Activities, Policies and Programmes DIRECTLY and INDIRECTLY impacting on Youth in Samoa BY MINISTRY/DEPARTMENT

This activity was aimed at understanding how the work of ministries (besides that of the Ministry of Youth sports and Cultural affairs) directly or indirectly impacts on the circumstances of youth in Samoa. A framework was developed for analyzing the impacts of government expenditures and policies on youth. This framework identifies 5 expenditure categories (click here for the framework diagram):

1. D1 Targeted youth expenditure to a particular sub-group of the youth population that has a direct impact on that youth group, eg job assistance for unemplyed 15-17 years olds
2. D2 Youth general expenditure that has a direct impact on youth as a whole, eg school programs
3. ID3 Targeted but non-youth specific expenditures that can have indirect impacts on youth, eg sevices for people with disabilities
4. ID4 General expenditures that relate to all the population but can have significant indirect impacts on youth, eg promoting sports
5. D/ID Employment policies for public sector employees that can have both direct and indirect impacts on youth, eg government internships for under 24 year olds, paid parental leave

The framework developed was then used to undertake an audit of the programs and activities of the pilot ministries and to check these against the draft action plans for the Samoa Stratregic Plan for the National Youth Policy 2001-2010. Below are the results:

Women's Affairs
CRC Children's forums (D1)
Livelihood skills training (D1)
Upskillings training (D2)
Pacific children's program on 'child protection' (D1)
Mothers and daughters process (D1)
CEDAW programmes (D2)
Women and their husbands (D1)
CRC partnerships meetings/activities (D1)
CEDAW partnerships/meetings activities (D1/D2)
Participation/involvement with NGO activities - YMCA, Faatawa ledd, Nuanua and Le Afola (I3 and I4)
Involvement with child health project (D1/D2)
Participation/involvement with the physical education and health curriculum (D1/D2)
Participation/involvement with the international waters project (ID4/ID3)
Participation/involvement with the injury prevention project (ID4/ID3)
Participation/involvement with the quarantine Program (ID4/ID3)
Participation/involvement as a stakeholder for other government department activities

Education
Community awareness (ID4)
Curriculum services (D1/ID3)
Library services (ID3)
Teacher, training and tutor services (D1/ID3)
Education for all (D1/D2/ID3)
Augmenting institutions for general attainment - (D1/ID3)

Health
Healthy workplaces: STI/HIV AIDS programs (ID4)
Health promoting in schools (reproductive health issues; non communicable and communicable disease prevention (D2)
Health promoting churches :
Programs in church youth groups (D1)
Teenage pregnancy and other risk factors such as alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking (D1)
Community based outreach programs (ID4)
Healthy market: information booth on various health issues (ID4)
Healthy prison: providing awareness health programs to prison inmates (ID4)
Healthy hospital : providing educational health programs for general population and health workers (ID4)
TB & Leprosy programs: series of awareness workshops (ID4)
Injury prevention programs (D1)

Youth Sport Cultural Affairs
National Youth Policy (D1)
Youth needs assessment survey (D1)
Future Farmers (D1)
Youth Initiatives (D2)
Youth Enterprise Development (D2)
Proposal writing (D2)
Funding directory (D2)
Counselling/leadership training (D2)
Radio programmes (ID4)
Newsletter (ID4)
IEC materials (D2)
National Youth Forum (D1)
Stakeholders (DI)
FLO / Sautia mai (ID4)

Statistics
Policy advice to Minister (ID4)
HIES (I3 and I4)
Statistical surveys and censuses (ID4)
Youth survey 1995 (D1)

Agriculture
Policy advice to Minister (I3)
Safe and reduced use of agricultural chemicals (I3)
Technology transfer (extension/crops advisory) (I3)
Technology transfer (animal health and production) (I3)