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Public Engagement and Policy

As an organisation working to amplify youth voices and decisions, we also collaborate with and influence policy makers, government systems, international and other national agencies.

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Public Engagement and Policy

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With adolescents in and out of school, we focus on developing core life competencies such as deep–self-awareness, relationship building, learnability, critical thinking, taking responsibility, empathy, problem-solving, decision-making and creative thinking,…

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We enable college students and other young people to become stakeholders, leaders and active citizens by facilitating their journey from self to society. The journey includes skill building workshops, discussions…

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Early Stage Social Entrepreneurs

Changelooms is a learning and leadership journey for supporting early stage social entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs work on a wide range of issues such as Peace and Conflict, Gender, Youth, Exclusion,…

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Capacity Building and Co-programming with organisations, professionals, educators, employers

Capacity Building and Co-programming with organisations, professionals, educators, employers

The Streaming function strengthens organisational and programmatic capacities of youth centric organisations. Learning Voyages - builds capacities of youth focussed organisations, community workers, teachers, educators through comprehensive learning journeys and…

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Public Engagement and Policy

Public Engagement and Policy

Over the last 26 years, we have been part of significant milestones of amplifying youth voices and concerns by collaborating with diverse stakeholders like government agencies, UN systems, international organisations,…

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Public Engagement & Policy Impact

Annual Youth festivals

Music For Harmony, Jashn-e-Aghaz and the Changelooms events have been powerful platforms to bring together young people, families, partners, artists, journalists, activists from across borders to amplify youth voices on issues of peace, communal harmony, social hope and discontent, inclusion, social entrepreneurship. These spaces are also designed as a leadership journey, and become an opportunity for young people to design, plan, experiment and lead exciting change initiatives to engage the public at large and be recognized for their leadership efforts in the community.

My Space...My Manifesto

A campaign to enhance young peoples participation in democracy in partnership with UNFPA and CYC was considered by many as a first of its kind initiative to crowd source a youth manifesto which was presented to 100 representatives of leading political parties. The campaign resulted in a national Youth Manifesto, which was also presented at various youth and civil society and the UN and Commonwealth platforms, political parties and received wide acclaim. Watch how young people amplify their voice on governance issues in The Tipping point of Democracy.

Changelooms With.in

A leadership program run in partnership with CYC and members to support 100 social entrepreneurs working on different issues of inclusion supported by DFID, PACS.

Bus! Stop Discrimination Now

This unique campaign on wheels led by CYC, focussed on social inclusion and was designed as a bus journey across three cities in the country with simulation games and dialogue cafes both inside the bus during the journey and outside it on site in learning locations.

Samjhotoh Express - Friendship Beyond Labels

A leadership journey to inspire young people to address different forms of identity-based discrimination in society supported by Misereor and Oxfam India led by CYC. Watch what happened in this journey in our film Jab We Let where we used the power of cross border friendships to break the divides.

Samvidhan Live! The Jagrik Project

A learning journey of active citizens ( Jagriks) to learn about and live the values enshrined in the Constitution of India through powerful self and social action projects in their communities ked by CYC. Key partners are Misereor, DKA, Oxfam India. This won the prestigious award for digital campaigning and media by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and was covered my both national and regional media and Lok Sabha TV doing a one hour program to showcase the actions and advocacy by the Jagriks. The Jagriks made an appeal to the public representatives and shared their experience and insights in An Open Letter To The President

To know more write in to Ritikaa.khunnah@pravah.org and Neeru.malhotra@pravah.org

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)

Partnered with Bluebells School International to integrate life skills into the NIOS social studies curriculum for class IX. Designed the curriculum on Employability and Entrepreneurship for senior secondary levels.

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

Contributed to the curriculum development for life skills education for class IX and X. We are also empanelled with CBSE for conducting various capacity building programs for Heads of Schools, Teachers, Students and parents affiliated to CBSE Schools.

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

Partnered with NCERT, as a member of the working group, to develop the curriculum for wellness centres and government schools across India; under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana (National Health Protection Scheme). Contributed to the curriculum of Adolescent Education Manual as resource persons.

State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT)

Created a gender toolkit for SCERT teacher’s training, to make their classrooms gender equitable and safe spaces for students. Also conducted a ‘mentor teacher’s’ training on design and facilitation methodologies in government school classrooms.

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

Partnered with MHRD, as a member of the working group for experiential learning and life skills thematic, which made recommendations to strengthen the education framework within schools.

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

Our founder Ashraf Patel, was a member the working groups set up for adolescents and youth by the minstry; and was instrumental in integrating a youth agenda in the drafting policies for the XIth and XIIth National Plan.

Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS)

Partnered with NYKS to develop the ‘PrayaSapna’ curriculum and toolkit; which was run across 1860 NYKS teen clubs and impacted 35,000 adolescents across 5 states, supported by UNFPA.

Commonwealth Youth Programme

Partnered on the development the manual ‘Co-creating youth spaces: A practice-based guide for youth facilitators’ for NYKS Youth Clubs.

UNICEF

Consultation in September 2018 on Challenges to Youth Skills, Career, Entrepreneurship and launching of national charter and 'Yuwaa’ platform with Niti Aayog- Pravah designed and facilitated 5 state consultations ( Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, West Bengal, New Delhi,Bihar) with adolescents and CSO members, in partnership with UNICEF and Head Held High.

National Social Service (NSS)

Training with NSS Chattisgarh officers across 7 districts, December 2018 – Pravah designed and facilitated the training with CYC on making NSS programmes more youth and adolescent centric. We have also worked with NSS facilitators in Delhi and U.P, through the YesPeace programme which was designed to capacitate them to work with youth on peace and sustainability projects.

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE)

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship – Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana- Pravah has just started the roll out of an entrepreneurship curricula with MSDE in ITI’s in 2019, where the principals across ITI's are being trained to build life capacities of students in the centres.

UNFPA

We partnered with UNFPA to lead a national consultation with young people to get their insights and recommendations into the National Adolescent Health Strategy and UNFPA’s next country strategy.

To know more write in to Ritikaa.khunnah@pravah.org and Neeru.malhotra@pravah.org

5th Space principles are embedded in the practice of all organizations of the Youth Collective. We have also informed the sexual harassment and child protection policy of many member organizations. Although we cannot produce concrete evidence, we can estimate that a large number of facilitators and educators that have been through Pravah programs are deeply impacted and are out there leading youth organizations are using our designs and organizational development principles in their organizations. We have provided support and consulting and program partnership to scores of leading organizations like PLAN, PACS, Oxfam, VSO, WWF, I Volunteer, Ashoka, Greenpeace, Action Aid to inform their strategy on outh development, volunteering and community work.

To know more write in to Ritikaa.khunnah@pravah.org and Neeru.malhotra@pravah.org

We were part of a convening group of youth organizations to highlight demands, needs and vision of young people vis a vis the MDGs Post 2015 facilitated by the UN. Since then have also been one of the civil society delegations to co-convene the Youth-track for the Sustainable Development Goals creation process in India.

A member of the Pravah leadership team has been appointed member of a UN Women’s multi-country Civil Society Advisory Group.

Pravah is a member of the Youth Development Alliance set up by RGNIYD . In 2012 we also presented at a Consultation on Youth Volunteerism organised by UNV, UNDP and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport on 12th November 2013 with around 150 senior representatives from Ministries and Civil Society Organisations. This presentation set the stage for an intensive group discussion to recommend the key elements to help structure a Plan of Action (PoA) for the draft National Youth Policy 2013 (draft NYP 2013) with a focus on youth inclusion.

Part of the BRICS forum. The BRICS International Forum (BRICS-IF) is a socio, economic, political center working amongst BRICS, SCO and friendly countries with a goal to initiate people-to-people dialogue. It is the first independent international public organisation, working towards creating a structured social, economic and environmentally sustainable bloc with the support of governmental and non-governmental organisations network.

Part of the civil society delegation, curated by ARROW- the Asia Pacific Youth Forum for Sustainable Development.

We have been a part of the Commonwealth youth partners network and in 2018 were also part of the high political forum in the UK.

CYC and Pravah are in collaboration with PYWA, Sri Lanka (Professional youth workers association) and the Youth Ministry of Sri Lanka have customized curricula for youth facilitators and it has been offered as short professional courses and certification for practitioners.

Former Pravah CEO Neha Buch introduced the former President of the United States- Barack Obama in 2015 at the townhall address in New Delhi, during his visit to India.

We are a part of the YesPeace Partners Network. YESPeace is a collaborative network of youth organizations across the world, with objectives that include a) capacity building of youth and organizations through training on thematic areas relating to SDG 4.7 including conflict resolution, youth civic engagement, intercultural dialogue, youth led research, identity and prevention of violent extremism., b) Embedding youth perspectives in policymaking processes c) Supporting networking amongst the organizations and enabling their access to policymaking.

Part of the Global campaign SheDecides. A youth facilitator from Pravah, Pooja Singh has also been selected as one of the 25 SheDecides Global 25x25 youth champions , representing India.

To know more write in to Ritikaa.khunnah@pravah.org and Neeru.malhotra@pravah.org

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