The Problem
Our Solution
Young people face barriers to meaningful participation in decision-making that affect our lives now, and into the future.
Too often, our leadership is undervalued, unrecognised, and untrusted, leaving us with less access to funding, and depriving us of strategy-setting and strategy-informing roles.
This reduces the power and vibrancy of movements and organisations, leaving us young people entrenched in traditional leadership styles and systems and missing out on alternative perspectives, energies and talents.
Diverse young people offer different perspectives and insights that help galvanise, energise and sustain global and local social justice movements.
Young people who are provided with resources, leadership opportunities, and capacity support create radical transformation.
Resourcing → we resource youth-led initiatives to address the problems that young people are facing in their local communities through the OYSF.
Visibility and Influence → we increase the visibility and influence of a diverse range of youth voices within the Asia-Pacific region by providing opportunities for young people aged 18-26 in Australia to develop core skills necessary to lead, demand and create social change.
Perception → we shift perception within the Australian international development sector to see young people as valuable contributors to policy and practice discussions.
Our Strategy
Over 2024, Oaktree steadily worked behind the scenes — restructuring, researching, collaborating, planning, and strategising to work towards its newly refined mission: ensuring all young people have the opportunity to transform their local communities to build an equitable, just and sustainable world.
Underpinning this mission is an enhanced vision of how Oaktree will incorporate decolonisation, solidarity, sustainability, learning and unlearning into its work — whether locally, or abroad.
