Afek Tounes

In addition to being the secretary general of the Youth Institute of her party, Afek Tounes, Dhouha Debaya is also a member of Forum Jeunes, a youth forum funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Dhouha ran as the fourth candidate on the list in Tunisia’s legislative elections in 2019.

Dhouha represented Tunisian youth in the NIMD Jordan School of Politics’ program on improving youth groups in countries. She took part in the “Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality 2030,” where she worked as part of a team to create a manifesto to be presented to the United Nations. She was elected to represent her party in the 2018 Liberal International Congress in Dakar and has been chosen for a training session at the International Academy for Leadership in Germany by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Dhouha, a licensed communication, entrepreneurship, and employability trainer for the American organization WeYouth, leads training workshops on successful tactics for young people to adopt when looking for work or starting their enterprises.

Dhouha fights for women’s empowerment and encourages women in her community to become more involved. She recently took part in the “Generation an Avenir” initiative, which aims to eliminate sexual harassment.

She attended the Tunisian School of Politics.

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