BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Peer to Peer Series “Youth and partnerships in the fight agains t corruption: lessons from Colombia's experience” with Nicolas Hernandez\, EMPA Candidate and 2010-2011 Humphrey Fellow Corruption strongly affects societies around the world\, including most Latin American countries. In C olombia\, there have been various initiatives to combat this problem altho ugh political and administrative corruption continues to grow at the subna tional level. This poses a barrier to the country’s development. Civil soc iety in developing countries requires new approaches in order to address t he need for transparency and accountability. In response to this reality\, a group of young professionals co-founded Ocasa\, an NGO dedicated to red ucing corruption through youth involvement in citizen participation and ac tivism. During the last 8 years the NGO has worked with more than 3\,000 y oung people in over 20 of the 32 Colombian states. It has been recognized both nationally and internationally as a pioneer in the mobilization of yo uth against corruption. Nicolas Hernandez is an EMPA candidate\, a 2010-20 11 Humphrey Fellow and co-founder and former director of Ocasa. He will sh are the main lessons drawn from his experience working with youth against corruption and ideas about the role of youth in promoting social change. N icolas will also discuss Ocasa’s strategy\, challenges and opportunities o f its multi-sector collaboration with public\, private and international o rganizations. While at Maxwell for his EMPA\, Nicolas is focusing on nonpr ofit management\, adding to his Humphrey Fellowship experience and eight y ears working in Colombian civil society. When: Wednesday\, February 15\, 2 012 Where: 204 Maxwell Hall Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Peer to peer is a se ries for Executive Masters in Public Administration students to share issu es\, problems or successes with their fellow students. Each student guest speaker will speak for about 20-30 minutes and then we will have a 20-30 m inute discussion time. This event is open to all students. Lunch will be p rovided at the start of the event. Please RSVP to Kristina Donzella\, kedo nzel@maxwell.syr.edu by Monday\, February 13th. DTEND:20120215T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260416T234335Z DTSTART:20120215T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Peer to Peer UID:RFCALITEM639119654153957317 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Peer to Peer Series “Youth and partnerships in the fight against corruption: lessons from Colombia's experience” with Ni colas Hernandez\, EMPA Candidate and 2010-2011 Humphrey Fellow Corruption strongly affects societies around the world\, including most Latin America n countries. In Colombia\, there have been various initiatives to combat t his problem although political and administrative corruption continues to grow at the subnational level. This poses a barrier to the country’s devel opment. Civil society in developing countries requires new approaches in o rder to address the need for transparency and accountability. In response to this reality\, a group of young professionals co-founded Ocasa\, an NGO dedicated to reducing corruption through youth involvement in citizen par ticipation and activism. During the last 8 years the NGO has worked with m ore than 3\,000 young people in over 20 of the 32 Colombian states. It has been recognized both nationally and internationally as a pioneer in the m obilization of youth against corruption. Nicolas Hernandez is an EMPA cand idate\, a 2010-2011 Humphrey Fellow and co-founder and former director of Ocasa. He will share the main lessons drawn from his experience working wi th youth against corruption and ideas about the role of youth in promoting social change. Nicolas will also discuss Ocasa’s strategy\, challenges an d opportunities of its multi-sector collaboration with public\, private an d international organizations. While at Maxwell for his EMPA\, Nicolas is focusing on nonprofit management\, adding to his Humphrey Fellowship exper ience and eight years working in Colombian civil society. When: Wednesday\ , February 15\, 2012 Where: 204 Maxwell Hall Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Pee r to peer is a series for Executive Masters in Public Administration stude nts to share issues\, problems or successes with their fellow students. Ea ch student guest speaker will speak for about 20-30 minutes and then we wi ll have a 20-30 minute discussion time. This event is open to all students . Lunch will be provided at the start of the event. Please RSVP to Kristin a Donzella\, kedonzel@maxwell.syr.edu by Monday\, February 13th.
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