Project Name: Promoting digital civic leadership among Bangladeshi youth
Duration: 1 year
Funded by: Meta
Summary: This project instilled a sense of civic leadership and pluralism among Bangladeshi youth. Through social media engagement and a blended learning program, youth learned ways to engage with authority and how they could work together to solve a collective social problem. The training curriculum was drawn on BYLC’s adaptive leadership curriculum that had been tested and refined at Harvard University over the last 35 years. The training broadly focused on:
– exercising leadership without authority and partnering with authority
– mobilizing people in a peaceful manner
– having courageous conversations
– communicating effectively
– doing teamwork in a diverse setting
Programs:
- Develop and launch three online courses on civic leadership and digital civic engagement, reaching and completing at least 300 young participants
- Produce ten short-form educational videos addressing diverse social issues, with a combined reach of over one million viewers across online platforms