Co-Creating Youth Spaces

Co-Creating Youth Spaces: A Practice Based Guide for Youth Facilitators is a guidebook that brings to life a Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) vision for supporting the transformation of youth work cultures in youth club contexts through field-based learning. How do young people and adults work together to strengthen sustained youth clubs that are continually responsive to young people’s needs and rights? Which skills do youth club facilitators require to make this possible? How do these field experiments link to the broader goals of the Commonwealth of professionalising youth work? It is with this vision and questions that the CYP Asia Centre initiated the Co-Shared Youth Club Pilot in partnership with the Chandigarh Union Territory (U.T.), India, wing of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), an autonomous youth club implementation organisation under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, known to be the largest grassroots youth network of its kind in the world, and Pravah, a leading youth worker training organisation based in New Delhi, India, whose philosophy, together with CYP’s, drives this guidebook.