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Empowerment Series for Young Parliamentarians - Online training workshop on leadership and communication
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Summary
14:00 to 17:00 CET
The promotion of youth empowerment is a core objective of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). In line with this objective, the IPU brings together young MPs from around the world in dedicated youth-led platforms to build capacities, to exchange good practices in policymaking for youth empowerment, to coordinate action and to develop networks.
The IPU Empowerment Series for young MPs started in 2022 with briefings on priority policy areas for youth empowerment, including gender equality, youth human rights, climate negotiations, and youth, peace and security. To date, approximately 300 participants have attended these briefings, including 186 young men and women MPs.
As part of the Empowerment Series, the IPU is organizing a special online training workshop that will aim to build the leadership and communication skills of a group of young MPs on policymaking for youth empowerment.
Two workshops will be held virtually via Zoom: the first in English and the second in French. Each three-hour workshop will be delivered in a single day and will consist of two parts: a 90-minute session on leadership and another 90-minute session on communication.
IPU Member Parliaments are invited to register one young parliamentarian to participate in the training workshop.
Background documents:
- IPU, Youth participation in national parliaments (2023)
- IPU I Say Yes to Youth in Parliament! campaign
- IPU resolution on Youth participation in the democratic process (122nd IPU Assembly, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2010)