The social environment created by those striving for political dominance does not allow for an authentic popular expression of national concerns for it cannot accommodate the kind of democratic participatory institutions that are necessary if such policies are to be found and fructify. Thus the PPP/C in the years after Cheddi Jagan did not care too much about the existence of a national youth policy and it is admirable that the APNU+AFC government has completed the project that has been so very long in the making. Youth policies are not ends in themselves and without extensive stakeholder participation to drive the process they remain parchment.
