Rationale:
In the September 22 of 2007, the Y4C Youth Roundtable established a Working Committee to undertake the task of organizing the National Youth Consultation Meeting on November 3-4, 2007. Many participants felt that the consultation meeting is important for the young people to shape and develop the Youth Agenda for Change particularly to response to the coming General Election.

Youth leaders and representatives from various organizations will be invited to attend the consultation meeting to share their thoughts on how the youth groups can work together, how it could work better and be more inclusive before and during the coming General Election. The usual problem is the lack of youth participation in the General Election. The youth voices and perspectives always been ignored by the political parties. There is no proper attention on youth issues although there is General Election campaign.

More important, the roles of young people in building up the democratic, freedom and justice society should be taking seriously. A lot of issues which concerned the citizen of this nation also affected the young people. Due to the draconian laws and political apathy among the young people, a lot of young people tend to give up their rights to involve in the political activities.

Therefore, different youth organizations and network regardless their political ideologies, race, religious and cultural background need to engage in the consultation. The meeting should ensure the issues that been raised were truly representative of their views. The issues of importance to young people can be identify, whilst sending a clear message for action.

Objectives:
1. The National Youth Consultation Meeting is an occasion of young people working on different issues to create positive, equitable and sustainable change.

2. The meeting aimed to review existing analytical and policy frameworks, provides an initial mapping of relevant programming efforts put in place by the government and partner organizations, and advances preliminary recommendations for the way forward.

3. The consultation meeting is a process of formulating its national youth agenda and the strategic action plan for the coming General Election. The dialogue among all stakeholders including different political parties and the government will be organized.

4. The event aimed to promote the exchange of perspective on how youth can use the convening power of knowledge and activism to accelerate the achievement of democratic, freedom and justice society.

5. Create a space for young people to reflect upon, exchange and promote their concerns and visions on the multiple dimensions of democratic movement.