OCIC Youth Policy-Makers Hub 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC) Youth Policy-Makers Hub 2026-2027. Recognizing the wealth of information, expertise and management that youth deliver to the worldwide cooperation sector, OCIC’s Youth Policy-Makers Hub (YPH) seeks to interact numerous youth from throughout Ontario in worldwide cooperation coverage processes. 

Youth members are inspired to critically interact with the buildings, actors, and establishments that form public coverage and world improvement, whereas exploring how world citizenship is enacted by way of civic participation and inclusive coverage processes.

Benefits

Building on the efforts of previous YPH cohorts, this yr’s program will present alternatives to:

• Collaborate with numerous youth and civil society organizations (CSOs), together with feminist, neighborhood-primarily based, and world companions to strengthen understanding of worldwide citizenship’s function in shaping worldwide cooperation and coverage processes.
• Deepen your understanding of civic area in enabling inclusive governance, local weather motion, gender equality, and rising coverage points equivalent to synthetic intelligence.
• Learn about and have interaction with authorities and intergovernmental organizations and their world Initiatives (such because the Canada-Africa Strategy, Canada’s AI Strategy, and world civil area frameworks) by way of OCIC’s digital ‘Policy Matters’ collection 
• Knowledge alternate by way of digital ‘Coffee Chats’, exploring how youth interact in coverage processes at native, regional, nationwide, and worldwide ranges 
• Strengthen your advocacy, coverage evaluation, management, and networking abilities whereas constructing relationships throughout Canada’s worldwide cooperation sector

Eligibility

• Be between the ages of 18–35 (by July 31, 2026) and residing in Ontario;
• Passionate about gender equality, civic participation, inclusive coverage processes, and worldwide cooperation;
• Eager to develop your advocacy and coverage engagement abilities at native, nationwide, or world ranges.

Expectations

YPH members are anticipated to contribute 2–5 hours per week by taking part in:

• peer-to-peer information alternate by way of ongoing digital ‘Coffee Chats’ (beginning October 2026)
• digital ‘Policy Matters’ studying collection (beginning October 2026), with a concentrate on understanding civic motion for world citizenship
• an in-particular person retreat in Toronto with a concentrate on abilities-constructing within the space of coverage advocacy (November  2026)
• digital and in particular person sector occasions, coverage dialogues, and delegations hosted by OCIC and its members, together with occasions such because the Ottawa Civic Space Summit.
• partaking with OCIC members and companions working throughout worldwide cooperation, humanitarian response, local weather justice, gender equality, and world citizenship
• networking alternatives with coverage-makers, OCIC members and sector leaders

Application

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For extra info, go to OCIC Youth Policy-Makers Hub.