ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on youth civic education as a strategy for promoting positive youth development in two countries from the MENA region: Morocco and Jordan. It focuses on two leading civic engagement centers, one in Morocco and the other in Jordan, to examine the components of the civic education they promote and the scope of knowledge, skills, and competences they seek to build. The chapter discusses the challenges and services meet given the broader political and social contexts within which they operate. The teaching of Center for Civic Education (CCE) modules are also taken to some university-level students and other school clubs with the funding from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its implementing partners, the United Nation Democracy Program and the many other international actors. Finally, the chapter focuses on the larger contexts and the voices of the trainers and young people themselves to underline the series of tensions and contradictions in which civic education is caught.
