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YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
Latin America
The Latin American and the Caribbean Preparatory Process: the Costa Rican Commission supported by the Latin American and Caribbean members in the IYC, set up contact points in almost all of the countries of the region. The idea they promoted was to encourage the realization of national consultation processes among youth organizations of each country to set up the national positions of the countries to YOUTH '92, to provide a space to develop their own national strategies of work and to select, through a participative process, their national delegation to the World Forum. In this manner national conferences and some other preparatory events were organized in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama , Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Belize, Brazil and Jamaica. The regional preparatory process finished with the realization of the Latin American and Caribbean Consultation for YOUTH '92, held in San Jose, Costa Rica, in March 1992.