Programme Three: Adolescent Participation and Empowerment

Programme Three: Adolescent Participation and Empowerment

 

Project Three: Society for Adolescents

Project Objectives:

1. Ensure that the percentage of young girls and young boys in three governorates actively involved in participation structures increase from less than 10% to 25% by the end of 2007.
    
2. Ensure that 50% of disadvantaged and at-risk adolescents in three governorates involved in innovative home, school and community-based interventions for their development and participation increases from less than 10% to 50% by 2007.
    
3. Ensure that five Jordanian media institutions adopt and integrate positive images of adolescents (with a focus on girls), present programmes specifically directed towards targeting adolescents and their areas of interest, and involve adolescents in their programme preparation and dissemination by 2007.

Major Strategies:

1. Role pattern analysis of different stakeholder and duty bearers working with adolescents and youth.
2. Support to youth-led initiatives.
3. Advocacy with decision makers around successful youth-led models that can be replicated or adopted to go to scale.

Major Activities:

1. Promotion and facilitation of the formation of students councils, parent-teacher associations in schools and the formation of clubs and participatory structures in community-based centres.
2. Support to the children’s parliament and other youth-led initiatives
3. Support to youth-led projects initiated by adolescents and service providers related to key issues for adolescents.
4. Selected service delivery and provision of computers and Internet connections.
5. Development of criteria and mechanisms for the timely identification of at-risk children.
6. Training of key stakeholders and duty bearers on the identification of at-risk children.
7. Support to programmes that raise awareness against risky behaviour and provide protective and curative action to adolescents with risky behaviour.
8. Support to programmes that promote the positive image of adolescents.

Major Partners:

• Higher Council for Youth
• Ministries of Health, Education, Social Development and Awqaf and Islamic Affairs
• National Institute for Training
• Princess Basma Youth Resource Centre
• Directorate of Public Security
• National Council for Family Affairs
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations, Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
• Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU)

Indicators for verification of achievement:

• Percentage of young girls and young boys in three governorates actively involved in participation structures.
• Percentage of at-risk adolescents in three governorates involved in innovative home, school and community based interventions for their development and participation. (At risk to be clearly defined).
• Degree to which five Jordanian media institutions adopt and integrate positive images of adolescents (with a focus on girls).
• Percentage organisation working with adolescents, the percentage of programmes specifically targeting adolescents and their areas of interest, and involve adolescents in their programme preparation and dissemination.
• Number of participatory structures supported yearly and the number of adolescents reached.
• Percentage of recommendations made by the children’s parliament which are enacted or followed.