▶Summary
Help local governments and NGOs to enhance the relevance of their activities for local groups of youth, by enhancing their readiness to co-create, through new methods, tools and platforms for more...
▶Objectives
Help local governments and NGOs to enhance the relevance of their activities for local groups of youth, by enhancing their readiness to co-create, through new methods, tools and platforms for more inclusive youth participation, piloting them with youth on local topics of joint concern. Provide guidelines for other (mid-size and smaller) municipalities and NGOs that face similar challenges but lack knowledge of co-creation to facilitate democratic changes and innovations and youth empowerment.
▶Activities
Knowledge augmentation on co-creation readiness (among involved organisations and groups of youth) Municipal readiness assessment through surveys and interviews Actively reaching out to and engaging target groups of youth through bespoke communication efforts. Local pilots of co-creation processes mediated through contextually new co-creation tools and an evaluation of their implementation. Multiplier events and training sessions where the compiled set of co-creation tools are disseminated
▶Impact
Partner Profiles on co-creation readiness. Proof of the impact of tested co-creation methodologies including evidence of local facilitative conditions and learnings from co-creation tools about what works with youth, including digital tools. A compiled set of methods and tools for co-creation with adjacent guidelines:readiness assessment, reaching out to and engaging youth; co-creation through participatory dialogues.Training materials and events to support co-creation readiness internationally.