From May 1, 2019, to April 30, 2020, the YBDO will select 16 civic-minded young activists who exhibit leadership potential in their communities in Sinjar. After the selection process, YBDO organized three workshops for a total of 18 days to train the volunteers on civic values, leadership skills, communication skills, advocacy techniques, monitoring, and documentation skills.
The main goal of empowering this volunteer team is to mentor the volunteers to monitor and document the state of public services in Sinjar. YBDO and the volunteers then conducted field visits to document the state of the projects and will interview citizens and seek their input on service delivery through a survey. Based on these activities, the volunteers wrote up six two-page reports that they along with YBDO’s leadership used in advocacy meetings with various decision-makers in Sinjar and with the provincial government officials in Mosul. The purpose of these meetings was to advocate for better governance in Sinjar and published 3 inclusive reports on the state of services in Sinjar during the project.
English Language Course for Youth in Sinjar/YBDO-IOM