THE training component of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Youth Empowerment and Inclusion and Reconciliation Project (YEIRP) has, successfully, completed its first two

modules and will commence its third soon.
Project Assistant Seloge Andrea Narine made the disclosure, in a telephone interview with the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, stating that the process is moving apace with positive energy.
She said the two modules that were finished relate to key governance, understanding it and transformative leadership.
Narine said the next that the participants will look at concerns advocacy and participation in policy and project management.
That entails the selection and training of 30 youth leaders across six regions of Guyana. These are Regions 2 (Pomeroon/ Supenaam), 3 (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara), 4 (Demerara/Mahaica), 5 (Mahaica/Berbice), 6 (East Berbice/Corentyne) and 10 (Upper Demerara/Berbice).
The youths are being trained to play a role in the development of their communities and the country and the training began last February 8.
The YEIRP is aimed at addressing the challenges of inadequate youth participation in local governance, by providing training to develop the capacity of youths to become protagonists for good social and governance practices and to take part in local governance.
Former Project Coordinator Vickram Bharat had asserted, at the commencement of the exercise, that training will continue until May and after then, the participants will be placed into selected local government entities and tasked with executing a community programme “that is supposed to enhance the lives of people living within it, especially youths.”
Narine said, since Bharat left, there has not been a succeeding  oordinator and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development is in the process of recruiting one.
The YEIRP, which will last until March 31, 2014, involves the monitoring of community projects that will be undertaken by the 30 participants in their respective regions.