One of three connected Project Sinxay tracks
Sinxay Youth Champion
Young voices on the issues that matter
Programme overview
Young advocates who raise awareness of sensitive issues in schools and communities through peer-to-peer and engaging activities. Advocacy topics include child marriage, climate change, and sexual and reproductive health.
Why this track exists
Sinxay Youth Champion exists because young people are often best placed to raise the issues their own peers find hardest to talk about, from child marriage to climate change to sexual and reproductive health. A conversation led by another young person can open doors a formal lecture cannot.
Who participates
Young people in schools and communities across the three provinces
Programme journey
Sinxay Youth Champion
- 1
Youth advocacy training
Young people take part in training on advocacy skills and the issues they will go on to raise with their peers.
- 2
Leadership and communication
Champions build the leadership, public speaking and facilitation skills needed to run activities with their peers.
- 3
Issue identification
Champions identify which issues matter most in their own school or community, drawing on topics such as child marriage, climate change, and sexual and reproductive health.
- 4
Community dialogue
Champions lead peer-to-peer sessions and open dialogue with classmates, families and community members on the issues they have identified.
- 5
Youth-led advocacy
Champions plan and carry out their own advocacy activities in schools and communities, putting what they have learned into practice.
- 6
Seed-funded action where applicable
Where seed funding is available, selected advocacy initiatives receive a small grant to help put their plans into action.
Activities
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Critical thinking
Examining a community problem from several angles before choosing a response.
Problem solving
Turning a documented community issue — PM2.5 smoke, clogged canals, overused fertiliser — into a specific, testable response instead of a vague complaint.
Communication
Explaining a problem and a solution clearly to the audience that needs to hear it — students at a radio programme, vendors at a market stall, or a village training session.
Leadership
Guiding a team — or, for a Sinxay Mentor, a younger cohort of advocates — through the parts of a project that stall, without taking the work away from them.
Advocacy
Speaking up for a change on a sensitive issue — child marriage, air pollution, sexual and reproductive health — in a school or community setting, with evidence behind the message.
Teamwork
Getting a small team — often five or six young people from the same school or district — to actually finish what they start together.
Climate change
The wider environmental pressure behind several documented project themes — PM2.5 smoke, drought-driven soil stress, flooding — named directly among Sinxay Youth Champion's advocacy topics.
Collaboration
Working alongside people outside the team's own age group — temple committees, market vendors, district officials, university lab staff — toward one shared result.
Illustrative skill map based on documented programme activities; not a participant performance ranking.
Stories
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Available statistics
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Part of the wider Sinxay ecosystem
Sinxay Youth Champion is one of three connected Project Sinxay tracks. Explore the others, or see how all three fit together.