'Why do young people do NOT like politicians?'
BEST move of the GOVERNMENT towards the YOUTH in the first half of 2005 (5 July 2005)
The official proclamation of the BEST move of the government in the first half of the year was held on 5 July, 2005, at 1 PM, across the building of BH Common Institutions, at the Day and Night Parking, Trg BiH 1. On the billboard in front of the Parliament with the question ‘Why do young people do NOT like politicians?' several actual reasons were listed:
- Law on higher education not adopted!
(out of 40 countries Bosnia and Herzegovina takes 39th place, one but last, in front of Andorra when it comes to implementation of Bologna process)
- 45% of young people are unemployed
(the state has no special measures for employment of youth)
- 100.000 young people has left Bosnia and Herzegovina in the post-Dayton period
(not in the tourist sense of the word)
- There is no governmental institution for the youth issues
(department, directorate, office, committee, nothing and nobody takes care of the issue of the youth – which is a unique example in all of the countries in Europe)
- 0 KM from BH budget goes into youth projects
(except for some crumbs that come without a clear procedure from entity budgets)
- Maršalka sold – no Campus!
(sold as the only facility in this manner, and for a mere trifle)
- 0 KM for introduction of IT into schools
(and the annual profit of the three telecom operators is over o 250 million KM)
Beside all of this OIA has sent a more detailed analysis of the youth-politicians relations to the state institutions of the executive and legislative authorities in the course of this month. In August bus action lobbying will start, it will cover the whole Bosnia and it will include the encounters between the young people and the local politicians.
In the year 2005 OIA BiH, as the leading non-governmental and nonpartisan organization in the sector of development of youth policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, conducted monitoring of the government’s treatment of young people and every three months OIA presents the public with BEST move of the government, that is basic activities that the state institutions did (not) perform, which either took too much time or were wrong, or had negative influence of the BH youth. In the framework of this monitoring OIA had made an official report on Bosnia and Herzegovina which had been sent to United Nations on the occasion of ten years of World Programme of Action for Youth. This report together with some other similar reports from over 100 countries has been presented on he UN’s official website www.un.org/youth.
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