The International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) is pleased to announce its participation in the organization of the G(irls)20 Summit in Mexico City from May 29 to June 4, 2012. Applications for this annual event – which runs parallel and is modeled on the G-20 Leaders Meeting – are now open to young women aged 18 to 20 from G-20 countries and the African Union. Delegates will work together to provide G20 leaders with recommendations on empowering girls and women as agents of social and economic development in their communities and around the world. They will also receive training in areas ranging from media relations to the development of business plans.

Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of leadership skills and experience, and ideas for confronting challenges arising from the global economic and euro-zone crises. Please complete and forward the following application form, in addition to one reference letter, to girls20Summit@tbsf.ca before 5:00 PM CET on January 9, 2012 to be considered as a candidate.

Background:

In September 2009 at the Clinton Global Initiative Summit, the Belinda Stronach Foundation, a charitable foundation in Canada, committed to creating a platform that provides greater coordination of global advocacy efforts for girls and women, with a goal of ensuring that their issues became part of the G20 narrative. Now in its third year, the G(irls) 20 Summit has generated 150 million media impressions and leveraged youth-led educational and economic development projects around the world.

The International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) is a forum for cooperation between a hundred liberal and democratic youth organizations in sixty countries around the world. It facilitates the exchange of ideas and best practices between these organizations through seminars, bilateral exchanges, advocacy campaigns and engagement with multilateral bodies like the UN Alliance of Civilizations and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

For further information, please contact Coralie D'Souza (Coralie.DSouza@tbsf.ca) at the Belinda Stronach Foundation or Mateusz Trybowski (mateusz@iflry.org) at the International Federation of Liberal Youth - IFLRY