In Their Words: A Practical Guide for Engaging Young People in Civic Education
Annexes
Annex 1: Survey Respondents by Country
Total Number of Respondents = 858
| COUNTRY | # RESPONDENTS |
| Albania | 2 |
| Argentina | 4 |
| Armenia | 11 |
| Bangladesh | 22 |
| Botswana | 1 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Cambodia | 7 |
| Cameroon | 2 |
| Canada | 2 |
| Chile | 1 |
| Colombia | 2 |
| Dominican Republic | 2 |
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
2 |
| Ecuador | 116 |
| Ethiopia | 42 |
| Georgia | 8 |
| Guatemala | 1 |
| Guinea | 1 |
| Guyana | 8 |
| Haiti | 1 |
| Honduras | 1 |
| India | 3 |
| Indonesia | 4 |
| Iraq | 52 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Jamaica | 1 |
| Kenya | 12 |
| Kosovo | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 15 |
| Lebanon | 10 |
| Lesotho | 1 |
| Liberia | 1 |
| Libya | 8 |
| Madagascar | 3 |
| Malawi | 1 |
| COUNTRY | # RESPONDENTS |
| Malaysia | 2 |
| Mauritania | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 |
| Montenegro | 1 |
| Myanmar | 1 |
| Nepal | 12 |
| New Zealand | 1 |
| Nigeria | 191 |
| North Macedonia | 4 |
| Pakistan | 5 |
| Palestinian Respondents | 2 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 |
| Peru | 2 |
| Rwanda | 2 |
| Serbia | 1 |
| Sierra Leone | 2 |
| Singapore | 2 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 |
| South Africa | 2 |
| South Korea | 1 |
| South Sudan | 2 |
| Sri Lanka | 23 |
| Tanzania | 4 |
| Timor-Leste | 1 |
| Tunisia | 63 |
| Uganda | 7 |
| Ukraine | 139 |
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| United States | 7 |
| Uruguay | 1 |
| Uzbekistan | 2 |
| Venezuela | 1 |
| Vietnam | 4 |
| Zambia | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 |
| Not Identified | 2 |
Annex 2: Tips and Guidance for Young Leaders and Practitioners ACTIONS
| Tip | Actions for young leaders | Actions for Practitioners working with young people |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Recognize social media as a platform for leadership |
Take your leadership skills online. Map and engage your social media network. Amplify your efforts through messaging apps and image and video sharing sites. |
Engage young people in the design and rollout of social media campaigns. Incorporate learning about leadership skills in online spaces. |
| 2. Apply a mixed media approach | Cross-post content on social media platforms and traditional media outlets. If safe to do so, livestream events or radio shows on social media to maximize your reach. |
Include traditional and digital media approaches in learning materials to bolster young peopleâs skills to engage in person and digitally. |
| 3. Acknowledge young people with intersectional identities | Invite young people with diverse backgrounds and intersectional identities to inform, facilitate, and participate in your activities. |
Apply an intersectional lens to program design to raise awareness of and tailor programming to the specific experiences of young people with intersecting identities to ensure accuracy, sensitivity, and representation. |
| 4. Make civic education more accessible | Use alt text, closed captions, graphics, and different media such as radio, videos, or images to maximize accessibility and reach diverse youth populations. |
Make sure activity locations allow for everyone to participate safely. Budget for reasonable accommodations and accessibility features for materials to ensure activities are accessible to all. |
| 5. Engage young people under age 18 | Invite parents, caregivers, and their children to participate in your activities when it is safe to do so. Provide opportunities for them to work and learn together. |
Obtain consent from parents and caregivers and assent from learners under age 18 for their participation and use of their images or quotes. Add safeguarding mechanisms for the inclusion of young people under age 18 in programming scopes of work. |
| 6. Incorporate peer-to-peer and intergenerational learning | Engage peers and youth champions of all ages in your activities. Invite youth champions from older age groups to share stories and experiences with younger age groups. |
Focus program design on each phase of the electoral cycle to strengthen young peopleâs engagement in the pre-electoral and post-electoral phases and to build sustained habits of participation. |
| 7. Include civic education throughout the election cycle | Connect your activities to all phases of the electoral cycle and include first-time voters and under-represented youth populations. Foster partnerships with the EMB to align your efforts. |
Focus program design on each phase of the electoral cycle to strengthen young peopleâs engagement in the pre-electoral and post-electoral phases and to build sustained habits of participation. |