RIAHSAH Co. works with youth-led organisations, NGOs, and institutions to strengthen how initiatives are designed, implemented, and improved over time.
Our support combines capacity-building, facilitation, and technical assistance across project design, delivery, learning, and adaptation. We help teams carry learning forward across project cycles so experience continuously informs the next round of work.
We work alongside teams to build internal capabilities on:
Framing problems and identify leverage points
Designing context-grounded projects and intervention models
Strengthening organisational strategy and decision-making
Adapting programmes as conditions change
Primary partners
Youth-led organisations and youth entrepreneurs building initiatives
NGOs delivering programmes in complex environments
Supporting stakeholders
Funders seeking stronger implementation and learning
Institutions supporting innovation and systems change
Educators and ecosystem organisations developing practitioners
Decision-makers
Executive leadership in NGOs, government, and foundations seeking more reliable programme outcomes
The Youth in Systems Change Programme is a RIAHSAH social systems initiative, equipping young people across Africa with the skills and practical exposure needed to engage with and influence complex social and economic systems.
Our Roots
The journey began with Youth@Work, a multi-country initiative in Kenya and South Africa where young people designed inclusive responses to unemployment and social challenges.
Building on its lessons, Youth in Systems Change expands this work, exploring the deeper systems shaping issues like joblessness, waste, and climate vulnerability, and equipping young Africans with the skills to shape the future of work, environment, and technology.
Initially piloted in Kenya and South Africa, Youth@Work is expanding to create 4,050 new work opportunities for young people aged 18–35 in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. The programme scales RIAHSAH Co.’s Collaborative & Innovative Design (CID) model through nine Youth-Led Organisations (YLOs). Using a hands-on, cohort approach, it equips youth to co-design, prototype, test, and launch income-generating micro-ventures.
YouthInWaste is a youth-led innovation programme tackling urban waste challenges through circular economy thinking and green enterprise. YouthInWaste equips participants to build sustainable ventures in recycling, reuse, and waste innovation creating jobs and environmental solutions for African cities.
This is a research and practice initiative exploring how youth can thrive in emerging sectors. It focuses on AI, digital entrepreneurship, and green innovation, helping young professionals identify and seize new opportunities in a rapidly evolving economy.
The Youth in Systems Change Hub is a collaborative learning community within Systems Futures where young people, mentors, and youth leaders learn, develop and test ideas, and share lessons that strengthen youth-led organisations to lead change.
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