Restless Development Nepal’s quarterly round-up covers information on the celebration of Pride Month, activities conducted by Youth Take the Lead (YTL) volunteers, Restless Development’s Values Celebration, and Anti-racism Work. Pride Month was celebrated successfully by running a three-day-long online campaign in which young people’s voices in the form of poems, quotations, and video messages were collected and shared on social media channels. Similarly, the YTL volunteers conducted a National Dialogue and Global Dialogue and started the preparation of the Global Citizenship Toolkit. Likewise, staff from all the Restless Development hubs came together and we celebrated 10th Values Day- a chance to connect with each other, its values, and culture as an agency. Additionally, Restless Development has developed an Anti-Racism Working Group to create a safe and collaborative learning space where staff openly and critically reflect on our progress or raise concerns where we are failing.

Role of Young People for Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Indigenous knowledge, systems, and traditions are progressively being passed down to the next generation. This is causing a significant gap in human lives, as well as affecting the entire human ecosystem. ‘Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health‘ report documents …

Restless Development Nepal together with enthusiastic young people is working to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on youths and provide the young active leaders with the resources and capacity to further strengthen their knowledge and skills to contribute to positive change.

To combat the challenges brought up by the COVID-19 pandemic, young people stepped forward and extensively engaged in raising awareness among other youths and the wider community.

The Annual Report covers the major programs and events, story of resilience, voices of young people, and how youths stepped forward as superheroes to fight the challenges brought by the pandemic.

A review of the lessons learnt from the ‘Youth Take the Lead’ programme, written by its participants. Youth Take the Lead is a six month exchange project led by Restless Development in partnership with the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC). It focuses on enhancing youth leadership across three Restless Development Hubs: Nepal, Tanzania and …

Update on Restless Development Nepal’s work from July to September 2020.