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Meaningful Youth Participation • 13 March 2025

Next Steps

This framework sets out to provide a guide to the Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting Movement for how can improve its approach to meaningful youth participation to make sure we work for, by and with girls and young women. 

Now, it is over to you to put this theory and the ideas into practice. You may feel excited at the opportunity to now go and improve meaningful youth participation in your work or perhaps overwhelmed by the prospect of starting on this journey. You may also feel that you are already supporting good meaningful youth participation practice. However you feel, we all have a role to play in becoming a girls and young women-led Movement.  

Take a moment to think about what your next steps will be:  

Self-reflect

Thinking about your role in the Movement:  

  • What can you do to nurture a culture that encourages meaningful youth participation?
  • How is your meaningful youth participation practice?  
  • What part of the trefoil of participation do you feel you are already doing well and where do you feel you can improve?
  • Where in your organisation do you have the power to influence further action on meaningful youth participation?  
Do the training

On Campfire you can find more training on Meaningful Youth Participation:  

  • For the WAGGGS Global Team (those with a Campfire account) there is an online self-guided course.  
  • For Member Organisations and individuals who do not have a Campfire account there is also an open version of the course.  

Both can be found via this Campfire page: https://campfire.wagggs.org/dashboard/meaningful-youth-participation 

Use the toolkit

To accompany this Framework, we have created a toolkit to help you implement Meaningful Youth Participation initiatives. 

https://campfire.wagggs.org/dashboard/meaningful-youth-participation 

Contact WAGGGS for Capacity Building Support

Member Organisations can complete the Capacity Assessment Tool to identify areas for their organisation to grow capacity in and WAGGGS can support this process.  

Find out more here: https://campfire.wagggs.org/dashboard/capacity-building 

Send us your examplesIf you have an example of Meaningful Youth Participation you would like to share with us, please send it to us via this form: https://campfire.wagggs.org/form/meaningful-youth-participation-s or get in touch with us at [email protected].  
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