Youth Leadership School

The youth leadership school was a free, certified virtual course conducted by the Consortium of Youth Organizations (LAC Youth Network) between November and December 2023 with the support of UNAIDS Latin America and whose purpose was to provide knowledge and political advocacy tools to young people and adolescents with leadership profiles in Latin America.

There were 5 continuing education modules on topics relevant to the consortium such as: Leadership, human rights, international agendas (Agenda 2030 and Montevideo Consensus), gender, feminisms, masculinities, intersectionality (stigma and discrimination against HIV+ people, racism and climate crisis), project creation, strategic alliances, public policies and citizen participation.

1231

Registered

313

Accepted

19

Countries

The school had a total of 1231 registered students, of which 313 were accepted. We had participants from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.

One of the characteristics of the school is that the teachers were young people from different regional and national networks who had the necessary expertise to carry out these trainings; it is important for the LAC Youth Network to enhance the existing leadership and capacities of Latin American youth.