Young people are
What we do
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Rallying a community of organistions, collectives, mobilisers and individuals to ensure young people’s lived experiences break through systemic silence.
Research
Promoting and driving research projects to provide evidence on the systemic challenges that drive youth unemployment.
Advocacy
Lobbying with relevant institutions at provincial and national level to advocate for key policy changes.
It all starts with young people
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with some of the highest levels of sustained unemployment, inequality and poverty, deeply rooted in strutural challenges. A large portion of the population in South Africa is young people; unlocking these challenges means unlocking productivity and growth for the country as a whole.
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youth capital’s advocacy wins
Members of the Steering Committee for the Budget Justice Coalition, consistently advocating for National Treasury’s support of social protection measures.
Fund our Futures advocacy campaign secured the funding extension of the Presidential Employment Stimulus until March 2025.
Informed the Western Cape Provincial Government’s Growth for Jobs strategy around the job-seekers support Get YOU to Work initiative.
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What exactly does Youth Capital do?
Youth Capital is a campaign advocating for key policy changes to solve youth unemployment, ensuring that youth voices and experiences inform solutions. The Action Plan is a strategy that details 10 critical challenges where young people need support on their journey from education to economic productivity. Key to our work is ensuring that young South Africans shape conversations on the the systemic challenges laid out in the Action Plan and the relevant solutions to those challenges. We identify policy change and collectively drive lobbying activities with the relevant decision-makers.
How can I get involved?
Join our collective advocacy, shape our lobbying activities and help us build pressure with decision makers. Get started with the community here.
Can you help me get a job?
What can we do to help?
Yay for asking! When we come together, we can do a lot to influence decisions that can solve youth unemployment. You can join our community, spread the love on social media and subscribe to our mailers – so that you can stay up to date with campaigns and opportunities to shape our work.
What activities can I engage with once I join the network?
We’re a campaign that leverages evidence and mobilisation to build pressure for policy change. Whether you can share our posts, join the community and shape our campaigns, or run mobilising sessions, we would love to hear from you. Get started with community here.
Is Youth Capital's advocacy working?
- Consistent advocacy with National Treasury with submissions to Select Committee on Appropriations;
- Fund Our Futures campaign secured the funding for the Presidential Employment Stimulus for an extra year until March 2025
- Beyond the Cost research and informed the Western Cape Provincial Government’s Growth for Jobs strategy around the job-seekers support
- Get YOU to Work initiative
- Over 40 000 people have joined our community