2REST Advocacy Pack: An open-source pack for practitioners and advocates working with street children and youth across Africa and beyond

TY - GEN

T1 - 2REST Advocacy Pack

T2 - An open-source pack for practitioners and advocates working with street children and youth across Africa and beyond

AU - 2REST (Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities)

AU - Hunter, Janine

AU - van Blerk, Lorraine

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - 2REST Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities: Mapping street youth lived resiliences through analysis of secondary data Civil society organisations, NGOs and other bodies working with street children and youth have power to involve them in decision-making about their own lives, and through working together, make change. Advocacy can take place at local level, and through influencing policy and laws at national, regional, and international levels. This pack collects together five Advocacy Tools that will: - Identify relevant national, regional, and international laws; - Strategically target advocacy programmes to make change; - Find appropriate tools for street children and youth participation in change and telling their stories; - Provide examples of where and how advocacy in action has made change; - Find Key Takeaways that work for you and your organisation. 2REST Advocacy Pack includes: - Tool 1: Engaging with international and regional bodies - Tool 2: Promoting inclusive policies and laws for street youth - Tool 3: Changing practice: Transforming public service practices toward street youth - Tool 4: Capacitating young people living in street situations to defend their rights - Tool 5: Making and using the story maps – raising awareness of the lived realities of street youth globally - Further resources, and citation.

AB - 2REST Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities: Mapping street youth lived resiliences through analysis of secondary data Civil society organisations, NGOs and other bodies working with street children and youth have power to involve them in decision-making about their own lives, and through working together, make change. Advocacy can take place at local level, and through influencing policy and laws at national, regional, and international levels. This pack collects together five Advocacy Tools that will: - Identify relevant national, regional, and international laws; - Strategically target advocacy programmes to make change; - Find appropriate tools for street children and youth participation in change and telling their stories; - Provide examples of where and how advocacy in action has made change; - Find Key Takeaways that work for you and your organisation. 2REST Advocacy Pack includes: - Tool 1: Engaging with international and regional bodies - Tool 2: Promoting inclusive policies and laws for street youth - Tool 3: Changing practice: Transforming public service practices toward street youth - Tool 4: Capacitating young people living in street situations to defend their rights - Tool 5: Making and using the story maps – raising awareness of the lived realities of street youth globally - Further resources, and citation.

U2 - 10.20933/100001467

DO - 10.20933/100001467

M3 - Other contribution

T3 - 2REST Advocacy Tools

PB - University of Dundee

CY - Dundee, UK

ER -