The Power of Youth Connection
International Youth Day is a celebration of potential, resilience, and the collective power of young people to shape a better future. For Alumni Steering Group (ASG) members like Redempta Blandine Ishime and Zoe Daisy Wyngaard, it’s also a moment of reflection, on personal journeys, the role of networks, and the unstoppable drive of youth to create change. For Redempta, the day is a reminder that meaningful change starts with what’s already in our hands. “Start where you are, use what you have, and never underestimate the power of consistent small actions,” she says. Zoe echoes this sentiment, highlighting the incredible …
NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM KAMINI PAUL, CEO INHIVE GLOBAL
Dear Friends and partners, As InHive CEO of the last six months, I wanted to express our gratitude and appreciation for your commitment and valued partnerships throughout 2022. This has not only been appreciated but continues to be integral in supporting the work we are all doing to help young people to achieve better life outcomes. I look forward to us continuing to strengthen our relationships and work together in 2023, on the exciting innovative network models and practices that we know can make a difference to young people’s lives, resilience and well-being wherever they are based and come from. …
How the power of Alumni networks can achieve positive impactful change and better life outcomes for youth.
A unique survey of schools in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom ‘Positive Outlooks, Stronger Community Ties’ Kamini Paul CEO of inHive tells us why this report is so important: “I am delighted to be able to share the report ‘The Impact of Alumni Network Programmes on Educators’ which is the result of a two-year collaborative research project conducted in partnership with CARE Pakistan, Future First UK, Future First Kenya and Our School Australia. As the first international study of its kind, the report examines the impact of alumni network programmes on educators in secondary schools, with survey findings …
Now Teach
Now Teach works to inspire and support career changers to transition into teaching and bring their life and work experiences to students, classrooms, and schools. Now Teach recognises that sustained impact in the education sector and attracting and retaining teachers requires a networks approach. This means building a network of people who work together to encourage others into teaching, dismantle ageism in the profession and improve teaching by infusing practices and experiences from other sectors. inHive supported Now Teach in defining and implementing this network strategy, helping to create a participatory approach for the network to define its purpose and …
Exploring the intersections of gender, marriage and exclusion in Pakistan
Written by Yusra Akhtar In this blog, our Project Lead, Yusra Akhtar, explores the nexus between marriage, gender and exclusion shaping many young women’s lives in Pakistan. Drawing on conversations between civil society and community-based practitioners, Yusra delineates some of the challenges and barriers to young women’s participation, and she also celebrates the great strides made by local change makers, mobilising for systemic changes and transformation. In 2021, inHive and Pakistan Youth Change Advocates (PYCA) initiated a girls’ empowerment project, which brings alumni networks to schools in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. During the process of recruiting, coaching and training …
Being Kainat: the story of a young entrepreneur from Peshawar, Pakistan
23-year-old Kainat’s story with inHive starts off when she applied as a volunteer and young leader for the inHive – PYCA joint project on alumni networks in Pakistan. After undergoing training and coaching over the last year, Kainat is currently involved in initiating alumni networks in her old school in Peshawar, a region where women are discouraged from large-scale participation in the economic and public sector. In this article, Kainat reflects on her journey as a young entrepreneur in Peshawar and shares her aspirations for the future. Written by Yusra Akhtar, Project Lead at inHive “Unfortunately, in some parts of Pakistan, women conducting business in public …
Anti-Resolutions Revisited: Something Borrowed, Something New
BY ABI NOKES, inHive’s OUTGOING CEO This time last year, I decided to throw away the idea of new year resolutions. Instead, I wanted to create a practice of setting core principles for the new year that could act as a guiding star for inHive alongside our vision. Sharing these publicly was a way to hold ourselves to account and navigate the changes and uncertainties of a life under the shadow of a pandemic. We’re starting the new year with continued uncertainty of COVID variants – changes that are new and yet the same. Changes will continue to shape inHive’s work this year too. There are new partnerships that are on the horizon as well as new leadership, as I step down from the role of the organisation’s CEO after 4 years next month. So, it seems only appropriate that we start the year by revisiting the …
Harnessing Networks For Good
BY PRERNA ASWANI This post was originally published on Warwick University Blogs Networks are inherently complex. And increasingly, I can’t help but think that like social media, networks are a tool that can be used both for good and bad: networks can catapult positive social change, but also have complex power dynamics embedded within them. On one hand, they are by definition exclusionary: they are usually based on members having a shared characteristic or history that others do not. These types of affiliation can grow out of all sorts of shared traits or experiences, whether it be profession, religion or educational experiences. Yet networks, …
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