Youth Interactive Platform for Democracy
- Hub
- Activity
- Model
- Actors
- Citizenship and communities
- Youth
- Activists
- Social Leaders
- Purpuse
- Citizen empowerment and capacity building
- Citizen empowerment
- Civic capacity building
- Strengthening democracy
- Institutional trust
#DIGITALPARTICIPATORYPLATFORMS
Through collaboration with community leaders (chiefs and midikumi) and civil society organizations, the project co-designed safer and more inclusive participation spaces. By integrating incentives and creative methods of engagement, the initiative sought to rebuild trust, amplify youth voices, and transform participation into meaningful, impactful dialogue.
- Identification of key barriers to youth political participation.
- Strengthening existing community-based participatory channels.
- Building trust through collaboration with locally respected actors.
- Design of targeted interventions for youth inclusion.
- Emphasis on regional diversity and localized approaches.
- The process highlighted the importance of designing systems that not only give young people a voice, but also ensure that their participation leads to concrete responses and actions. It fostered future collaborations and international networks, such as peace conferences and community development strategies.
Africa’s Voices Foundation (AVF), Change Mind Change Future, Centre for Peace Advancement and Socio-Economic Development (CPAED), Extituto de Política Abierta
KEY CONCEPTS
Contextual: Lack of youth representation, socioeconomic barriers, trust in local actors versus distrust in institutions.
On Democracy: Participatory initiatives, active engagement in democratic processes, feedback and accountability mechanisms.
