Facilitating spaces of association for youth citizenship in India

This briefing shows how young people can be helped to grow into a lived sense of citizenship through informed and empathetic facilitation. For this, their collective engagement with their own communities and urban contexts is key.

Training in the use of civic media is an effective way of getting young people to explore and challenge the social dynamics behind ordinary urban problems, as well as their own worldviews and action capacities. It can help them achieve personal transformation as a first step towards changing their urban worlds for the better.

The resulting spaces created for young people to associate can play a crucial role in the success of such efforts.