The Torchlight Collective is a consulting group of professionals and youth advocates working in global health and human rights towards the full achievement of gender equality and social justice. They are advocates, researchers, policy wonks, creatives, human rights activists, community organizers, development professionals, writers, communicators, trainers, and journalists.

What brings them together is our shared experience of leadership in youth movements around the globe, our passion for the issues they care about, and the belief that they can make a difference within our lifetime.

THREE FOCUS AREAS

 

They talk to donors.

• They provide thought-leadership, strategic advice, and support to organizations and donors interested in developing more effective engagement strategies, especially to engage adolescents and young people. 

They talk to youth organizations and civil society organizations. 

• They offer technical assistance and capacity-building to youth organizations, networks, and coalitions to support them in doing more effective, connected, and sustainable work. 

They make connections in between.

• They manage and support coalitions and networks working at the intersection of social justice, human rights, gender equality, and global public health. 

Overall, they leverage issue-based expertise and support to governments, private sector partners, civil society, research institutions, and foundations to generate knowledge, evidence, and promising practices on working with adolescents and young people.