Meaningful youth engagement is a participatory process in which young people’s ideas, expertise, experiences, and perspectives are integrated throughout programmatic, policy, and institutional decision-making structures so as to best inform outcomes. This process requires young people to be involved in all levels and stages of program, policy, campaign, and initiative development, including all stages of design, implementation, and evaluation; this is especially true of those programs that directly affect their lives.
The Huduma Bill 2021 Was In Parliament For Its 2nd Reading.
The Huduma Bill 2021 was in Parliament for its 2nd reading. The Huduma Bill proposed the largest set of changes to the legal framework governing Kenya’s identification system since before independence. If enacted, the Huduma Bill would become the single law anchoring birth and death registration, issuing identity cards, issuing passports, and governance of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS). The draft legislation, system design, and all other decision points around the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) must be considered very carefully, comprehensively, and transparently.
Futuremakers Forum Insight Paper | Unleashing The Potential of Young People
In July, Standard Chartered in collaboration with Business Fights Poverty held the Futuremakers Forum 2021. This Insights Paper is a distillation of the lessons learned during the Forum. The paper is divided into two sections - the first section focuses on what young people shared during the Forum, and the second, on business leaders.
Digital Media Literacy And Youth Civic Reasoning In Kenya | Key Informant Interview Report
The Youth Café conducted Key Informant Interviews to expand our knowledge on media literacy in Kenya and the intervention measures that would apply. The information collected through these interviews informs the digital media literacy handbook that The Youth Café is designing for the Youth Excel project.