youth and to improve their health, psychological and social status; to consolidate the anchoring
of spiritual values, social morality and democratic behavior; to organize the investment of young
people's free time, encourage initiatives, innovation, optimize young people's energy to ensure
the physical, mental, moral and cultural training of citizens in the framework of the general policy
of the State. Under this decree, the National Council of Youth and Sports was created within the
Ministry of Youth, and headed by the Minister himself, to ensure coordination between ministries
concerned with youth and sports. This has been followed by several regulatory measures, the
most important of which are as follows:
a. Decree No. 882 of 2002 of the Minister of Youth on the publication of bylaws regarding the
youth centers, which were modified by Decision no. 48 of 2006 of the National Council for
Youth.
b. Decree No. 883 of 2002 of the Minister of Youth on regulations pertaining to youth settlement,
amended by Decree no. 1080 of 2004 and Decree no 53 of 2008.
c. Decision No. 113 of 2007 of the National Council for Youth and Sports on the adoption of the
Statutes of Pilot Youth Centers, as amended by Decision No. 115 of 2008, which aims to
encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and excellence among young people, enhance
creativity, discover talents. It also aims to train young people to develop their scientific and
technological skills in order to bring them up to date with scientific progress, and to tap the
elements suitable for leadership in order to train them to assume responsibilities in different
positions.
2. The 2014 Constitution has attached particular attention to youth and sought to discover their
talents, develop their cultural, scientific, psychological, physical and creative abilities, to
encourage them to work as a team, volunteer, and enable them to participate in public life
(Article 82), with the allocation of 25% of the seats of local youth councils (Article 180.) Article 5
of Law No. 46 of 2014 provides for the allocation of a number of seats in each electoral list to
the youth. Convinced of the importance of the role of youth in building societies, the first political
program was launched to prepare young people for leadership and increase their skills to push
them into various State institutions. Mid-level leaders’ leadership administration program was
launched to allow them to occupy leadership positions.
3. Among the most important steps taken to train the youth and enable them to participate in
decision-making is the first National Youth Conference in October 2016 held in order to achieve
direct communication between them and the senior state officials and listen to their opinions in
various fields. It was followed by four other national youth conferences held with the
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