The Ethiopian government has a package of encouraging youths to participate in small and micro agricultural enterprises by giving legal certificate for youths who were organized in-group to start the ...business by providing financial supports in terms of credit. However, youths are less willing to participate in agricultural enterprises. Even after being organized into groups and having supports from government, some of them were not starting the business and some were interrupting the business they have been organized. Due to these, huge amount of money from the government, which was allocated for this purpose, is not being used as expected. Therefore, this study was intended to assess factors affecting rural and peri-urban youth participation in agricultural enterprises in Bena-Tsemay and Debubi Ari woreda of south omo zone. Two-stage sampling technique was used to select 155 sample households. Logit model was used to analyze determinants of youth's participation in agricultural enterprises. The result of this study indicated that 32.3% respondents were participated and 67.7% were not participated in enterprises. Econometric results revealed that variables such as farm size, institutional capacity building, and weather road significantly affected youths’ participation in agricultural enterprises at 1% and 5% significance level. The study recommends that the provision of land for the agricultural enterprises should consider the size/type of the enterprises that youth are willingness to participate. The government should specify the institution/sector to enterprise type and consideration of all-weather roads for each enterprise type during organizing youth in different agricultural enterprises is important.
Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 12(1): 84-93, June 2022
This paper presents the concept, a prototype and the initial test of a web app that supports the political participation of young people in rural areas in Germany. Rural adolescents and young adults ...are often not adequately represented in the political dialogue. With the proposed web app, the authors want to address this issue and create new forms of participation. Within this paper, the requirements engineering and design process in cooperation with the target group is described. Based upon the users' input from requirements engineering workshops and a design thinking workshop, a user interface of the planned application was designed and optimized. Subsequently, a first version of the web app was developed and tested in an event with young people. Our research shows that requirements of young people in rural areas for the app deviate from those of professional youth care organizations, thus creating challenges for the rollout of the proposed application.
What is youth participation? Checkoway, Barry
Children and youth services review,
02/2011, Volume:
33, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Youth participation strengthens personal and social development, provides expertise for children and youth programs and services, and promotes a more democratic society, but questions arise about its ...most fundamental phenomena. Lacking agreement on its basic content, however, youth participation as a field of practice and subject of study will be limited. This paper examines what we know about youth participation, general propositions which are substantiated by research or practice, and unanswered questions or unresolved issues which remain for future work. It draws upon various academic disciplines and professional fields, in order to contribute to knowledge development and advance the field.
► Youth participation contributes to social development, program decisions, and democratic society. ► We examine general propositions substantiated by research or practice, and unanswered questions remaining for future work. ► Literature is reviewed from various academic disciplines and professional fields.
Civic Action Lichterman, Paul; Eliasoph, Nina
The American journal of sociology,
11/2014, Volume:
120, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Commonly, researchers have looked for civic life in a distinct sector in which they assume that voluntary associations will cultivate special skills and virtues. Gathering together many challenges to ...this approach, and using ethnographic cases of housing advocacy and youth civic engagement projects, the authors reconceptualize 'the civic' as civic action and show how patterned scene styles shape it. Doing so reveals patterns of action in complex organizations that may span institutional sectors. The authors show how researchers can locate scene styles, and with an extensive literature review, they portray several common styles and suggest that different civic styles often lead to different outcomes. Adapted from the source document.
The Parliament of Jamaica marked Commonwealth Day 2023 and the Commonwealth Year of Youth with the youth forum which was opened by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Marisa ...Dalrymple-Philibert, MP. Youth participants from local schools heard from organizations who presented on various issues concerning youth engagement including health and wellness; safety and security; financial knowledge; career development; and youth expression. The forum was also supported by the South African, UK and Nigerian High Commissions in Jamaica and featured exhibitions from public and private sector entities.
The health, fitness and other advantages of youth sports participation are well recognised. However, there are considerable challenges for all stakeholders involved-especially youth athletes-in ...trying to maintain inclusive, sustainable and enjoyable participation and success for all levels of individual athletic achievement. In an effort to advance a more unified, evidence-informed approach to youth athlete development, the IOC critically evaluated the current state of science and practice of youth athlete development and presented recommendations for developing healthy, resilient and capable youth athletes, while providing opportunities for all levels of sport participation and success. The IOC further challenges all youth and other sport governing bodies to embrace and implement these recommended guiding principles.
Zusammenfassung Die Umsetzung von Partizipationsmöglichkeiten für Kinder- und Jugendliche im außerschulischen Bildungsbereich hängt in relevantem Maße von den Bestrebungen erwachsener Akteur:innen ...ab. Ausgehend von dieser Annahme beschäftigen wir uns im vorliegenden Beitrag mit der Frage, welche Partizipationsverständnisse von Bildungsakteur:innen vertreten werden. Zu diesem Zwecke führten wir 18 Interviews mit Akteur:innen aus insgesamt vier Kommunen. Sie alle gehörten zum Zeitpunkt der Erhebung kommunalen Netzwerken an, deren Ziel der Auf- und Ausbau kultureller Bildungsangebote für Kinder und Jugendliche ist. Der theoretische Rahmen des Beitrags speist sich aus der Auseinandersetzung mit einem Partizipationsmodell, das sich mit der Rolle Erwachsener im Partizipationsprozess junger Menschen und den damit verbundenen Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Formen der Beteiligung beschäftigt. Die Auswertung der Interviews folgte einer strukturierenden qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse. Daran anknüpfend identifizierten wir drei Typen von Akteur:innen, die wir Idealist:in, Pragmatiker:in und Skeptiker:in nennen. Diese stellen wir im Ergebnisteil unseres Beitrags vor. Abschließend diskutieren wir die Ergebnisse unserer Untersuchung hinsichtlich der Erkenntnisse sowie in Bezug auf den aktuellen Forschungsstand, den theoretischen Rahmen der Untersuchung und die Wahl der Methode.
Abstract The implementation of participation opportunities for children and young people in out-of-school education depends to a relevant extent on the efforts of adult actors. Based on this assumption, this article deals with the question of which understandings of participation are held by education actors. For this purpose, we conducted 18 interviews with actors from a total of four municipalities. At the time of the survey, they all belonged to municipal networks whose goal is to establish and expand cultural education opportunities for children and young people. The theoretical framework of the article is based on the discussion of a participation model that deals with the role of adults in the participation process of young people and the associated effects of different forms of participation. The evaluation of the interviews followed a structuring qualitative content analysis. Following this, we identified three types of actors, which we call idealists, pragmatists and sceptics. We present these in the results section of our paper. Finally, we discuss the results of our study with regard to the findings and the current state of research, the theoretical framework of the study and the choice of method.
The Fridays for Future (FFF) movement is a major climate movement on a global scale, calling for systemic change and demanding politicians act on their responsibilities. In this paper, we present and ...analyze original findings from a case study on the FFF movement in Finland, at a watershed moment for young climate activism. We explore the representations of young people’s environmental citizenship within the framings of the FFF movement, using an environ-mental citizenship framework analysis of the Finnish news media and Twitter discussions. We identified three frames within the media debate on the school strikes: the sustainable lifestyle frame, which focuses on the individual aspects of environmental citizenship, the active youth frame, which focuses on justifications of youth participation in politics, and the school attendance frame, which is concerned about the young people’s strike action. Our results explore the many aspects of environmental citizenship that young people express in the FFF movement. We reflect on the dominance of adult voices in the framing of this historic movement of young people for action on climate change. Our analysis contributes to a step change in the study of this important global movement, which is shaping the emergence of young people as active citizens in Finland and around the world. We argue that the FFF movement is shaping young people’s perceptions of active citizenship, and we advocate a youth-centred focus on the collective action and justice demands of young people.
Objective
(1) To give adolescents and youth a voice and listen to the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in their lives; (2) to identify their coping strategies; (3) present lessons ...learned to be better prepared for future pandemics.
Methods
Six hundred and seventeen participants from 16 to 24 years old (M = 19.2 years; F = 19.1 years) answered the online questionnaire during the pandemic lockdown. Sociodemographic data were analyzed with SPSS version 26 and qualitative data with MAXQDA 2020. Engel's Biopsychosocial model supported the analysis and data presentation.
Results
in terms of impacts, stands out: biological—headaches and muscle pain; psychological—more time to perform pleasant and personal development activities, but more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and loneliness, longer screen time, and more substance use; social—increase of family conflicts and disagreements, loss of important life moments, contacts, and social skills, but it allows a greater selection of friendships. Regarding coping strategies, the importance of facing these times with a positive perspective, carrying out pleasurable activities, keeping in touch with family and friends, and establishing routines are emphasized. As lessons for future pandemics, the importance of respecting the norms of the Directorate‐General for Health, the need for the National Health System to be prepared, as well as teachers and students for online learning, and studying the possibility of establishing routines with the support of television.
Conclusions
This study illustrates adolescents and young people's perception of the impacts of the pandemic upon them, as well as their competence to participate in the issues that directly affect them. Priorities to mitigate the impact of future pandemics are presented.
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