Young people under 35 make up over half of Kenya’s population, yet most face unemployment or underemployment, limiting their ability to act at scale. Still, youth across the country are actively driving environmental conservation, advocacy, and innovation.
Meaningful Youth Engagement
Meaningful youth engagement is a participatory process in which young people’s ideas, expertise, experiences, and perspectives are integrated throughout programmatic, policy, and institutional decision-making structures so as to best inform outcomes. This process requires young people to be involved in all levels and stages of program, policy, campaign, and initiative development, including all stages of design, implementation, and evaluation; this is especially true of those programs that directly affect their lives.