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  • About the Project

    In 2022, 11 teams of young leaders from across the world participated in the Street Dialogue Project organized by APCEIU in collaboration with GCED Youth Network. The Street Dialogue Project is an initiative that seeks to engage youth and members of their communities in relevant conversations in public spaces where everyone can interact, share and learn with each other.


    The Project was designed with an aim of sparking open discussion on global and local issues in different corners of the world led by young leaders, which serves as an empowering process for them to facilitate public conversation on the issues with the meaningful interaction with their own community. The teams conducted two rounds of dialogues, one concerning a topic that is a local priority, and one that is a global one. The teams' actions and the voices of the members of their communities were collected and compiled in videos, which is to be shared with global audiences. 


    From the experiences of the Project, lessons are learned that public discussion and conversation can be a powerful tool to foster critical global citizenship among community and furthermore and to call for a collective action for change. Challenges are everywhere and community should be the one to seek ways to overcome them and move forward for the betterment. And dialogue is the starting point for this, and therefore it should be placed in the heart of the whole process.

  • Why the Street Dialogue Project?

  • How the project works

    The selected teams of the Project were trained over the course of three months and worked with their team members to design their own projects, ensuring the dialogues they would facilitate would be relevant and engaging for members of their communities. 


    After the completion of the training, each team conducted two rounds of street dialogues on local and global issues. The results of the dialogue sessions are shared in the form of written report and compiled videos.


  • Street Dialogue on Local Priorities

    Each team chose the most relevant and critical topic for the local street dialogue project. As

    you can see in the table, topics chosen include mental health issue, democracy, gender equality,

    climate change, human rights and justice among others.


    The teams met local residents, including peer young people and senior citizens as well as younger children,

    and talked about the topics to collect various opinions, expanding their perspectives by sharing different

    views on the issue, exchanging insights and experiences, and listening and respecting the differences.

    The process has served as a good learning experience for all participants.

  • Street Dialogue on Global Priorities

    The teams agreed to choose a common topic for the Street Dialogue to be held in commemoration of the International Day of Democracy (15 September),

    which is 'As a citizen, how can you concretely change a world?


    With the discussion question, all teams went out to the streets and had a series of conversations with the locals 

    on what can and should be done as members of a democratic society to change our world.