Sixty-five young men and women participated in a tow-day residential training programme at Gopalpur near here recently on leadership and active citizenship under the youth and urban government initiative undertaken by the Youth for Social Development (YSD) with support of the Development Bank (ADB) and Assist-Asia.
This initiative is part of an award winning project by the YSD on Youth Participation in Governance and Accountability in Brahmapur from the ADB, informed field programme coordinator Chandan Kumar Sahu.
The youths were trained on good governance, social accountability and leadership and active citizenship by State-level expert trainers like Som, Pruthwiraj and Rashmi Ranjan from the State Sports and Youth Services Department and well-known human rights activist Pradip Pradhan. They were trained as to how to engage with government in order to improve the living condition of slum dwellers and local governance and accountability.
A YSD team of Chandan, Abhiram, Susmita, Pragati, laxmi, Bala and Kanya Kumari coordinated the training programme. The YSD has been working with more than 500 young men and women in 20 slums in Brahmapur city on issues related to youth participation in governance and development of slums in the city.