Youth promoting peace and tolerance in Zimbabwean politics

Project period:

01.09.2022 - 30.06.2023

Granted amount:

499,999,- DKK

Total budget:

499,999,- DKK

Organization:

Crossing Borders

Partners:

4-H Zimbabwe Foundation

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

Medborgerindsats

World goals:

Goal 4: Quality Education

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Efforts take place in:

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