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Democracy and Governance > Championing Youth for Policymaking in Kenya (#4799)
SummaryThe 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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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.
-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
Total Funding Received to Date: $0
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.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
• 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
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
Joseph Kimani
Program Manager
kimani@africayouthtrust.org
info@africayouthtrust.org
Nairobi, P.O.BOX 7192-00100 NAIROB
Kenya
+254 734 845 755
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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.
This project was last updated on April 5, 2010.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 24, 2010
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