Strengthen youth leadership and mutual capacity development, by recognizing youth civil society as a partner with agency and expertise, while also improving financial management, follow-up, and youth-led programming in capacity building programmes.Improve outreach and youth inclusion, by seeking the participation of a diverse set of young voices, from different regions of a country, different socio-economic backgrounds, religious backgrounds and different genders and sexual orientations, while also addressing structural and cultural barriers to participation faced by those groups.Create safe spaces for engagement, for instance by donors including protection policies, developed in consultation with youth groups, in their funding strategies, and by donors, governments, and UN agencies supporting the development of digital security systems, while advocating for the end to cyber harassment and other harmful government practices.The following recommendations were put forward by the participants in the workshops: The workshops discussed recommendations to build meaningful, authentic and equal intergenerational partnerships to advance the YPS agenda within the region. To further this agenda, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, the Swedish Dialogue Institute for the Middle East and North Africa, and the MENA Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security held two workshops in 2021 to seek the input of young peacebuilders from the MENA region and other key stakeholders. Since 2015, there has been growing recognition globally of the vital role of young people in building peace and preventing and resolving violence and armed conflict – this has come to be known as the Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) agenda.
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