AIM YOUTH POWER

Enabling young people to lead change and development

The Aim Youth Power project supports youth-led accountability of duty-bearers articulated around the capacity-building of a network of youth-led organizations that are already active in youth-led accountability. By working through these organizations, the project aims to create a sustainable approach that ensures young people can safely participate in accountability efforts, rather than directly training them to confront leaders.

We train Youth-led organizations so their capacity is strengthened to deliver sustainable solutions in their communities, bringing them all together in a network to support their collective actions. With this increased capacity, they become better equipped to inform and influence state actors on service provision issues pertaining to young people. This results in Youth-Focused and Youth-Led Organizations (YFOs and YLOs) collectively being able to hold State actors accountable to influence their decisions.

PROJECT OUTPUTS

YFOs and YLOs Inform State Actors on Performance Issues of Services in Favor of Young People

The Aim Youth Power project interventions include YLOs and YFOs researching, documenting, and publishing on community service provision issues that involve young people, monitoring laws, policies and programmes. These interventions are result in the publishing of youth-led reports, data collection exercises, documented cases, situation analyses (including if possible on issues of corruption and budget tracking). 

YFOs and YLOs Influence State Actors’ Decision-making on Service Provision for Young People

The project supports the network of YLOs and YFOs to take on evidence-based advocacy targeting State actors, demanding for young people’s rights to be represented in decision-making spaces as mapped out and identified in Government institutions. Interventions strive to better understand the responsibilities of duty-bearers for services targeted at young people. To facilitate this, advocacy and campaign activities are undertaken. Inputs into policies and Government plans (including the 8NDP), mapping of mandates and stakeholders activities are also tackled.

YFOs and YLOs Take Action for Dialogue Between State Actors and Young People

YFOs and YLOs sensitize and mobilize young people in their constituencies on youth-led accountability while Restless Development Zambia sensitizes State actors on the need to engage meaningfully with young people, resulting in the opening of dialogue opportunities. This is achieved through the development and dissemination of digital, video, and print material on youth-led accountability for young people (inclusive of various marginalized youth populations), meaningful youth engagement training, dialogue/platform creation, support to community-based action. 

YLOs and YFOs have increased capacity, sustainability and collective impact:

Through the project interventions, YLOs and YFOs are trained in key areas to build their capacity to effectively engage with State actors on accountability issues. In addition to institutional strengthening, Aim Youth Power will include sensitization on gender, diversity and inclusion for YLOs and YFOs, bringing them together in a network that to collectively raise their voices and supporting them through direct assistance on fundraising. This is achieved through training activities on youth-lead accountability, institutional strengthening (in the areas of finance, human resources, quality programming, monitoring and evaluation), gender transformative approach, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, scoping exercise on funding opportunities for local YLOs and FYOs, creation of the network, and support to youth sector coordination. 

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