At the heart of everything we do is Youth Power.
We are a non profit locally led, globally connected network that supports the collective power of young leaders to create a better world.
More than ever the world needs young people’s power and leadership to solve its greatest challenges. Every year we train, mentor, nurture and connect thousands of young people to use their youth power and lead change.
How we work is as important as what we do.
We want to proactively shift power to ensure every young person is able to lead and create a better world. We are feminist, inclusive, gender transformative and anti-racist in our work. We recognise the barriers that women, girls, non-binary people, people living with disabilities, and young people of different ethnicities, religion and sexual preferences face in the communities in which we work. We recognise historical power inequalities and aim to decolonise development.
Strategy
Our strategy guides our work with young people, partners, communities and governments.
Restless Development’s Strategy
Learn more about how we support youth power to create a better world.
Read our strategyImpact priorities
We have a track record of delivering programmes with impact. We work on the issues that young people care about the most – we react and respond to the world around us. Our work mostly falls into the following four impact priority areas.
Education enables you to be self-reliant and independent
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Our approach
Youth-led Change
We support young people to lead change, providing opportunities, and helping build confidence, networks and skills to lead initiatives that have a lasting impact.
- Youth training and empowerment – Young people are provided with tailored training, support, networks and mentors enabling young people to learn, adapt, grow, and ultimately thrive.
- Community mobilisation – Young people change behaviour or mobilise action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges such as child marriage or gender-based violence, as well as more pressing emergencies such as disease outbreaks or climate related disasters.
- Youth-led accountability – Young people are supported to advocate and hold decision-makers to account.
- Youth-led research – Young people capture key insights on issues that matter most to them, and use it to inform policy and practice.
Powering Youth Civil Society As A Trusted Intermediary
We have a strong track record of training and resourcing youth organisations, movements and unregistered groups, ensuring youth-led decision making and engagement throughout. Explore our role as an intermediary empowering youth organisations across the globe!
State of Youth Civil Society Research
Our annual flagship global, youth-led publication that explores the new realities youth civil society and social movements find themselves in after the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlights the adaptations these actors have developed in the quest toward shifting power.
Youth-led Research
Through our youth-led research approach, we partner with young people to capture key insights on the issues that matter most to them. We strive to make research accessible to diverse young people and actionable for decision-makers.
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