Given the current political atmosphere of Dominica since the pronouncement of the snap election by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Sunday, November 6th, 2022, the National Youth Council of Dominica has deemed it necessary to capture the opinions of the youth of the country on this decision.
In this regard, the NYCD is launched a Politics and Governance Youth Poll on the U-Report OECS Platform on Tuesday, November 29th, 2022.
U-Report OECS is a digital platform designed by UNICEF to engage young people in program priorities, emergency response, and advocacy actions.
The intent of this poll is to gain the views of youth on the snap election and governance and, secondly, to have the data deciphered and presented at a virtual panel discussion that will feature local and regional youth activists, economists, and political senators.
The panel Discussion was hosted under the theme: “The Future Youth Want: Political Participation and Decision-Making” at the National Development Foundation of Dominica from 2:30 p.m.
Lead of U- report OECS ambassador for Dominica, Wendy Wallace said this platform works as a tool to share information, raise awareness, and collect quantifiable data on specific areas that impact youth and the most vulnerable.
“Policies adopted and implemented by governmental agencies, local government councils, local community groups and organizations have arrived to draft policies and initiatives on the basis of little to no data so U- report oecs is here to bridge that gap as the information will be utilized by these various stakeholders to inform their respective policies and programs as they seek to formulate relevant youth focused initiatives,” she said
She noted that this platform is being managed across the all nine OECS member States and would have recently conducted numerous outreach activities both school and in the communities in Dominica.
“our partnership with the National Youth council of Dominica has been quite instrumental in mobilization efforts to increase the number of U-reports land we would have engaged over 200 students at Saint Mary’s Academy as well as Saint Martin secondary, the author Waldron 7 days Adventist secondary school as well as Dominica State College and the academic school of learning.”
Wallace said U-report prides itself in the inclusion of all youth and as such they would have also engaged with the Kalinago youth and explored possible opportunities to the platform.
she said joint stakeholder meeting would have also engaged various youth groups in Dominica like the National Youth council, the National Youth parliamentarians, JCI and leo’s club to discuss possible opportunities through the platform.
To sign up person can text via WhatsApp Messenger the word “JOIN” to the number 17582872124 or via Facebook Messenger or Instagram messenger at ‘U- report OCES’.
