Project Title: Strategies for Increasing Youth Civic Engagement in Nalaikh
Client: Governor’s Office of Nalaikh District, Office’s Division of Family, Youth, and Child Development (DFYCD)
Students: Claire Casher, Samantha Coronel, Rasmus Dilling-Hansen, Cassandra Jeffery
Faculty Lead: Julian Dierkes
Fieldwork Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Year: 2019-20
Publications: The Diplomat
About the Project: Developing strategies to address the lack of youth civic engagement in the Nalaikh District, which hinders effective policy creation and implementation. The output of this project was an indepth report for the District of Mongolia as well as initial findings on youth perceptions from a series of focus groups that the UBC team fascilitated with local university students.
Key Words: Youth, Community Engagement, Governance