Political Party manifesto youth sections, a youth-focused effort by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS).

CRSS conducted 20 youth caucus meetings across the length and breadth of Pakistan, including the four provinces (Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP), Balochistan), Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) in the digital realm.

The meetings were held as part of Youth Voices in the Democratic Process (YDP); a CRSS’s initiative to serve as a social instrument for pressure on political parties to prioritize youth issues, reflect them in party manifestos, and improve youth engagement by actively and inclusively seeking their input for policy matters.

In order to achieve this objective, the youth leaders were selected on the basis of a criteria designed to foster inclusion, gender parity, and heterogeneity in terms of youth participants’ backgrounds, geographical location, socioeconomic status, religion, ethnicity, access, and exposure.

The ultimate output of the caucus was a youth endorsed policy paper based on consultations among the caucus members which they then presented to political party representatives.

Political parties’ representatives who participated in the YDP National Caucus include Dr. Shahzad Waseem from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who is serving as the Leader of the House for the Senate of Pakistan since 4 June 2020; Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar who is the Core Member of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) and Member of the Senate of Pakistan, since March 2018; and Tariq Fazal Chaudhry who is a seasoned member of Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz PML-N), and also had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to May 2018.

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, physical workshops were practically impossible, and necessitated our organization.

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