Development: Organisations Wake Up To The Potential Of Young Perspectives |
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January 29, 2010
“We need to step away from the cliché that youth should be placed in the kiddy corner while world leaders make decisions on our futures.” This statement, from the website of the Global Humanitarian Forum’s Youth Forum, shows young people are keen to get involved in helping to solve problems – whether at local or global level.
“We need to step away from the cliché that youth should be placed in the kiddy corner while world leaders make decisions on our futures.” This statement, from the website of the Global Humanitarian Forum’s Youth Forum, shows young people are keen to get involved in helping to solve problems – whether at local or global level.
Fortunately, there is growing evidence that development organisations are listening to young people and taking note both of the roles they can play and the freshness and originality of their perspectives.
“In the last five or six years, multilateral and bilateral organisations, companies and the non-profit sector have all realised the importance of involving young people, for multiple reasons,” says Ashok Regmi, programme director of the International Youth Foundation and head of its YouthActionNet online community for young leaders.
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