This Global Protection Assessment serves an important function in the creation of a Protection Policy for Youth Excel, providing key insights into the necessary protection and safeguarding protocols and policies for Youth Excel programs and activities. The aim of this Protection Assessment is to help inform key areas of need and focus on the protection policy for Youth Excel through better understanding the main protection challenges and risks for young people’s inclusive leadership and participation throughout the Youth Excel program.
Key objectives include:
- Assess the main protection challenges and risks facing young people, staff/partners, programming, and operations throughout their participation in the Youth Excel program, including but not limited to sociocultural, emotional / mental health, physical, legal, political, financial, gendered, digital risks, and more;
- Understand contextual differences and nuances in protection by country or region; and
- Identify appropriate and existing risk prevention and mitigation measures / protection mechanisms to ensure safe and inclusive participation of youth in Youth Excel programs.
This report is an adapted version of the detailed analysis prepared for Youth Excel, in order to protect the confidentiality of respondents. This Protection assessment will be used alongside the desk review to develop the overarching Protection Policy for Youth Excel.
Development and IREX for Youth Excel and was prepared by the Protection Policy Task Force led by Mena Ayazi and Rachel Walsh Taza of Search for Common Ground. Task Force Members include ABAAD, The Youth Cafe, UNOY Peacebuilders, USAID, IREX, Biz Nation, Youth Venture, Tech Tribes, and the African Youth Movement.
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