El Salvador ABSTRACT In 2018, TRACODA created a training process, targeting youth from the eastern of El Salvador. Shortly after, in alliance with the Centre for Strengthening democracy, the organisations reshaped the vision of the process and launched ‘Democracy bootcamps’, which brought together young people aged 14-22. […] read more
Senegal ENABLING FACTORS Strong advocacy, during the in-person Council, by the National Youth Council for better management of the needs of young people in terms of youth employment. This has enabled improved involvement of young people in the implementation strategy and ownership of the programme at the […] read more
Global ABSTRACT ‘Engaging a New Generation for Accessible Governance and Elections’ (ENGAGE) is a civic and political leadership course for young people with disabilities. It builds their leadership skills in their communities while providing hands-on community engagement experience. ENGAGE addresses the barriers that young persons with disabilities […] read more
Global ABSTRACT The Global Student Forum is the umbrella organisation of the world’s major representative student federations. It is the only independent, democratic and representative student governance structure dedicated to promoting the rights and perspectives of student organisations and movements on the global level. It has emerged […] read more
Austria and Albania ABSTRACT In 2007, the voting age in Austria was reduced to 16 years, an approach increasingly being adopted in Europe, notably for the European Parliament elections. However, the spectrum of citizenship education for this age group depends on the type of school and therefore […] read more
Armenia, Bangladesh, Georgia and Ukraine ABSTRACT In 2010, IFES developed a global, university-level civic education approach entitled‘Strengthening Engagement through Education for Democracy’ (SEED). This was designed to better engage young people in learning about their rights and responsibilities and applying them in their communities and democratic processes. […] read more
South Africa ABSTRACT Pupil transport is vital to fully realising the right to basic education, as stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. In 2014, members of Equal Education (EE) in Nquthu, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) raised long, dangerous walks to school as an obstacle to […] read more