scholarly journals THE ROLE OF YOUTH PARTICIPATION ON GOOD GOVERNANCE AT TWO SELECTED YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS IN MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ali Abdi Sheikhdon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Education Management

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of youth participation on good governance of two selected youth organizations in Mogadishu, Somalia.The objectives of the study are to determine the role of youth participation in good governance, to find out capacity building as catalyst for good governance and how the youth organization can spur youth leadership in the country To achieve the objectives of this study, data will be collected from 82employees of youth organizations. A sample size of 68 respondents was selected using Slog van’s formula. The study will use primary data. Data collection methods use included use of questionnaires. The selection sample technique will be purposive or judgmental approach. Data will analyze using SPSS version 16 for productions of tables, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. E.g. means, standard deviation, frequencies. Inferential statistics such as Regression Analysis were used for further analysis. Findings: The study has three objectives which are: To determine the effect of capacity building in good governance at two selected organizations, in Mogadishu, Somalia. To find out the effect of political participation in good governance t at two selected organizations, in Mogadishu, Somalia, To establish the effect of youth leadership in good governance at two selected organizations, in Mogadishu, Somalia. After analyzing the data, the study found that there is positive relationship among all variables as following: R is the correlation coefficient which shows the relationship between the study variables. From the findings shown in the table above there was a strongly positive relationship between the study variables as shown by 0.815. Overall, Political participation had the greatest effect on the good governance of youth organizations in Mogadishu, followed by Youth leadership and capacity building. All of the variables were found to be significantly affect good governance of youth organizations because they less than (p<0.05).Recommendation: organizations should implement good strategies for support management system of administrative reform on education management. organization should promote their beneficiaries to better satisfy as to achieve to education management. Promote the concept of young people as assets and work towards the elimination of negative stereotypes of youth. Promote the full and effective participation of young people at local, national, regional and international levels, with particular attention to marginalized youth. Youth participation can also be improved through a number of approaches, such as education and capacity building. KEYWORDS: Youth Parturition, Capacity Building, Political Participation, Youth Leadership & Good governance.

Children and Young People’s Right to Participate: National and Local Youth Councils in Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Forde ◽  
Shirley Martin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Societal Impacts ◽  
The Republic

This article explores the impacts of participation in local and national child and youth councils in the Republic of Ireland. It is based on an original research study for which 300 young people were asked about their experience of participating in youth councils. The research indicates that while youth councils have succeeded in offering children and young people opportunities to acquire skills and to influence decision-making at the local level, the institutional and societal impacts of their participation are less apparent. The research provides evidence that youth participation impacts positively on young people’s active citizenship and on-going engagement with democratic institutions after their participatory experiences have ended. It also indicates a growing awareness and recognition of the role of children and young people in the community. The article concludes that participatory structures such as youth councils should be underpinned by statutory guidelines and legislation so that children and young people’s participation is meaningful and gains from their participation are not lost.

Online youth political engagement and bureaucratization: The Australian Youth Forum

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-781
Author(s):  
Prashanth Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Depth Interviews

Through in-depth interviews with all 10 youth representatives who worked in the Australian Youth Forum (AYF), Australia’s first online government youth forum, this article explains how online engagement was experienced and understood by those who managed its day-to-day operation. While the AYF was decommissioned in 2014, it was the first, and, till date, only online federal initiative that invited young people to run a government-funded youth public forum. Despite its relatively short existence, the AYF provokes questions about the influence of historically entrenched political values on online youth political participation and policy. Findings from this article have uncovered a series of challenges faced by youth in adjusting to government efforts to regulate consultation within the AYF. Building on Collin’s (2015, Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society: Addressing the Democratic Disconnect. London: Palgrave Macmillan.) observation of a ‘democratic disconnect’ in Australian youth policy, an incompatibility between government expectations of youth political involvement and how young people value participation, this article suggests that the AYF provided key insights into the centralized bureaucratic arrangements that have historically defined Australian youth participation and how they influence youth participatory experiences in online government initiatives.

scholarly journals Strengthening Pancasila Characters Through The Role Of Mosque Youth Organizations: A Mixed Method Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Palupi Lindiasari Samputra ◽  
Muhammad Akbar Satrio
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Leadership Camp ◽  
Religious Nature ◽  
Index Calculation

The human character of Pancasila which is based on faith in God. This research aims to identify the nationalist character produced through the Leadership Camp program, measure the level of nationalism character education, and analyze the strategies carried out by the mosque youth organizations at the Al Azhar Youth Leadership Institute in strengthening the nationalist character of youth. The quantitative method with the type of survey to 100 respondents uses EFA and the nationalism character education index. According to students in the Leadership Training, the nationalist leadership they get is integrity, cooperation, character, nationalism, devotion to worship, and independence. Religious nature consists of morals and obedience to worship. The nationalist Character Education index calculation is 92.51%, which means that the program classifies as a high portion of the nationalism character education learning. The best strategy that AYLI can choose is consistency with a program that is already running well.

scholarly journals YOUTH AS A LEADING POWER OF UZBEKISTAN

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
MUKHTOR NAZIROV
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Youth Issue

The article examines the features of effective interaction between government agencies, NGOs, and other civil institutions on youth issues. State youth policy in Uzbekistan considers revealing the potential of young people and promoting their effective socialization. The article shows the importance of modern education and upbringing, social support of young people in Uzbekistan. The political activity of youth is an indicator of the processes taking place in modern society. The article considers youth policy, the UN international legal documents regulating the youth sphere. The urgency of the youth issue is growing in connection with the deepening of globalization. The solutions to the problems and challenges are impossible without the active participation of young people. Therefore, this issue was always one of the priority tasks of the international community and the UN. Since the middle of the 20th century, the youth issue has been the object of the policy of more than 130 countries in the world. The article examines the policy in the youth sphere of foreign countries and Uzbekistan. And the article notes general aspects and features. In the way the state organizes youth policy, two models stand out – the European and Anglo-Saxon. The European model implies the leading role of the state in the feld of youth policy. The Anglo-Saxon model characterizes an approach to exclusive support volunteer activities and youth organizations. But government agencies have not to take systematic participation in the implementation of youth policy. The article comprehensively surveys the new course of Uzbekistan to increase the role of youth in socio-political life. In this regard, it emphasizes comprehensive support of youth initiatives, both from the state and youth organizations. Open dialogue with youth has become a strategic direction at a new stage of development of Uzbekistan. This strategy gives a key place to increasing the public activity of young people. The process of forming a modern, democratic country involved youth.

scholarly journals Young people's attitudes towards their health and blood donation

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.B. Krushelnitskaya ◽  
T.Y. Marinova ◽  
A.V. Milekhin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
People’S Attitudes

The article presents the results of theoretical analysis of social and psychological problems of the donation, as well as researches of correlations between youth attitude towards their health and blood donation. The most active and safe donors are typically young volunteers with altruistic attitudes. Therefore, along with the study of altruism as the motive of the donation, an important aspect of the problem is the attitude of young people towards their health. 115 people were involved in an empirical study (39 men and 76 women) aged between 20 and 33 years, with and without experience of blood donation. We analyzed the young people's ideas about the personal qualities of the donor and donation motives. It has been shown that the more young people tend to lead a healthy lifestyle, the more positive their ideas are about the motives and personal qualities of the donor. There is a positive relationship between the youth attitude towards blood donation and its own involvement in donor movement. The more young people are involved in the donation practice, the more positive their evaluation of the motivations and personality traits of donors is. Also a positive relationship between the involvement of young people in the practice of donation and commitment to a healthy lifestyle was found. The study results suggest that the lack of awareness in donation issues is a significant obstacle for the expansion of youth participation in the donor movement.

scholarly journals Youth-led climate strikes: fresh opportunities and enduring challenges for youth research - commentary to Bowman

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Political Agent

In this commentary I respond to Benjamin Bowman’s Fennia paper by extending upon his central thesis that argues that the prevailing methodological tools and framings used to research youth political participation perpetuate unhelpful and inadequate dichotomies about youth. Advancing upon this, I suggest that the youth climate strikes in 2019 highlight three prevalent discourses in youth research relating to climate change: (i) the tendency to view youth as isolated individuals, neglecting the role of adults and communities; (ii) the tendency to focus on individual behavioural change rather than recognise the need for systemic and societal responses to climate change, and (iii) the tendency to overlook structural characteristics of youth such as race, gender and social class. The resulting discourses of youth autonomy, individualism and homogeneity lead to a distorted picture of young activists and perpetuate harmful narratives which lead to stigma, despair and cynicism. The paper concludes by advocating for greater care in the research methodologies and critical frameworks we use to report on youth at public events, such as climate strikes, in order to allow for the complexity of the young political agent, the ambiguity of some of their actions and for opportunities that enable young people themselves to articulate their own participation.

scholarly journals The Role of Geography in Shaping Governance Performance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Baluga ◽  
Bruno Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Feedback Mechanisms ◽  
Resource Flows ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Arab Spring

This paper demonstrates that good governance in one country can influence governance improvements in neighboring countries and highlights that regional political and economic cooperation can benefit institutional development across borders. Governance has a spatial dimension due to spillovers and resource flows across juridical boundaries. This paper finds that governance in a given country—manifested most clearly through voice and accountability—exhibits a positive relationship with those in neighboring countries. Feedback mechanisms are traced in that any change in the income level of a country can affect its governance performance and also impact the governance scores of neighboring countries. This phenomenon is observed in the “Arab Spring,” “Me Too,” and “Black Lives Matter” cross-border movements

scholarly journals The Role of Agents of Political Socialization in the Use of Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 48-74
Author(s):  
Savas TOKSOZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This study aims to reveal the role of the agents of political socialization in the use of social media as a tool for receiving political news and political participation. The research findings suggest that there is a positive relationship between the use of social media as a tool for receiving political news and the agents of political socialization, namely, the family, friend groups, school, and traditional media. Similarly, a statistically significant relationship has been found between the use of social media as a tool for political participation and family, friend groups, school, and traditional media.

Challenges of Public Participation: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Safiah Suhaimi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
The Public

The participation plays an important role among other people. When social participation is used today, a public participation will be rapid. The problem has happened when less participation of young people involved on youth associations. The youth has believed that they have still lacked the partcipation has needed for an effective participation and expressed little confidence in their involvement. This paper has analysed the challenges of public participation among youth associations. The methods that used a qualitative study by an interview for five youth associations in Kedah. Drawing on the final findings, two challenges which are: (i) financial and (ii) a less youth participation. Furthermore, the findings are expected to contribute to strengthening the youth associations to achieve good governance in the public participation.

Civil Society and the Rise of Unconventional Modes of Youth Participation in the MENA

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Sika
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Arab Uprisings

Why are there variances in young people’s civic and political participation in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, and what are the implications of these types of participatory modes on authoritarian rule in the region? Based on quantitative and qualitative fieldwork from five countries in the Middle East – Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon – this paper demonstrates that young people in the region are increasingly drawn to independent and unconventional forms of participation to varying degrees, depending on each country’s authoritarian structure and institutional arrangements. Though the rise of unconventional participation is a manifestation of the presence of a vibrant Arab street, these participatory modes lead to civil society’s weakness and fragmentation. This adds to the volatility of new civic and political actors and provides the regimes with more authoritarian strategies for resilience.

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