Feminature Undertakes Civic Engagement and Leadership Project for Student Leaders

The camp Kennedy is a non-partisan project implemented by Feminature Uganda with funding from the Public Affairs Office of the US Mission in Uganda to increase the understanding and participation of at least 100 actively enrolled female and male student leaders aged 16 – 18, across the four administrative regions of Uganda.   The project will work with student leaders with demonstrated leadership traits and interest in public service will apply to participate in the camp and subsequently be selected from each of the regions through a competitive and transparent process. The camp comprises three major components; the regional training workshops, debates and implementation of community civic activity.   During Camp Kennedy, the successful applicants will be equipped with knowledge and skills to be responsible for their governance and democratic processes so as to enhance their civic responsiveness and participation in the affairs of their community and country as a whole, using the legacy and call to citizen participation by President John F. Kennedy.   The students will be required to put the skills acquired and knowledge shared into a community civic engagement activity within their local communities. This will give the dimension of President John. F. Kennedy’s call for citizens to take political and social action in a Ugandan perspective, so as to increase citizen ownership and participation in the governance of Uganda and in fulfillment of part of the development initiatives by the US Mission among them the health, education and democratization goals in Uganda.   A cross-cutting theme in the training will be equipping the participants with knowledge on the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremist tendencies in their local communities and promoting tolerance, inclusivity and peaceful co-existence. The project’s objectives are; to promote active civic participation, tolerance and inclusivity among the youth in the country, encourage the youth to embrace community service/civic engagements by encouraging the participants to implement simple civic engagement projects in their communities and educate youth on good governance and democratic practices.