Leaders of Hope
This program focuses on empowering young people by developing their leadership and creative abilities while strengthening their sense of positive citizenship and national belonging. It aims to raise awareness about key social and cultural issues, encouraging active participation in community activities. Through this, the program inspires youth to become leaders of hope and catalysts for positive change in their communities.
Last Updated: February 9, 2025

Best Practice Overview
Creating a generation capable of making decisions and effecting change.
Objectives:
- Honing the skills of young people and developing their leadership and creative abilities.
- Strengthening the values of positive citizenship and national belonging among young people.
- Raising awareness among young people about issues of social and cultural development.
- Motivating young people to actively participate in community activities to become leaders of hope and makers of positive change.
Duration of the Initiative:
Ongoing initiative.
Positive Impact:
- Training more than 5,000 young men and women on leadership and teamwork skills.
- Developing educational awareness programs to enhance national and social awareness.
- Creating a network of young leaders that contributes to supporting future youth initiatives.
- Strengthening social ties between young people from different regions, which enhances the spirit of national unity.
Preparation Phase:
- Conducting an analysis of the current situation of youth across the country through a SWOT analysis.
- Forming a technical committee of experts to study these results and convert them into objectives that are prioritized and organized based on importance, opportunity, and feasibility.
- Setting a group of objectives for the initiative.
- Classifying the objectives into areas.
- Developing a vision that translates the set of objectives in order to achieve them.
- Developing a comprehensive training package and obtaining approval from the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity.
Implementation Phase:
- Forming a technical committee to oversee the implementation of the initiative.
- Developing the fixed and detailed programs for the initiative.
- Issuing the necessary decisions for the implementation of the initiative.
- Providing the material and human resources.
- Booking accommodation for the camps of the National Program for Hopeful Leaders.
- Implementing youth camps in several centers capable of accommodating the equivalent of (10,000) young men and women
Post-Initiative Phase:
- Creating a database for all participants.
- Forming committees to sort talents and interests.
- Forming teams, on the basis of which offices and branches of the Ministry of Youth and its affiliated bodies and institutions are formed.
- Sorting out distinguished young people and targeting them in internal and international travel programs.
- Refining talents from the outputs of those camps.
- Supporting personal initiatives resulting from the presentation of projects in the camps.
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