The project endeavor’s creating critical awareness and agency of the A&Y for exercising their rights and meaningful participation. Besides, it focuses on promoting civic engagement, peaceful healthy living, economic opportunities creation and persuasion, safe use of digital tools and technologies. In addition, it enables opportunities to articulate their concerns and hopes in matters that affect them.

In Bangladesh, adolescents and youth face manifold challenges, including lack of high-quality learning opportunities, agency, negotiation skills, insufficient awareness on reproductive health rights, high rate of child marriage, and a lack of timely information about social services, all of which have an impact on their ability to live joyfully and act as an agent of change. Moreover, many young people enter the labour market with insufficient knowledge and skills, such as the capacity to successfully communicate, manage issues, and ready to and succeed in a job interview. (Youth of Bangladesh Agents of Change? In this context, the project contributes to empower adolescent and youth aligning with the National Youth Policy (2017), National Skills Development Policy (2011), SDG 16. Furthermore, engaging all actors including local government, NGOs is contributed to accelerating empowerment process.

The project contributes to promote adolescents and youth empowerment while ensuring voice, choice and active participation. It is adding value in reducing discrimination, enhancing child participation, promoting safe environment, creating scope to enhance skillfulness. Also, adolescents and youth club members, parents, social leaders and govt. representative is enhancing value by ensuring their active participation in community engagement. This project especially promotes 21 century skills to meet the market-oriented demand in the current world. Moreover, adolescents and youth-led digital solution is fostering for social transformation.