60 Ways in 60 Days!
Happy International Youth Day 🎉
🔥Our 60 Days kicked off on 12th August with International Youth Day
🔎We are searching for at least 60 Ways that we are supporting meaningful youth participation in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting
✨On 11th October the campaign will come to an end on International Day of the Girl
💪Across these 60 Days we're celebrating the power of young people by showcasing how Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting enables girls and young women to drive their experience!
International Day of the Girl
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We invite Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to virtually pin a flag to their location, then share a message to celebrate IDG!
Use your message to describe how Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting has help you feel empowered as a decision-maker.
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60 Ways in 60 Days Stories Library
About the Campaign
🌍We know that across the Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting Movement, from local to national to global level, so many examples of meaningful youth participation are happening.
📖We want to collect your stories of meaningful youth participation to share with the wider Movement so that we can inspire each other to enable more young people to be able to participate meaningfully 🌟
🗨️Tell us about the programmes, events and projects where young people in your organisation have shaped their own learning experiences and felt empowered as decision-makers!
You can share your stories with us using this form:
https://forms.office.com/e/E1NJV1xkFP
In the form you can...
- Find more information about how your story will be used.
- Give your consent for us to use your story.
- Share details about your project / experience / initiative / event where young people meaningfully participated.
Any questions or problems please let us know at [email protected]
Share your Story!
What is Meaningful Youth Participation?
Youth participation is about young people being able to make decisions on issues that affect their lives and communities.
Meaningful youth participation builds on this and means that young people are considered the experts in their own lives, and are informed, empowered, safe and valued when they participate.
Youth participation can exist at all levels of the Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting Movement, it can take place in relation to big decisions or small decisions, from local group level to programme design and delivery right through to MO and global governance.
Note: when using the term 'young people' we are including both girls under the age of 18 and young women up to the age of 30.
Meaningful youth participation can happen when there is…
- A culture that supports youth participation;
- Opportunities for young people to participate;
- Principles in place to ensure the opportunities offered are meaningful.
The opportunities that we see happening most in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting are:
- Consultation – young people are asked for their input to inform decisions made by adults.
- Collaboration – young people and adults work together and make decisions side-by-side.
- Youth-Led – young people make decisions at all stages of a process, adults may support this, but it is driven by young people.
What does Meaningful Youth Participation look like?
Meaningful youth participation puts young people in the driving seat and equips them for the journey.
Useful Resources
📣Over the past few years to celebrate International Day of the Girl we have created resources to help you empower your Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to lead the change they want to see in the world.
🌱These activity packs can help you encourage youth participation, from tips on how to run a youth consultation to activities to help young people reflect on their opinions to be able to share them!
🫱🏽🫲🏽We encourage you to look at our Hints to plan your IDG 2024 celebrations page, as well as the activity packs below, to help plan an empowering celebration for International Day of the Girl.
