Championing Youth for Policymaking in Kenya

Summary

The project will build 40 youth champions for enhanced policy making in Kenyan on policies that will boost youth empowerment, livelihoods and participation.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Addressing youth concerns through legislative intervention will provide a sustainable solution and is expected to lead to a youth constituency that is generally more content and one that feels catered for by society. This is bound to lead to a more peaceful and prosperous society in general and in this regard our proposed intervention has the general public as the secondary beneficiaries with the youth being the primary beneficiaries.

Activities

-Creation of 5 Youth Parliamentary Working Groups -24 regional youth consultative forums spread out in all of Kenya’s 8 administrative provinces -Interviews with key informants -training in policymaking

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $0

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $0 .  The original project funding goal was $50,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

• More responsive and inclusive laws that encompass youth concerns in their design • Continuous dialogue between parliament and Kenya’s youth on parliamentary bills and national policies

Project Message

Youth need to be involved in the lawmaking process in Kenya-it is their right and duty
- Hon. Fred Kapondi, Member of Kenya's Parliament

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Joseph Kimani
Program Manager
kimani@africayouthtrust.org
info@africayouthtrust.org
Nairobi, P.O.BOX 7192-00100 NAIROB
Kenya
+254 734 845 755
Email:

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Democracy and Governance.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on April 5, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 24, 2010