Model&Support
How we are ready to support you in addressing problems around child and youth engagement in promoting solutions to child and human rights violations, violence against children and social injustice.
What we think are the key issues and questions to address
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Poor youth and adolescents engagement in democratic processes
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Weak intergenerational dialogue
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Limited engagement of marginalised and vulnerable youth, adolescents and children
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Neo-colonial narrative in youth education and participation
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Poor funding allocation to local child , youth focused initiatives
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Lack of youth and adolescents involvement in peace and security discourses
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What strategies can ensure that global solutions effectively address and reflect local and regional issues concerning children, adolescents and young people?
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How can marginalized youth be supported in boosting capacity, skills and knowledge to actively participate and raise their voices meaningfully?
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How can the most vulnerable adolescents and youth be ensured equal access to different forms of participation and be changemakers in society as large?
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What strategies can be implemented to ensure children and youth engagement and development policies are contextually relevant and free from colonial influence?
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How can donor agencies shift from a top-down approach to enabling youth and child-led solutions in their funding strategies?
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What strategies can be employed to ensure young people are actively involved in peace and security discussions, and that their contributions are supported and protected?
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How can we address the diverse needs and perspectives of various generations to facilitate effective co-leadership and collaborative problem-solving?
ELEVATE MODEL
At Future Rights, we shift power to child-, adolescent-, and youth-led initiatives, ensuring they drive sustainable impact and systemic change. Instead of imposing top-down solutions, we create an enabling space where young people shape their own narratives, influence policies, and lead change in their communities.
Our ELEVATE model is a structured yet adaptable approach co-designed to empower youth-led initiatives through key stages—Engagement, Lift, Empowerment, Validation, Amplification, Thrive, and Evolution. This model equips changemakers with the resources, connections, and support needed to advance their goals while ensuring that grassroots solutions influence institutional and global decision-making
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Engage
Lift
Empower
Validate
Amplify
Thrive
Evolve
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Engage – Reaching out and identifying innovative youth-led initiatives.
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Lift – Providing visibility and support to help them grow when and if needed.
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Empower – Equipping them with the knowledge and tools to achieve their goals.
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Validate – Connecting them with other initiatives, youth and experts for knowledge exchange and mutual support.
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Amplify – Enhancing their impact and networking opportunities.
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Thrive – Ensuring their sustainability by supporting access to funding, partnerships and long-term resources.
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Evolve – Helping them continuously grow and adapt for future challenges.
HOW DOES IT WORK IN PRACTICE?
Unlike conventional partnerships, Future Rights acts as a catalyst, guiding initiatives through a collaboratively defined process within a set timeframe, focused on specific objectives. Our approach is mutual, evolving, and rooted in equal exchange, where we provide tailored support at every step of the ELEVATE model to strengthen youth- and child-led initiatives.
1️⃣ Identifying Initiatives – We identify youth- and child-led initiatives through word of mouth, open calls, social media, or referrals. We take the time to get to know each other, understand the initiative’s vision, objective, and assess its needs.
2️⃣ Mapping the Starting Point – Together, we determine where the initiative stands within the ELEVATE model. This could involve (and not be limited to):
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Structuring an organization or collective
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Co-designing a project
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Strengthening capacity and knowledge
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Defining advocacy or action strategies
3️⃣ Customising Support – Based on this assessment, we co-develop a tailored approach, adapting the model and selecting relevant support interventions from the ELEVATE menu or designing new, customised solutions that best fit the initiative’s goals.
4️⃣ Building with Evidence & Accountability – Every collaboration is underpinned by:
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Evidence-based action & data collection
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Knowledge of accountability mechanisms
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A strong foundation in human, child, and environmental rights & protection
Support within the model: The Menu
Evidence Based Research
Grounding your initiatives in solid data and insights
Designing Analytical Frameworks & Data Collection Tools
We develop structured frameworks and tools to guide data collection, ensuring a clear and evidence-based approach.
Collecting Data
We use a mixed-methods approach, gathering both primary and secondary data through: desk reviews,Child-participatory methods, Focus group discussions, Key informant interviews, Semi-structured surveys.
Data can be quantitative (numerical, statistical) or qualitative (observations, interviews, documentation)—whether for scientific environmental research or social evidence and rights-based documentation.
Analysing & Interpreting Data
We make sense of the findings, identifying patterns and key insights to support decision-making and strategy development.
Reporting
We compile results into actionable reports, using data to inform:
Program design & implementation
Advocacy & policy influence
Capacity Building& Strengthening
Exchanging skills and and knowledge necessary to enhance effectiveness and impact
Identifying Capacity & Skills Needs
We assess key skills and knowledge gaps to determine areas for reinforcement, such as:
Human rights & child rights law
Child protection & access to justice
Environmental Rights
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Designing & Assessing Learning Approaches .We collaboratively identify the most effective learning methodologies and tools to build or strengthen the capacity of youth and adolescents.
Facilitating Learning Exchanges
We organize interactive learning spaces, including: Trainings & workshops , Online webinars & discussions ,Peer-to-peer exchanges
Technical &Operational Assistance
Offering expert support to refine strategies, improve operational efficiency, and ensure long-term success
Support in program management & strategy design
Operational & organisational capacity for start-ups
Codevelop programs co-creating powerful, tailored child rights and protection activities
Coordinate and bringing together actors for collaboration
Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness for accountability and improvement
Coach and mentor for skills and capacity development
Advocacy & Awareness Campaigning
Helping to raise awareness and mobilise action
Developing Campaign Messaging & Awareness Tools_We create impactful narratives and awareness-raising materials, using visual arts, media, and cultural expressions to amplify key messages and engage diverse audiences.
Providing Legal & Data Support for Policy Engagement_We equip young advocates with legal knowledge and data insights to strengthen negotiations and discussions with policymakers and decision-makers.
Collecting Data & Drafting Advocacy Reports_We gather evidence and analysis to develop reports and policy briefs, ensuring advocacy efforts are data-driven and impactful
Experience and Learning Sharing
Facilitating the exchange of knowledge and best practices between initiatives
Support non/formal education activities for young people, adolescents and children in schools or any other spaces
Run and organise webinars, to share information, expertise, opinions, or experiences .
Facilitate practical workshops, and roundtables for knowledge exchange, debate and discussion
Visibility and Sustainability
Promoting youth and child led initiative and helping secure long-term viability through networking and access to funding opportunities
Create opportunities , both creative and innovative, using formal and informal methods to showcase ideas and perspectives to build sustainable networks and funding resources.
Piloting the ELEVATE Model: A Phased Approach to Learning & Scaling
At Future Rights, we are committed to building and refining the ELEVATE model through a step-by-step process. By testing it in different contexts, we aim to adapt, improve, and scale a model that is truly responsive to the needs of youth- and child-led initiatives.
Our approach follows a four-phase journey:
PHASE 1 (Short Term): DESIGN, CONSULT, CONTEXTUALISE
We co-develop the model by engaging with key stakeholders, gathering insights, and ensuring it is adapted to diverse local realities.
PHASE 2 (Short-Medium Term): PILOT & LESSONS LEARNED
We experiment with the model in selected contexts, documenting challenges, successes, and best practices to generate evidence and learning.
PHASE 3 (Medium Term): REFINE & SCALE UP
Based on lessons learned, we fine-tune the model, strengthen key components, and expand its implementation to new initiatives and settings.
PHASE 4 (Long Term): SYSTEMATISE
We consolidate the ELEVATE model, integrating it into structured frameworks that can be replicated and scaled for broader impact.
Experimenting the ELEVATE Model
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In Rural Nepal – We are consulting with marginalised adolescents and youth groups to explore how ELEVATE can support their advocacy and community goals.
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Globally – We are soon launching discussions with young professionals and students specialising in Human Rights and Conflict Management, integrating fresh perspectives into the process.
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In Rural Uganda – We are working with local advocates fighting to end child marriage, tailoring ELEVATE to strengthen their campaign.
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In Italy- We are working with some fellow youth led organisations in running awareness and advocacy campaign in support of youth activists fighting for environmental justice in Perù
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Internally- We are working to refine strategies and seek funding to invest in us and help us experiment the above case studies
In Rural Nepal
Nepal has made strong progress in democracy, child rights, and inclusion. However, many young people still struggle to participate in decision-making, limiting their role in social change and development. Despite being the majority, they face systemic barriers, while indigenous and marginalized youth continue to experience discrimination.Future Rights, with Loo Niva Child Concern Group, in partnership with Child Rights Consortium, is piloting the ELEVATE model with youth and adolescents in Lalitpur and Makwanpur districts. This initiative helps young people shape the model to their needs, giving them the skills and platforms to drive change—whether advocating for their rights, strengthening child protection, or tackling social and environmental justice.
By fostering inclusive leadership, intergenerational dialogue, and systemic approaches to youth participation, this initiative seeks to institutionalize youth engagement in governance and policy-making, ensuring that their voices are heard and valued in shaping Nepal’s future.
In Rural Uganda
Hands Against Child Marriage is a collective of passionate youth advocates in Uganda working to eradicate child marriage and empower young people in their communities.
In this video, some of the founders share their mission, vision, and the driving principles behind their work. However, like many youth-led grassroots initiatives, they face significant challenges in establishing and scaling their impact.
Their mission is to end child marriage in Uganda by fostering a youth-led, community-driven movement—one that empowers young people, engages boys and men as allies, and challenges societal norms to protect the rights and dignity of all children.
This is where Future Rights steps in. Through the ELEVATE Model, we act as a catalyst, incubator, and accelerator, providing the necessary support to overcome obstacles and unlock new opportunities.
In Perù & Italy
The pilot project A.G.I.R.E. – Environment, Youth, Inclusion, Resources, Empowerment – was created through a collaboration between Centro Giovani Papperlapapp APS, through the Operation Daywork project, and Future Rights APS, two organizations committed to promoting youth participation as a tool for active citizenship and global solidarity.
A.G.I.R.E. is the result of the ELEVATE Model complementing and supporting OD's participation model, it engages students, young activists, and civil society from municipalities in the Tuscany region of Italy and the city of Bolzano. It is supported by Asiri ODV, the young activists of Cerro de Pasco from Red Interquorum—winners of the 2024 OD's Human Rights Award—and the expertise of environmental scientists from Source International.
The project focuses on environmental justice, placing young people at the center of training on environmental justice, human rights and accountability, right to participation, importance of data and evidence, awareness-raising, and advocacy initiatives, drawing on the well-established experiences of Operation Daywork, Future Rights, and environmental activists.
Through school meetings, workshops, and a public event, participants will take the lead in creating a local-global action group. The goal is to develop awareness campaigns, advocacy efforts, and fundraising activities in solidarity with communities affected by extractivism in Peru, linking local action to the global challenges of the environmental crisis.
A.G.I.R.E. represents a model of active participation that empowers the new generations to take a leading role in defending human rights and the environment.
Please watch the interview with youth from Operation Daywork introducing the Human Rights Award and Red Interquorum Activists
Areas of Expertise
YOUTH AND CHILD RIGHTS, PROTECTION AND PARTICIPATION
in the field of
DURABLE SOLUTIONS, FORCED MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT
ARMED CONFLICT, PEACE AND SECURITY
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
ALTERNATIVE CARE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY