In 2017, Search for Common Ground launched an initiative to apply the collective impact methodology to urban conflict in Jos North, Nigeria and central Colombo, Sri Lanka. Our pilot sought to introduce a different way for organizations and individuals to work together on addressing and preventing violence in cities with significant youth populations. Unlike typical projects, where NGOs or donors drive the agenda and selectively invite stakeholders for participation at different stages, this approach puts the decisionmaking power in the hands of the people most affected by and involved in the issue- across sectors , from business, to government, civil society, and community members. Young people share in
decisionmaking , reversing the “violence of exclusion” they typically experience, despite being the majority population.

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