Our training of facilitators for youth and road safety workshops has officialy begun in Nairobi, Kenya. The venue for the training is the United Nations Office in Nairobi and the beautiful campus is a fantastic backdrop for the empowering training that will train a group of young people in road safety. The training will empower the young youth leaders to become great youth advocates and learn among others how to run their own workshops across Kenya.
YOURS has began its training of faciliators in Nairobi, Kenya which will last for two weeks. The training is an intensive course that will train 11 young Kenyans in the road safety field to become great youth advocates. They will gain skills and knowledge about the key risk-factors Speed, Helmets and Distracted Driving. In addition they will learn the art of facilitation, communication skills, and how to design and run youth and road safety workshops across Kenya. The training comes alongside our Youth and Road Safety Action Kit and falls under YOURS’ Capacity Development Pillar of operations.
The training is oritentated around four key learning outcomes:
- Explain how road traffic injuries take place and what puts young people at particlular risk for road traffic injuries.
- Identify key risk factos in your country and explain how they cancontribute to road traffic injuries.
- Utilizise peer education and active learning methodlogies to design Youth and Road Safety Workshops to develop the capacities of young people in their country.
- Organize and deliver Youth and Road Safety Workshops based on the Youth and Road Safety Action Kit.
In week one, the training of facilitators will undergo theory on road safety via interactive learning. This includes sessions of the scope of the road safet problem, youth and road traffic injuries in Kenya, how humans learn, the role of faciliators, peer education and a focus on road safety risk factors; speed, non-helmet use and distracted driving which are prevalent in Kenya.
YOURS thanks all sponsors and local partners. Especially we would like to thank the United Nations Environmental Programme for hosting the event and the Road Safety Fund for their sponsorship of the training! Stay tuned for more updates, videos, clips and testimonials from the training.