Youth Policy Development

This Program will enable you to develop the skills required to investigate, analyse and influence the policy-making processes that shape welfare services, particularly those that directly affect the quality of young people

Members of National Youth Councils. Youth Workers in government departments, corporations and NGOs. Youth Parliamentarian Committees. Professionals responsible for policy formulation and strategy development in youth focused organizations.

Certificate of Completion

Day 1

• Youth policy Overview
• Policy Definition - social/welfare policy - youth policy
• Youth Policy
• Nature, Objectives and Importance
• Characteristics of youth policies

Day 2

• The scope of youth policy
• Policy planning and formulation
• Policy impact and implementation
• Analyzing Social Policy
• Social policy in context
• Government involvement in social policy
• Grassroots policy development: another approach

Day 3

• Youth policy principles
• Youth policy and the wider policy environment
• Elements of a successful youth policy
• Policy success and failure
• Measuring success or failure
• Elements of a successful policy

Day 4

• Frameworks in action
• Key headings for a youth policy
• Essential features of a youth policy
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of policies

Matsh is short abbreviation for The Arab Youth Development Center in Arabic. Matsh is youth development enterprise aims to provide developmental services and programs for young people.

The Main objective of Matsh is to professionalize youth work in the Middle East and North Africa region by providing Youth Development and Youth Work capacity building programs for youth workers, Formulating code of ethics and standards for youth work in MENA region and providing developmental and management consultancy for youth development institutions.