Webinar: Children and Youth Peer-learning Journey: How to Involve Children and Youth in your Work
08 mei 2025 Datum
8 mei 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Inhoud
How to Cede Power to Youth: The Birth of the Siena Youth Council
The Children and Youth Network will host “How to Cede Power to Youth: The Birth of the Siena Youth Council” online on 8 May, the next module of the peer-learning journey on "How to Involve Children and Youth in Your Work".
This online module explores the challenges and opportunities of youth engagement, focusing on the process of establishing a structured platform for young voices in decision-making. It delves into the key issues that drive the need for youth councils, such as civic participation, representation, and intergenerational dialogue.
Through practical examples and real-world insights, the session will examine effective strategies for fostering youth involvement, overcoming barriers to participation, and creating sustainable mechanisms that empower younger generations. Drawing from the experience of Siena’s Youth Council, the module provides a roadmap for communities looking to amplify youth voices and integrate them into meaningful decision-making processes.
The peer-learning journey “How to involve children and youth into your work” is a series of online webinars organised by Philea’s Children and Youth Network to take place throughout 2024.
The aim is to advance youth inclusion in the work of foundations by providing concrete pathways and tools to implement. Following each module, foundations that are willing to transform their way of working with young people can benefit from input from organisations with specific expertise on a given topic.
Why are we organising this peer-learning series?
“I may not know my rights, but you don’t know my life”.
This quote by a 6-year-old from Pakistan opens the study “Child and youth participation on philanthropy – Stories of Transformation”. As International Children’s Rights specialist, Gerison Lansdwon writes, “in too many countries, and across too many communities, the issues that are afforded attention, as well as the means of addressing them, are decided by those in positions of power.”We wish to respond to the increasing need to transform philanthropic practices and shift power dynamics by initiating a collaborative process with peer-learning on youth participation at its heart.