As part of the Youth Leadership Program for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development funded by the United Nations Democratic Fund (UNDEF-Sixteenth Funding Round), GCE launched a youth and student-led academy to achieve the following objectives:
- Increase the capacity of youth and students' capacity to coordinate advocacy for inclusive educational policies and SDG4 implementation in national-level coalitions and national-level policy dialogues.
- Increase technical and political capabilities of youth to defend and promote the right to education at national, regional and international levels.
- Improve youth coordination and participation at a global level in the United Nations' formal policy dialogue spaces.
Action research is a methodology that involves active participation and collaboration with practitioners to identify and address real-world problems in a specific context. This course guides you through the steps of planning and implementation of action research via some theory and practical examples and stories from implementers of action research. In this course, you will learn:
- How to make an action research plan
- What to consider during the implementation of your action research
- How to report your study results in an effective and efficient manner
Are you working on advocacy programmes with the aim to bring about social change in the education sector? Then, the Social Change Matrix is a tool that can help you to analyse how to achieve transformative change, and to reflect on the underlying reasons ('assumptions') why your approach can be successful.
In this course, you will learn:
- How to use the Social Change Matrix to plan for transformative change
- How to map your stakeholders
- How to identify the key assumptions in your advocacy programme
In this course you will learn about:
- The principles of citizen-led advocacy
- Practical examples of citizen-led advocacy in Africa and Asia
- Lessons-learned about citizen-led advocacy
Upon completion of the Education financing course, you will be able understand the human rights and practical background of education financing globally including human rights conventions, the need, and issues around commercialisation of education and the privatization actors involved globally.
Upon completing the Advocacy course, you will be able to define the meaning of Advocacy in technical terms and explore examples of advocacy in the education sector. This will also help you to understand how to create a Theory of Change and Logic Framework based on a problem and how to frame issues when conducting advocacy.