Youth as Agents of Behavioural Change (YABC) Peer Educators Training | 12-16 December 2016 | Lao PDR

The Youth as Agents of Behavioural Change (YABC) Peer Educators training in Laos was held by facilitation of Youth and Volunteering Officer from IFRC together with two Thai Red Cross facilitators (one staff and one volunteer) on 12-16 December 2016 targeting 20 participants from the Ministry of Education, Red Cross HQ (DM, Health and Youth), Red Cross Youth Clubs from the high school and university, Youth Union and one staff from Thai Red Cross Youth Bureau. The training was supported by the IFRC CCST budget and inaugurated with the attendance of Vice President of Lao Red Cross, Thongphachanh.

Key Outcomes of the Training

  • Participants had a clear understanding of YABC with knowledge, skills and practices.
  • Participants developed their action plans and discussed about the collaboration between different stakeholders.
  • Youth empowerment action for the community was planned for 2017 and IFRC will support this.

This training had two impacts:

1) Thai Red Cross YABC youth were mobilised to be co-facilitators under the coach of Youth and Volunteering Officer and gained facilitation experience and decided to roll out this programme in Thai RC youth activities.

2) It became one opportunity of partnership and advocacy between all youth stakeholders in Laos such as the Ministry of Education, Youth Union and RCY. They developed their joint actions to motivate the other youth to join the RC and community actions with high zeal.

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YABC Youth Workshop in Social Inclusion | Da Nang City, Viet Nam

Viet Nam Red Cross YABC youths have designed youth-led activity in Da Nang and Ho Chi Min City with the theme of the social inclusion and Da Nang Chapter has carried out its action in Oct 29-30. Da Nang youths jointly  designed activities with Youth Union members, a total of 29 university students (16 Females, 13 males, a mixture of Red Cross youths and Youth Union) and inspired them to be key agents of non-violence. The youths discussed about violent cases witnessed in communities and schools and highlighted: 1) family violence, 2) school bullying and 3) harassment. The event took place in Hoa Quy Community Hall in Hoa Quy commune, Da Nang City with around 100 community people headed by a community leader and 60 high school students.

Outcomes of the activity include:

  1. Da Nang Red Cross (RC) Chapter has established a connection with the Youth Union and could potentially gain the support from the Youth Union for future activities.
  2. Da Nang RC Youth volunteers became confident with their first initiative and developed a sustainable youth empowerment programme with a small investment between USD 200-300 in a close cooperation with the Youth Union for an inspiration of change.
  3. Vietnam RC Youth department gained a valuable experience from Da Nang Chapter and decided to expand this type of joint programme in other Chapters from 2017
  4. This successful story will be shared with Southeast Asia Youth Network for other NSs to follow the model.

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Youth as Agents of Behavioral Change (YABC) Toolkit

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Purpose:
Youth as Agents of Behavioral Change (YABC) is IFRC’s initiative to encourage youth as agent to promote the culture of non-violence and peace by empowering youth to be the leaders of their communities. For more information, see this link.
Overview:
The YABC toolkit (link to FedNet, and requires log in and password) has been coordinated by the Principles and Values Department and developed by Red Cross and Red Crescent youth. It is partly based on or inspired from existing Red Cross and Red Crescent materials, and is mainly composed of the following 4 parts:
  • Part 1: Thematic module (26 activities, 6 concept papers) covering: non-discrimination and respect for diversity; intercultural dialogue; social inclusion; gender; violence prevention, mitigation and response, international humanitarian law.
  • Part 2: Skills module (30 activities, 7 concept papers, 1 inner peace manual and videos) covering intra and interpersonal skills including: active listening; empathy; critical thinking, dropping bias and non-judgement; non-violent communication; collaborative negotiation and mediation; personal resilience; inner peace.
  • Part 3: Peer educator manual (developed in close collaboration with the North African regional office)
  • Part 4: Guidelines for peer educators working in community engagement (developed in close collaboration with the North African regional office)
  • Part 5: Psychosocial support guidelines for toolkit users (developed in close collaboration with the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support)

 

Usage: Training

Audience: Red Cross and Red Crescent youth

See also: YABC toolkit introduction brochure [30 pages, 27 MB]

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