Global youth work

The principles of global youth work

1. Starts from young people’s experiences and encourages their personal, social and political development.
2. Works to the principles of informal education and offers opportunities that are educative, participative, empowering and designed to promote equality of opportunity.
3. Is based on an agenda that has been negotiated with young people.
4. Engages young people in a critical analysis of local and global influences in their lives and those of their communities.
5. Encourages and understanding of the world based on the historical process of globalisation and not the development or underdevelopment of societies.
6. Recognises that the relationships between and within, the ‘North’ and the ‘South’ are characterised by inequalities generated through globalisation processes.
7. Promotes the values of justice and equity in personal, local and global relationships.
8. Encourages and understanding of and appreciation for diversity locally and globally.
9. Views the peoples and organisations of 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.