This document presents a proposed strategy to systematically introduce and advance the engagement and consultation in programs and projects. It is developed to support the responds of the Youth Compact, which was signed by over 50 humanitarian actors to ensure that the priorities of young people are addressed, and that they are informed, consulted, and meaningfully engaged throughout all stages of humanitarian action.
Since then, many organisations are putting a high focus on youth engagement and effective participation in community development activities, evidence based advocacy and in decision making process concerning them. The Youth Engagement and Consultation (YEC) concept is being often confused with Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) concept, which are two distinctive concept in the humanitarian and development context.
The model for youth engagement and consultation and the strategic pillars presented are based on secondary data from reports of international organizations, academia and practitioners. Training tools kits of facilitation and leadership associations was also used in the development of this training material.
This training material is divided into three parts. The first part presents the requirements to be taken into consideration to deliver this training with high quality standard everywhere. The second part is the presentation on how to use the power slides for an effective facilitation and a quality delivery of the training. In this part you will find the explanation of each slide, the activities, games and team building exercises that will be carry out during the facilitation of the workshop. And the last part, is the PowerPoint presentation that will be used alongside with the document to facilitate workshops on youth engagement and consultation. The power point presentation has two sessions, one on youth engagement and one on how to carryout youth consultation. Under youth engagement, participants will explore who is a YEC-er, under the difference between youth engagement and Youth economic empowerment (YEE) and understand the different pillars to consider for an effective youth engagement. Under Youth consultation, participants will explore the B.A.S.I.C.S for a consultation workshop and youth participation ladder.