The greatest impetus for all
Young people are responsible and autonomous. They actively contribute to sustainable development, and to the promotion of innovative entrepreneurship, sensitive to gender and equity, and concerned about the protection of the planet.
Since 2020
Created in 2020 during the period of COVID-19 by young people engaged and convinced of the importance of supporting their peers, especially underserved and vulnerable young people in remote towns and villages.
ALTERNATIVES uses the “Human Centered Design” (HCD) approach or commonly referred to as “user-centered design”. This approach consists of creating a framework that integrates a set of practices to understand the users, their needs, their constraints, their behaviors in order to develop a deep empathy, generate several ideas to help solve the problems of a community and shifting paradigm.
Shifting paradigms
Each of our interventions is based on paradigm shifting techniques, in particular the promotion of the equitable participation of young people, aware of the place of humans in the era of the Anthropocene, in shaping themselves the changes that they wish, to promote communities’ resilience, to propose innovative solutions, to enable their empowerment and to inspire political change for sustainable development concerned with the protection of the planet.
Advocacy, SRHR, leadership, entrepreneurship
Improving legal environment by fostering the better participation of adolescents and marginalized youths to every spheres of life.
Promoting best practices around FP and life skills and developing knowledge to combat STI and HIV transmission, also understanding sexual binaries and boxes.
Nurturing a culture of social paradigms shifting through personal development for marginalised youth and fighting stigma and discrimination.
Initiating entrepreneurial cultures and effective standard model to enabling business setting-up for marginalized young people.
A word from the founder
As an organization, we believe it is imperative to empower young people, women and marginalized people in social and economic plans, especially in the wake of deleterious effects of climate change which disproportionately affect them. ALTERNATIVES is the home for changemakers who dream of making their ideas for social justice and equality come true.
Narendra Mathieu Founder
For youth development
All our programs will be aimed at youth development and all actions are non-profit social types.
Program 01
ESPOIR 2.0 is a program to create decent jobs and set up a Village Saving and Loan Association (VSLA) for female sex workers from different regions of Madagascar. The program consists of initiating participants in the techniques of managing income-generating activities, concerned with the environment, then training them to set up a credit and savings system to sustain their activities.
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Program 02
Leading Change is a transformational leadership program for young people between 16 and 24 years old from disadvantaged backgrounds, the program consists of introducing young people to leadership and personal development techniques, also pushing them to create micro-projects and at the end introduce them to the use of digital channels to communicate their project.
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Program 03
In partnership with The Pact, ALTERNATIVES was able to score the country performance to advocate for improvement on area with underperformance towards a better laws and policies, health outcomes partnership, and meaningful participation of Adolescents and Youth in leadership and policy forum.
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Program 04
The “URBAN YOUTH CORPS” program reflects the model of foreign volunteer program where young people from the capital city are given the opportunity to gain professional experience through volunteering.
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Program 05
The Advocacy Leadership Institute aims first at contributing to improve the capacities of civil society organisations (CSO) to conduct a monitoring of human rights application, and create space for CSOs cooperation in advocacy efforts.
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Andravoahangy, Antananarivo
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