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Activity: Generating ideas for a project topic and voting for the most relevant social issue

Objectives:

  • To encourage the participants to think about the issues that affect their community
  • To select the most relevant issue for the project
Materials: Neighborhood perception forms, markers, chart paper and post-its

Duration: 15 minutes to 1/2 an hour

Procedure:

  • Ask the participants to fill out a neighborhood perception form at the beginning of the session. Part of the form should ask them to identify at least three things that they like and three other things that they dislike about their neighborhood.
  • Once everybody finishes, the dislike entries from all the participants should be listed down in the flipchart paper and displayed for everyone to start voting.
  • In silence, each young activist should write in the small piece of paper the items of the list that he/she considers the most relevant.
  • The facilitator should then collect the pieces of paper and count the number of people who voted in each entry of the list
  • The entry receiving most votes gets selected as the most relevant issue and the topic of the YAN project

Comments: The downside of this activity is that many times the participants list social issues from their most recent memory and the issues may not be of broader social concern. Voting can be used in any activity that requires group decision making.· In case more than one entry receives a large number of votes, either all those entries get selected or an additional election may be held to make the results more explicit. Depending on the group, it may be OK to select more than one issue for the Analysis phase of the project lifecycle.