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
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