Yeah, funny but true - more than half of participants of the workshop on youth projects in MDGs that I ran on Sunday were adults!!!

Due to the fact that most participants decided to sleep in that day and we lost 20 minutes waiting for the room to fill in, we only had 1 hour at our disposal to talk about MDGs. So I only had time to present on the MDGs, the MDG Youth Action Guide, and request feedback on what projects the participants have been running and whether they would be interested in showcasing them as part of the initiative that TIG is taking together with GYAN and the UN (which of course they were!). The disappointing thing was that they wanted to talk more about any kind of projects they were running in their communities, not always pointing out how youth is involved. For a millionth time in a row I had a feeling that adults take young people more as implementors and not creators of change...

Open Forum report is here.