Youth Excel Kisumu Data Summit: Enhancing Youth Work Readiness
Research and Evidence
After several months of conducting research about how to enhance youth work readiness in Kisumu, Kenya, Youth Excel's Issue-Based Collaborative Network (ICON) participants presented their main findings to key stakeholders in the community. Through youth-led, locally developed research, youth-led and youth-serving organizations have identified key aspects to enhance youth work readiness in Kisumu, Kenya. The knowledge products produced by ICON participants include recommendations to improve the livelihoods of persons with disabilities (PWDs), women, and other key groups.
Youth Excel supports young leaders and youth-led and youth-serving organizations around the globe to use research and data to improve their positive youth development programs. It helps young leaders leverage the research and data they produce in intergenerational learning and dialogue to strengthen local, national, and global development outcomes.
What Is an Issue-Based Collaborative Network (ICON)?
Youth Excel’s ICON whole-system-in-the-room model convenes a diverse group of youth-led and youth-serving organizations and groups to form a place-based collaborative that collectively tackles a shared problem. The participants build skills in Research-to-Change (implementation research), research to strengthen their work, share data, create new knowledge collectively, learn from each other, and produce knowledge products to support youth advocacy and engage with local decision-makers.
Kisumu ICON: enhancing youth work readiness by engaging higher education institutions, the public and private sectors. Co-led by IREX and Lakehub Foundation and engaging diverse youth, youth-led/youth-serving organizations, and groups.