Youth Empowerment

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Adolescence is a significant transition period and a unique window of opportunity to shape the healthy and successful development of future generations. And with more than 1.8 billion young people in the world today – 90 percent of whom live in developing countries – addressing the diverse needs of youth and adolescents is critical to ending poverty and promoting equality. To help youth grow into healthy, productive adults and citizens, CARE employs a rights-based and comprehensive approach that considers all the inputs a young person needs throughout their life. Our decades of experience with youth programming spans from girls’ education to health to economic development and more. We address the specific and diverse needs of young people, ensuring they have access to the information, resources and support they need to escape poverty for good. We recognize that poverty is inextricably linked to social marginalization and discrimination – and our experience has shown that simply providing young people with a few skills, then expecting them to conquer systemic injustices is not effective and does not lead to their empowerment. Rather, large-scale and sustainable change requires addressing laws, policies, gender norms and social and cultural barriers that stand in the way. By creating an enabling and equitable environment where young people can exercise their skills, knowledge and leadership, they are able to step into new roles and lead the change themselves.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Sall Family Foundation, Ford Foundation, Reach Out to Asia, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Oak Foundation, Pepsico Foundation, The Coca Cola Company

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Life skills education

  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being