Project summary

The Youth at risk project is generally intended to ensure that Youth at risk (women and men) are empowered and included in decision-making processes in their communities. To make sure this happens, NaCCED is using innovative means to empower youth at risk. The project therefore, aimed to support youth at risk in Tonkolili and Kenema districts to reintegrate in their community and families, and at the same time, advocate for institutional reforms that address the core question of recruitment of youth into cliques and gangs. The project is not only to mitigate the gang and cliques’ activities and their impact on youth at risk in the target areas but to address factors that drove youth to join gangs and cliques. Youth empowerment and inclusion is therefore promoted through civic education, livelihoods generation, and political participation in decision-making spaces.

Civic education and counselling activities are promoted to enable the reintegration of youth at risk into families and communities and their participation in decision-making processes enhanced. Activities carried out are to ensure that youth at risk have better understanding of their rights, responsibilities and possibilities to participate as citizens. More so,  youth at risk will develop leadership skills and abilities to engage with authorities, including local and traditional authorities and security agents in a non-violent manner.