In our international engagement we are always working closely with The Danish Red Cross. We are collaborating with the respective Red Cross and Red Crescent national society in each country. The local partnership ensures both the sustainability of the activities and ensures a focus on the most important needs in the individual local area.
The Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement consist of more than 15 million volunteers globally. 50 percent of these volunteers are young people under the age of 30. In other words, the RC/RC Movement is the worlds’ largest humanitarian youth movement. These young people are not only in position to be future humanitarians, they are very often already at the very forefront of the humanitarian actions and social change. Not only does young volunteers take on key responsibility and tasks within the RC/RC Movement, they also carry the potential for new ways of thinking and acting. Youth jump headfirst onto new challenges and possibilities and use their energy to expand their global network and invent innovative, new solutions and opportunities.
At DRC-Y, we believe that
- IF young people have capacity, skills, and experience to lead their own development
- AND the organizational platform and supportive structures
- AND access to (be) decision makers to make their voices heard
- THEN they will actively engage in civil society and act as change agents, identifying and responding to needs in their local communities
- AND cooperate among youth to have their voices heard by local and national duty bearers, contributing to increased opportunities for young people
The Danish Red Cross Youth are always working youth-to-youth and based on the needs of the specific National Society with well tested methodologies.
Our current methodologies
Find a short description and special designed tools for each methodology below:
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Life Skills
DRC-Y Tool: Life Skills
Life Skills is a number of exercises for young people that makes them reflect on themselves, their relations and their community.
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Sprint
DRC-Y Tool: Sprint
Sprint is a workshop in social entrepreneurship and innovation. It is an effective, fast paced and inspiring approach to the engagement and involvement of young people in the process of developing ideas and responses to local community challenges.
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Psychological First Aid
DRC-Y Tool: Psychological First Aid for young peers
Danish red Cross Youth has developed a specialized training focusing on empowering youth as PFA supporters.
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Conflict Management
No tools yet
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Scoping Missions
DRC-Y Tool: Scoping Missions
Danish Red Cross Youth do participatory and engaging assessments and scoping missions in order to understand the needs and capacities of youth and volunteers in the NS, and the communities. We have several tools to map, understand and identify for example resources, structures, challenges, and opportunities.
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Volunteer Management
DRC-Y Tool: Volunteer Management
Danish Red Cross Youth provides training on how to motivate, retain, mobilize, and support volunteers. The training is targeted youth leaders (staff or volunteers) who are coordinating youth volunteers.
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Youth Engagement Strategy
Young Voices in our Global Movement
This site contains the voices of young volunteers, giving our inputs on how to strengthen youth engagement locally, nationally, and globally within our Movement. This is us highlighting the importance of our newly adopted Youth Engagement Strategy!
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Deployment of Danish volunteers
DRC-Y Tool: Deployment of Danish volunteers
Youth leaders are young full-time volunteers assigned to support a specific activity, project, or the youth work in a National Society for a longer period of time. The youth leaders will typically be deployed in a local branch for 6 to 8 months. Here they will work in teams consisting of two Danish youth leaders and two youth leaders from the national society.
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Youth Leadership Academy
The Youth Leadership Academy is an annually training program for Red Cross and Red Crescent (RC/RC) youth volunteers from across the world hosted by Danish Red Cross Youth.
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Youth Manifesto on Mental Health
Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of health globally with millions of young people affected. As the world’s largest humanitarian organization, it is our responsibility to act. On behalf of the young volunteers of the Red Cross and Red Crescent we hereby present this Youth Manifesto on mental health demanding visibility, acknowledgement and action within the Movement.
If you are with a National Society and want to explore collaboration with DRC-Y, please reach out to us at internationaltteam@urk.dk
We are currently working with the following National Societies:
- Bangladesh Red Cross Society
- Ethiopia Red Cross Society
- Kenya Red Cross Society
- Malawi Red Cross Society
- Myanmar Red Cross Society
- Nepal Red Cross Society
- Palestine Red Crescent Society
- Ukrainian Red Cross Society
- Greenland Red Cross
