Citizens’ Journalism
Young people can play a big role in reporting and writing stories, including op-ed essays.
In this area, The Good Leadership focuses on the following topics:
- Importance of reading and being updated with news (locally, nationally and internationally)
- Writing stories and op-ed pieces
- The challenges of misinformation and disinformation
Through this area, The Good Leadership Academy will help participants answer the following questions:
- How can I remain updated with news and developments at societal, political levels, nationally and internationally?
- Why is it important investing my time doing so?
- How can I start being really interested to what’s going on?
- How can I write an op-ed essay?
- How to become a champion against misinformation and disinformation
Deliberative Democracy
Giving power back to the people by going beyond elections. Deliberative democracy entails a series of approaches and theories that aim at giving real agency to the citizens by enabling them to discuss and deliberate based on reason and evidences.
Some of the topics/themes under this are centered on:
- The different forms and ways of doing deliberation at grassroots level.
- Review of some of the best practices in terms of implementing local citizens assemblies.
Through this area, The Good Leadership Academy will help participants answer the following questions:
- Why is deliberative democracy so important for me and for the society?
- What are the links between deliberative practices and localization of the SDGs.
- How can I start implementing some deliberation centered initiatives?
The Communities of Practitioners
The participants of the Communities of Practitioners or CP are a group of young people, some of them at the end of their high school, some studying their bachelor or master studies, some already in their jobs, interested to upskill themselves and expand their knowledge in particular areas of policy making.
They do so by, first, learning with other peers, building their knowledge and expertise and then by sharing them with other peers.
Each CP consists of two phases:
Phase 1: Knowledge and Expertise creation
Phase 2: Design and deliver of knowledge
The goal is first to enable knowledge and expertise creation among participants and then support them to co-create and co-deliver the contents by themselves for other peers.
Over the years, there will be several calls or expressions of interests based on certain priority areas that the Good Leadership will identify together with its youths.
So far three CPs have been organized, of which two are still currently ongoing while one has been completed.