Advocacy and Campaigns

Today's generation of young people is the largest in history. Over 3 billion people - nearly half of the world's population - are under the age of 25. 

Restless Development believes that national governments, donor agencies and civil society need to take action on the issues young people face and to enable young people to lead development in their communities, countries and the world.

Restless Development is working at a national, regional and international level to:

• Contribute to policy development, ensuring that young people have a voice and that youth issues are included
• Provide assistance to other institutions – building their knowledge and capacity on youth issues and on how to work with young people
• Facilitate and coordinate other civil society organisations to advocate together on common issues

Read more about our recent work in this area:

Youth Participation in Development: A guide for development agencies and policy makers

The DFID-Civil Society Youth Working Group

Making youth participation a reality in Southern Africa

In addition, we are a founding organisation of the Student Stop AIDS Campaign. Through activities such as informing, educating, lobbying and demonstrating, over 30 university societies are working to ensure that the developed world lives up to its promises to deliver universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

We also bring together Advocates for Action, a group of young volunteers working to ensure that all young people access accurate information about their sexual and reproductive health and rights.