Different concepts become important at times, some have a lasting influence, while most offer a transient change and trend – like clothes or music! Where does intergenerational theory fit in …

When we started, the plan looked implausible. When we finished, it proved really hard to write, because of the sequential and inter-linked activities the 14 peer educators managed: Foundation train…

The objective was to bring together all staff providing care for unaccompanied minors across Greece shelters – especially often neglected or excluded caregivers, administrators, cooks, cleane…

It was one of the longest blog silences – nothing new to say? end of a cycle? end of THE cycle? working for the next one with great new partners? or simply subsumed by the unprecedented daily…

Nice to conclude this strand of the Theory-of-Change face-to-face. As we had considered in some depth three domains (stigma-parent engagement-financial challenges), we devoted most of the workshop …

Most barriers to mental health support, even interventions on how to address them, do not really differ in the literature or across countries (of at least of similar contexts). However, the mechani…

Youth and professional advisers had their say – what would government, senior professionals and other stakeholders make of their recommendations? It was exciting that they came and represente…

Great work – and dancing skills – from our partner Blessings and the Hope Ministries International team. Rebuilding communities following floods on the back of ongoing adversity, while …

The main focus of the new paper was on gender issues, but let’s not take for granted this, unfortunately, common finding in residential care – especially in large Global South settings.…

After visiting the area, schools and care homes twice, it seems a long time but nice to contrast own impressions with actual data from Hafzah’s work. What does it mean for child and youth men…

There is a – not so illogical – paradox in policy and service transformation. The more grandiose, the more vague – the more vague, the less likely to implement. The cynic in me su…

These are challenging times, when national and, especially, international law take regular knocks, distortion or marginalisation. So, this maybe a paradox of taking on a project to free law and leg…

This was the first meeting to refine our Theory-of-Change, starting with a needs (scoping) analysis. There was rich experience in backgrounds and youth volunteering from the group. Although we had …

It is very exciting to test out how generalisable our child mental health framework is. We piloted it in several countries, while the main integration to existing systems was implemented in South A…

Some challenges have been more obvious than others during the last year of the peer support intervention and the last week of the visit. Moving from stigma to acceptance came consistently top of th…

Young mums kicked off and talked a lot about acceptance and ‘standing’ in society (“I don’t want other girls to experience what I went through”), as well as building for the future such as getting …

Stigma against both teenage pregnancy and mental health had consistently emerged as key barriers throughout the project. Common consequences were lack of (self-)acceptance, exclusion, school drop-o…

They took central stage with school principals, teachers, police and community officers, as well as parents: they went through the journey, so who best to exchange real knowledge? They shared seaml…

Reflecting on the new paper from youth-leading-youth in South Africa: youth engaged much better with youth leads (or peer educators) from their own communities. Peer educators were more creative th…

Revisiting this new publication from our work in five Global South Countries on how children as young as 8 years process their experiences of safety – and contrasting with international polic…