SCA
Youths equipped with systems thinking skills
Staff and volunteers from 3 countries
Community projects started
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SCA
SAYDS Community Association
SCA stands for SAYDS Community Association. It is a semi-autonomous arm of SAYDS that aids in the implementation of projects designed during the fellowship. The association is run and managed by graduate fellows who now put to practice what they have learnt. We are able to achieve the above through the extensive knowledge and network built by SAYDS that help make the process as impactful and effective as possible.
Who is SCA?
These are fellows who have grown through the SAYDS program.Using principles and techniques from the SAYDS fellowship, they run social change initiatives in their communities.
Volunteering
How to become a member
Complete the SAYDS fellowship ( training on complexity and systems thinking ) and be passionate about social change.
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IS OUR GOAL
Objectives of the Association
What we do
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Support our members in the implementation of our social initiatives aimed at creating a positive social change.
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Form a centre for obtaining and diffusing information to the youth about Systems and complexity thinking, educating the youth about governance as well as working on capacity building for our youth.
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Maintain the vital link between SAYDS and our Alumni fellows who have graduated through the complexity and systems thinking program.
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Monitor and support the implementation of different youth-led initiatives among our members and associates.
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Create a forum through which we can support collaborations through different youth groups working on different social change initiatives.
How we do it
MORE ON SAYDS
SIP Analysis
Fellows are expected to come up with SIP analysis documents for the project they finally design. Using systems thinking, we have identified stakeholders-including you-, their roles and responsibilities, how they interact and interconnect as part of understanding the problems.
The stakeholders working towards a common purpose are better placed to predict and cope well with emergence and self-organization of the emergent property using systems tshinking knowledge and skills. During this process we have and continue to consult the public (stakeholders) on what resources, the beneficiaries, the decision makers within the systems to be able to improve our proposed solution
“We come up with this document because we have realized through use of complexity thinking that networks often reproduce dominant ‘ideas’ regarding the nature of the policy problem, there is a language we use to describe it, and the political feasibility of potential solutions. We propose a tip of balance from scientific to policy-relevant measures of evidence quality to be spearheaded by your organization to cause a positive network affect towards improving education outcomes.” – SIAYA Team
