Youth Act 4 Local Change Making
Kairouan
Date de début : 20/02/2021
Date de fin : 01/09/2021
Objectif Général
In order to strengthen the democratic transition in Tunisia, WeStart Organization with the support of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) will organize the "Youth Act'4 local change making" project into 3 phases. This process will be established by reinforcing democratic support and participation in Kairouan’s youth, and in turn, strengthening the future democratic socialization processes and eventually helping resolve of the problems linked to green spaces and fitness trail in Kairouan.
Phase I
Through the organization of 4 focus Groups and 6 to 10 Semi-Structured Interviews with youth, stakeholders and policy-makers, this phase strives to understand the attitudes, behaviors and problems of the youth and stakeholders in Kairouan. And also to perceive their recommendations and proposed solutions
that can improve the state of green spaces and fitness trail in their city.
This Phase will be closed by a two-day workshop to analyze data and identify the findings.
Phase II
To convey young people's needs and priorities in local policies, WeStart Organization will organize:
- A three-day training workshop entitled “the public policies and the elaboration of policy briefs” for 12 youngsters between the age of 18 to 29 from Kairouan.
- Working groups (remote group work) in order to enhance the knowledge and the skills acquired and to elaborate two policy briefs (One for the green spaces and one for the fitness trail) on the basis of the received feedback from group discussions and the interviews held with the elected youth of municipal councils. The 12 participants will be separated into 2 groups, 6 persons in each one and they will be in charge of preparing a policy brief draft (One for the green spaces and one for the fitness trail) before attending the reformulation workshop.
- A two-day reformulation workshop with the expert to finalize the policy briefs.
- Advocacy meetings with youth, stakeholders and decision-makers to present the policy briefs to the municipal council and relevant stakeholders in order to get commitments from elected officials alongside the proposed solutions and recommendations.
