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Module 9: Youth Leaders

The Youth Leaders module provides youth-led and youth-serving advocacy and accountability organizations a curriculum that meaningfully engages youth to develop their policy communication knowledge and skills. Youth can be powerful agents of change when armed with effective communication tools and strategies. This module prepares youth to engage in policy communication as they learn about how their actions can result in strong policy creation and implementation on a range of issues. The module increases the policy communication knowledge and skills of youth leaders, equipping them with tools to improve their advocacy effectiveness and ability to engage with policymakers.

At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to:

  1. Recognize that youth leaders, empowered with data and evidence, can inform policy.
  2. Identify entry points for youth-led policy communication.
  3. Develop a youth-led, evidence-informed advocacy strategy.
  4. Create and manage effective coalitions for policy change.
  5. Use a variety of communication platforms, from print to oral to social media, to engage effectively with decisionmakers.

In addition to the curriculum components listed on this page, we encourage youth-serving and youth-led advocacy and accountability organizations to reference the following materials: 

  • A How-to Guide for Trainers
  • Simple Do’s and Don’ts of Engaging with Youth Advocates
  • Sample Curriculum: Youth Leaders Policy Communication

Download All Materials (ZIP, 86 MB)
Download the French Translation (ZIP, 109 MB)


Acknowledgments
PRB would like to acknowledge and thank Dezio Macheso and Imali Ngusale, two youth advocates who each authored sections of Module 9, as well as Norhan Bader of the International Youth Alliance on Family Planning, who provided a comprehensive and thoughtful review of the module’s content. Additional thanks go to White Ribbon Alliance, Kenya and the Health Policy Plus project, Malawi for helping field-test sections of this curriculum and providing feedback on the content.

Components

Youth Changing the World (YL1L)

Time: 45 min.

The presentation reviews how youth leaders have impacted policy change in countries around the world, helping participants to better understand how effective and meaningful youth involvement can result in stronger policy creation and implementation on a range of issues.

Components

Presentation

Facilitator Guide

Youth Changing the World Case Study (YL2E)

Time: 40 min.

Participants engage in an exercise using the Bye Bye Plastic Bags case study about two sisters who have been working since 2013 to ban plastic bags in Bali, Indonesia. Participants form small groups and complete a worksheet to identify policy audiences, advocacy tactics, and use of data for advocacy.

Components

Worksheet

Facilitator Guide

Required Preparation

BBPB Frequently Asked Questions for Interviewers

BBPB Timeline of Significant Events

Entry Points for Youth-Led Policy Communication (YL3L)

Time: 40 min.

This session describes how youth advocates can assess the policy environment and look for spaces to engage. By learning how to identify entry points for youth engagement, youth leaders will be better prepared to participate in effective policy communication.

Components

Presentation

Facilitator Guide

How to Be an Effective Youth Leader (YL4L)

Time: 40 min.

This session describes how young people can be effective leaders. By outlining strategies for youth to improve their effectiveness, this session contributes to the module’s learning objective to teach participants how to use data and evidence to inform policy.

Components

Presentation

Facilitator Guide

Qualities of an Effective Youth Leader (YL5E)

Time: 20 min.

This exercise offers participants a chance to think through different leadership qualities and share their own ideas about what makes a youth leader effective.

Components

Worksheet

Facilitator Guide

Evidence-Informed Advocacy (YL6L)

Time: 45 min.

Youth leaders are introduced to how to develop an evidence-informed advocacy plan with goals, objectives, and actions. Throughout, the presentation content emphasizes using evidence as the basis for effective advocacy.

Components

Presentation

Facilitator Guide

Evidence-Informed Advocacy Exercise (YL7E)

Time: 45 min.

This exercise contributes to the module’s learning objectives by providing an opportunity for participants to learn how to generate evidence-based advocacy actions in response to a given policy problem.

Components

Worksheet

Facilitator Guide

Coalition Building (YL8L)

Time: 1 hr.

Participants learn how to create and maintain a coalition, an important strategy for youth-led policy communication and an effective way to motivate others.

Components

Presentation

Facilitator Guide

Coalition Building Case Study (YL9E)

Time: 30 min.

Building on their understanding of coalition building, this case study and exercise encourage participants to identify strengths and challenges experienced by a youth-led coalition in Malawi.

Components

Case Study

Worksheet

Facilitator Guide

Reaching Consensus Exercise (YL10E)

Time: 1 hr.

This whole-group exercise contributes to the module’s learning objectives by guiding participants in a roleplay, allowing them to practice how decisionmaking can take place within a coalition.

Components

Roleplay Instructions

Roleplay Assignments

Facilitator Guide

Supplemental Activities

Learning From “Failures” For Better Advocacy (YLS4D)

Time: 1 hr.

This panel presentation with guest speakers invites youth presenters to share with participants real-life stories about their work communicating with decisionmakers.

Components

Facilitator Guide

Primary Sidebar

  • Policy Communication Toolkit

    • Using the Toolkit

    • Module 1: From Research to Policy
    • Module 2: Strategic Communication
    • Module 3: Writing for Policy Audiences
    • Module 4: Creating Policy Presentations
    • Module 5: Negotiations & Accountability
    • Module 6: Communicating Research Through Social Media
    • Module 7: Data Visualization
    • Module 8: Working With the Media
    • Module 9: Youth Leaders

    • Boîte à Outils de Communication Politique en Français

    • Herramientas para la Comunicación de Políticas, edición en español

    • Acknowledgments

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