As a team, our collective experience of working with young people over the last few years has shown us that having a ‘skills-first’ approach severely limits the potential of young people who do not have the exposure, agency or awareness to pursue livelihoods that are appropriate for them in the long term.
Hence, we follow an ‘agency-first’ approach through our model of building agency – the ability to make free and informed decisions about their own futures – through awareness generation, individualized mentoring, and exposure to local livelihood solutions and local role models.