{"id":14,"date":"2021-03-31T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/josworld\/yfj-policy-library\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2022-10-05T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:47:11","slug":"youth-participation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/youth-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young people\u2019s participation in democratic life has always been at the core of the European Youth Forum\u2019s policy work. Providing a platform for its member organisations to participate in \u2013\u00a0and influence \u2013 policy-making processes is arguably the main reason the European Youth Forum was set up.<\/p>\n<p>From the contribution of young people and youth organisations to participatory policy-making, to advocacy actions to lower the voting age to 16, to European elections campaigns, the focus within the area of participation has varied significantly throughout the years, as young people have also changed the way they engage with politics.<\/p>\n<p>What have always remained as core principles for the Youth Forum, however, is that young people should always be involved in the decision-making processes \u2013 from design to implementation to the follow-up and evaluation &#8211; on issues that affect them, and that youth organisations have an important role in promoting better and more inclusive youth participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people\u2019s participation in democratic life has always been at the core of the European Youth Forum\u2019s policy work. Providing a platform for its member organisations to participate in \u2013\u00a0and influence \u2013 policy-making processes is arguably the main reason the European Youth Forum was set up. From the contribution of young people and youth organisations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-policy-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,6,11,3,8,9,5,4],"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-youthup","category-citizenship-education","category-european-youth-capital","category-participation","category-participatory-policy-making","category-vote-at-16","category-young-candidates","category-youth-elections-campaigns","category-youth-voter-turnouts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}