LEVERAGE: Outcome Areas and Outcome Statements

Changes in philanthropy

Increase funding towards supporting human rights education, actions supporting peaceful and inclusive societies
Allocate funds towards actions supporting young people’s participation in environmental protection and combating the climate crisis
Facilitate new funding methods (pooled, matched, grants, blended, social investments, individual contributions) to increase monetary resources to support youth priorities
Sustain partnership with and trust young people to participate and lead youth development programs, providing adequate resourcing and support to strengthen their capacities and the impact of their work.
Change foundation funding practices (RFP process and selection criteria) to increase the availability of funds for youth priorities.
Encourage Foundations to make new types of funding available (e.g., PRI).
Foundations previously uninvolved in youth empowerment begin to provide funding for youth programs, agencies, and initiatives.
Improve The Youth Cafe and other Youth-Led and Youth serving partner organization abilities to finance their own economic and social development by promoting a comprehensive Agency approach to help the organizations mobilize public revenues and expend resources effectively, transparently, and with accountability, while creating the enabling conditions for private investment.

Develop and implement appropriate strategies to ensure that the youth benefit from the political, social, and economic opportunities
Change policies and programs to mitigate the risks and challenges that the youth face in accessing resources.
Invest in youth-led initiatives that are at the forefront of responding to youth.

Increase the private sector’s responsibility to create decent work for young people by creating opportunities such as traineeships, mentoring, and access to finance for young entrepreneurs.
Leverage markets, investments, firm behavior, and technical expertise to drive valuable business and development results in a sustainable manner over the short, medium, and long term. Given the growing and vital role the private sector has in solving global development problems, private sector engagement is essential to building resilient and lasting self-reliance.
Increase investment in positive youth development.
Increase private investments in youth development.
Microfinance young aspiring entrepreneurs.

Invest in digital fluency skills and the digital economy
Invest in Fund Actions supporting media literacy and young people’s rights in the digital environment.
Increase investments in and creation of inclusive access to digital tools and learning systems that can support the education and skill development of young people, ensuring that they will not be left further behind with advancements in technologies.
Create inclusive platforms and share safe spaces (both digital and physical) for young people to inform policies that impact their lives.
Increase youth ability to embrace digital jobs, and create an enabling environment
Enable youth to take advantage of the linkage platforms