Using Arts-Based Approaches to Dialogue issues of Sustainable Development in Rwandan High Schools

The overall aim of this project is to empower high school learners to detect and research issues of sustainable development in their communities, discuss and express these problems with members of local existing arts clubs with a view to bring these concerns to the attention of policy makers using-arts based approaches such as music, dance, drama, and drawings.

The project will lead to the production of a youth-led national policy brief and the establishment of a steering committee in charge of monitoring the implementation of key recommendations highlighted in the policy brief. In selecting issues of sustainable development to be researched, young people will be guided by problems observed in policies, programs and practices related to poverty reduction and gender promotion with a focus on girls’ education.