MY CITY MY VOICE YOUTH RESEARCHERS TRAINING
At the beginning of May 2014 Mwanza was the training ground for up and coming youth researchers. As part of the My City My Voice project, eight youth researchers were identified and trained on participatory research methods so that they could ask children and youth in Nyamagana District about their current engagement in health and education services and how they would like to engage in the future.
During the training facilitated by TAMASHA, youth researchers learned different research techniques such as: community mapping (left) which shows the location of services and spaces where social development activities take place and how to facilitate an exercise in ranking (right) to show the relationship between spaces where children and youth are present and their gender.
They also had the opportunity to practice their new skills with members of Mwanza Young Reporters at MYCN's office before going out into the field.
After the training and practice the youth researchers went into the field to talk to children and youth. Young women (left) from Buhongwa Ward, who are not in school, place important services found in the Ward on their community map and boys (right) from Igoma Ward, currently in school, participate in a ranking exercise.
The data that the group collected will be used in planning future phases of the My City My Voice project.
