Zambia

Young people in Zambia face significant challenges:

• Zambia is one of the worst hit countries for HIV prevalence and new infection rates
• Teenage pregnancy levels are high (nearly 15,000 each year)
• There is lack of access to youth-friendly schooling, services and quality information
• High unemployment 
• There is a lack of youth involvement in national development strategies

Restless Development (Zambia) is mobilising young people in development efforts, empowering them and directly influencing government strategies to include a focus on young Zambians.

Restless Development targets youth leadership, life skills and livelihoods development using the following approaches:

• Direct Delivery: young people delivering high-quality interventions as full time volunteer peer-educators, that demonstrate the impact young people can make on the development of Zambia
• Working Through Partners: advocating for and supporting national government staff to involve young people in their work and working with youth-led organizations to raise their standards and align their contribution to national and international development plans
• Pushing For Change: connecting young people to decision makers and facilitating opportunities for young people to lead on work targeting policy and practice change
• Sharing & Learning: ensuring that evidence based practice in governance and youth-led implementation is shared across sectors, and for use by government for national development plans