Methods to encourage youth participation

Empowerment and Capacity Building: Implement workshops and training on civic rights and obligations, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills. This directly addresses your point about youth learning their rights.

Establish programs where senior leaders act as advisors and, where youth are encouraged to coach each other, fostering peer-to-peer learning and support. this helps shift the power dynamics, and enhance collaborations and youth led initiatives.

Offer resources and opportunities through economic Involvement and helping them to build themselves personally and gain practical experience.

Create permanent mechanisms for consultation at the local and national levels, ensuring young people are involved in decision-making and policy development.

Work with the current government to reform the educational system to include practical lessons on civic participation, community problem-solving, and a "learning from mistakes" mindset.

Culture-Sensitive Empowerment: Ensure empowerment is fitted according to the community needs and culture to make it authentic and effective.

Interpersonal Support and Modeling: through leading by example, and starting the culture of participation and contribution at the family level to build strong foundations that spread to the wider community, and promoting a culture of mutual support among youth, where success is collective