Welcome to YouthLead News!

A newsletter for young changemakers

Winter 2022

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Latest events and opportunities

Helping One Changemaker Redirect His Course

Dhammaranta Jawale was exposed to socioeconomic injustices from an early age. He was born to a family of six in the Jamkhed region of Maharashtra, India. Life in his village and the surrounding area was difficult because they were constantly impacted by drought as it was part of a rain shadow zone. Rain shadows are areas with significantly reduced rainfall situated behind mountainous regions. They often become dry and desert-like and do not allow for vegetation growth. Watching those close to him live under these conditions roused a passion in him to dedicate his career to removing inequities in his community. Read on.

What's New on YouthLead? 

YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation is conducting an assessment on behalf of USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security that will identify the shocks and stressors youth (18-29) in agri-food systems currently feel. You can help them understand what works and what does not for future programs. Take the survey.

Now Available! The fifth Mentorship Initiative event, Setting Boundaries and Managing Expectations in Mentoring Relationships, is now available for replay. Global Changemakers, an international youth organization and global pioneer in supporting youth-led sustainable development, hosted a lively panel discussion where attendees discovered that no matter where or when the mentoring relationship is established, it must be defined in order for it to be successful. Watch now.

Connect with Us on Instagram
For the latest on members of YouthLead and changemakers like our recent graduating cohort of YouthLead Ambassadors, connect with us on Instagram at @youthleadglobal. Discover how these young leaders are transforming their communities for the better! 

Starting the Entrepreneur Adventure 

Rasmus Jakobsen and Anxhela Bruci are two young entrepreneurs running startups with social good at their core. From starting up to dealing with growing pains, they share their journeys and perspectives on running businesses in Greenland and Albania, and what they want policymakers to know about young business owners.

“You need to not only have those brilliant ideas,” Bruci says. “But the support in place and a huge resilience to act on those ideas.”

Plus, two must-have YouthLead Starter Kits to add to your business resource library. Listen in at youthpower.org/pydlab. The PYD Lab is also available on all major podcast platforms.
 

Participate in a Community of Practice!

YP2LE’s Communities of Practice (CoPs) are spaces where youth and youth-serving practitioners can come together to share ideas, tools, and build and test practical resources to advance PYD through sharing and collective learning. These communities are free and open to all. Register on YouthPower.org and then sign up for CoPs on the communities page:   

• Business, Entrepreneurship, and Private-sector Engagement (BEPSE) CoP: focused on building skills in entrepreneurship and on collaboration with the private sector. Open to all sectors, the CoP will have an emphasis on agriculture initially, adding other sectors such as health, education, or transport based on member interest and feedback. 
• Youth Engagement CoP: focused on meaningful youth engagement in all aspects of programming. 
• Gender CoP: focused on integrated youth-centered and gender transformative programming through PYD. 
• Higher Education Engagement and Transformation (HEET) CoP: focused on engaging the international community to advance higher education and youth learning priorities and strengthening the link between PYD and sector programming through a systems-based approach. 
• Youth Systems Strengthening (YSS) CoP: focused on providing an open learning and sharing space that allows participants to understand more about the purposes, processes and outcomes associated with reforming systems that impact youth outcomes sustainably and at scale. 
• Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Youth CoP on YouthPower.org (English and Arabic): focused on youth and youth-serving stakeholders supporting PYD in the MENA region.

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