strategy
Designing youth programmes
Synonyms:
Planning adolescent activitiesInitiating imaginative youth programmes
Description:
Developing programmes and services specifically for young people, responsive to the needs and ideas of youth.Consider age, gender, sexual orientation and cultural, ethnic and social diversity among youth; encourage respected adults and adolescents to take active leadership roles; utilize participatory training approaches; develop appropriate supporting information, education and communication material in collaboration with youth themselves; involve hard-to-reach youth (eg those out of school, living on the streets or in rural areas); develop adolescent-specific indicators for measuring programme goals; design management information systems to improve programme effectiveness and share information on which programmes work.
Implementation:
The aim of the youth project at the Ramallah Friends School in the Occupied Territories is to make contacts with concerned youth in the Ramallah community and around the world. These young people tend to see their futures in bleak and narrow terms; they are searching for avenues of self-expression through a philosophy of self-reliance. Among the components considered for the youth project are Young Leadership Programmes, Futures Studies and Human Empowerment Programmes. Claim:
Young people are highly motivated and creative, and programmes designed and managed in cooperation with them usually succeed best. Broader:
Evaluating programmesPromoting interests of rural youthStructuring young people's engagementOrganizing national development programmesProviding information and services to young people Narrower:
Designing sex education programmesDeveloping responsible youth actionInstituting adolescent peer educationCreating youth leadership opportunities Facilitates:
Involving youthOccupying youthEquipping local youthProviding youth trainingProviding youth trainingDeveloping youth vocational skillsExpanding corporate youth activitiesCreating community youth participationBroadening practical youth experiences Facilitated by:
Exercising imaginationEngaging young adult leadershipEstablishing elder youth dialogueCreating youth demonstration schools Values:
Youth Organizations:
Advocates for Youth, Washington DC References:
Centre for Development and Population Activities: Choose a Future!: issues and options for adolescent girls Subjects:
Action → Action Society → Adolescents
Society → Youth
Management → Planning
Design → Design
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
