Youth participation

Youth participation is the participation, so active involvement by youth and young people in matters that would otherwise only be settled by adults, such as public administration. If upper age limit is usually held 20-25 years.

Contents

 * 1 Definition
 * 2 Youth or Youth Council
 * 3 Project-based participation
 * 4 Municipal policy
 * 5 Other forms
 * 6 Nuts
 * 7 External links

Definition
Youth participation means actively involving children and young people in decisions and shaping society, municipal, provincial or national policy or any institution whatsoever. It involves taking seriously teens. It consists of different forms, which can complement each other: structural, project, policy and executive. RA Hart has developed a so-called "Participation Ladder", which describe the different phases. Since then, more ladders, there have been developed.

Youth or youth council [ edit ]
The most common form of youth is the youth or youth council . In many municipalities, there is such a council. Examples include the Youth Council of the Municipality of Borsele and those of Veenendaal . SJN creates collaboration and support include a national youth day. Besides the local youth and youth councils, there are a number of provincial youth councils and a National Youth Council . The Netherlands also hasyouth representatives in UN bodies. A youth council will be open from the end of primary school age in terms of continuing to high school and undergraduate years thereafter. Most councils are similar in structure to the city council, although usually without parties. Organized political youth will also be in the form of youth parties, such as RED , CROSS , Young Democrats, the Young Socialists in the Labour Party and the Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy , self-related organizations of a national political party.

Project-based participation [ edit ]

 * The Dutch Children is a form of participation which is actually more like a poll.
 * The children's agency is a proven example of a project, executive form of participation.
 * MENES is a new initiative of the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, where young people themselves to move, and both can develop their own ideas are as involved in municipal policy in a fun and accessible way.
 * The NJR organizes the national youth debate, to which young people are selected through provincial preliminaries. The young people put questions to the minister (s) that have to do with youth.
 * Raaz is the youth platform of Zaandam. Raaz shows what young people have to say, supports initiatives and is a sounding board for plans and policies of the municipality of Zaanstad.
 * WhoZnext is an organization that encourages young people to set up a sporting activity.
 * Popular among municipalities is also the form in which groups of children - as parties - are able to support a particular project. The best project will win the reserved budget, which makes it possible to realize this project.

Municipal policy [ edit ]
A youth or youth council lately is usually set as part of municipal policy. Initially there were youth councils on the initiative of young people or youth. The advantage of by the city council set is that these youth or youth council is also recognized as an advisory body. To support the youth are also used by a youth panel. A more passive, but informative form is a youth monitor: a survey among young people. Several organizations support youth in itself do research. It uses the "peers", trained young people who accompany other young people. Examples ProDemos, House for democracy and rule of law and participatory youth research ofAlexander Foundation .

Other forms [ edit ]
First, there are youth organizations such as LAX and JMA . Youth or youth is further possible in school or in an institution, such as JPC de Sprengen . Famous is the Republic of the Children, founded by Janusz Korczak . In education we talk about participatory educate [1] : This form is between the democratic parenting style and the authoritarian or autocratic .