Project
Salvadoran youth building peace and resilience: Right to participatory citizenship and incidence in the municipalities of Jiquilisco and Tecoluca
About #SOYPARTE
The project worked on different levels of capacity development. At the individual level, to achieve understanding, commitment, and empowerment of young people; on the organizational side, to strengthen organizational processes that contribute to promoting communication, dialogue, incidence, negotiation, and the construction of projects for the benefit of the organizations; also, for the good of communities and the environment.
In the same way, we worked in the institutional sphere to influence public policies and put youth on the work agendas of local governments. In the community, we contribute to improve the conditions in their living spaces, both in relations and the culture of peace and in responsible work with the environment.
Before the project, the youth of Jiquilisco and Tecoluca not socialize with each other. They would never have thought of formulating projects together. SOY PARTE came to transform these dynamics and create coordinated work between the municipalities of both places.
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Results of the project
- Young empowered women and men, aware of their rights and duties. Also, leading processes of intergenerational dialogue and peace in their communities.
- Formal and informal youth organizations and groups strengthened their internal capacity for political advocacy, to work in a cohesive network for the territorialization of the global youth, peace, and security agenda.
- Youth (in vulnerable conditions) and youth organizations have been able to influence municipal public policies through mechanisms of participation and dialogue with local decision-makers.
- Local strategies to transform reproductive sociocultural patterns of violence and discrimination against women based on gender and developed masculinities.
