Youth Councils: An Effective Way to Promote Youth Participation

By Educational Quality Improvement Program 3 (EQUIP3) Staff

Despite their varying contexts, youth councils are increasing young people’s voices, developing their critical social and interpersonal skills, enhancing their self-esteem, and connecting them to their communities and the global arena. To cultivate the growth of effective youth councils and ignite a new wave of similar youth entities across the globe, it is critical to learn from existing models, understand the essential elements for success, and extrapolate key lessons learned from the challenges youth councils often encounter. The various case studies presented in this paper have provided some key elements of effective youth councils, in addition to some challenges councils face.

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