Middle Eastern Women Gain Political Inspiration in Wisconsin
The Young Women Leaders Academy, a year-long program that aims to inspire and empower young Middle Eastern women to pursue political careers in their home countries, culminated in a two-week retreat in...
View ArticleNicaragua Leadership Program Supports Emerging Leaders
Nearly 70 percent of Nicaraguans are under the age of 30, but young people in the country remain disengaged from politics and government. They also are increasingly dissatisfied with political parties...
View ArticleVoices of a Revolution: Conversations with Tunisia’s Youth
Author: Nicholas Collins, National Democratic Institute Publisher: National Democratic Institute Published Date: 04/20/2011 Resource Type: Focus Group Language: English, Arabic, French Media Type:...
View ArticleFocus Groups in Tunisia Reveal Young People’s Hopes for Democratic Transition
Protests that started last December in Tunisia quickly spread throughout the country and led to the Jan. 14 overthrow of the 23-year regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — the first of its kind...
View ArticleFirst Class of Nicaraguan Leadership School Ready for Political Careers
The first class of graduates from Nicaragua's Certificate in Leadership and Political Management (CLPM) program are poised to jump into political careers. Already many class members have announced they...
View ArticleYouth Perceptions in Morocco: Political Parties and Reforms
Author: National Democratic Institute Publisher: National Democratic Institute Published Date: 11/20/2011 Resource Type: Focus Group Language: Arabic, English English Arabic AttachmentSizeRead the...
View ArticleYoung Moroccans Express Disappointment with Reforms, Political Parties
Earlier this year, Morocco saw an unprecedented rise in political engagement as young people, inspired by popular uprisings elsewhere in North Africa, rallied fellow citizens into the streets. Mass...
View ArticleYouth Conflict Resolution Program Yields Results in Yemen
This week NDI successfully completed a two-year Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) funded program that encouraged young Yemeni citizens to engage their district councils and tribal leaders to...
View ArticleNigerian Film Challenges Young Citizens to Engage with Elected Leaders
A civic education film recently released in Nigeria asks the question, in Nigerian pidgin, “Aftercount, I Vote Wetin?” or “I Voted, Now What?” It was made by the Youngstars Foundation, a Nigerian...
View ArticleConstitutional Dialogues Bring Zambia's Youth Into the Political Process
Young people make up nearly 60 percent of the population in Zambia and face growing unemployment rates. But their participation in politics and government has remained low. A group of youth-oriented...
View ArticleConstitutional Dialogues Bring Zambia's Youth Into the Political Process
Young people make up nearly 60 percent of the population in Zambia and face growing unemployment rates. But their participation in politics and government has remained low. A group of youth-oriented...
View ArticleYoung North African Party Members Experience U.S. Election Campaigns and Voting
For those who have never experienced a freewheeling political campaign, the raucousness of an American election season can be inspiring and overwhelming. Talking is incessant in rooms of phone bank...
View ArticleTraining Program Prepares Nicaragua's Next Generation of Leaders
Silvia Gutiérrez has been an active member of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista, MRS) since she joined the party as a pollwatcher for Nicaragua’s 2006 presidential...
View ArticlePress Statement: Kenya-Sierra Leone Party Youth Peer-to-Peer Exchange Visit
Author: Kenya Inter-Party Youth Forum (IPYF) and Sierra Leone All Political Party Youth Association (APPYA) Publisher: National Democratic Institute Published Date: 11/01/2012 Resource Type: Press...
View ArticleStudents Across Jordan Debate Politics in First-Ever National Competition
The setting was a hall in Amman, Jordan, packed with more than 500 students from eight universities, members of the community, and a panel of judges representing members of parliament, civil society...
View ArticleCivic Engagement Helps Lower Barriers Between Roma and Non-Roma Youth
Seventeen-year-old Vlado has his eye on the future – going to college, learning English, perhaps even running for local office. His reality now is vocational school and a tiny house where he lives in a...
View ArticleSocial Media Boot Camp Empowers Kosovo’s Youth Activists
Young people in Kosovo, Europe’s newest country, are impatient. They make up half of the population and are keen to see Kosovo integrated into Europe as a democracy, but they struggle to have a voice...
View ArticleFocus Groups in Tunisia Reveal Young People’s Hopes for Democratic Transition
Protests that started last December in Tunisia quickly spread throughout the country and led to the Jan. 14 overthrow of the 23-year regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — the first of its kind...
View ArticleFirst Class of Nicaraguan Leadership School Ready for Political Careers
The first class of graduates from Nicaragua's Certificate in Leadership and Political Management (CLPM) program are poised to jump into political careers. Already many class members have announced they...
View ArticleYouth Perceptions in Morocco: Political Parties and Reforms
Author: National Democratic Institute Publisher: National Democratic Institute Published Date: 11/20/2011 Resource Type: Focus Group Language: Arabic, English English Arabic AttachmentSizeRead the...
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