Bibian Chibelushi

Youth Advisory Project Officer

ActionAid Zambia

🇿🇲 Zambia

“I am joining this Action Learning Cycle to strengthen my ability to support meaningful youth participation and collective action in challenging and resource-constrained environments. I hope to gain practical strategies for building stronger youth-led collaboration, navigating power dynamics in decision-making spaces and sustaining impact beyond project cycles. I also look forward to learning from peers and applying these insights to strengthen my practice in advancing inclusive, youth-centred leadership and systems change“

Hamzah Mohammed Ali Alsanafi

Education & Protection Program Manager

Building Foundation for Development (BFD)

🇾🇪 Yemen

“As the International Youth Federation representative in Yemen, I am joining this Action Learning Cycle to strengthen our organization’s governance and financial management frameworks. In our challenging humanitarian context, enhancing our monitoring and evaluation systems is essential to ensure transparency and long-term sustainability. I hope to gain practical tools for institutional growth and exchange strategies with global peers, enabling us to build a more credible platform that effectively empowers Yemeni youth to lead community-driven development.“

“We hope to gain practical, grounded learning from peers on how organisations across contexts are responding to coordinated opposition to SRHR, funding uncertainty, and shrinking civic space. Beyond high-level dialogue, we are looking for real-time strategies on narrative shift, alliance-building beyond traditional SRHR actors, and sustaining youth engagement under pressure. We also want to strengthen how we support member associations and youth leaders in restrictive environments, while contributing regional experience and lessons from practice.“

“We’re joining this Action Learning Cycle as we work in a context where gains in gender equality and feminist movements are increasingly challenged and there is a growing need to strengthen our approaches to navigating shrinking civic space, rising opposition and limited resources. As a feminist organization working through a multigenerational approach, we hope to build resilience, sustain our work and deepen solidarity, while continuing to support young women leaders and grassroots communities in Nepal.“

“We’re joining this Action Learning Cycle to strengthen LOOM’s ability to defend hard-won feminist gains, sustain SRHR advocacy, and navigate rising backlash, shrinking civic space, and limited resources. Through collective learning, we aim to build resilience, sharpen adaptive strategies, and deepen solidarity to ensure young women leaders and grassroots communities continue advancing gender justice.“

“It is a critical time for youth programming in Syria, where social, security, and funding challenges are affecting SRHR and psychosocial initiatives. These shifts have increased resistance, limited access to vulnerable groups, and created constraints.”

“We aim to learn how to adapt to these challenges, manage contextual pressures, and sustain programmes under reduced funding. We also seek strategies to better reach hard-to-access groups and strengthen youth-led interventions, while learning from global experiences to improve resilience and protect progress in sensitive programming areas.”

“We’re joining this Action Learning Cycle because we think it is one of the best networks that can strengthen for organization to reach out targeted objectives, also we hope to gain new skills, knowledge, experiences, design actions and advocacies from others to ensure long-term sustainability, credibility and impact. We will also share our experiences and actions.”

“I am joining this Action Learning Cycle to strengthen my capacity to sustain youth-led climate and advocacy efforts in increasingly restrictive environments. With my work at YCCGA, I hope to gain practical strategies for defending progress, building resilient coalitions, and navigating funding and political challenges. I am particularly interested in peer learning and collaborative solutions that will enhance my ability to support youth movements and drive impactful, rights-based advocacy across diverse contexts.”

“By being part of the YIELD Hub’s training on Defending Progress, I look forward to sharpening my problem solving skills, forge strategic partnerships with like-minded organisations, and create innovative solutions that strengthen youth engagement within our network. Having these skills and knowledge will enhance YCCGA’s advocacy, making my coordination contribution as the global coordinator more resilient, evidence-informed, and globally connected.”

“We are joining this Action Learning Cycle to learn how young people and youth-led movements are defending SRHR amid political backlash, shrinking civic space, and funding constraints. We are hoping to learn from global peers on how to adapt youth-led advocacy and programs under such challenging circumstances. We also look forward to building connections and transforming them into real collaborations.”