Barriers to Young People’s Active Participation and Role of Civil Society Institutions

The majority of the one billion young people, ages 15 to 24, who live in the world today are leading healthy lives; studying, working, volunteering, and playing positive roles in their communities. (Golombek, 2002 ). There is a very popular saying about youth, It is “ Youth is leaders of tomorrow, and young people is the future of communities”. But in fact there is not some many solid and systematic programs and policies to prepare the young people to the future. In most of the countries, young people are expected to gain such skills only in formal education. In this article, it is aimed to identify the importance of youth participation, the barriers in front of active youth participation and role of civil society institutions to overcome the those barriers