EAST & SOUTHERN AFRICAThe dawn of flourishing youth futuresThe Dawn of Flourishing Youth Futures in ESA | 2Youth and Social Justice Futures: Re-imagining Future Skills and Training in AfricaThe Dawn of Flourishing Youth Futures in ESA | 3“When people are capable of deciding why and how to use the future, they become better able to detect and create the otherwise invisible – innovation and transformation. They are more at ease with novelty and experimentation. Less anxious about uncertainty. Humbler about controlling the future. More confident about being able to comprehend and appreciate the potential opened up by change.”– UNESCO: Futures LiteracyThe Dawn of Flourishing Youth Futures in ESA | 4“‘The young people of this beautiful continent, Africa, have great and innovative ideas on what they’d like to see change in the continent at large and their home countries. It is really good to have the opportunity to discuss the future with fellow young people who would like to impact the environments and societies they belong to. I learnt that the youth has similar issues they would like to see solved and changed to better benefit them and in doing so, maintain the culture of ‘Ubuntu’ and never forgetting that true change comes from collaborative action towards making a change for the young people and the citizens of South Africa as a whole.”– Kgwerano Maputla, South Africa (Youth Researcher)The Dawn of Flourishing Youth Futures in ESA | 5TEAM KENYA6#0 WORD LIST pg 7#1 PROJECT BACKGROUND pg 8#2 APPROACH pg 10#3 COUNTRY JOURNEYS pg 17#4 SYNTHESIS / KEY RESULTS pg 54 #5 LESSONS LEARNT pg 63#6 PROJECT TEAMS pg 72The Dawn of Flourishing Youth Futures in ESA | 7Futures Images, visions, and descriptions of an imagined future Heterarchy Non-hierarchy; at times a rank-free system; other times ever-changing rankings Imaginaries An entire way of viewing the world Casual Layered Analysis A group sense-making technique used to explore the underlying causes and worldviews contributing to a situation Murmuration A big group of birds flying together in an ever-changing pattern.Futures Literacy Labs (FLL): A capability-based method and initiatives fostering innovative, inclusive, and participatory exploration of diverse future narratives.Three Horizons Framework (3HF): A practical method for navigating patterns of change and uncertainties, understanding diverse futures, and mapping present actions for systemic innovations.#0 WORD LISTThe Dawn of Flourishing Youth Futures in ESA | #1 PROJECT BACKGROUNDYOuth futures in focuskenyaEASTSOUTHtanzaniamalawisouth africazambiaugandaPROJECT AIMRe-imagine and explore youth skills needs in ESA by employing futures thinking, collaborating with various stakeholders to foster youth-led agency for social justice.CONTEXTPROBLEM 1PROBLEM 2Post-COVID-19 and climate crisis era presents a dynamic landscape marked by rapid changes ...
