Here we look at youth-led development broadly. It brings together evidence, good practice, toolkits and evaluations from youth-led programmes from different organisations, and features articles, blog posts, creative media, case studies and research pieces written by young people active in the development sector.
On the 7th of August 2011, a peaceful protest in London became the ignition of four nights of riots and looting. The fires burned through English towns and cities, with
The dissatisfaction, anger and disillusionment of civil society with the weak outcome text of the Rio+20 Summit—and the lack of willingness of heads of state to make it stronger—has culminated
When the Major Group for Children & Youth spoke at the opening plenary of Rio+20, they did so on behalf of 3 billion young people. Now, after an 8 month
“We would like to commend the efforts of civil society in highlighting the importance of food security for the achievement of sustainable development. Despite these inputs, the outcome document of
“Our vision of the world is one that embraces social equity and environmental justice, where prosperity is evaluated by the principles and values of our collective consciousness. Humankind should be
“It’s a little cliché in sustainable development circles to say: “we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” That doesn’t make it any
One of main outcomes of the Rio+20 summit is likely to be a commitment to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015, with an upgraded set of
While it looks like the world leaders, who convene at Rio+20 in Brazil, fail to get any half-way useful commitment agreed upon in order to replace the Millennium Development Goals,
More than 3,000 young people were expected to gather in Rio de Janeiro at the Youth Blast ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). But despite a
Twenty years ago, Severn Cullis-Suzuki’s 6-minute speech to the 1992 Earth Summit ‘silenced the world’ and challenged negotiators to ‘make your actions reflect your words.’ Twenty years on and speaking
