The Collective Service is a partnership between the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organization (WHO), which leverages active support from the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), and key stakeholders from the public health and humanitarian sectors.
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The Collective Service brings together a wide range of organizations engaged in policy, practice, and research for Community Engagement and related areas (Risk Communication, Accountability to Affected Populations, and Social Behaviour Change, among others) aiming to ensure expert-driven, collaborative, consistent, and localized support reaches governments and partners involved in the national preparedness and response to main Public Health Emergencies and humanitarian crises.
YES!, the Youth Engagement Subgroup seeks to contribute to improving young people’s knowledge, attitudes, and/or behaviours, including increasing their risk perception, reinforcing positive behaviours, influencing social norms, and empowering them to change and improve their well-being and resilience.
YES! enables collaboration and support with the development and rolling out of specific interventions and strategies relevant to young people’s contexts and realities. As part of the Collective Service, it aims to:
- Advocate for the inclusion of young people within global, regional, and local Community Engagement (and related areas) strategies, policies, and plans, while ensuring their coordination efforts towards young people.
- Support the collective approach by facilitating connections with youth networks at the global level active in the areas covered by the Collective Service
- Promote the collective data generation and social research focused on young people to effectively guide field efforts.
- Create linkages and include a youth lens in areas of work of other Collective Service’s Subgroups.
Purpose of the Showcase
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, young people and youth-led organizations have been at the forefront of responding to the needs of their peers. The purpose of this showcase is to:
- Collate a series of good practices by youth-oriented organizations and networks on engaging young people and supporting their leadership in the COVID-19 response.
- Utilize these examples to support other organizations that may be working with young people to put good practices into place.
- Based on these good practices, contribute to knowledge on the prevention, preparation and response to future public health emergencies, including Youth Engagement and Youth Empowerment as an essential part of the coordination
We know that many organizations are doing incredible work at the country and sub-national levels, so we want to hear from you!
Benefits
- The selected organizations with good practices will be invited to present their experiences in a special global webinar, within the framework of the International Youth Day, hosted by the Collective Service, GOARN and YES!, the Youth Engagement Subgroup.
- UNICEF, UNAIDS and the Collective Helpdesk will support to build or complement the documentation of the learnings and operational guidance of the selected good practices to compile guidance for use by all organizations wishing to engage young people and support their leadership.
Eligibilities
Eligible for all the youth leaders with meaningful Youth Engagement and strong leadership skills. Also, have to keep in mind that the applicants should be able to answer the following questions-
- Did young people make up a proportionate percentage of the decision-making body?
- Did young people have access to the resources they needed to undertake the work with fair compensation?
- Was there consideration for mitigating any power dynamics that may exist between young people and the agency?
- Did young people hold the majority of decision-making power in the study?
- Where young people in all their diversity engaged in this piece of work?
- Was the leadership of young people in all their diversity considered over the course of this piece of work?
- Was support offered to improve the engagement of young people? (e.g. stipends, covering internet costs, travel, etc.)
- Was capacity strengthening available to support the effective implementation of this work in a way that was sensitive to the needs of young people and did not aim to influence the work?
- Was there any capacity strengthening offered/given to the young people (this includes a comprehensive onboarding process)?
- Were requirements for organizations amended to account for the issues youth-led organizations face? E.g. no requirements for registration, no minimum budgets/funding over the past year, etc.
- Where a project/mechanism focused on youth as beneficiaries, where young people’s inputs given majority weighting?
- Did your organization take a back seat and provide technical/financial support as required, and allow the majority of decisions to be made by the youth networks?
Application Process
- To take part in the showcase, YES! invites you to submit your good practices via the Google Form.
- submit only ONE good practice at a time through the Google Form.
- use a personal Gmail account, and opening the form in the Google Chrome browser.
- Languages accepted: English, French, Spanish
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Application Deadline: August 31, 2022
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