Project

Young Builders of a New Citizenship In Chad

Grantee: Action des Partenaires pour l'Appui au Développement

The project aimed to empower young people so that their voices could be heard by public authorities. The project focused on strengthening youth capacity, youth initiatives and dialogue between youth organizations and authorities as partners in public policy. It was a continuation of a programme which the grantee had been conducting since 2005 through its youth network in 12 municipalities across the country.
The project was based on the finding that participation of young Chadians in the public sphere was very low and that there was a need to increase their capacity for action. The project was relevant, since there is no real youth strategy in the country and youth represent 70 per cent of the population but lack access to democratic space and have a low quality of education.

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Focusing on specific topics of concern and relevance to youth would have helped make the youth associations more effective and led to more targeted actions in the field of public policy.

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Although more than eight hundred young people from Chad were informed about their rights and duties, the project did not lead to any changes in the youth organizations’ perception of how the voice of young people could be heard. Most of the young interviewees declared that there was no additional dialogue with authorities after the project’s termination.

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Indicators should have been defined as part of a quality control system framework linked to monitoring of activities so that the extent to which there was youth ownership of the platforms and progress being made could be measured.

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The project design would have benefited from a better use of lessons learned from the grantee’s previous projects and its youth association network. This would have helped identify the challenges faced by young people and to develop a proper national action plan and youth platforms that were relevant.

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The establishment of youth platforms was not linked to any particular task or mission for youth action; and the elaboration of a national plan was not linked to priorities for action nor were there any financial resources for implementation. The survey which was supposed to enhance the skills of the young people was not published and did not capture the information needed for youth advocacy towards public authorities.

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The project outcomes were ambitious especially given the outputs that were delivered to achieve them. The authorities in Chad were not adequately informed or involved during the project. The grantee assumed that putting youth organizations together and formulating a youth plan and platforms would be sufficient to create autonomous youth initiatives and to forge dialog with authorities.

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The exchange of experiences between young Muslim and Christian organizations was a good attempt to overcome historical social divisions that still exist in society.

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