Youth promoting peace and tolerance in Zimbabwean politics

Projektperiode:

01.09.2022 - 30.06.2023

Beviliget beløb:

499.999,- DKK

Samlet budget:

499.999,- DKK

Organisation:

Crossing Borders

Partnere:

4-H Zimbabwe Foundation

Pulje:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Indsatsområde:

Medborgerindsats

World goals:

Mål 4: Kvalitetsuddannelse

Mål 10: Mindre ulighed

Mål 16: Fred, retfærdighed og stærke institutioner

Mål 17: Partnerskaber for handling

Indsatser foregår i:

Zimbabwe

Resume

The purpose of this intervention is to engage and capacitate youth from across the political spectrum in Zimbabwe to strengthen their role in political and development processes. The youth will be from all layers of Zimbabwean society. It seeks to ensure different social forces pool together for positive change. The youth will be both presently actively engaged within political parties and those unaffiliated. They will all be youth that wish to act as peer-to-peer promoters of peaceful and democratic political discourse. This is expected contribute to breaking barriers for genuine youth inclusion in shaping peaceful political discourse within Zimbabwe in general and the dominating political parties in specific in the time running up to the national elections (known as Harmonised Elections) that will happen no later than July 2023. In another word, the core aim is to help enable the youth to influence pro-youth policy, facilitating youth inclusion in the public affairs, and promote to