Deadline: 17-Mar-25
YIELD Hub’s Action Learning is a collaborative and reflective process where participants from diverse backgrounds identify challenges, develop practical strategies, and implement real-world solutions.
Focus Topics
- Sustainable Financing for Youth-Led Organisations: Exploring Challenges and Solutions
- When provided with sustainable funding support, young people can challenge harmful norms, advocate for institutional and legislative reforms, and drive positive transformations in the field of Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Despite this potential, many youth-led organisations encounter substantial barriers to fair access and distribution of funding, both globally and nationally. This funding barrier restricts the possibilities for young people to innovate new ideas and expand successful initiatives.
- At the YIELD Hub, they are dedicated to improving youth partnership in Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). This involves advancing practical cross-stakeholder learning to ensure that stakeholders (donors, governments, non-governmental organisations, the private sector, and other key partners) in the SRHR field,
- Organisational Strengthening for Youth-Led Organisations: Building Resilience and Capacity
- Youth-led organisations (YLOs) working in Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) face organisational development challenges that hinder their effectiveness and sustainability. These challenges often include inadequate institutional structures affecting daily operations and resource mobilisation, weak reporting and financial auditing systems, lack of leadership transition planning, and limited investment in staff capacity-building. Such gaps restrict the impact YLOs have at both the community and national levels.
- At the YIELD Hub, they collaborate with funders, INGOs, researchers and youth and community groups to tackle organisational challenges through the Action Learning Groups. They invite YLOs, funders, INGOs, researchers, and other stakeholders working with youth to join these groups to reflect, learn collectively, and take meaningful actions that enhance organisational development, build capacity, and strengthen the resilience of YLOs.
- Understanding the Intersection of Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR): Impacts, Challenges, and Collaborative Solutions
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are increasingly at risk due to the far-reaching effects of climate change. Marginalised communities, particularly women, adolescents, and young people, are disproportionately affected by climate-related crises such as extreme weather events, food insecurity, and displacement. These crises, directly and indirectly, disrupt access to essential SRHR services, underscoring the need to address both issues to build resilience and promote equity.
- At the YIELD Hub, they invite organisations working on climate change, public health, and youth leadership to join the Action Learning Group to explore ways to ensure reproductive health services remain accessible during climate emergencies and empower young people and women-led organisations with knowledge about the links between climate change and SRHR, equip them with tools to advocate for their needs, and collectively encourage stakeholders to align climate policies with SRHR goals and allocate resources to address these interconnected challenges. The Action Learning group offers a collaborative space to reflect, share ideas, and co-create solutions.
Compensation
- Action learning group members will be offered a stipend in recognition of their contributions.
Commitment
- The commitment expected from members of the Action Learning Group includes dedicating approximately 6-8 hours per month for a period of 7 months. This time will be spent participating in the action learning cycle, which involves a combination of virtual collective and individual online and offline work.
Eligibility Criteria
- They invite funders, researchers, implementers, INGOs, and youth-led organisations to apply to join the action learning groups.
For more information, visit YIELD Hub.