Methodology

Ten key principles of global youth work

1. Starts from young people’s everyday experiences and encourages their personal, social and political development

2. Works to informal education principles and offers opportunities that are educational, participative, empowering and designed to promote equality of opportunity

3. Is based on an agenda that had been negotiated with young people

4. Engages young people in critical analysis of local and global influences in their own lives and communities

5. Encourages an understanding of the world based on the historical process of globalisation

6. Recognises that the relationships between, and within, the North and South are characterised by inequalities casused by globalisation

7. Promotes the values of justice and equity in personal, local and global relationships

8. Encourages an understanding of, and appreciation for, diversity, locally and globally

9. Sees the people and organisations of both the North and South as equal partners for change in a shared and interdependent world

10. Encourages action that builds alliances to bring about change