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Young Leader Perspective: Sahara Mama
Young persons can be powerful change agents in their communities. Disseminating information on the electoral cycle, volunteering in voter registration drives, observing elections to ensure rights are respected, and forming watchdog organizations are some of the many ways youths around the world are making a difference.
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Young Leader Perspective: Sitti Anieza Darong
Young persons can be powerful change agents in their communities. Disseminating information on the electoral cycle, volunteering in voter registration drives, observing elections to ensure rights are respected, and forming watchdog organizations are some of the many ways youths around the world are making a difference.
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Young Leader Perspective: Tadzmahar J. Abdukadil
Young persons can be powerful change agents in their communities. Disseminating information on the electoral cycle, volunteering in voter registration drives, observing elections to ensure rights are respected, and forming watchdog organizations are some of the many ways youths around the world are making a difference.
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Young Leader Perspective: Achraf Aouadi
Young persons can be powerful change agents in their communities. Disseminating information on the electoral cycle, volunteering in voter registration drives, observing elections to ensure rights are respected, and forming watchdog organizations are some of the many ways youths around the world are making a difference.
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Hack4Democracy Supports Tunisian Youth Civic Engagement
Tunisian youth played a significant role in the lead up to the 2011 revolution. Despite being at the forefront, many young Tunisians now feel that the gains of the revolution were stolen from them, with the older generation benefitting while youth remain politically and economically marginalized. IFES and the Tunisian Youth Forum are working to transform Tunisian youth’s online engagement into active civic engagement through an innovative new initiative called Hack4Democracy camps.
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Learning by Gaming: Democrapoli
Within its civic and voter education campaigns in anticipation of the Malian communal elections, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), in collaboration with the Nigerien NGO Groupe de Recherche Action sur la Démocratie et les Systèmes Electoraux (GRADSEL), has developed an educational game called Democrapoli: Elections Communales Mali (Communal Elections Mali).
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Empowering Tomorrow through Youth Engagement
IFES works to empower youth around the world by hosting democracy-focused camps, events, and activities. By educating young people about democracy, we enable them to express themselves and have a voice in their communities.
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Bilel Mansouri: From H4D Participant to Change Maker
To address a growing lack of civic engagement among Tunisian youth, IFES launched an original initiative called Hack4Democracy (H4D) in Tunisia, a combination of democracy camps and hackathons. Bilel Mansouri used his experience in a H4D camp and applied what he had learned to create Detecti, a mobile and web application, and start Jeunes Actifs, a civil society organization.
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Technological Innovation at the Service of Youth Engagement
To address a growing lack of civic engagement among Tunisian youth, IFES launched an original initiative called Hack4Democracy (H4D) in Tunisia, a combination of democracy camps and hackathons, putting the latest technological advances at the service of youth engagement. H4D promotes civic engagement through the competitive creation of innovative tools using new technologies, and builds professional competencies for youth by providing networking opportunities, mentoring and incubation of the most promising projects.
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Photo Gallery: Awakening the Next Generation of Tunisian Voters
To address a lack of civic education in Tunisian schools and create an informed and civic-minded future generation, IFES developed the Democratic Awakening Toolkit. IFES produced 1,500 toolkits, which are comprised of a teaching manual, pedagogical resources and reusable materials to simulate voting in classrooms, for a pilot program in September 2018.