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