Promoting Youth Civic Engagement (PYCE)

Description of Project:

Promoting Youth Civic Engagement (الشباب تنشيط مشروع) is a two-year project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to engage youth in sports and recreational activities in Aden and Sanaa and three other governorates.

PYCE operates through steering committees involving community leaders as well as other local actors who will help to develop a peer network of youth and community actors. This network of influence leaders reaches out to young people and their communities offering training and encouraging sports and recreation events in community youth centers.

Objectives:

PYCE's two principal objectives are:

  • to strengthen the role of community actors in positively influencing Yemeni youth, and 
  • to support the establishment and expansion of youth sports and recreational opportunities.

Program activities include promoting and facilitating positive relations between youth and moderate community leaders; forming governorate Steering Committees to stimulate and coordinate beneficial youth activities, and the establishment of the PYCE Peer Network; providing rapid response mini-grants for Peer Network members; renovating selected youth clubs; and supporting the establishment and expansion of youth sports and recreational programs, including  training coaches and sports officials, equipment grants, and establishing sports leagues and formal competitions.

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