A collection of real stories from young people, showing what shifting power looks like in practice, not as a theory.
We re-imagined what the 7 dimensions of localisation would look like in the context of child and youth-led change. This is what we came up with:
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Equipping young people with knowledge and skills to organise sustainable citizen-led movements
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Enabling young leaders to build alliances with each other and partners to advocate for change with a powerful voice at the highest levels
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Mainstreaming equity and inclusion both within and outside Shift so that even the most marginalised groups gain representation within change movements.
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Nurturing channels and platforms between young people, policy actors, decision-makers and community members to usher change
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Ensuring greater recognition of young people’s passion, contribution, effort, innovation and impact on society
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Securing greater access to both quantity and quality (flexible, longer-term, predictable, fair, independent) of funds.
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Moving towards genuine and meaningful relationships with young people where they become equal partners
ALL STORIES
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Beyond Empowerment: The Strength of Peer-to-Peer Networks
As of 2024, SHIFT has been used by over 90 child and youth-led groups in 22 countries - and this scale has enabled us to begin our work of growing the peer-to-peer exchange globally.
When Grace Sichula first encountered SHIFT in 2022, she was a young volunteer at Malawi's National Youth Network on Climate Change. She had never heard of SHIFT. But something clicked. By the time she and a group of like-minded young people had formalised their ideas into a registered organisation, the Shift Power Organisation (SPO), Grace had become the kind of leader that turns a room of 15 students into a movement.