DELIVERING INSIGHTS INTO SHIFTING POWER
Drawing on our work with over 500 young campaigners from over 30 countries.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & VALUES
Capacity
Equipping young people with knowledge and skills to organise sustainable citizen-led movements
Coordination
Enabling young leaders to build alliances with each other and partners to advocate for change with a powerful voice at the highest levels
Partnership
Moving towards genuine and meaningful relationships with young people where they become equal partners
RESOURCES & NETWORKS
Funding
Securing greater access to both quantity and quality (flexible, longer-term, predictable, fair, independent) of funds.
Participation
Mainstreaming equity and inclusion both within and outside Shift so that even the most marginalised groups gain representation within change movements.
CREDIBILITY & INFLUENCE
Visibility
Ensuring greater recognition of young people’s passion, contribution, effort, innovation and impact on society
Influence
Nurturing channels and platforms between young people, policy actors, decision-makers and community members to usher change
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.