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This youth guide is prepared by youth for youth who are interested in starting a youth-led organization. It is intended for youth between the ages of 16-29 who are relatively new to youth-led organization but have the desire to take a leadership role to make a positive contribution in their community. The book is intended to be introductory as it presumes no prior knowledge or experience in starting or leading a non-profit, non-government organization.
This guide presents basic knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to start a youth-led organization. It lays out the legal processes in registering the organization as well as basics skills in leading an organization, strategic planning, resolving conflict as well as sustaining the organization. It also lays out some of the challenges faced by youth-led organizations.
Special stress on “youth-led organization” is deliberately made here and later in the text to mark difference from youth organization. While youth organization in Nepal has come to be recognized as organization run by adults with youth as beneficiaries, youth-led organizations clearly refer to non-profit and non-government organizations that are fully led, managed, and coordinated by young people. Youth members, and staffs in youth led organizations all are under certain age limit and work on variety of issues from a youth perspective.
We have increasingly come to associate youth as a troubled period and often associate with social problems as gang violence, HIV/AID, drugs etc. While constantly dehumanizing youth, we often ignore youth’s positive contribution to the society as well as overlook the need to invest, mentor and give youth an opportunity to become leaders. National policies rarely incorporate youth or their perspective in decision making; moreover, the society views youth as “future” while undermining their role in the current time as well as the need to invest in them.
This guide recognizes youth as a part of the solution. It endorses the fact that young people have the best understanding of the challenges, strengths and opportunities that affect them. Youth led organizations give young people the opportunity to exercise their right to participate in the solution of the problems that plague our nation and society. In youth led organization, young people actively get involved in planning, implementation and evaluation of development activities, programs and policies that affect their lives . Moreover, when young people are meaningfully included in the design, implementation and evaluation of youth-related programs, policies and services, these initiatives can be more effective and ultimately more sustainable .
With the intention of encouraging young people to take leadership role and actively participate in the solutions to the challenges that affect their lives, the guide is mainly written based on the experience of youth in leading Youth Initiative (YI) through eight successful years in youth advocacy, movement and development. Youth Initiative started in 2001 with the mission to inform, empower and involve youth in their community. At that time, Youth Initiative was one of the few, if not the only, youth organization that was truly youth-led. With youth in the leadership role: planning programs, developing their skills, sharing their knowledge with other youth and voicing their concerns, Youth Initiative was in the forefront of the youth movement that demanded that youth voices and perspective should be incorporated in the national plans.
In the last eight years, Youth Initiative (YI) has shared what it had, at the same time, tremendously benefited from other organization and individuals, who worked with us, gave us their time, opportunities to learn, and shared resources to support us in our youth movement. This book is thus also an outcome of the tremendous contribution and support from those individuals and organizations we were fortunate to work with. The book is also a product of knowledge shared via youth conferences, trainings and workshop and by numerous international and national youth organizations. The book is also informed by numerous resources and literature on youth development, organizing, and management.
The guide is a gift from the youth of Youth Initiative to other youth in the country who we believe will take this knowledge and in their own ways, establish the indispensable role of youth in the national planning and national building and contribute to the development of youth as well as the society that they are an integral part of.
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A a book based on the research/study on youth in politics in Nepal. The distance and relation between youth and politics in Nepal has been discussed in number of ways throughout the book. Three different sections in book are focused on different aspects of Nepali youth,
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This youth guide is prepared by youth for youth who are interested in starting a youth-led organization. It is intended for youth between the ages of 16-29 who are relatively new to youth-led organization but have the desire to take a leadership role to make a positive contribution in their community.
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