RESOURCES

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT KIT

Participatory methods for understanding youth ideas, experiences and needs.

One part of the kit explores what home means to young people.

The kit is designed to be used by young people or anyone working with them. Its purpose is to support discussion and reflection on young people’s experiences of house demolitions in the wider context of Palestinian occupation. Questions have been designed with young people to help build understanding and shared knowledge through visual and open prompts. The kit can be printed or digitally shared making the resource adaptable and highly suited for use by diverse stakeholders, including NGOs, youth groups and communities.

We have found the value of using the kits has been in opening up new questions and providing a safe space for young people to reflect on their own and each others’ experiences without judgement. We have used different versions of the kits in communities where a diversity of young people have been given a kit and asked to respond on their own and a community member discusses their responses with them. They’ve also been used by young people in small self-directed group discussions. Young people who have used the kits have highlighted how they very rarely have the opportunity to reflect on the broader context of demolitions and appreciate the dedicated time and openness the kit allows for this.

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One of the activities in the kit is about mapping positive and negative aspects of the local neighbourhood in the context of demolitions.