HOW TO BUILD A YOUTH WING

THE ISSUE
Being the youth wing of a political party you will want to be in an
ongoing process of developing new policies – indeed an inspiring
and never-ending task. When doing this, we are sharing our visions,
ideas and hopes for a future society. It can be quite hard to
think of a better way of spending your time.
Developing policies, political positions and suggestions is not
a profession you will be taught at any university or other educational
institution. The capacity to make policy proposals – and in
the end getting them approved and making a difference for people
– is a capacity you will develop and acquire through the efforts
you put into the organisational and political development
of your organisation.
There are many ways of doing this. for sure, the development
of the new policies will occur in interaction between your ideology,
political platform and the actual course of events. You will
also find that within your party a lot of policy-development will
start over a cup of coffee after a meeting or during a social event
for the members.
The first informal sharing of visions and ideas will afterwards
go through all the formal democratic processes that you agree
upon as being the right ones for your organisation. It is therefore
also a good idea to think about who is taking part in these informal
meetings and sharing of ideas. Is it always the same few
people, and are both males and females taking part in this?
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