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.
The ‘Youth Blast’ is the Conference of Youth for Rio+20, a preparatory event for all children and youth attending the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) widely known as
At Rio+20, countries and world leaders are actively blocking references in the conference agreement to human rights. Despite all countries at the United Nations agreeing to the Universal Declaration on
This animation video by the youth-led NGO Rio+twenties introduces children and youth to the world of Rio+20, a sustainable development conference organised by the UN in June 2012. It is
Because of the Kony 2012 campaign, everyone is talking about the Lord’s Resistance Army, its deranged leadership, and its many victims in northern Uganda, notably child soldiers. Talk is intense.
“Natural disasters are increasingly frequent,” the report notes, and “[a]t times of crisis, children and adolescents are most vulnerable. While the youngest are most likely to perish or succumb to
The Kony 2012 video has raised the issue of child soldiers to an unprecedented level in the West. Despite its popularity, the film and its makers, Invisible Children, have received
“People with disabilities have a lot of potential to take part in the development processes...” Med Ssengooba, a Ugandan lawyer working with the non-profit group Legal Action for Persons with
“Prudence is an example of a young person with disabilities who overcame challenges, broke stereotypes, and is changing her community and country. But this is not the case for many
In every part of the world, the disability rights movement is evolving, and we are all part of that evolution. We are outside the government and are helping our governments
Rio+twenties, a Brussels-based youth-led NGO aiming to facilitate youth participation in the lead up to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012 or Rio+20,
