Innovate

As an incubator for innovative evidence-based youth interventions The Youth Institute seeks to pioneer innovative evidence-based youth interventions that are replicable in developing world contexts. The journeys of each of these programme will be disseminated to others who are keen to use them, in as tinned a form as possible. The key value will be on saving other organisations time and money, and ensuring that new programmes are trialled. Training for programme implementations is also offered. Currently, some ideas for youth programmes include:

Ndixolisa (‘I am sorry’) programme: Targeted at young people and families that deals with restitution and forgiveness in the South African context

Cinga ikamva (‘Imagine the future’): A national ‘spontoring’ (combining sponsoring and mentoring) programme teaming up young professionals with youth at school from the end of Grade 9 to the end of young people’s first year out of school.

Mamalikazi (mom the teacher): A strategy helping mother engage with their teenage sons especially about their educational choices.

The Dignity of Work programme: A relook at the nature of work, the dignity inherent in work of every description and basic careers advice that works.

Taking the Gap: Working holiday abroad for youth from impoverished communities.

YTeach: A strategy for helping young people teach indigenous language to English and Afrikaans speaking South Africans in their close circles of acquaintance – and by so doing earn a sustainable income.

See also Know, Repair and Circulate.

Bridging the gap between what we know and what we do in youth development in the developing world

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