Application Deadline: December 9th 2018
UNESCO MGIEP and ActionAid Arab Regional Initiative will be organizing the
8th edition of the Talking Across Generations on Education as the main launch event. Along the vision of mobilizing youth voices for inclusion in the highest levels of policymaking processes, the TAGe will bring together, on an equal platform, 9 distinguished Arab youth and 3 senior decision makers to brood together and interrogate each other on the theme: Arab Youth: A Force for Good. Specifically, they will deliberate and share actionable ideas on education, youth civic engagement and prevention of violent extremism.
From this call, UNESCO MGIEP and ActionAid Arab Region will select 25 youth for the 3-day #YouthWagingPeace Young Peacebuilders’ Workshop, 11-14 December, Amman Jordan. 15 of the 25 selected applicants will be from Jordan and 10 from the Middle East and Northern African countries. From this 25, nine youth will be selected to participate in the TAGe MENA event on the Official Launch of the Arabic Version of #YouthWagingPeace – Action Guidelines for PVEE on 10 December 2018. Each selected applicant might have the opportunity to be one of the 9 TAGe youth as well as part of the 3-day workshop.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
• Age: 18-35
• Must participate in the ongoing online discussion and submit an Act of Kindness for either SDG Goal 4/4.7 or 16
• Must be from the Middle East and North Africa Region
• Area of expertise: Prevention of Violent Extremism through education; conflict resolution, youth engagement, education policy, youth policy, inter-cultural dialogue, gender-based violence/violent extremism, broad educator-peace-builder expertise. Specifically, the prevention of violent extremism
• Active – on the ground: must be currently involved in the ‘area of expertise’ listed above. The applicant must be currently working with communities and stakeholders on the ground.
• Influential: Highly influential and able to mobilize grassroots youth and community stakeholders in hundreds or thousands
• Good communication as well as facilitation skills (will have to go and train others!)
• Good social and social media skills
• Multilingual (Knowledge of Arabic, English and French)
BENEFITS FOR ACCEPTED APPLICATIONS:
• Accepted applicants will get to learn new skills (critical inquiry skills, socio-emotional competencies, facilitation, stakeholder and resource mobilization skills etc.) as well as meet and work together (during the workshop as well as implementation of follow-on activities that will emanate from the workshop) with fellow youth from the region as well as the world on prevention of violent extremism.
• UNESCO MGIEP and ActionAid Arab Regional Initiative will help in implementing as well as promoting the participant’s post-event follow-on activities
• Stellar applications and trainees might become #YouthWagingPeace trainers who might be sent to train others regionally/globally
• UNESCO MGIEP TAGe team will support the participant in organizing their own (independently organized) TAGe event
• Post events project (financial and technical) support to ensure that the output is acted upon
• Successful applications will become part of the UNESCO MGIEP and ActionAid Arab Region Collective of youth working on peace and sustainability.
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