IFM-SEI is happy to launch Dream Our G-Local Movement, a project that aims to make our movement more inclusive and diverse!

We expect that this project will bring us together and create a space for shared learning and exchange of good practices.

The main aim Dream our G->LOCAL Movement is to reflect on our own practices regarding accessibility and inclusion and find ways to improve our movement. Together with other organisations working with underserved youth and children, we will support a young generation of youth workers to develop accessible and inclusive approaches to engage in youth work locally, nationally and internationally.

More specifically, the main objectives of the project are:

1. Identify the ways in which youth work is inaccessible and exclusionary to marginalised youth on local, national and international levels by identifying whose voices are not represented and the reason that it is difficult to engage and retain volunteers from marginalised and underserved communities.
2. Strengthen collaborations and partnerships between youth organisations to share good practices across the sector and promote inclusive and sustainable youth engagement.
3. Deliver a training to young people that builds an understanding of the relevance of local activism in addressing global issues and enable youth to facilitate global to local activities.
4. Support young people in implementing a g-local campaign to widen their organisational reach to engage underserved youth
5. Deliver a capacity building workshop to develop and publish a creative toolkit on accessible and inclusive g-local volunteering

Consultation

The first phase of the project is a two-part consultation process: one with youth workers and one with youth.
It aims to bring together marginalised and underserved young people, as well as representatives of organisations working to empower and protect them. The consultation provides an analysis of the situation and an understanding of the ways in which volunteering and meaningful participation are not always accessible to underserved communities, and an opportunity to share good practice in inclusion and accessibility.

Training 

This training will focus on the relevance and impact of local activism on a global scale and will build the capacities of the young participants to facilitate g-local activities. During the training, young people will be supported in designing a follow-up g-local campaign to be implemented in their local communities and networks.

G-Local Campaigns

The implementation of the g-local campaigns is the unique focus of the project. The campaigns will highlight the importance of diverse, accessible and inclusive participation opportunities on a local, national and international level.

Through implementing g-local campaigns we want to reach and engage marginalised youth and raise awareness of the barriers to long-term volunteering that young people from marginalised communities face. They will serve as a good opportunity to motivate ad support young people to take action towards widening participation, inclusion and diversity.

Toolkit

The final phase will be a capacity building and creative toolkit development workshop. This activity will be led and delivered by experts in toolkit development and will include a capacity-building element to develop and publish creative educational toolkits on accessible and inclusive g-local volunteering. However, the young participants will drive the ideas on the shape and format of the toolkit.

Diversity and Inclusion Checklist

G-Local campaigns

The participants, many of them themselves belonging to a marginalised community, developed and implemented overall 13 campaigns in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Middle East.

The campaigns not only managed to reach and engage marginalised youth but also raised awareness of the barriers to long-term volunteering that young people from different socio-economic background face. Read more about the campaigns in the summary below.

Toolkit

Creative toolkit on accessible and inclusive g-local volunteering.