Civic education for transparent and peaceful political process DRC is currently undergoing a critical period in the whole arena of the political process. There has been lots of happenings since the beginning of the year 2015 that have had severe impact on the lives of the Congolese people. This include limited space for freedom of expression, political crisis, none respect of the pre-established constitution, serious human rights abuses just to name a few. In the middle of this unfortunate situation the Catholic church has remained alert and keen to monitor the situation while openly showing its position through various pastoral letters commonly known as "Bishops declarations." One of the latest declaration clearly stipulate the position of the church regarding the current planned national dialogue. In leading the mass, the letter has underlined the need for the dialogue to be carried out in the absolute constitutional framework. It recognizes the little efforts made by the central government but still notes the lack of democracy in the actual practice that needs to be accompanied by the respect of the constitution in place. CENCO (DRC Catholic bishop’s conference) has taken several measures to ensure that men and women are kept informed and trained about their rights and duties and more so on their role to ensure that the government in place is held accountable. CEJP has been mandated to lead this process throughout the diocese and parishes across the country. However there is a portion of the youth that needs as well to be targeted particularly if we are to mitigate eventual crisis and security deterioration in the near future.  This project to prepare the youth to effectively play a meaningful role in the political process. Over the past we have experienced many unfortunate situation whereby the youth was manipulated in a way or another and this lead to severe crisis and many people lost their lives as a result of this. This project will target the youth in various strategic structures such as the universities and those in various context not covered by CEJP. They will be trained and prepared and same will be called to multiply the effect to other youth within their context.  This project aims at creating awareness and sensitizing the youth about the electoral process and how the youth has an important role to play in order to secure a peaceful process. The project will as well aim at strengthening the capacity of the youth clubs through identified universities and youth structures who will in turn populate the very message to a broader group. Young people are the first politician’s victims. If not well equipped and informed, there is a great risk that the whole country fall into serious crisis starting from the capital city as experienced in January. It is important for the youth to not only participate but to as well own the political process since they represent the greater force of the electorate. Taking into consideration the latest pastoral letter from the bishops, it is a matter of fact that the government is a bit threatened and has not digested the same in positively. At the same time the opposition is trying to use the Catholic letter to build up a mass reform that can potentially lead to a national crisis. If the youth is not well prepared and enlightened, they remain vulnerable to be the central target to lead the crisis that will certainly result into blood-shedding. We therefore presume that this project will certainly make a great difference and will help to reduce the involvement of the youth in such unfortunate manipulation and in contrary help them to play a meaningful role in the advancement of our country's young democracy process.  That's why UJCC has chosen to focus on this issue by looking for ways to avoid this future frustration.   In practical terms this project will therefore: - Structure the youths into groups in order to have a better organized mean to channel various governance messages and populate them through the communities - It will also focus civic education and youth sensitization on responsible citizenship - Strengthen their advocacy capacity to continue discussion started with political structures, government and CENI.  - Organize debates that will inform the youth and create the opportunity for the youth to communicate and fill in the gaps and loopholes that could probably disintegrate into unfortunate and worse situations