Jennifer Correro from TakingITGlobal outlining questions on meaningful youth participation in international decision-making -- more info on http://www.youthpolicy.org/participation/
19. Qualitative Research : Theory of Change: “ TIG opened my eyes so much. I like to call it the fuel of my passions.” (entry 263) “ Thanks to TIG I can enhance my skills and get better work with the community. (entry 710) “ TIG has been an invaluable source of inspiration, knowledge, support, and research and it has a priceless demonstration on the power of collaboration.” (entry 597) “ TIG didn’t just open my eyes, it made me believe I can change this reality and make it better.” (entry 511) Youth Development (Internal Individual) Societal Values (Internal Collective) Social Movements (External Collective) Youth Action & Participation (External Individual)
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22. Key Skill Areas n=3338 Q29: Open Ends Personal Skills: Professional Skills: Issues-Focused Networking, Collaboration Compassion Technology Cross-Cultural Communication Communication, Listening, Public Speaking Understanding, Perspective Online / Youth Advocacy, Mobilization Creativity Facilitation, Teaching Resourcefulness Leadership, Negotiation Helping, Sharing Project Management, Budgeting Confidence Entrepreneurship, Fundraising Cooperation Research
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Editor's Notes
City of Vaughan Youth Cabinet I was 18 when I joined, my school principal recommended that I apply since I “always seem to have an opinion about things” Together we organized a conference called The Truth About Youth – to challenge the stereotypes of our generation
Early experiences as a teenager influenced the concept, vision and mission of TakingITGlobal We launched an online hub and virtual resource centre for youth globally
In 2002 we attended our first major UN Summit – World Summit on Sustainable Development – in South Africa We joined the Youth Caucus and launched a website (EarthYouth) to help support coordination of efforts We learned about how civil society influences the policy process
We travelled to Ghana to meet our members – who organized a meeting! It was an inspiring expierience
We launched the YES Country Networks platform in Egypt 2002 at the Library of Alexandria
We launched National Information Society Youth Campaigns I was on the country delegation in Canada who endorsed the youth paragraph (proposed by Fiji) It was the first accepted that day! WSIS Youth Paragraph
We worked together with UN Habitat to facilitate the Habitat Jam (in French & Spanish) We helped to organize the youth pavilion with different presentations etc.
At the World Programme of Action for Youth + 10 we helped provide input through online consultations We organized a side event with the European Youth Forum I left with a strong sense of urgency – wanting to study National Youth Councils (especially in Europe) This helped provide research for CLC Canada
We organized the Youth Force at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto 2006 We had many dignitaries at our Pavilion in the Global Village who made commitments to youth We followed up months later to request updates
Need for celebration, workshops, action! Be the Change program
Funding, in-person courses, e-courses (via TIG)
We organized a student forum with Microsoft – to shape the future of innovation
Spaces for dialogue, training, discussion, projects
Youth and ICT Best Practices Publication – launched in 2009
Flexible space to voice opinions, to develop ideas, linkages with decision-makers Recognition
Youth Task Force of the World Economic Forum Youth Effect (Toolkit for Decision Makers on Engaging with Youth)
The issue that called me to action was leveraging youth engagement toward social change.
The Theory of Change; Each zones highlights the THEORETICAL thematic focus; Axes are what bring individual discussions about an Impact Measure into CONVERSATION; The aim is to show a linear but cyclical order of events; Inside each quadrant there is a secondary ‘Inspire/Inform/Involve’ process that goes on;
Percentage value represents the average proportion of the membership that reported a ‘Positive’ impact across all scaled questions for the quadrant; These numbers are sensitive to the number of metrics involved (Particularly Quadrant 4 – 3 metrics vs. Quad 2 with 11) Working to weight these values, ideally based on scaling constants defined through correlation analysis with offline actions, e.g. attending/organizing/creating/contacting/presenting etc. The aim is to evolve this into a Topline ‘Report Card’ to track impact by region; Can be viewed through multiple segment lenses, e.g. Region, Gender, Age, Duration, Education and custom variables like ‘Volunteer B/C of TIG’ (Q18)
Percentage value represents the average proportion of the membership that reported a ‘Positive’ impact across all scaled questions for the quadrant; These numbers are sensitive to the number of metrics involved (Particularly Quadrant 4 – 3 metrics vs. Quad 2 with 11) Working to weight these values, ideally based on scaling constants defined through correlation analysis with offline actions, e.g. attending/organizing/creating/contacting/presenting etc. The aim is to evolve this into a Topline ‘Report Card’ to track impact by region; Can be viewed through multiple segment lenses, e.g. Region, Gender, Age, Duration, Education and custom variables like ‘Volunteer B/C of TIG’ (Q18)
Percentage value represents the average proportion of the membership that reported a ‘Positive’ impact across all scaled questions for the quadrant; These numbers are sensitive to the number of metrics involved (Particularly Quadrant 4 – 3 metrics vs. Quad 2 with 11) Working to weight these values, ideally based on scaling constants defined through correlation analysis with offline actions, e.g. attending/organizing/creating/contacting/presenting etc. The aim is to evolve this into a Topline ‘Report Card’ to track impact by region; Can be viewed through multiple segment lenses, e.g. Region, Gender, Age, Duration, Education and custom variables like ‘Volunteer B/C of TIG’ (Q18)
Percentage value represents the average proportion of the membership that reported a ‘Positive’ impact across all scaled questions for the quadrant; These numbers are sensitive to the number of metrics involved (Particularly Quadrant 4 – 3 metrics vs. Quad 2 with 11) Working to weight these values, ideally based on scaling constants defined through correlation analysis with offline actions, e.g. attending/organizing/creating/contacting/presenting etc. The aim is to evolve this into a Topline ‘Report Card’ to track impact by region; Can be viewed through multiple segment lenses, e.g. Region, Gender, Age, Duration, Education and custom variables like ‘Volunteer B/C of TIG’ (Q18)