{"id":6718,"date":"2026-05-06T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/editorial\/voces-y-agentes-laboratorio-de-incidencia-y-accion-juvenil\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:14:38","slug":"voces-y-agentes-laboratorio-de-incidencia-y-accion-juvenil","status":"publish","type":"editorial","link":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/editorial\/voces-y-agentes-laboratorio-de-incidencia-y-accion-juvenil\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices and Agents: Youth Advocacy and Action Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elio Villase\u00f1or G.<\/strong>
Director General of Citizen Initiative<\/strong>
for the Promotion of a Culture of Dialogue, AC<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTraveler, there is no path, the path is made by walking.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014 Joan Manuel Serrat, Songs<\/p>\n

The Voices and Agents training program begins, a Youth Advocacy and Action Laboratory based on territorial work in the municipalities of Iztapalapa, Cuauht\u00e9moc and Ecatepec.<\/p>\n

This process stems from a simple but powerful conviction: reflection only makes sense when it becomes action.<\/p>\n

Therefore, more than a course, it is a living space where young people can understand their reality, name it and begin to transform it from what they experience every day.<\/p>\n

Throughout this experience, young people will learn to identify problems, build solutions, and engage in dialogue\u2014from an active position\u2014with actors in power.<\/p>\n

It's not just about participating, but about recognizing oneself as a protagonist, as a person capable of influencing the decisions that impact one's community.<\/p>\n

From their own territories, young people will promote concrete actions to generate real changes, strengthening their capacity for organization, collaboration and leadership.<\/p>\n

Course objective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Strengthening the capacity of young people to lead the transformation of their territories, moving from grassroots activism towards strategic influence, capable of generating sustainable changes, with autonomy and collective sense.<\/p>\n

Training path<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. Roots<\/p>\n

B. Identity, community and leadership from the neighborhood: recognizing what hurts, but also what inspires and mobilizes.<\/p>\n

C. Land<\/p>\n

D. Reading the reality and local politics: mapping actors, power relations and building strategic alliances.<\/p>\n

E. Tools<\/p>\n

F. Design of advocacy strategies, effective communication and resource procurement to promote real projects.<\/p>\n

G. Projection<\/p>\n

Sustainability of actions, monitoring of results and training of trainers to multiply the impact in other territories.<\/p>\n

More than transmitting knowledge, this laboratory seeks to trigger collective processes: that young people not only learn, but also build together, organize themselves and recognize themselves as part of a community with a voice and capacity for action.<\/p>\n

The goal is clear: to train young people who not only participate, but become protagonists of their own agenda, and multipliers who accompany others on that same path.<\/p>\n

In the end, Voces y Agentes is not just a training space; it is an invitation to look at the territory with different eyes: not as a place that limits, but as the starting point for transformation.<\/p>\n

Every story, every neighborhood, and every experience that young people bring with them is a seed of change.<\/p>\n

This laboratory seeks precisely that: for those seeds to find soil, community, and direction to grow.<\/p>\n

Because when a young person recognizes themselves as the subject of their own story, they stop waiting for things to change and begin to transform them.<\/p>\n

And when that process becomes collective, change ceases to be a possibility and becomes a shared reality.<\/p>\n

Today begins a journey\u2014a journey that is not predetermined\u2014where voice becomes action, reflection becomes proposal, and territory becomes a space of hope.<\/p>\n

May this be the beginning of many agendas built from the ground up, with dignity and strength; with the conviction that young people are not the future: they are the present that is already walking and transforming its reality.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"imagen_principal_b":"http:\/\/juventudes.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/jet-engine-forms\/27\/2026\/05\/FOTO-V_A-scaled.jpg"},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6718","editorial","type-editorial","status-publish","hentry","category-empleo-y-economia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial\/6718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/editorial"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}