SOCIAL ENTERPRISE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE FUNDING
This initiative is our Flagship Social Enterprise through which we translate our successes and growth points to our peers who work with young people in communities that are challenged by poverty, marginalization, and violence globally.
The Megaphone Consultancy is a service we provide to businesses, organizations and governments who seek research and our facilitation expertise in designing and delivering programs that elicit and engage the authentic child and youth voice. Income generated from these consultancies go directly towards our Scholarship fund and its adminstration.
Our overall objective with this initiative to promote greater public awareness of the importance and necessity of child participation in the community. Through participation in marketing campaigns, joint decision-making with adults and/or with the lobbying of decision makers and advocacy strategies, youth can add a unique perspective with value to community conversations. To achieve the goal of increasing youth participation for our clients, we adopt a flexible multi-pronged engagement strategy that utilizes evidence -based research and builds on opportunities for children to improve the capacity and provide opportunities for meaningfully and effectively participation in decision-making. Young people are provided with the tools, skills, and platform to develop a sound understanding of their rights, and enhance their capacity to address concerns about their rights.
Training Youth Facilitators
We have over 20 years experience in training both young people and adult in the skills necessary to facilitate and effective youth participation engagement.
Facilitating Youth Involvement in National Agendas
Our prior clients include UNICEF, the African Union and Nationals governments in Africa. For these clients we partnered with them to include the authentic voices of young people needed to shape effective national policy.
Facilitating Community Development Health impact Assessment Tools
We have in-house expertise to assist clients on working with communities to generate community-based research as well as to develop CDHIATs as a necessary step in community building initiatives.
Community Needs Assessment
We are committed to providing extensive community needs assessments service with a specific emphasis on including marginalized voices.
Facilitating Youth-led Program Initiatives
Our organizational expertise allows us to create incubators and accelerator engines to come alongside young people in the start-up phase of developing business ideas and social innovations.
Youth Social Impact Incubator
Are you a young person with an idea on how to activate community change? Contact us! We are committed to donating our services to see you grow and bring your idea to life!
Testimonial
““ Our agenda was themed: What does our child abuse response system look like? The program was very interesting and lively. We had a SWOT (Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threat) analysis exercise to conduct a preliminary assessment of the roles, held, and played by the stakeholders present in the child abuse response system. Also, representatives of health care professionals, law enforcements (judiciary) and NGOs gave their process and challenges involved in addressing issues arising from child abuse. Next, we studied the case of a child survivor who had been engaged in the child sex work and looked at how we would help this child survivor if she came to us, our assumptions we bring to bear on our processes and also the challenges we face in our referral process and coordinating without other groups of people engaged in the same work. Finally, there was a mapping of services activity done in the afternoon.
It was a great opportunity to add our input as young people who understand the realities of those who the NCAN is meant to help. Thank you for inviting us and valuing our participation and input”
