Suncheon-si, Youth Participation Project for Local Policy Development 추진

A Local Policy Discovery Project Directly Involving Regional Youth

Selected for This Year's Community Youth Participation Activity Promotion Project Competition

Participating in eco camping and taking a commemorative photo (Photo by Suncheon City)

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City in Jeollanam-do announced on the 16th that it has been selected for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s ‘Community Youth Participation Activity Revitalization Contest Project’ and will promote a youth participation activation project where young people directly discover and plan local policies.

Under the theme of ‘Releasing the Blue (靑),’ the city, in collaboration with the Suncheon Office of Education, will operate youth planning groups and policy camps targeting young people, including Eco Camping, Insagram, Water Pop, and Village Drawing. The project will be carried out through a series of processes including discovering local issues, a policy expo, and a policy repair festival.

In particular, the plan is to allow participation not by a limited few but by general youth, and to guarantee the actual participation rights of many young people rather than formal participation.

As the first activity, from the 14th to the 15th, an Eco Camping event was held in the Suncheon Gaerangigodeulppaegi Village with the theme of ecology and environment, where participants collected marine debris and held policy discussions on reducing marine waste and maintaining a clean marine environment.

Thereafter, a total of about 100 youth planning group members will be operated in four sessions of 30 people each, with each session conducting policy discovery activities on one theme.

A Suncheon city official said, “This project is promoted by a local youth culture planning group, and it is highly anticipated because it attempts to make policies, which can be rigid and difficult, easier and more approachable through the bond between youth and young people,” adding, “We hope to see young people’s capabilities strengthened and transformed as they experience QNQ activities with questions, camps, and expos.”

Meanwhile, Suncheon City plans to hold the ‘Suncheon Youth Policy Expo’ jointly with the Suncheon Office of Education at the Suncheon Bay Ecological Culture Education Center on August 4.

Various participation programs such as policy proposal exhibitions, online and offline policy evaluations and voting, awards, youth performances, and experiences will be operated.

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