Without underestimating the extent of the challenge South Africa faces in developing our youth, reducing the youth unemployment rate substantially and driving towards decent work and ultimately, career opportunities, for the majority of our young people, we inherently believe that our youth are talented and have the potential to be successful, but need assistance in unlocking their talent and access to opportunities to develop skills and gain employment, amongst other interventions. Our objectives in terms of developing and publishing this report are to:
- Engage within the youth development sector to establish what is and isn’t working
- Propose guiding principles for ourselves for implementing youth development, and by extension, other organisations
- Consider the impact of trauma and what role addressing trauma should play in youth development
- Propose a development framework for developing foundations in youth, which is more holistic in its approach than providing technical skills, workplace readiness and/or work experience
- Propose key programme practices for maximum effectiveness
- Develop a foundation on which we could build our programmes and engage in collaboration in the sector
We invite all stakeholders within the youth ecosystem to engage with our work, evaluate it and consider what learnings, ideas and considerations they might be able to apply within their own realm of influence, and what feedback and perspectives they might be able to share. Please complete the form to download the Youth Development Re-imagined Report
