RUZIVOYouth Futures & Wellbeing
Healing, education, mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and young people’s civic agency.
OUR STRATEGIC DIRECTION
Our research direction
Our work brings wellbeing, justice, livelihoods, governance and knowledge into a shared systems perspective.
Gender, Justice & Economic Power
Gender equity, livelihoods, care systems and opportunities for women and young people to shape their economic futures.
Mobility, Peace & Belonging
Migration, reintegration, storytelling and intergenerational dialogue around dignity, memory and belonging.
Systems Innovation & Governance
Institutional and policy design informed by communities, public participation and systems thinking.
Indigenous Knowledge & Decolonised Practice
Knowledge justice, Ubuntu-informed inquiry, research ethics and intergenerational ways of knowing.
CROSS-CUTTING LENSES
Rights and economic participation
Sexual & reproductive health and rights
Our framework connects bodily autonomy, care, reproductive justice and access to support with broader questions of wellbeing and participation.
Economic empowerment
Across the clusters, we consider livelihoods, education-to-work transitions, entrepreneurship and economic systems that support dignity and self-determination.
FOUNDATIONAL APPROACH
Our foundational approach
Ruzivo’s direction values intergenerational learning, ethical knowledge exchange and the participation of people whose experiences are often overlooked.
Our programme concepts connect these principles with research, storytelling and collaborative design.
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