We are excited to introduce two new guest speakers - Robyn Braverman from Proponte Mas and Daniel Okpaise from OneAfricanChild to share their experience promoting systems change efforts in Honduras and Nigeria.
The USAID/Honduras funded program, Proponte Mas or Propose More, was a four year program to create a family systems model that creates the family as a protection system and facilitates a family counseling approach for youth at the risk of engaging in illicit activities. The program goal was to apply a tool to identify levels of risk in youth and apply a family systems counseling model which was intended to reduce risky behaviors. The tool was applied at the end of the intervention to be able to determine whether kids had reduced their risks or not. This is an evidence based intervention.
The OneAfricanChild-Self-organized Learning Environment
(SOLE project), was an 8-week collaboration with SOLE Colombia to create a roadmap for empowering young people to develop collaborative systems for sustainable peacebuilding and quality education. A big-question driven roundtable approach was utilized in driving
conversations amongst diverse members of NIgerian and Kenyan communities. The project goal was to develop a system/roadmap
to guide young people in creating sustainable efforts targeted at answering the “big questions” in their communities. Design thinking was a tool deployed during these conversations to help arrive at next steps.
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