Conflict, Legitimacy and Government Reform: Equitable Allocation of ...

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Examples of local partners might include church youth groups,
schools, youth centred organizations such as Girl Guides and Boy Scouts
or youth centred development organizations such as Save the Children or
World Vision.
Each participating IDG-Net member will start by identifying
approximately 10 youth groups in 10 different communities.
A community will typically involve a population of about 10,000 – 20,000
people. It may be a village, a cluster of villages or a neighbourhood in
a big city.
Each youth group will identify 2 youth leaders to attend a 3 day
national training program. The national training will develop leadership
skills, teach about democratic governance and introduce and plan the
governance awards initiative. Trained youth leaders will return to their
communities to mobilize other youth to identify and address an issue in
their community.
They will approach this by engaging multiple stakeholders in the
community, and practicing principles of good governance including
accountability, participation, fairness, transparency and strategic vision.
They will develop a proposal for their initiative. The local partner will
review the proposals and provide modest funding for those proposals
which appear to be viable. The youth, working with the community, will
have approximately 6 months to implement the initiative. They will then
report on the initiative through various different formats including
written reports, videos, and comics. Examples of youth led initiatives
which might be undertaken within the time and budget constraints
include the following: mobilizing the community to improve community
cleanliness; advocating for policies which will reduce absenteeism of
teachers through the production of dramas in their communities; and
reducing HIV/AIDS by creating clubs in their schools which raise
awareness about HIV/AIDS. 18
18 These examples are actual projects which had been led by youth in a ‘governance
awards programme’ for youth which was piloted in Indonesia and the Philippines in
2006.