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Call for Urban Youth Consultant - Birmingham

Data: 21/11/2011

SALTO Inclusion is looking for a consultant/researcher who is an expert in the field of urban youth.

This consultant would work with SALTO Inclusion to:
1) analyse the challenges in urban areas;
2) co-facilitate a reflection seminar about this topic;
3) draw up a SALTO inclusion strategy for young people facing challenges in (sub)urban areas and;
4) writing down these findings in a research publication.


Deadline to send in an offer: 10 December 2011.
Selection and start of the project January 2012.
Deadline for the publication 15 September 2012.


1. Overview of social challenges for youth in urban contexts

The first part of the study would be to make an inventory of the different issues that young people in cities and suburbs have to deal with. These probably include criminality, anonymity, poverty, multiculturalism and many more.

The different challenges should be categorised in a way that the picture of the issues at stake become clearer. The classification should suggest factors at play in the obstacles that young people face in urban settings. These are cause & effect hypotheses.

We are also looking for findings on geographical differences. What are the differences between countries and types of cities? What useful groupings of countries and urban situations can we make? Why do certain cities or suburbs pose specific challenges for young people, and others not?


2. Possible (youth work) interventions and success factors

The consultant should analyse different projects, programmes and researches – from youth work and beyond – to draw up a number of success factors. Which type of interventions tend to work (and why) and what doesn’t work. What are the lessons we can learn from that. What are the underlying principles of successful interventions?

These conclusions should be based on existing researches and documentation of different projects (e.g. from Youth in Action, from Urbact funded projects, from the EuroCities network, specialised urban youth organisations, etc). Both the researcher and SALTO Inclusion can suggest material to be considered in the research.

SALTO Inclusion and the UK national agency of the Youth in Action programme will organise a “reflection seminar” in Birmingham 30 May-1 Jun 2012 (arrival 29 May, departure 2 Jun), plus 2 day prep-meeting 5-7 March 2012) with different stakeholders. The researcher will be part of the prep-team and can extract information from the participants or test hypotheses so far. SALTO Inclusion will pay travel & subsistence costs at these meetings.


3. SALTO Inclusion strategy for urban youth

Based on the research findings, SALTO Inclusion will draw up a 2 year strategy of interventions to improve the opportunities for young people living in difficult (sub)urban conditions. The consultant will steer this process and suggest where the most efficient interventions can be made, considering the tools that SALTO Inclusion has at its disposal.

SALTO Inclusion will use the research and the findings in its further work on urban youth. It is very likely that the consultant will be asked to present the research outcomes at other urban youth activities beyond this contract. For example, a big urban youth conference is planned in Autumn 2013. Such interventions will be however part of a different contract.


4. Write an inspirational publication with the findings

SALTO Inclusion wants to share the findings with other stakeholders in the field of urban youth: policy makers, youth and social workers, funding programmes, etc. Therefore, the researcher is asked to develop a document in accessible English language (in the same style as the “Inclusion through Employability” for example: www.salto-youth.net/InclusionThroughEmployability/).

The consultant develops the text (in accessible English), in cooperation with SALTO Inclusion, until it is ready for publication. We were thinking of 50 pages (excluding annexes). The report should be useful for SALTO Inclusion but also any other actors in the field of inclusion & urban youth interventions. It should include an executive summary with the key ideas of the report. SALTO Inclusion will be responsible for the final editing and proofreading (in case the researcher is not a native English speaker), and will take care of layout and printing.


What are we (not) looking for?

We are not looking for an exhaustive overview of what exists or has been tried, nor a heavy-duty scientific study; but rather an informative overview and evidence-based suggestions to inspire SALTO Inclusion’s actions (and of other stakeholders) in the field of addressing urban challenges and increase young people’s opportunities.

Sito web: www.salto-youth.net/inclusion/

Email: [email protected]


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