Youth Partnership for Peace and Development (YPPD)

With supports from UNPBF, the Inclusive Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Project, also known as the “Kolhat Barray, responds directly to root causes of Sierra Leone's civil war specifically: (1) the general systematic exclusion of rural and peri-urban youth; and (2) the specific exclusion of rural and peri-urban youth from opportunities to defend their rights and resolve conflicts through existing Community Based Dispute Resolution (CBDR) mechanisms, and to contribute to conflict prevention at the national level. It builds on the premise of UNSCR2250 that recognizes the positive role youth plays and their relevance in contributing to solutions for peace; and applies a people-centered, bottom-up approach that are further adapted to the contexts of the 3 project districts.
Constituting a vast majority of Sierra Leone’s population, young women and men struggle to claim rights, address grievances, and resolve conflicts through the most widely used CBDR mechanisms at the local level.