Check List: Intersectional Approach to Programming

This section outlines programmatic considerations. It does not aim to be exhaustive; rather it seeks to prompt action by introducing some key considerations for electoral assistance aiming to help prevent all forms of electoral-related violence and the promotion of the participation of a diversity of young people during elections.

Youth participation

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  1. Recognize multiple layers of discrimination (for example for young women facing both age and gender barriers).
  2. Aim to introduce and encourage the use of indicators that are at least age and sex disaggregated.
  3. Acknowledge varying needs by considering the development of separate training and mentoring programmes for specific target groups according to needs, such as young women or young persons with disabilities. 
  4. Mainstream youth and gender by designing gender- and age-responsive activities and aim to normalize mainstreaming in the implementation of programs with national counterparts. An example may be the introduction of minimum financial quotas on youth- or gender-focused expenditure.
  5. Consider social and cultural norms that may limit the implementation of quotas, laws and policies and how quotas for one particular group may inadvertently impact on another minority or vulnerable group. 
  6. Engage a diversity of civil society groups, including youth, at the community and grassroots level in order to facilitate the inclusion of a diversity of young people during elections.
  7. Engage powerholders such as the media in raising awareness and addressing stereotypes including gender stereotypes and how this impacts on young women’s participation in political and public affairs.
  8. Engage parliaments as the representatives of the people and foster systematic engagement with young people, women and underrepresented groups to realize inclusive and accountable governance.
  9. Develop accessible, time-sensitive, youth-friendly protection mechanisms to support young people if they experience threats while participating during elections. Threats can include harassment, surveillance, reprisals, use of force and gender-based violence, among others.
  10. Integrate mental health and psychosocial support into peacebuilding practices and electoral assistance programmes in crisis and conflict-affected situations.
  11. Encourage the participation of a diversity of youth in early warning mechanisms to foster the development of indicators with an intersectional lens: This would enable the identification of drivers of violence against women, minorities, persons with disabilities and others in elections and increase capacities to respond. 

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