YOUTH KI AWAAZ
YOUTH KI AWAAZ
Build powerful social media campaigns to demand better access to education for girls and stand a chance to win a ₹50,000 grant!
Why do I need to take action?
100 - 58 = ?
Are you able to solve this basic equation? 42% of girls in the country can’t.
Compared to boys, girls are twice as likely to have less than 4 years of schooling. Girls who complete 12 years of schooling also get married 5 years later than girls with less than 5 years of schooling.
Although girl enrollment rates at the primary level have witnessed a vast increase from the previous decade, 40% of adolescent girls are not attending any educational institution. The reasons range from poverty, household work, child marriage, distance to schools, to access to sanitation facilities. And this was before the pandemic hit.
Now the New Education Policy (2020) has put forth a blueprint for the education system in the country to make #RightToEducation a reality. However there needs to be a dialogue on how the provisions in the NEP will improve the status of girls’ education in the country. And YOU can demand that dialogue through your campaign!
How do I take action? A 2-day, online workshop for you to learn powerful social media campaigning skills and launch your next big digital campaign to demand better access to education, and stand a chance to win a ₹50,000 grant to support your campaign.
How does it work? Once selected, you attend our 2-day workshop wherein sessions on Day 1 focus on helping you design a solid campaign strategy. On Day 2, you learn how to amplify your campaign and help it reach the right audience through strategic content and social media tactics. Once the workshop is over, we work closely with you to strengthen, shape, and launch your campaigns. Post your campaign launch, we provide you with continuous mentorship and support.
What will I learn? The Action Network is a challenging and exciting space where you will develop an in-depth issue understanding to help you progress in a cause you deeply care about. You will be taught various aspects of designing and running high-impact outcome-oriented digital campaigns. From campaign design and strategy, social media and storytelling skills, stakeholder engagement, to influencing the media and decision-makers to demand action, we’ll cover it all.
How can I campaign during COVID-19? As someone who uses the internet actively and is passionate about the issue, you can use the power of your voice to change the larger public narrative on girls’ access to education and demand policy action by designing powerful social media campaigns!
I'm in! How do I apply? Hit the button below and fill out the form with an existing campaign pitch, or a new idea. Make it as detailed as possible, targeting local decision-makers. If you clear the first round, we’ll interview you for the final selection.
Application Deadline: 1 March, 2021
Personal and Professional Growth
An opportunity to step out of your comfort zone, learn unique skills, engage and build networks with aligned persons/peer networks/organizations that you might not otherwise be able to through your student life, internship, or job. Once you attend the workshop and launch your campaign, you become an Action Network Fellow for life 🔥
Personal and Professional Growth
An opportunity to step out of your comfort zone, learn unique skills, engage and build networks with aligned persons/peer networks/organizations that you might not otherwise be able to through your student life, internship, or job. Once you attend the workshop and launch your campaign, you become an Action Network Fellow for life 🔥
Understanding Intersectionality
Learn how girls’ education and gender intersects with other diverse issues such as sexual and reproductive rights, sanitation, caste, class, employment, and economic growth. Understand how to use this holistic issue understanding to create urgency around the issue and demand action from decision-makers!
Understanding Intersectionality
Learn how girls’ education and gender intersects with other diverse issues such as sexual and reproductive rights, sanitation, caste, class, employment, and economic growth. Understand how to use this holistic issue understanding to create urgency around the issue and demand action from decision-makers!
Designing Successful Campaigns
Access to tools, techniques, resources, and funding* to inform your audience, advocate for implementation of policies, and take your impact from online to offline!
Access to tools, techniques, resources, and funding* to inform your audience, advocate for implementation of policies, and take your impact from online to offline!
If you have another question, don't hesitate to drop us a line at action@youthkiawaaz.com!