas of national development.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 May 2008 )
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