Resilient Realities

Strengthening youth response and recovery for youth civil society. Resilient Realities is a youth-led research project that will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth civil society around the world, and identify the kind of resourcing and support needed to strengthen the youth response and recovery. Resilient Realities will use an innovative methodology …

Shifting the Power Research

“Shifting the power: what will it take to do development differently?” is a research series into Youth Civil Society, led by young people in Iraq, Lebanon, Madagascar and Uganda. Download the full report below.

Accountability in Action Toolkit

Youth-led monitoring of the Global Goals. This is a practical guide for young people tracking the Global Goals. It is available in four languages- English, French, Swahili and Nepali. You can download a copy using the buttons below.

Youth Leadership, Partnership and Accountability

Youth Leadership, Partnership and Accountability 2.0 Strengthened youth-led accountability will enable young people to more effectively hold decision makers accountable for their commitments to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender Equality. Restless Development, in partnership with UNFPA, and with young people from across East and Southern Africa, have developed recommendations for strengthening youth-led …

Youth Think Tank

Training young people to conduct and lead research projects, collecting evidence, and documenting youth needs, challenges, and aspirations in seven African countries to influence livelihoods and employment policy.

Mary’s Story

“Education helps us to be self-reliant, which gives way for innovation and creativity to solve problems in our society.” Mary is 22 years old and lives in rural Sierra Leone. Her family are farmers.  “Growing up was difficult. I was the one who had to cater for our family even as a child. Working at …

Youth Power Solidarity Meetups

Over the past four months, as an expression of solidarity and youth power, the youth power panel have been bringing young people together from all over the world, to connect and share ideas around COVID-19. The idea is to support young people to meet with others around the world – others they wouldn’t typically have …

Response to merging DFID and FCO

Restless Development responds to the merging of two government departments in the UK: The Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).