ASPBAE will convene its 8th General Assembly (GA) in 2020. Organised as a set of virtual and face-to-face, country and regional-level processes through the year, the GA offers a space and platform to assess and plan ASPBAE’s strategic responses, defining the directions of its future work.

ASPBAE believes that voices of marginalized youth must be integrated in the discussions of its strategic planning and shaping future youth work. Therefore, ASPBAE will conduct regional youth consultation to listen to youth perspectives and to generate ideas for youth and education. The regional youth consultation will be held in November, 2020. In line with this, in-country youth consultations will be held to capture diverse voices and Experiences.

In line with this and as a preparatory action, an in-country youth consultation will be held first to seek a more diverse voices and experiences in a wider range. All activities will be done online. The objectives of the consultation are the following:

• Create safe spaces for young people who want to articulate issues, concerns, questions, and challenges of youth in their own place and in the neighbourhood;·
• Gather and discuss situations of young people specifically in terms of education and life-long learning;
• Deliberate on lived realities of young people, specifically in terms of their education and life-long learning;·
• Seek feedback on ASPBAE’s on-going youth work and generate ideas for new ways of working with young people from marginalized communities;·
• Reflect on ASPBAE’s youth work and generate ideas on how to improve its strategies and suggest new and better paths of engagement.

E-Net Philippines as a member of ASPBAE conducted its in-country consultation this October 2020 convening three groups of youth –  the YAR, the non-YAR, and a youth-student organisation called PUP SPEAK together with Central Student Council and Office of Student Regent of the Polytechnic University of Philippines – to seek a wider range of youth situation, issues and recommendations particularly on the aspect of education.