Developing a Youth-Leadership Programme for Deaf Children in, and beyond, South Africa

为南非及其他地区的聋哑儿童制定青年领导力计划

• 批准号: AH/V011626/1
• 负责人: Paul Cooke
• 金额: $ 16.82万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV011626%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; Youth; Leadership; Programme; Deaf

This project will apply research findings from AH/R005354/1 (Changing the Story: Building Civil Society with and for young people in post-conflict settings) in a new context, namely to work with deaf children. This will allow us to generate significant new, and previously unanticipated, impact at three levels: within communities of vulnerable deaf children across Ekurhuleni, South Africa, within the agencies that support these young people, and at child-welfare and protection policy-level, working nationally in South Africa with the Department of Social Development and internationally with the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Changing the Story has interrogated how CSOs across 12 LMICs have sought to address the issue of youth engagement, looking at the ways in which arts-based programming, in particular, can be designed to foster better youth-ownership of development outcomes. We have commissioned and evaluated 21 youth-designed and youth-led projects that have sought to amplify the voices of young people to effect change in a wide range of contexts and at a number of levels. In Zimbabwe, for example, we worked with young street artists to advocate for human rights of the minority Tonga community, in South Africa we have used participatory filmmaking to raise awareness of (inter alia) the plight of the 'undocumented' children of illegal migrants, or of gender-based violence, focussing on questions of youth voice, or in Rwanda we have used grass-roots, participatory practices to shape the national curriculum. Our research has sought to innovative CSO practice in two ways. On the one hand, we have explored youth-led participatory methodologies, highlighting the importance of taking a situated approach to cultural production, emphasizing the relationship between artistic product and social context. This is often ignored in participatory projects that tend to focus far more on the process of engagement itself, and in so doing often ignore a key motivation for participation. On the other, our work highlights the structural implications of participation. While the notion of engaging young people in project design is increasingly common place, Changing the Story has emphasized making programmes fundamentally accountable to young people. This is more unusual in development projects, where accountability to the funder generally remains the priority. Thus, our project has contributed to the growing literature on 'downward accountability' and the ways in which supporting young people to shape organisational practice can not only improve development outcomes and increase value for money, but also overcome the much discussed phenomenon of 'donor fatigue' (Waddington 2020). Examples from our research of particular relevance to this present proposal include 'youth-led community assessments', piloted by a number of the Changing the Story projects and used to facilitate dialogue between CSOs, the young people they support and wider stakeholders in order to hold CSOs to account for the services they provide. In proposed project we will:1) Foster integration of deaf children and develop their self-advocacy skills. We will revisit learning from our earlier work in South Africa in order to create an arts-based leadership programme in partnership with Hope and Homes for Children (HHC), DeafKidz International (DKI), Deaf SA and the Bishop Simeon Trust (BST).2) Support relevant agencies to develop more inclusive practices. Working in partnership with DKI and Deaf SA, we will help BST and HHC to build organisational capacity. The project will provide them with new skills, and new approaches to programme design, helping them to integrate and support deaf children more effectively across their programmes.3) Support youth-led South-South knowledge exchange to inform child-welfare and protection policy nationally and internationally.

该项目将在一个新的背景下应用AH/R 005354/1（改变故事：在冲突后环境中与青年一起并为青年建设民间社会）的研究结果，即与聋哑儿童一起工作。这将使我们能够在三个层面产生重大的新的、以前未曾预料到的影响：在南非Ekurhuleni的弱势聋哑儿童社区内，在支持这些年轻人的机构内，在儿童福利和保护政策层面，在南非国内与社会发展部合作，在国际上与联合国合作，欧盟和英联邦政府首脑会议（CHOGM）。《改变故事》调查了12个低收入国家的民间社会组织如何设法解决青年参与问题，特别是如何设计以艺术为基础的方案，以促进青年更好地掌握发展成果。我们委托开展并评估了21个由青年设计和领导的项目，这些项目力求扩大青年的声音，以便在广泛的背景下在若干层面上实现变革。例如，在津巴布韦，我们与年轻的街头艺术家合作，倡导汤加少数民族社区的人权，在南非，我们利用参与式电影制作来提高人们对（阿利亚其他外）非法移民的“无证”儿童的困境，或基于性别的暴力，重点是青年的声音问题，或在卢旺达，我们利用基层，参与性做法，以形成国家课程。我们的研究从两个方面寻求创新的CSO实践。一方面，我们探索了青年主导的参与方法，强调了对文化生产采取情境方法的重要性，强调了艺术产品与社会背景之间的关系。在参与式项目中，这一点往往被忽视，因为这些项目往往更注重参与过程本身，这样做往往忽视了参与的一个关键动机。另一方面，我们的工作突出了参与的结构性影响。虽然让年轻人参与项目设计的概念越来越普遍，但“改变故事”强调让方案从根本上对年轻人负责。这种情况在发展项目中较为少见，因为在这些项目中，对供资者的问责通常仍然是优先事项。因此，我们的项目为越来越多的关于“向下问责”的文献做出了贡献，以及支持年轻人塑造组织实践的方式不仅可以改善发展成果和增加资金价值，而且还可以克服备受讨论的“捐助疲劳”现象（Waddington 2020）。我们的研究中与本建议特别相关的例子包括“青年领导的社区评估”，由一些“改变故事”项目进行试点，用于促进民间社会组织、他们所支持的年轻人和更广泛的利益攸关方之间的对话，以使民间社会组织对其提供的服务负责。在拟议的项目中，我们将：1）促进聋哑儿童的融入并发展他们的自我辩护技能。我们将重新审视我们早期在南非的工作，以便与希望和儿童之家（HHC），DeafKidz International（DKI），Deaf SA和主教Simeon Trust（BST）合作创建一个以艺术为基础的领导计划。与DKI和Deaf SA合作，我们将帮助BST和HHC建立组织能力。该项目将为他们提供新的技能和新的方案设计方法，帮助他们在其方案中更有效地融入和支持聋哑儿童。

项目成果

Youth, Voice and Development Policy Brief (Changing the Story and British Council)

青年、声音和发展政策简介（改变故事和英国文化协会）

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Brody, A.

Key Reflections on 'What Works' from across the AHRC GCRF and Newton Portfolio A Report by PRAXIS: Arts and Humanities for Global Development

PRAXIS 的报告：艺术与人文促进全球发展

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: E. Dusabe-Richards

Transforming Conflict and Displacement through Arts and Humanities (Dec 2021)

通过艺术和人文学科转变冲突和流离失所（2021 年 12 月）

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Robyn Gill-Leslie