Dos and Don’ts of Meaningful and Inclusive Partnership with Youth
CECA Care Leaders Council
The CECA Care Leaders Council
The Care Leaders Council includes 16 members who represent a diverse range of lived and professional experiences with family separation and alternative care. The Council Members collaborate with each other and USAID to identify ways to inform and increase the effectiveness of programming for care reform while also further developing their own professional capabilities and network.
Contributors (CECA Council Members): Aditya Charegaonkar, Andreeas Novacovici, Bertha Lutome, Eric Kubwimana, Mai Nambooze, Emmanuel “Nams” Nabieu, Ruth Wacuka, Samora Asere, Simon Njoroge, Neelam Udayam, Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe, Grace Njeri, Mbangowa Elvis Ngwa, Chan Sineth, Maicol londoño, and Tatenda Dzorai ("Gift")
Meaningful and Inclusive Partnerships
In 2022, Care Leaders Council members met to discuss the following question:
How do we, as care leavers and young leaders, define what is meaningful and inclusive engagement with youth (who lead or are part of) programs aimed at advocating for and supporting care leaver populations?
Care Leaders Council members shared examples of both good and bad partnership practices that they have experienced or observed in their work or country context, in addition to defining what makes for a good partnership between youth and organizations/funders (e.g., USAID, GiZ, international NGOs).
About USAID’s Center on Children in Adversity (CECA)
The United States Government envisions a world in which all children thrive within protective, loving families, free from deprivation, violence, and danger. Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity: A U.S. Government Strategy for International Assistance outlines the U.S. Government’s whole-of-government commitment and approach to investing in the development, care, dignity, and safety of the world’s most vulnerable children and their families for the next five years. USG Partners involved in implementing the APCCA Strategy include the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and State; the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); and the Peace Corps.
USAID’s Center on Children in Adversity (CECA) supports the Special Advisor to lead the implementation of the APCCA Strategy’s goals and objectives:
- Objective 1, Build Strong Beginnings,
- Objective 2, Put Family First, and
- Objective 3, Protect Children from Violence.
Learn more about CECA and the APCCA Strategy here: https://www.childreninadversity.gov/