Participate
Participate in Our Study
Youth are the experts of their experiences and we want to listen. This page describes ways to contribute to our study and how young people may find this research useful.
Ways to Participate in Our Research
MAP
We continue to identify leadership initiatives for inclusion in our database. You can tell us about an initiative you know. This contributes to a collective and public knowledge of education opportunities targeting African youth. Learning about range and scope of these initiatives helps us understand the landscape and actors in this phenomenon of Youth Leadership for Development.
SURVEY
We have put together a survey to engage in a directed-and-open format with many people’s experiences of education opportunities and leadership initiatives. The survey has space to tell us about both your specific experiences and your analysis of leadership and social change in Africa. Having a large set of responses to similar questions offers us the possibility to discover patterns, connect experiences, and relationships. Our survey is short, and might take less than fifteen minutes.
INTERVIEW
While both a database of education opportunities and surveys responses provide meaningful glimpses in to the landscape of youth leadership for development, we believe this information cannot be divorced from the contexts, lives, and understandings of individuals. As a part of this research, we want to interview African youth who are or have been engaged in education opportunities and leadership initiatives.
Why You May Choose to Participate
We recognize that academic research is not always reciprocal or directly beneficial to those who choose to participate. Currently, there is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. However, we hope that this study will contribute to the understanding of the experiences of African youth and the role of education in shaping the rising generations of African leadership.
We hope that this web site will serve as a form of reciprocity. The map is intended to serve as a resource for young people interested in leadership opportunities. We also aspire to use this website to amplify the contributions of African youth to social change in their communities.