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Adolescent Skills for Successful Transitions
Save the Children’s Adolescent Skills for Successful Transitions work provides adolescents and young people with relevant market-based skills and opportunities for obtaining decent work as well as agency and hope for their life-chances. Examples of interventions across the full spectrum include vocational training and business skills, apprenticeships, financial literacy, life skills, and building self-esteem and social networks.
The efforts are focused on the most deprived and at-risk adolescents; provision of both comprehensive training and follow-up mentoring services; and support specifically for marginalized, out-of-school young people with a combination of educational skills, including core literacy and numeracy, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Market-relevant skills and knowledge, for adolescents who have suffered deprivations relating to poverty, should be combined with the fostering of “agency” - the building of competencies such as life skills and social networks as well as hope for a successful future, confidence and self-esteem. Agency may be fostered through participatory methods and active learning – by engaging adolescents in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes. Programmes should engage young people as innovators and agents of positive change, encouraging them to take responsibility for savings accounts or other resources and to participate actively in the community.
Save the Children has also found that partnerships with parents and local communities, as well as in some cases with corporate partners, are essential for ensuring the relevance and sustainability of programmes’ impact. Where possible, Save the Children will work with governments and other partners (such as labour unions, the ILO) to address local labour market policies and distortions that negatively affect the ability of young people to access decent work and employment opportunities.
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I Support My Friends: A training for children and adolescents on how to support a friend in distress
“I Support My Friends” builds on the principles of Psychological First Aid to equip older children and adolescents with the skills and knowledge to support their friends in distress, under the mentorship and guidance of trusted adults. The four-part resou
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Adolescent Wellbeing Framework- A Critical Opportunity to Fulfil Human Rights and Drive Change
Today, around 1 billion adolescents live in developing countries and 145 million live in extremely poor households. Save the Children is committed to ensuring that every one of these children is supported and empowered to achieve their full potential an
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Youth Empowerment Bulgari Final Project Evaluation
The Youth Empowerment Bulgari (YEB) project was delivered over a five-year period (January 2016 – December 2020) and aimed to empower marginalised and deprived adolescents and youths (AYs) in Albania, Bolivia, Nepal and Uganda to develop essential life sk
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Adolescent Wellbeing Framework Catalogue of Key Resources
Catalogue of key resources to the Adolecent Wellbeing Framework. Resources are based from Save the Children’s experience working with and for adolescents as well as that of other organisations around the world. The resources are organised according to the
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Skills to Succeed: Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, 87% of the working population is employed in the informal sector, which is often characterized by unsafe working conditions and low incomes. Skills to Succeed (S2S) supports youth ages 15-24 in the transition from school to work and it ensu
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Skills to Succeed: Indonesia
The Skills to Succeed (S2S) program in Indonesia provides employability skills, entrepreneurship and financial literacy trainings, mentorship, job counselling, and job linkage services for in- and out-of-school youth ages 15-24. The program also provides
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Skills to Succeed Vietnam's E-Learning Program on Employability Skills for Youth
The Skills to Succeed (S2S) Vietnam program delivers employability skills training to migrant students in vocational colleges to help them successfully transition into the job market. The training covers topics such as self-exploration, job search skills,
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Closing the Digital Divide for Marginalized Youth in Bangladesh: Mobile Training Center
An innovative approach for providing access to the internet and build the digital skills of the most marginalized adolescents and youth in Bangladesh, particularly girls, is the use of a Mobile Training Center (MTC). The MTC moves around Chattogram to pro
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Youth Innovation Lab 2 Page Overview
The Youth Innovation Lab (YIL) is a Save the Children initiative that brings together local young leaders, experts, and entrepreneurs, to develop innovative social or business solutions to local problems related to the United Nations Sustainable Developme
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Youth Empowerment Bulgari Project- Annual Report Bulgari 2020
An innovative program to empower deprived adolescents and youth (aged 12-22) in four countries around the world (Albania, Bolivia, Nepal and Uganda) to achieve their full potential by enhancing their soft skills, building their capacities and improving th
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Gender Equality and Youth Empowerment Framework Brief
At Save the Children, we believe that all children deserve equal rights to opportunities that will prepare them to work and thrive in the global economy as they transition to adulthood. This period of adolescence is a pivotal stage in human development wh
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New Horizon plus Programme: Theory of Change- Adolescent Big Idea Framework
The document provides overview of the New Horizon Plus Theory of Change framework.