Young people in Mongolia are making a positive change in their communities
Youth-led Initiatives
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UNICEF is supporting adolescents and young people to advocate for social change through providing capacity building and funding for youth-led projects.
Youth Advocacy Guide(YAG), the Champion trainers help young people to advocate for change and also develop new ideas and suggestions for new project. In total of 20 ideas and projects were developed by young people in six provinces.
From the start of the UNICEF Youth led initiatives, in November 2023, more than 200 young people across the country have taken part in Youth Advocacy Trainings, facilitated by Youth Champion trainers.
Through these training, young people have learned valuable tips and advice to start advocating for change in their community. It helps them to understand the process of advocacy, develop a strategy for their projects, and help bring change through diverse actions. With the inspiration and useful knowledge learned, participants of these training sessions submitted their project proposals to UNICEF and six activities were selected to be further supported.
Here are the youth-led initiatives that are making a change in their communities.
- Don't Throw Cigarette Butts (Waste/Darkhan province) - the project, implemented by Darkhan province Children's Council, is raising awareness about waste issues, specifically cigarette butts, through capacity building of youth, social media campaigns, and trash pick-up challenges in Darkhan.
- Tmull (Education/Ulaanbaatar) - Tmull.mn website aims to make educational resources and information free and accessible to every young person regardless of their background and language barriers. Through social media and the website, as well as through in-person information sessions in secondary schools in the outskirts of the city, the Sukhbaatar district Children's Council hope to share information related to education and volunteer opportunities to more than 500 youth in person and 250,000 virtually. The team officially launched their website on June 23 with more than 100 youth participating in the event.
- STAR trainers (Skills/Dundgovi province) - a high school team from the Dundgovi province Children's Council is supporting other high schoolers to secure internships at local organizations in order to help them gain new skills and real-life experience. Through this initiative they are connecting 10 youth with 10 local organizations in their province for a 10 day summer internship.
- Proper nutrition is the root of life (Nutrition/Khovd province) - Khovd province Must’ soum students who are members of the Khovd province Children's Council aim to improve local nutrition practices through training students and adults in their town on proper nutrition. They will also engage their province youth on social media by organizing a Reels-making contest on healthy nutrition.
- Axis (Environment/Bulgan province) - youth from the Scout Association of Mongolia are spreading information about proper planting of trees on social media and engaging Bulgan province youth in tree planting activities in collaboration with Scouts from Japan.
- Period UB (Menstrual health/Ulaanbaatar) - members of the UN Youth Advisory Panel are utilizing social media to advocate for more access to menstrual health supplies. They will also reach out to schools in the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar to hold trainings and give out hygiene boxes filled with menstrual pads. The sustainability of the project will be ensured by creating an MoU with the school administration or clubs, regularly updating on the situation of the hygiene boxes, and further engaging in social media content.
