2017 YouthPower Annual Learning Network Meeting- Lightning Talks (Slides)

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Accelerating Youth Impact through Data
IREX

Facilitator(s)
Samhir Vasdev, Digital Development Advisor
Rachel Surkin, Director, Youth Practice

Description: How might we equip tomorrow’s leaders with the skills, confidence, and tools they need to make data-driven, evidence-based decisions? How can youth be the protagonists in the “data revolution” that can drive sustainable development in their communities? Join IREX as we share a new and creative model that’s developing a network of youth data ambassadors who demand, generate, and leverage high-quality information to measure and amplify their everyday impact. We’ll be grateful for your feedback and ideas to build on this model, and we’ll also introduce a few fun and interactive exercises to explore and cultivate a culture of data within our own communities.
Download the handout here:application/pdf Accelerating Youth Impact Through Data – hand-out (IREX).pdf

 

Beyond Youth Engagement: Youth as Protagonists in Education and Workforce Development with Vulnerable Youth
International Youth Foundation (IYF)
Facilitator(s): 
Amanda Ortega, Program Manager, Latin America & the Caribbean; Sergio J. Lopez, Operations Manager for Latin America & the Caribbean

Description:  In many PYD programs, youth are engaged in consultative roles, in youth-led research, or other meaningful ways that lead to youth agency and contribution. However, youth engagement activities are often viewed as components of an adult-led program rather than its central theory, especially in workforce development programs.  
This session will explore the youth-to-youth approach used in the Órale: Orienting Youth to the World of Work program, where young people lead as trainers, mentors, and job placement counselors to reconnect disconnected and NEET youth populations. Implemented for six years in Mexico, the program has achieved 71% (on average) employment or re-enrollment in education rate among participating youth. Learn how the youth-to-youth approach impacted both young people enrolled in the program and those delivering it; explore challenges in transferring a youth-led training program to local entities; and hear lessons learned from working with young people in these roles to foster successful outcomes.

Breaking the Boredom: Interactive M&E.
International Republican Institute (IRI)
Facilitator(s):
Theodore Wilhite, Governance Coordinator

Description: Content in the 21st Century is no longer one-directional. Users don't just watch videos: they interact, share, like and comment. Why should M&E be any different? At IRI's latest Global Summit, using Google forms and google docs, we developed interactive prompts for participants to grow and evolve their ideas as well as evaluate the trainings and module sessions. This session explores how to generate more wholesome feedback from youth or other technologically-savvy participants.

Collective Impact to Transform Urban Violence and Marginalization in Sri Lanka and Nigeria.
Search for Common Ground

Facilitator(s): Rachel Taza, Children & Youth Program Coordinator

Description: The traditional NGO project model isn’t adding up to large-scale change on complex social issues. At the same time, formal civil society is not effectively engaging young people and their unprecedented potential for driving change.
Search for Common Ground is piloting a nonlinear, innovative approach for engaging young people in cross-sector collective action for systems change. Our pilots in Sri Lanka and Nigeria are aimed at addressing violence and marginalization in urban settings.
 
 
Combatting Participation in Violent Extremism: The Importance of Holistic Approaches.
Education Development Center
Facilitator(s): 
Kevin Corbin, Project Director           

Description:  EDC’s Mindanao Youth for Development (MYDev) project—which takes a PYD approach in providing soft and technical skills training to out-of-school youth (OSY) while supporting local community groups that work for the advancement of OSY—is no stranger to conflict, crisis, and even violent extremism.
Impact evaluation data suggest that combined interventions for MYDev youth beneficiaries may affect youth’s success in employment, civic engagement or resisting engagement with violent extremist groups better than single or isolated approaches. This integrated approach—where youth’s assets are developed, their perceptions of agency altered, their resilience strengthened, their community engagement deepened, and their alliances with adult advocates built—allows for greater success in conflict and crisis settings.

Putting Youth FP INFOcus through Digital Storytelling.
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Facilitator(s): 
Cori Fordham, Program Officer

Description: The FP INFOcus Guide is a new tool by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative, which encourages youth-led organizations to create short videos featuring authentic voices and perspectives about family planning (FP) from their own communities – all using their mobile phones. It includes a step-by-step approach to preparing, producing and promoting mobile phone videos that share FP information and model essential skills. By using the Guide, young video-makers improve their skills in digital storytelling and health promotion, and viewers can privately learn about their full-range of FP options. The Guide was tested with a youth-focused Nigerian organization, the HACEY Health Initiative.

Soft Skills Measurement Instrument. 
YouthPower Action
Facilitator(s): 
Laura Lippman, Senior Technical Advisor
 
Description: YouthPower Action has developed an instrument to measure soft skills that builds on the recent review of existing instruments. The instrument will be piloted in FY 18. We will share the current version of the instrument with participants. Many youth programs include soft skills and the lack of good measurement tools has been a challenge for practitioners and policymakers.

The Business Challenge: Learning Business by Doing Business.
Making Cents International
Facilitator(s): 
Hillary Proctor, Director, Technical Services; Anne Greteman, Manager, Technical Services

Description: It has been tested and proven time and time again, youth learn and engage best by doing. In Liberia and Guyana, Making Cents has built on key PYD domains by integrating a Business Challenges into youth livelihoods programs to engage youth in their own learning and allow them to apply their learning in their community and marketplace. The Business Challenge provides youth with an experience of moving out of the classroom setting to managing an actual business for a day or week, where they negotiate with customers, plan business activities, and engage their budding skills and mindsets. This experience allows youth to employ their soft skills, work with peers, receive coaching and support, engage with their community and experience the reward of money earned from their own enterprise.
 
 
Transforming Politics and Power through Youth-Led Community Organizing.
National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Facilitator(s):
Lauren Kitz, Senior Program Officer for Citizen Participation and Inclusion; Rachel Mims, Program Officer for Youth Political Participation

Description: In order for young people to influence decisions affecting their welfare and future, they need to play an active role in civic and political life. NDI’s work seeks to remove barriers to youth participation by giving young people a political voice, opening civic space and strengthening accountability on their priority issues. NDI recently developed a theory of change for youth political participation derived from decades of experience working with young people globally. This session will explore the applicability of the theory through youth-led community organizing, an experiential process capable of achieving multiple dimensions of positive change.

Using Empowerment Lessons Videos to Promote Careers in STEM.
Career Girls
Facilitator(s):
Linda Calhoun, Founder and Executive Producer

Description: Career Girls is a free, noncommercial, video-based career exploration and readiness resource featuring 500 diverse and accomplished women role models sharing career, educational and life advice to inspire girls to stay on track academically and dream big about their futures.
In addition to a library of 10,000+ videos and a practical “How do I do this” section for each career, there are Empowerment Lessons– short, fast-paced video compilations of diverse role models delivering powerful soundbites with real-world insights, advice, and encouragement on a topic or type of career. Each lesson includes downloadable curriculum to facilitate group discussion and in-depth learning.

Using Evidence to Advance Girl-Centered Programming.
Population Council
Facilitator(s): 
Miriam Temin, Project Director | Strengthening Capacity to Build Girls' Protective Assets; Sajeda Amin, Senior Associate

Description: Community-based group programs to promote adolescent girls’ positive development are expanding, but evidence on their effects is limited. This session will briefly summarize a hot-off-the-press review of ‘safe space-style’ programs, emphasizing what we have learned about their impact and design. We’ll discuss the implications of evidence for programming and research. Case studies will illustrate how Population Council is testing a theory of change for innovative girl-centered programs in Zambia (GirlsRead!, which uses e-readers to enhance girls’ learning and schooling) and in Bangladesh (BALIKA, working to reduce child marriage).

 
 
 

 
 

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