Engaging with Young People for Social Change

TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change

The TRANSFORM Partnership is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and brings together 40 researchers, 16 universities, and 10 partner organizations —including NGOs, policy actors, and publishers— with hundreds of youth from around the world to study how young people are pivotal agents of change in gender equity, specifically through participatory visual and arts-based methodologies.

Youth at the Center venn diagram. Top circle: Gender Transformative interventions. Bottom Left circle: Images and Impact. Bottom right circle: Global Dialogues. The whole venn diagram is surrounded by the words youth led, Artful engagement, Decolonization, Intergenerationality.

Youth at the Centre

Walkabout picture for website

Young people are today's knowledge producers and leaders. Through Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) spaces, youth co-create agendas, methods, and outcomes, shaping gender-transformative work through feminist, decolonial, and intergenerational collaboration.

Partner Organizations

We work alongside international NGOs, community organizations, policy actors, and feminist publishers to bridge research, practice, and policy to ensure that youth-led gender-transformative knowledge circulates beyond academia—informing programs, public dialogue, and decision-making at multiple scales.