Restless Development

About Us

At the heart of everything we do is Youth Power.

We are a non profit global agency that supports the collective power of young leaders to create a better world.

More than ever the world needs young people’s power and leadership to solve its greatest challenges.

Every year we train, mentor, nurture and connect thousands of young people to use their youth power and lead change.

We formed in 1985 and have been working with young people ever since.

How we work is as important as what we do.

We take a power shifting approach.

We want to proactively shift power to ensure every young person is able to lead and create a better world.

We are feminist, inclusive, gender transformative and anti-racist in our work. We recognise the barriers that women, girls, non-binary people, people living with disabilities, and young people of different ethnicities, religion and sexual preferences face in the communities in which we work. We recognise historical power inequalities and aim to decolonise development.