I for Inclusion - Create Inclusive Communities: Advocate for human rights, challenge social norms, and combat harmful stereotypes related to gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, homelessness, statelessness, and more.
S for Skills - Reskill for the Future: Provide quality education, skills training, and equitable job opportunities to ensure inclusivity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Promote digital literacy, online safety, and modern work standards.
H for Health - Improve health and Wellbeing: Promote health equity, ensure access to healthcare services, address social determinants of health, support youth mental health, respond to pandemics, and more.
A for Aid - Deliver Basic Needs: Respond to local disasters, provide humanitarian aid, combat hunger, alleviate extreme poverty, and support vulnerable communities.
P for Planet - Protect the Planet: Reduce emissions, hold leaders accountable for environmental policies, promote sustainable consumption, preserve biodiversity, and conserve natural resources.
E for Engagement - Strengthen civic engagement: Empower minority leadership, mobilize voter participation, encourage youth involvement in local politics, ensure diverse representation in decision-making, and promote societal inclusivity.
Our Theory of Change has four key levels:
Activities - what we do: the support actions executed by the Global Shapers Team to empower our members to effectively engage in change within their communities. This includes trainings, learning resources, opportunities to attend meetings and summits, and support in the creation and execution of impactful projects.
Outputs - what we deliver: The immediate results generated from the activities executed by the Global Shapers Team, including: our members having increased skills and knowledge, their voices being amplified on a global scale, and the development of more local projects and cross-hub initiatives.
Outcomes - what changes as a result: The medium-term results generated following from the outputs achieved. This includes: the improved leadership skills of our members, more representative decision-making, and the people reached or mobilized through the projects implemented by Shapers.
Impact - what difference we make: The long-term desired change achieved from community outcomes. At the highest level of impact, we aim to ensure that young people play a critical role in shaping both their present and future.