Please find below the session notes from the session on Day 2 (Wednesday, November 10, 2021) of the USAID YouthPower2 Symposium about Trust, Bias, and the Roots of Inequality: How to Address Diversity in Meaningful Youth Engagement.

This session built conceptual clarity on how to shift power and address diversity in MYE by featuring youth voices/testimonials and real-life examples of programmatic shortcomings, adaptations, and strategies to change our ways of working. It provoked questions around deep-rooted systematic biases, based on the feminist understanding that the ‘personal is political,’ and shared youth-led, intersectional challenges to this status quo.