Global Girls Creating Change

Global Girls Creating Change (G2C2) supports girl-led entrepreneurship and climate action in Brazil, Indonesia, Nepal and Uganda. The program is implemented by Hivos (lead), Restless Development, and Humanis. The voice of girls is critical. Girls, in all their diversity, are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. The crisis deepens existing social and economic inequalities, making it …

GreenShift Nepal

GreenShift: Circularity of Plastic Waste for Net-Zero Carbon Nepal project aims to promote the Circular Economy in Madhesh, Lumbini, and Bagmati Province. The project focuses on interventions for plastic waste collection by mobilizing civil societies of waste workers, waste enterprises, youth advocacy and sustainable product designing and packaging. With the active involvement of the Waste …

Green Jobs project

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues affecting our world and will be a major issue that young people will have to contend with in the future. The effects of climate change are likely to hit sub-Saharan Africa the hardest where youth populations are already large and only projected to grow. Like many …

Positive Parenting Education Program

Creating and Expanding Opportunities for the Empower of Adolescent Girls and Boys Through Gender-Transformative Engagement. Restless Development Sierra Leone is implementing an integrated package of interventions that is empowering communities, parents, caregivers and adolescent girls in shifting behaviors, social norms and practices supporting child marriage. The package comprises of the roll-out of the positive parenting …

Financial Inclusion for Women Living in Informal Settlement.

The initiative, called “WILLIS,” aims to empower women to promote economic growth in their communities while supporting them to advocate for improved financial services and policies in a sustainable and impactful way. From the inception of the programme till date, 148 female volunteers have been providing basic literacy and numeracy skills, book keeping, and accurate …

Chitetezo

Establishing communities free of Gender-Based Violence, child marriages, teen pregnancies and other harmful practices. Gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV) restrict women and girls’ mobility, access to resources, and limit their decision-making power―all of which impact their ability to act on their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Adolescent girls between 10-19 years of …

Taking Climate Change to Schools

Living in the Climate Crisis Young people are disproportionally affected by the climate crisis. The voices of young Africans are often unheard in public and political discussions of climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Restless Development’s Living in Climate Crisis report, drawing from 1214 survey responses and 102 interviews with young people in Uganda found …

Youth Climate Action Lab

A youth-led movement on addressing the issues of climate change in Urban Bengaluru. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues affecting young people.

RUPANTARAN

A holistic adolescent and youth empowerment package. Rupantaran is a holistic adolescent development social and financial skills package; with focus on two age groups (i.e. 10-14 years and 15-19 years) separately, is fully tested with and among adolescents and adults. The package comprising of 15 modules has been designed in partnership and consultation with various …

Nepali Youth in Climate Action and Green Growth

Young people leading climate change mitigation and adaptation. Restless Development Nepal through a strong collaborative consortium partnership with Youth Innovation Lab, Creasion and Centre for Disaster Management Study, has initiated a climate change adaptation and mitigation focused project. Engaging Youth to support and capacitate the local governments to develop Local Disaster and Climate Resilient Plans …