"Community youth mapping (CYM) is a youth-centered participatory development strategy that engages young people and adults in canvassing their communities to document community-based resources, needs, and opportunities. Seeing the community through the eyes of young people provides a more comprehensive assessment of what a community has to offer. The resulting information describes the youth’s living conditions and economic situations as seen by the youth themselves and members of their communities, and records the youth’s own suggestions for improving their social status. [...] This document highlights lessons learned in implementing this innovative youth development model internationally, with specific attention to how youth mapping has been adapted for varied purposes in diverse international settings, and youth mapping’s impact on individuals and communities. This document focuses on examples from CYM programs implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED, now FHI360). Examples are drawn from the adaptation of youth mapping in eight countries: Chad, Egypt, Haiti, Jordan, Kosovo, Niger, Rwanda, and Sudan."
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Promising Youth Development Strategies - Community Youth Mapping: A Tool for Youth Participation and Program Design
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