Youth Take the Lead Learning Document

A review of the lessons learnt from the ‘Youth Take the Lead’ programme, written by its participants. Youth Take the Lead is a six month exchange project led by Restless Development in partnership with the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC). It focuses on enhancing youth leadership across three Restless Development Hubs: Nepal, Tanzania and …

Tackling mental health challenges in Nepal

Female Community Health Volunteers: The backbone of Nepal’s healthcare system. Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) form the first point of contact for basic health services in local communities for the treatment of common diseases. They deliver essential maternal and child healthcare and outreach services for immunisation. They also provide mental health support and help women …

Saraswoti’s Journey

Saraswoti Nagarkoti, 18, is from Godawari Municipality in Lalitpur, Nepal. She lost her mother to cancer when she was just nine months old. On finding out that her mother passed away due to unavailability of prompt and accessible healthcare, she decided to become a doctor.

Working Better Together

In consultation with seven donors and 17 youth civil society organisations (CSOs) and through an extensive literature review, the Development Alternative found that collaborative, trusted and open partnerships between donors and youth CSOs can accelerate the power shift and unleash youth-led change.

Safeguarding is top priority in Sierra Leone

Key findings of our complaints, feedback and response mechanism review Our Sierra Leone Hub is leading the way on safeguarding. So far, we have worked with over 200 communities to ensure that they can recognise potential concerns and report safeguarding issues or incidents to us, irrespective of whether they involve one of our staff members …

The Youth Stop AIDS Lockdown Sessions

A COVID-friendly alternative to our usual “Big Weekend” featuring workshops, special guests and a quiz night. Starting February 1, Youth Stop AIDS’ steering committee and campaigners are organising a series of informal, interactive sessions on global health, skills building and campaigning . What will the sessions cover? Monday 1st February, 5.30pm – 7pm (UTC) Option …

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Youth Power Panel 2020-21

#YouthPower is making the Global Goals a reality. In 2020, a 12-strong Youth Power Panel and came together from all over the world. They aimed to organise the biggest youth generation in history to make the world a better place. The supported and connected local grassroots campaigns with funding; amplified youth actions that are creating …

Priyanshu’s story

Priyanshu is a young girl from Deoghar in Jharkhand, a region where child marriage is a common practice and parents begin searching for grooms for their daughters as soon as they enter adolescence.