DERIN Peace Network (Ambassador Grant)

Improving the Participation of Young People in Devolution Processes

Building upon previous successes, this Ambassador team want to go further in understanding youth civic disengagement and help to overcome it.

In 2019, the DERIN Peace Network conducted workshops in Kubo-South ward to help raise awareness of, and improve engagement in, local political processes that have arisen as a result of devolution.

Building upon the successes of that project, they launched a research project to understand in more depth why young people are failing to engage.

They followed up with four more workshops, this time in Lunga Lunga sub-county, based on the proven model from the year before but this time further driven by the evidence of their research.

The team are part of our Ambassadors programme, which gives exceptional young activists who have participated in the Young Cities programme before an opportunity to run further important projects.