GaYA’s Youth Participation Toolbox

This toolkit is designed to help decision-makers develop new democratic methods for involving young people in local decision-making, and learn how to develop participative approaches among young people. It was created as part of the GaYA project, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG Alpine Space Programme. Project website: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/gaya/

Intergenerational traffic light

A tool to introduce the intergenerational theme and make the youth be able to express their opinions on intergenerational topica. They will have to give a score from 0 to 10 answering to questions, by walking through the room.

Definitions

A tool to create a dialogue between participants, and get a consensusby creating definitions of concepts regarding youth on NGOs, such as, volunteering or authentic participation.

Intergenerational Theater

A interactive tool in which participants can express themselves by being on the place of someone else and create innovative solutions and alternative dialogues regarding complex challenges that are common on the NGOs world.

Challenge Map

A tool in which participants can identify challenges that are affecting the NGOs world, and they can look for creative solutions together.

Parliament

A tool in which a decission-making process will be made by the participants. They will be able to actively vote for the porposes they made themselves regarding the challenges that affect the NGOs world.

Your Hiking Route to Youth Participation

This tool offers an overview of the different stages of young people's participation in local decision-making. It is mainly designed for the participation of young people at a political level and is aimed at local authorities, but it can be transposed to NGOs. This tool was created as part of the GaYA project, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG Alpine Space programme. Project website: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/gaya/

How to support Youth Commitment?

This tool is a practical guide with recommendations for adapting a structure and its practices to encourage young people to get involved. It was created by Coordination Sud as part of the "Place Aux Jeunes !" project.

For genuine youth participation in high-level events

Recommendations to enable young people to fully express their voice, contribute to debates and draw up recommendations as part of institutionalised dialogues with decision-makers. This tool was created by Coordination Sud as part of the "Place Aux Jeunes !" project.