TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change
TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change is a multi-year, multi-country, global partnership funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The project as a whole seeks to position young people as leaders, innovators, and critical thinkers in advancing gender transformation and social justice. Working across several countries including Argentina, Australia, Canada, India, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and South Africa, TRANSFORM uses participatory visual and arts-based methods—from photovoice to performance to zine-making—to explore how gender norms are challenged and reimagined in practice. Through Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) spaces, it connects local interventions with global dialogues and intergenerational collaboration. Grounded in feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches, TRANSFORM amplifies youth voices to disrupt gender norms and influence gender transformative practices across concerns such as gender violence and climate justice.
At its core, TRANSFORM uses gender transformation to tackle the root causes of inequality—breaking down harmful norms to create lasting change.
Youth at the Centre
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.
