Localizing Youth Initiatives

Building a conscious and proactive generation that effectively contributes to community development and achieves sustainable development.

Last Updated: February 8, 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.

Positive Impact (Indicators and Outputs of the Initiative):

The positive impact:

  • Youth empowerment.
  • Enhancing community development.
  • Expanding the scope of active youth participation.

Indicators:

  • Number of localized youth initiatives.
  • Youth participation rate.
  • Impact of the initiatives on society.
  • Sustainability of the projects.

Outcomes:

  • Institutional youth initiatives.
  • Training of youth leaders.
  • Creative youth initiatives that contribute to addressing community problems.
  • Creating a collaborative environment that brings together the government, civil society, and the private sector to support initiatives.
  • Promoting a culture of volunteerism.

Achievement:

  • More than 140 youth initiatives have been localized so far.

Preparation Phase:

1- Defining the foundations, criteria, and mechanisms for considering and selecting community, entrepreneurial, and innovative initiatives.

2-  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.

3-   Defining criteria for localizing youth initiatives.

4- Defining criteria for evaluating a youth initiative (video) prior to localization.

5-  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:

1-   Circulating the localization criteria and the foundations of financial support in an official letter to all relevant administrative units.

2- 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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