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Empowering Youth Voices: Global Advocacy through Authentic Engagement

This session from the Jim Casey Youth Engagement Summit on August 6, 2014, highlights the significance of authentic youth involvement in advocacy and policy reform on a global scale. It features examples and insights from youth leaders like Cordelia Belezaire of the Youth Against Violence Movement and Sixto Cancel of Think of Us, focusing on transferable practices in youth development. Participants will learn about effective collaborations between youth and adults to create impactful policies, address youth unemployment, and foster safer communities.

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Empowering Youth Voices: Global Advocacy through Authentic Engagement

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  1. Going Global: Using Authentic Youth Engagement to Advance International Advocacy and Policy Reform Jim Casey Youth Engagement Summit August 6, 2014

  2. Session Goals: • Share examples and experiences of young people in the advocacy and policy arenas • Focus on transferability of positive youth development principles, practices and policy across countries and contexts • Focus on the impact of youth and adult alliances

  3. Speakers • Cordelia Belezaire • Youth Against Violence Movement Coordinator – Belize • Sixto Cancel • Jim Casey Youth Fellow • Clinton Global Initiative Representative • Rising Junior at Virginia Commonwealth University • Bonnie Politz • Senior Advisor, Creative Associates International

  4. Facts & Figures • Youth aged 15-24 make up 27% of the world’s population • 1.7 billion youth today – largest generation to enter adulthood • In developing countries up to 50% of 15-24 year olds are unemployed and out of school • Marginalized youth more likely to engage in risky behaviors, be recruited into crime, armed conflict and terrorism

  5. Policy and Advocacy Trends in Global Youth Development • United Nations • Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) / Youth Action Guide • Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development • International Youth Day (August 12th, 2014)

  6. Policy and Advocacy Trends in Global Youth Development • US Agency for International Development • Youth in Development Policy • State of the Field Reports on Youth Development: Workforce, Education, Youth Engagement, Cross-Sectoral Approaches

  7. Policy and Advocacy Trends in Global Youth Development

  8. Supporting Research

  9. Youth Engagement “The active, empowered, and intentional partnership with youth as stakeholders, problem solvers, and change agents in their communities.” - Youth Leadership Institute “If you decide to institutionalize youth voice, you are essentially designing and launching a whole new project that needs resources, oversight, and direction.” —YouthBuild “Eighty-five percent of Taliban recruits are under 25 and the majority of people in Egypt in the square were young people. So you see a trail of positive or negative in which young people are already involved…” —Restless Development

  10. Hart’s Ladder of Youth Participation

  11. Cordelia Belezaire • National Coordinator, Youth Against Violence Movement in Belize

  12. Central America Youth Against Violence Movement Objective: Influence policy makers to implement the right strategies which we believe will aid the development of youth and create a safer Central American region; one without violence.

  13. Central America Youth Against Violence Movement • A USG-funded initiative, began in Guatemala in 2009 • Now in 7 Countries: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua • Youth volunteers between 16 to 35

  14. Youth Against Violence Movement in Belize • The chapter in Belize was formed in November 2012 • Outcomes: • Public Policy Recommendations for the Prevention of Violence at the Central American Presidential Summit • Government of Belize National Youth Strategy • CaricomYouth Stakeholder consultation

  15. Strategy 1 • Strengthen civil society and state institutional structures • Strategy 2 • Strengthen the family for the integral development of the youth • Strategy 3 • Strengthen the formal educational system as well as non formal and alternative educational initiatives

  16. Strategy 4 • Reduce risk factors for the development of citizen security • Strategy 5 • Promote the recovery of public spaces and the development of integral initiates for peaceful coexistence • Strategy 6 • Provide incentives for the development of youth organizations and volunteer opportunities promoting youth social and political leadership

  17. Strategy 7 • Provide incentives for vocational, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities • Strategy 8 • Promote integral attention for youth at risk • Strategy 9 • Guarantee access to justice, rehabilitation and insertion of youth with an emphasis on restorative justice.

  18. Sixto Cancel • Founder, Think of Us • Member, Youth Innovation Advisory, Dell Inc. • Commitment Maker, Clinton Global Initiative University • Young Fellow, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative • National Fellow, The National Center For Innovation & Excellence • Scholar, YouthVillages • Student, Virginia Commonwealth University 

  19. Contact • Cordelia Belezaire - cordeliabelezaire@hotmail.com • Sixto Cancel –sixto.cancel@gmail.com • Bonnie Politz – bonniep@creativedc.com Visit our website at www.creativeassociatesinternational.com

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