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With half of the world under 25 and continued population
growth, the global population is young and getting younger.
87% of these young people live in the developing world,
giving them a more critical role to play in development
than ever.
leading partners such as the UK Government, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and KPMG. At the same time, we
reached 304,857 young people across Africa and South
Asia, trained 131 civil society organisations, and engaged
145 local and 49 national government departments.
As the world turns to creating its next set of development
goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
which are expiring in 2015, there is a healthy debate as to
what the future of development should be (turn to pages
16 and 28 to find out more about the post-2015
development framework). Young people are not just the
majority of the developing world; they are the demographic
most affected by many challenges including unemployment
and conflict. They are also our future workers, mothers,
fathers and leaders.
Our credibility comes from those youth-led development
programmes. In this context, it has been an inspiration
to see Restless Development mobilise young people to
contribute to the post-2015 development framework:
leading discussions with the UN’s High Level Panel, with
national governments and in communities where we work.
Two years ago, we stated in our 5-year Business Plan
that youth development was approaching a tipping point.
As that moment arrives, it is vital that young people are
involved in helping to lead the solutions guiding the future
of development.
With young people leading our work and playing an active
part in the post-2015 discussion, we are confident that
2013 will be a seminal year for development, for Restless
Development and for young people globally.
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WHERE WE WORK
We work in places where there are large
numbers of youth who most need opportunities
and support - those trapped in poverty and
who show real potential for getting involved in
development. The examples given are only a
small snapshot of our work.
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IN THE UK
Our team there have
trained representatives
from 77 youth-led
organisations across 42
countries that are working
to combat HIV/AIDS,
resulting in a rise from
33% to 60% of participants
introducing strategic
planning to their youth-led
organisations.
IN SIERRA LEONE
Targeting over 72,000
young people through our
programmes, we have
recorded a 20% increase in
the number of young people
using a condom at last sex.
IN SOUTH AFRICA
We have conducted 958
sexual reproductive health
sessions in schools and
with out-of-school youth
to reduce risky sexual
behaviour and, in one year,
there has been an increase
from 39.2% to 52% in
consistent condom use.
IN NEPAL
We recorded a 51% increase
in young people able to refute
three local myths related to
HIV transmission - among
the 2,588 young people
we worked with in target
communities.
Targeting over 26,850 young
people in our programmes,
we recorded a 25% increase
in young people we work
with, engaging in marketdriven enterprises.
IN UGANDA
IN TANZANIA
We recorded an increase
in young people’s income
from under TSHs 100,000
to between TSHs 100,000 to
400,000 per month.
IN ZIMBABWE
We recorded a 15%
increase - from 65% to
80% - in the number of
young people exhibiting
nondiscriminatory
attitudes towards people
living with HIV/AIDS.
IN INDIA
We worked with 5,000
pupils across 23 target
schools, increasing
awareness of the factors
that lead to unwanted
pregnancies amongst
girls from 29.8 % to 80%.
IN ZAMBIA
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that among a target
group of 120,454 young
people, condom use is
up by 45%, and teenage
pregnancy down by 50%.
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Young people and the youth sector are significant contributors to development processes,
resulting in government policy and practice that is both beneficial and accountable to young people.
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Young people are taking up productive livelihoods and employment opportunities that contribute to
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Young people are engaging in safe sexual and reproductive practices that lead to healthy lives.
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A generation of leadership
We deliver grassroots programmes that directly prevent HIV/AIDS and
improve the livelihoods opportunities of the most excluded and marginalised
young people in targeted countries.
We’re creating a network of young leaders including our former volunteers
and all those who have been involved in youth development through us and
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Building a strong youth sector
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We build the capacity of organisations that work with and for young people
in order to improve their ability to engage in development in an impactful,
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We develop research and guidance for sharing our experience and
broader youth-led development best practices for use by practitioners
and policy-makers.
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Teenage pregnancy rates in Sierra
Leone are high. An estimated 34% of
women aged 15-19 have either already
had a baby or are pregnant.1 When
girls become pregnant at this age, their
education is interrupted. This leads
to reduced earning potential, poor
marital outcomes and reduced health
outcomes for surviving children.
left when I was six months pregnant.
I suffered a lot to raise the baby with
no support. Selling wood, potato and
cassava leaves were the main sources
of income. There was no way I could
continue with school. Later I met
another guy. He got me pregnant and
ran away to Liberia. I had my second
child at the age of 18.
“I stopped going to school in class six.
My mother forced me to be initiated
into the Bondo Society [undergoing
female genital cutting]. I tried to tell her
that I wanted to go to school instead of
being initiated. After, I was forced into
marriage at the age of 12. I became
pregnant the same year and the man
“I would like leaders to focus on
free education for girls at all levels
and raising awareness about the
dangers of early marriage and
teenage pregnancy.”
LOTUKOI’S STORY (26)
the hardest to reach areas, where
services are minimal and teenage
pregnancy is high. Our work helps
young people like Kadiatu to access
confidential family planning services.
Where we work, teenage pregnancy
has decreased by 46.7 % from an initial
1,015 cases.2
As a result of our on-the-ground
expertise, we were invited by the
UK Government to deliver a youth
workshop at the London Family
Planning Summit 2012, which you can
read about later in the report.
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Restless Development works across
Sierra Leone, targeting some of
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www.overpopulation.org/Africa.html
External Evaluation Report of Sierra Leone’s Youth Reproductive
Health Programme (2007 – 2012)
Lotokoi is from Karamoja in Northern
Uganda, one of the poorest regions in
the world. He says:
“I dropped out from school due to
lack of school fees. When Restless
Development volunteers started
working in my parish, they mobilised
young people into a group I joined.
I started learning about issues of
sexual health, how to make a living
and how to achieve peace. I gained
knowledge in supporting my family and
the community. Through the sessions
with young peers who came to live and
work with us I learnt about vegetable
gardening. I then established a
commercial vegetable garden. Part of
the savings from the sale of vegetables
is used to buy more seeds for
replanting and expansion. The biggest
challenge was getting start-up capital
to run my business. Pests have been
disturbing a lot by destroying my crops
like cabbages, tomatoes, spinach. Also
thieves uproot my vegetables at night.”
We asked what issues Lotukoi wants
world leaders to focus on in order to
help young people like him sustain a
livelihood…
“Encouraging access to finance and
business development services to
develop young farmers like me. The
leaders should also focus on skills
related to the jobs that we do in the
community.”
To support and empower young people
like Lotukoi, we are currently working
to contribute to improved lives of
young people in Uganda. As a result of
our work we found a 23% increase in
the adoption of innovative livelihood
approaches among young people we
work with, 49% of them in Karamoja.1
Across our programmes globally,
around 48,170 young people accessed
business or employment schemes and
training in the last year.
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External Evaluation, Youth Empowerment Programme, Uganda
( 2009-2012)
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THE WORLD WE WANT
In 2012, Restless Development began
the process of leading a youth-led
conversation on what is to follow the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs
- the eight international development
goals that were officially established
following the Millennium Summit of the
United Nations in 2000). All 193 United
Nations member states agreed to
achieve these goals by the year 2015. In
May 2012, we launched an online Youth
Voices survey in 45 different countries.
We found that the majority of young
people wanted to find out the ways in
which they could engage in the post2015 debate.
Restless Development led a coalition
of 14 youth organisations, on behalf of
the Youth Working Group (a group set
up to bring British non-governmental
organisations [NGOs] together to
advise the UK Government on policy
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and practice), to coordinate a series
of in-depth youth consultations in 12
countries. 346 young people from
diverse backgrounds discussed the
local and global issues of importance to
them and articulated their solutions and
visions for a post-2015 world.
InFluencing national policy
We will also be supporting young
people on the ground to influence the
post-2015 discussion in their own
communities.
“I am a product of the MDG
generation. The MDGs have been
a part of my ‘coming of age;’ I
We, and partners such as UNICEF, are
therefore strongly believe that
currently running further consultations my generation need a seat at the
in countries across the globe using the discussion table if the post-MDG
toolkit we developed. There is also an
agenda is to be sustainable.”
online survey to enable young people
outside these workshops to have their - Online respondent to Youth Voices on
say on the world they want at
MDGs survey
www.youthpost2015.org.
See the survey results in the ‘Youth
We will ensure that the priorities
Voices on a Post-2015 World’ report
identified by these youth consultations at www.restlessdevelopment.org/
are channelled into – and can influence resources.
- the UN global process to create the
next set of international development
goals.
Restless Development in Tanzania is
working with the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) to
engage youth in the development of
the country’s new constitution by
contributing to an 18 month review
process that the Government is
currently undertaking. The constitution
is the foundation on which all other
laws and policies are based and as
young people comprise the largest
demographic in Tanzania, it is vital that
they engage with its review.
Zambian Governance Foundation,
young advocates trained by Restless
Development have been helping to
sensitise communities on specific
national policies such as the National
Youth Policy and HIV/AIDS Policy. This is
encouraging young people to advocate
for improved health service provision
for young people, especially around
sexual health and HIV/AIDS.
Combined with global level activities
including the post-2015 consultation
process and the London Family
In other countries, Restless
Planning Summit 2012 (see page 29),
Development has helped facilitate youth young people are increasingly able to
engagement in similar government
participate in decision-making and
policy review and drafting processes.
governance from the grassroots to the
We have also helped increase the
highest global levels.
engagement of young people in
grassroots decision-making and
local governance. For example,
in Zambia, with support from the
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STUDENT STOP AIDS TOUR
Restless Development runs the Student
Stop Aids Campaign as a member
of the UK Consortium on AIDS and
International Development.
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At the end of last year we visited 18
universities from Dundee down to
Sussex as part of a tour, where our two
speakers - Mo from the Gambia and Lea
from the UK - both living with HIV spoke
to 815 people about why HIV treatment
is so important. The tour visited the
House of Commons and the Department
for International Development.
We promoted the new evidence
surrounding treatment as prevention
and the role the investment framework
could play in seeing the reversal and
ultimate ending of the pandemic.
As part of the Medicines Patent Pool
campaign, focussing on increasing
access to affordable and appropriate
medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, we
also carried out pool party campaign
TIKAMBE! LET’S TALK
stunts and collected actions cards
pressuring companies such as
Johnson & Johnson to join negotiations
with the Patent Pool.
Since then, we have supported more
campaign actions which you can follow
on students.stopaidscampaign.org.
Young people in Zambia face limited
access to information and services,
especially if they live in rural
communities. Young people make up
68% of the national population1 yet they
are excluded from critical discussions
about issues that affect them.
According to the Government’s 2009
Governance Survey, the vast majority
of Zambians listen to the radio as
their primary means of receiving
information.
To create an entry point for young
people to engage with important
public policy, Restless Development,
with support from Irish Aid, has been
running the TIKAMBE Policy Awareness
radio show on Radio Phoenix. The
shows have focused on key policy
issues: education, re-entry into
education and combatting gender based
violence and HIV/AIDS.
10 million,2 the TIKAMBE radio shows
have significantly increased public
awareness of policies and discussion
among young people.
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State of the Nation Report on Young People in Zambia (February 2012)
http://bit.ly/radio_phoenix
With a listening audience of
approximately 75% of the population of
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VOICES FOR DEVELOPMENT
AFRICAN YOUTH as INfluencers
In three generations, 41% of the world’s
youth will be African,1 but African youth
today feel their concerns are not heard.
That’s why Restless Development
brought over 20 young Africans from
across the continent to the 2012
Ibrahim Forum. The Forum was the first
of its kind and focused on youth and
governance in Africa. It was combined
with the launch of the Mo Ibrahim
Foundation report ‘African Youth:
fulfilling the potential,’ which brought
leaders such as Archbishop Desmond
Tutu to the forum panel.
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Models of economic growth were
challenged, trends in violence against
Picture: Mo Ibrahim Foundation
women, and causes of migration
discussed - not by the experts in
the room but by youth and youth
organisations.
From our time and experience at the
Forum, we developed:
• New tools to help us provide better
support for a diverse range of young
people at future high-level panels.
• A much greater understanding of
policy in Africa regarding livelihoods
and education to inform our future
advocacy work in this area.
• Working with others on a ‘big idea’ for
a post-2015 framework that will follow
the MDGs, empowering young people
to hold development agencies and
governments to account for progress
against targets.
We are continuing our partnership
with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in 2013
to explore the role that African youth
can and must play in good governance
within and beyond the borders of their
home country.
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Public opinion in the UK about
development and aid spending is often
misled and negative.1
We believe we can change these
perceptions. An exciting new
partnership with VSO will see Restless
Development launch Voices for
Development, funded by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. This ground
breaking programme will transform
the way young people contribute to
international development debates and
campaigns in the UK.
http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/downloads/2012-factsand-figures.pdf
will bring a new perspective from the
communities of the world where they
have been working and will share with
the UK public development stories
showing the positive power of aid
and development to end exclusion and
extreme poverty.
You can read about two such
volunteers, Usaama and Jack, later in
the report. If you are part of our alumni
yourself, get back in touch at [email protected]
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http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/
publications-opinion-files/7708.pdf
Selected from among our international
volunteer alumni, the participants
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YOUNG AGENTS OF CHANGE
Youth unemployment is at 60% in Sierra that they gained motivation and
Leone.1 And yet growth is at 21.3%.2
confidence, and that they had
overall greater access to career
Supported by UNDP we launched
opportunities. A considerable success
a graduate internship programme
of the programme is that six of the
with the National Youth Commission
employing institutions have committed
(NAYCOM) in Sierra Leone. We placed
to employing or retaining 32 of the
142 interns in 18 private, public and
graduates. The programme will now be
non-governmental institutions.
expanded and scaled up.
micro business or planning to do so.
During 2012, 182 young microentrepreneurs benefited from the
advanced business management
training offered by the centre and
a further 90 are expected to do so
in 2013. This is in addition to many
hundreds of others able to access the
other services provided by the centre.
2012 saw the conclusion of the
International Citizen Service (ICS) pilot
programme and the start of a new
three-and-a-half year programme
in partnership with VSO and others,
funded by the UK Government.
These placements provide valuable
job experience for young graduates
while also enhancing the opportunity
for employers to recruit high-calibre,
talented graduates. 90% of interns
reported that the experience had
matched their desired career path.
Almost all interns reported that the
internships enabled them to learn skills
that improved their employability,
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Running parallel to the internship
scheme, Restless Development also
established a Business Development
Service centre in partnership with
UNDP and NAYCOM in a district just
outside Freetown, the capital city of
Sierra Leone. The centre provides
training, advice, mentoring and
microloan services to young people in
the area already operating their own
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As part of the pilot, 226 volunteers
from the UK each spent 12 weeks in
our Country Programmes, supporting
the delivery of our development
programmes on the ground. Joining up
with our long term national volunteers
based in country, they supported the
delivery of a wide range of livelihoods
and sexual and reproductive health
programmes to young people.
Usaama Kaweesa, 22, from London
was one of them. He spent three
months volunteering in South Africa on
our ICS programme. Usaama has a keen
interest in politics and wanted to learn
more about how he can make an impact
in international development. Whilst
in South Africa, he worked closely
with Lazola, the head of the local
youth organisation Youth Agency for
Development. Together they led peer
education sessions in two of our global
goal areas: livelihoods & employment
and sexual and reproductive health &
rights. Together, Usaama and Lazola
set up a Youth Committee to engage
young people around key issues in the
community such as alcoholism, high
crime rates and a lack of resources
so they could take positive action to
tackle them.
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ADVOCATING FOR HOUSING RIGHTS
Hatcliffe is one of the poorest
suburbs of Zimbabwe’s capital city,
Harare. Poverty leaves residents
with few choices but to settle in
un-planned communities. Living
in slum conditions with no running
water or proper sewage disposal
exposes the community to serious
illnesses such as cholera. This risk is
further exacerbated by the fact that
there is only one health facility in the
community.
Eager to make a difference, Hatcliffe’s
young people attended a series of
advocacy trainings led by Restless
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Development. Armed with new skills
and confidence, these young people
campaigned for better housing. In total,
180 passionate, determined young
people from three areas marched in
Harare with posters and demanded
their right to proper housing and
sanitation.
Using print, broadcasting and social
media, young people raised awareness
of housing rights among other young
people, youth organisations and civil
society organisations.
As a result, the city council committed
SMALL CHANGE – BIG DIFFERENCE
to engaging young people in housing
cooperative projects and offered space
for livelihood projects. Electricity
installation projects are also underway
which will greatly improve living
conditions for Hatcliffe residents.
In Nepal, every year 13,000 children
under five years old die of diarrheal
diseases,1 partly attributed to poor
hygiene and sanitation. 43% of
the Nepalese population2 are now
using improved sanitation facilities
(for example, one that hygienically
separates human excreta from human
contact such as a flush toilet) and the
aim is to increase this to 53% by 2015.
Yet, there is limited understanding and
commitment to practical solutions that
can improve public health and very
few waste management structures in
place at community levels.
In response, Restless Development led
a series of interventions through wellestablished youth clubs. For example,
we facilitated a discussion to identify
how poor sanitation could be reduced
through the use of public dustbins. The
club held an awareness raising event
to demonstrate the importance of
managing waste and its disposal and
how to use dustbins in a correct and
sustainable way.
The event was a success and the youth
club installed dustbins in the village,
with one bin for every ten houses.
The young people developed a short
term solution that in the long run has
facilitated a positive shift in community
attitudes towards keeping the village
clean and creating a healthy living
environment.
“We want our community to be
a good example for others and
therefore we will conduct a litter
picking campaign every 15 days.”
- Pampha Sapkota, Youth Club
President, Nawalparasi, Nepal
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FROM SWINDON, UK,
VIA VELLORE, INDIA, TO MEDICAL SCHOOL
Jack Rayner, 19, from Swindon, UK,
was an International Citizen Service
(ICS) volunteer who completed a
placement in India. Jack left college
after his first year and was working
in a call centre selling insurance to
people, which he described as ‘soul
destroying.’
“I was in a dead end job and wanted
to try some volunteering and give
something back. The scope and
mission of Restless Development and
the way they target young people was
the perfect link up for me. By working
with national volunteers we managed
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to reach around 17,000 young people
with our work which was really
impressive. This involved going into
schools delivering sessions to children
and building relationships with key
staff to pave the way for long-term
development.
My whole experience gave me a new
perspective and motivation for work. I
returned to college to take on science
AS levels because of what I saw in
India. I realised I had a passion and
potential in medicine and so that is
what I am pursuing. ICS was the game
changer for me.”
In a press release, Britain’s Prime
Minister, David Cameron, said:
“The [International Citizen] Service
will create thousands of international
development champions, bringing
together young people from all walks
of life. We all know the passion,
dedication and skills that young people
have to offer. It is this that will be
the real driving force to bring about
change, and to really help tackle
poverty locally.1”
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FAMILY PLANNING SUMMIT
In 2012, in addition to engaging young
people across the world in what they
want a post-2015 framework to look
like, Restless Development was asked
to bring young experts in youth-led
development to meet with the UN High
Level Panel (HLP) on the creation of a
post-2015 development framework.
The panel has been appointed by UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to
consult with different stakeholders and
make recommendations on what the
next set of development goals should
look like.
In July 2012 the UK Government and the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted
the London Family Planning Summit.
The aim of the summit was to mobilise
global policy and service delivery
commitments to support the rights of
an additional 120 million women and
girls in the world’s poorest countries
to use contraceptive information,
services and supplies by 2020.
It was an opportunity for young people
to share their perspectives on the
theme of ‘household poverty’ and
offer practical input to the post-2015
conversation. Equally, it allowed
panellists to directly interact with
young people and gain insight into their
perspectives provoking the response
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from HLP representative Michael
Anderson (Director General for Policy
and Global Issues at the UK Department
for International Development and the
UK Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for
UN Development Goals) that “young
people aren’t actually the problem,
but the solution.”
As 2013 progresses, Restless
Development is now inspiring a
vital inter-generational dialogue
between global leaders and young
people. We hope this will result in a
new development framework that
is both innovative and responsive to
the needs of vulnerable young people
everywhere. The dialogue is giving
This was the first step in what has
many young people the opportunity
become an unprecedented engagement to put forward their ideas on how
with youth in high-level policy-making. development can be done differently.
The innovation and insight profiled
in these meetings led to a call from
“Young people want to bear the
panellists that young people must
burden of development, they want to
continue to bring their ideas and
be involved and therefore we need
expertise to the post-2015 discussions to work out the most productive and
going forward. Restless Development effective way of facilitating this.”
took up this challenge and coordinated
a series of national and global youth
- HLP representative, John Podesta
consultations and a dedicated website: (Founder and Chair of the Center for
www.youthpost2015.org.
American Progress, White House Chief
of Staff under President Bill Clinton)
As part of a working group with the
Nike Foundation, Save the Children and
IPPF, Restless Development hosted
a lunchtime session with the youth
delegates to highlight the importance of
youth involvement in the planning and
delivery of family planning services.
The event led to an extended meeting
with UK Prime Minister David Cameron,
the then International Development
Secretary Andrew Mitchell and Melinda
Gates.
The summit secured $2.6 billion in
pledges by 2020 to support 120 million
women and girls.
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CREATING AN EVER
STRONGER YOUTH SECTOR
Since 2009, Restless Development has
been working in partnership with the
MTV Staying Alive Foundation (SAF)
to deliver a training and capacity
building programme for SAF’s
grantee organisations, all of which
are innovative and creative youthled organisations working on HIV
awareness and prevention.
For the first time, to respond to a
consistently-raised need, Restless
Development designed and delivered
a 4-day Leadership and People
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Management Training Workshop in
2012, in Kenya.
levels higher in terms of knowledge/
skills than prior to the workshop.
The aim was to equip participants
with the knowledge and skills needed
to increase their organisations’
effectiveness, responsiveness,
and accountability in managing and
developing their staff and volunteers.
Participant feedback was positive:
100% of participants reported that their
expectations had been met. In each
training area, on average participants
rated themselves between one and two
“Excellent [training] – our
organisation is growing and to
ensure we become sustainable
we really need to recruit, induct,
train and motivate staff and have
good plans in place on management
change.”
“The Leadership and People Management training
that Restless Development Provided was excellent
and exactly what the young people we support
need to become strong leaders and lead their
organisations in a responsible and sustainable
way. We look forward to rolling out the workshop
to our other grantees over the coming years.”
- Sara Piot, Deputy Executive Director at MTV
Staying Alive Foundation
- Training Participant, Kenya, 2012
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website to download
And See all the
resources available.
KNOW YOUR POLICY
Young people in Zambia, like many other young
people in developing countries across the world, are
faced with multiple challenges including HIV, forced/
unwanted teenage pregnancies, limited education
opportunities and lack of livelihood options. We
developed this toolkit to present a gateway for young
Zambians to educate themselves on youth policy so
that they can engage in finding and creating solutions
to the challenges they face.
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UNDERSTANDING THE
BARRIERS TO YOUNG
PEOPLE’S ACCESS TO
SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH SERVICES
We conducted a study to identify and explore the
multiple barriers preventing young people from
accessing sexual health, family planning and sexually
transmitted infections services in Sierra Leone.
The barriers relate as much to the knowledge and
behaviour of young people, communities and service
providers as to the structural factors such as
infrastructure, service coverage and poverty.
PROMOTING EQUITY
IN EDUCATION
This publication showcases good practice
interventions for civil society to contribute to
achieving equity in education in Zambia. It provides
an understanding of existing gaps with key
recommendations and a call to action for government
and legislators in driving forward equity in education.
YOUTH MANIFESTO
This research was produced in the run up to
the milestone 2012 elections in Sierra Leone. It
captures the views, hopes and fears of young Sierra
Leoneans with regards to the elections, wider
political processes and the future development of
the country. It’s an excellent example of how young
people can overcome the stereotypes and pigeonholing they have historically suffered and instead
take a leading role in contributing to the consolidation
of democracy.
YOUTHPOLICY.ORG/
DEVELOPMENT
Restless Development received support from the
Open Society Foundations to curate a thematic
web page on youth-led development at www.youthpolicy.org.
The webpage, which Restless Development
has managed since May 2012, brings together
evidence-based resources, good practice, toolkits
and evaluations from youth-led programmes,
articles, blog posts, creative media, case studies and
research pieces produced by youth-led and youthfocused development agencies and young people in
the global North and South. These resources have
been accessed by young people around the world.
GIVING YOUTH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP A
KICKSTART
This framework was produced by reviewing a broad
range of sector evidence and experience in order to
produce a user-friendly youth-entrepreneurship
framework. The framework and toolkit are intended
to guide the following key audiences: policy-makers
and donors, programme decision-makers and
implementers, and evaluation specialists.
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When did you join Restless
Development?
July 2011 as Trusts and Foundations
Coordinator
What is your role at Restless
Development?
Philanthropy Manager, International
I have come to realise over my time
with Restless Development that I have
become a direct product of their work.
As a fresh graduate 20 months ago, I
had all the passion to put things right
but lacked the skills and experience.
Now, 20 months on, I feel that I truly
lead my area of work for Restless
Development in my own way. And,
the best thing is: I know that there is a
whole Restless Development network
of young people all over the world who
feel exactly the same way.
When did you join Restless
Development?
In July 2012
What is your role at Restless
Development?
Senior Manager, Zambia
MOHAMED A JALLOH, 34
FRANK HARLE, 30
When did you join Restless
Development? ?
In 2005 as a volunteer
When did you join Restless
Development?
In 2002 as a volunteer
What is your role at Restless
Development?
Programme Manager, Sierra Leone
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IFEOMA ANENE, 35
I was given the opportunity to
volunteer and be exposed to the
development issues facing young
people while working with them to
address those issues. I am proud to be
part of the solution; an opportunity that
has made me a development role model
that has been inspiring young people to
positive action.
What is your role at Restless
Development?
Country Director, South Africa
Working with Restless Development
provides the opportunity to see in
practical terms what young people
can do as drivers of change in their
communities and countries. Being part
of this youth-led and youth-centred
development process is priceless.
I love the fact that Restless
Development not only says it believes
in putting young people in leadership
positions to bring about the changes
for young people across the world,
but it actually does it. Starting out as
a volunteer in Tanzania back in 2002,
I was later given an opportunity to
manage the UK programmes, and
from 2010 lead our programmes
team in Tanzania as the Senior
Manager. It has been such an honour
and privilege to work for such an
inspiring development agency and I
know that the future will bring more
opportunities and growth.
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Action Aid
Afesis Corplan
Australian Embassy/High Commission
Australian Volunteers International
The British High Commission in Freetown, Sierra Leone
CAFOD
Cecily’s Fund
The Canadian International Development Agency
Copperbelt Health Education Programme
Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI)
Comic Relief
Commonwealth Youth Programme in Zambia
dance4life
Dulverton Trust
Eastern Cape Communications Forum, South Africa
Eastern Cape NGO Coalition, South Africa
Egmont Trust
Embassy of Sweden in Tanzania
European Union
Forward Foundation
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Global Fund
HIVOS
Irish Aid
KPMG
Ministry of Health & Sanitation in Sierra Leone
Ministry of Youth and Sports in Sierra Leone
Motorola Foundation
National AIDS Commission Sierra Leone
National Youth Commission in Sierra Leone
National Youth Development Agency in South Africa
Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
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Nepal Ministry of Youth and Sports
New Zealand Aid Programme
Open Society Foundations
Radio Phoenix
Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development
Robert Christie Foundation
Samworth Foundation
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Simavi
Stars Foundation
Stop AIDS Campaign
Standard Chartered Bank
MTV Staying Alive Foundation
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Tesco
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Sperry Fund
UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development
UK Government
UNDP
UNFPA
UNICEF
US Embassy, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Women Without Roofs
Yeatman Foundation
Zambian Governance Foundation
ZANACO
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Many thanks also to all our regular and individual donors
who have continued to support us. Without this valued
support, much of our work would not be possible.
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Youth participants
We’d like to say a special thank you
to our Patron, Baroness Jenkin of
Kennington, a super supporter of
Restless Development. Anne has
co-chaired the Ultimate News Quiz for
seven years – which has raised over
£200,000 of vital funding for Restless
Development as well as championing
the Live Below the Line campaign for
us and raising more than anyone else
in the world! Thank you for everything
you do – without support like yours our
work simply wouldn’t be possible and it
is truly appreciated.
We’d like to thank those youth who
worked together from across the
globe to bring a unified voice, diverse
ideas and real expertise to processes
such as the Ibrahim Forum in Senegal
and the UN High Level Panel meetings
in London, as well as those planned
through 2013 in Monrovia and Bali.
You were fantastic representatives
of young people around the world
advocating for including young
people in a post-2015 development
framework (see names opposite).
Andrew Leon Hannah
Benjamin Mwape
Carolina Rainintha Siahaan
Daniela Ramirez
David Lawrence
Edith Chukwu
Esther Eshiet
Hannah Kentish
Hannah Wanja Maina
Harry Phinda
Jack Rayner
Jessica Carmichael
Jessie Waldman
Katie Washington
Manjunath Kannal
Messeh Kamara
Michelle Alvarez
Mirna Inez Fernandez
Mohamed Husni
Pippa Gardner
Prabin Rokaya
Ravi Theja Muthu
Tabitha Ha
Willice Onyango
Jamshid Abdulmalikovich Kayumov
Norhidayah nadila Maulad Daud
Anzaira Roxas
Thinh Nguyen
Kath Khangpiboon
Rusiate Naulunimagiti
Thu Yain Pyeaung
Joel Mark Barredo
Seamrong Seng
Franklin Paul Anand Gnanamuthu
Bong Doo Jung
Amar Thakur
Manojkumar Pakala
Yumeng Wu
Jargaldavaa Lkhagvasuren
Muhammad Haniff Abdullah
Tara Martin
Purna Darnal
Nga Dinh
Jeross Aguilar
Nausheen Khan
Qingling Kong
Shraddha Rawat
Shubha Kayastha
Mirna Fernandez
Luciano de Frontelle de Paula Filho
Ricardo Baruch
Maryam Ranjbar
Khadijetou wouro BA
Mustafa Alsufi
Sarah Gold
Usman Mushtaq
Sarah Witts
Tim Strawson
Michael Kalmus Eliasz
Margo Bakker
Kidus Mehalu
Jackline Kemigisha
Barkha Mossae
Aissa Laouan Wandarama
Nikita Sadomba
Alesi Jacquelyne
Juliana Adhiambo
Rachel Arinii Judhistari
Muhammad Iman Usman
Angga Dwi Martha
Rinaldi Ridhwan
Dyas Alifiadisty Winata
Jessica Angkasa
Gigih Rezki Septianto
Muhammad Rizqan Adhima
Jiwo Damar Anarkie
Feri Sahputra
Muhammad Shidiq
Ida Ayu Narayani
Glorio Sanen
Dian Aditya Ning Lestari
Mukhamat Iqbal
Rahardhika Arista Utama
Riza aryani
Yosea Kurnianto
Nordianto Nordianto
Indra Wahid
Melati Suci Febrina Hutagalung
Irwa Juana Riansyah
Niwa Dwitama
Erma Rokhayati
Oldri Mukuan
Dimas Muharam
Ara Koswara Nugraha
Rainintha Siahaan
Jazelyne Setiawan
Joko Sukamto
Novriest Umbu Walangara Nau
Dina Chaerani
Didik Sugiartono
Gracia Paramitha
Meta Unwawiola
Adam Abraham
Angel Mwaipopo
Joel Bamwise
Yeabsira Bogale
Imane Benjelloun
Mthulisi Moyo
Christabel Namoonga Machila
Aviwe Mboyiya
Lily Mensah
Kaddijatou Manneh
James Ochan Amos Langoya
Prince Wilondja
Fedi Bahri
Yves Ghislain Tchouante Ibrahima
Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo
Houssem Aloui
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INCOMING RESOURCES
INCOMING RESOURCES FROM GENERATED FUNDS
Voluntary income
Grants and donations
Donations in kind
ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS
Project recoveries
INCOMING RESOURCES FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
Volunteers’ contributions, including schools
Total Incoming Resources
2012
2012
2012
2011
RICTED RESTRICTED
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Fixed assets
2,818,726
149,691
4,962,123
-
7,780,849
149,691
6,383,762
156,850
229,406
-
229,406
140,357
84,527
-
84,527
10,214
3,282,350
4,962,123
8,244,473
Current assets
Stock
Debtors
Bank and cash
151
371,568
1,641,555
Net incoming resources
132
220,941
1,760,423
(232,035)
(614,257)
NET ASSETS
1,980,862
1,585,947
1,013,240
833,713
967,622
752,234
1,980,862
1,585,947
6,691,183
62,874
-
62,874
12,300
2,992,535
4,782,596
7,775,131
5,964,438
11,553
-
11,553
8,909
3,066,962
4,782,596
7,849,558
5,985,647
215,388
179,527
394,915
705,536
Reconciliation of funds
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218,708
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year
Represented by funds
TOTAL
Total Resources Expended
2011
2,200,204
Unrestricted
Governance costs
2011
-2,212,897
Restricted
Charitable activities
2012
199,623
Total assets
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Costs of generating funds
Fundraising costs of grants and donations
Assets
Fund balance brought forward
752,234
833,713
1,585,947
880,411
Total funds carried forward
967,622
1,013,240
1,980,862
1,585,947
The financial information given here is
a summary extracted from the audited
financial statements for the year ended
30 September 2012 as approved by the
trustees on 4 April 2013. The auditor’s
report was unqualified.
A copy of the financial statements
has been submitted to the Charity
Commission and Companies House.
The summarised financial information
on these pages may not contain
sufficient detail to allow for a full
understanding of the charity’s financial
affairs. For further information, the
full financial statements, the auditor’s
report on those financial statements
and the Trustee’s report should be
consulted. Copies of these can be
obtained from the charity’s head office
at 7 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QB,
UK or at www.restlessdevelopment.
org/resources.
Registered auditor: haysmacintyre.
All figures are given in Pound Sterling
(£).
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Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
Hadeel Ibrahim
Jamie Drummond
Lord Dholakia OBE
Michael Brearley OBE
Sir David Reid
Professor Sir Kenneth Stuart
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Nik Hartley
TRUSTEES
CHAIRMAN
Martin Hayman
Amisha Patel
Barbra Mazur
Bob Grose
Barry Hamilton
Carol Monoyios
Jennifer Duvalier
Jim Sewell
Juliano Fiori
Lucy Johnson
Paul Owers
Saffi Jones
Sarah Greenall
Tom Kabuga
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Operations Director
Perry Maddox
INVESTMENT AND PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTOR
Jessica Harris
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Karl Askew
PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR
Catherine Stevens
GLOBAL PROGRAMMES DIRECTOR
Charlotte Timson
PROGRAMME QUALITY DIRECTOR
Ed Francis
FOUNDER
James Cogan OBE
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