Localizing Youth Initiatives
Building a conscious and proactive generation that effectively contributes to community development and achieves sustainable development.
Last Updated: October 9, 2025

Best Practice Overview
Building a conscious and proactive generation that effectively contributes to community development and achieves sustainable development.
Objectives:
- Regulating the work of youth initiatives.
- Providing logistical and technical support.
- Achieving community development.
- Strengthening active citizenship.
- Providing support and guidance.
- Networking and cooperation.
Duration of the Initiative:
- Localizing and supporting initiatives periodically and continuously throughout the year through committees formed for this purpose, by creating a section within the organizational structure of the Directorate of Youth Initiatives and Volunteer Work concerned with localizing youth initiatives.
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Preparation Phase:
- Defining the foundations, criteria, and mechanisms for considering and selecting community, entrepreneurial, and innovative initiatives.
- Forming technical committees in the Ministry Center for:
- Localization: Sorting localization requests, studying requests, approving or disapproving.
- Financial Support: Sorting support requests according to support categories and in accordance with the financial instructions issued in this regard.
- Defining criteria for localizing youth initiatives.
- Defining criteria for evaluating a youth initiative (video) prior to localization.
- Preparing forms:
- Youth Initiative Localization Request Form.
- Youth Initiative Support Request Form.
- Youth Initiative Support Form specific to the Youth Initiatives Support Committee.
Implementation Phase:
- Circulating the localization criteria and the foundations of financial support in an official letter to all relevant administrative units.
- Announcing the launch of the initiative with a ceremony or a mini press conference, along with launching the electronic links
Post-Initiative Phase:
- submitting periodic progress reports through the Youth Directorate to which the initiative belongs.
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