Changelooms With In

The Changelooms With.In programme was launched in partnership with UK government’s Department for International Development’s initiative Poorest Area Civil Society (PACS) programme and was a first-of-its-kind 10 months leadership journey with 100 passionate young changeloomers leading social action initiatives that address social inclusion in 6 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Delhi NCR. This campaign was launched in January 2014 and culminated in September 2015. Changelooms With.in aimed to provide opportunities and direction to the tremendous energy, passion and desire to bring positive change that the youth beholds. For many Changeloomers, the Changelooms With.In journey has been a tremendous opportunity to overcome their fear of failure and to demonstrate that they can make a difference through their ideas and projects. It has built their self-confidence and conviction that the path they have chosen is right. The focus on the ‘self’ has helped them to reflect on their strengths, values, aspirations and fears and to get in touch with themselves – as individuals and as leaders.

  Changelooms is a 5th Space initiative that encourages the youth to dream of a society that is inclusive, just and equitable. The program offers in-depth learning and leadership opportunities to young social activists, along with deep and personal mentoring, and guides them to become leaders of change in their community. The focus areas of growth and development of these leaders are around self, relationships, their organizations and strengthening the impact of their work in their communities. The Changelooms programme was launched in 2005. It was a joint effort by Pravah in collaboration with Ashoka-Innovators for the public, with support from the Youth and Civil Society Initiative of Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Global Fund for Children. The programme offered in depth learning and leadership opportunities for young entrepreneurs along with deep personal mentoring. Following the success of Change Looms, in 2008 CYC set up another leadership journey for youth who had an inspired social intervention idea, the passion and vision to commit to it, but were not yet ready to incubate organisations. This program gave youth leaders an opportunity to enhance their leadership for social change by initiating creative social change experiments on the ground. This program was called ComMutiny Learning and Leadership Journey (LLJ). Recognising the power and connectedness of both the above programs, in 2012, Pravah and CYC entered into a partnership to merge the two programs and launched the new Change Looms: Learning and Leadership Journey in order to support both, action projects and incubations. The Changelooms: Learning & Leadership Journey offers to its co-voyagers support by: Encouraging, recognising and supporting the young change leaders who have started social change initiatives with a focus on youth development. Offering opportunities to change makers for intensive personal and organisational development. Supporting young change leaders through skills and learning to strengthen capacities as youth facilitators in core thematic areas, including systems thinking, perspectives on youth development, deep self-awareness, instructional design and facilitation, teambuilding, and exploring diversities through intensive peer-engagement. Providing mentorship linkages to facilitate and support self and organizational development Offer modest financial assistance for starting their projects
 

The My Space My unManifesto Programme was conducted in two phases by ComMutiny – The Youth Collective, supported by UNFPA. In phase-1 the programme was conducted in collaboration with 45 organizations across 20 States and 2 Union Territories. The process reached out to 1.2 Lakh youth on ground and 15 lakh online before culminating in April 2014. In phase-2 the programme was re-launched in a new format in October 2015 with 30 young leaders and15 youth organizations across 8 states. The programme aimed to build capacities of young leaders to create sustained positive impact in their communities by engaging with policy makers (politicians/ministers/bureaucrats/local leaders).

This programme saw tremendous impact in the form of the initiation of 4 regional collectives across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi, and reached out to over 2000 people on ground and 50 public representatives across the four states. The programme was covered widely in multiple leading dailies across the country, such as Times of India, Telegraph, and the Hindustan Times.