1- Youth / rural youth Context

• In Latin America

approximately 20% of the

population is youth

• population of rural youth

fluctuates between 5% and

11% approximately of the total

population of rural youth

fluctuates between 5% and

11% approximately of the total

population

1- Youth / rural youth Context

• The total population of

Colombia in 2015 was close

to 47 million people, 23% in

rural areas.

• Nearly 2.6 million rural youth

represent 24.5% of the total

rural population.

2- Food security and nutrition context

1 in 9 people in the world do not have enough

access to food

Malnutrition causes 45% of the death of children

under 5 years and it is estimated that 1 in 4 children

in the world has growth retardation.

in 2016, almost 520 million people in Asia, more than

243 million in Africa and more than 42 million in Latin

America and the Caribbean did not have access to

enough food energy.

State of Food Insecurity in the World report 2015 (FAO, IFAD and WFP)

3-Colombia National Rural youth network

is an organization that seeks to

represent and empower rural

youth, so that they are the

managers of the development of

their territories, a space for the

dissemination of opportunities and

work articulated with institutions

for the benefit of rural youth

• We work on 7 strategic issues

including incidence and

participation • Currently the network has around 3000 youth

leaders in 90 local nodes

In 28 departments of the country

4- Main challenges for youth participation

Lack of credibility of youth in institutions

Governments don’t trust youth

Youth associate participation and politics

with corruption

gender discrimination

5- Disadvantages of not including youth policy

formulation

-Programs / projects / policies

are not appropriate to the

context

-there is opposition youth

against such programs

- It prevents a greater impact

6- Rural Youth network empowerment and training

process

• Through the network in

coordination with allies,

training processes are

carried out on issues of

participation and incidence

• spaces for inter-

institutional dialogue

promoted by the network

• Motivate youth to

participate in decision-

making spaces

7- Rural dialogue group Colombia and CTAs

• RDGs created since 2010

in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru

and Colombia by RIMISP

with the support of IFAD

• advisory technical

committee- CTA’S: spaces

for inter-institutional

dialogue at the national,

regional and local levels

• creation of public policy

guidelines for rural youth

• Allows technical and

financial support to the

action plans of the youth

from network

Recommendations

GRACIAS¡

Sebastián Pedraza Colombia National Rural Youth Network

+3128076921 sebaspe144@hotmail.com