Youth Development Stakeholder Partnerships Training

Learning Outcomes

• Identify and analyse potential stakeholders relevant to youth development initiatives.
• Develop a stakeholder engagement plan that outlines partnership objectives and communication strategies.
• Implement partnership agreements that define roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of partnerships using appropriate monitoring and feedback mechanisms.
• Apply conflict resolution techniques to address challenges in stakeholder relationships.
• Demonstrate the ability to sustain partnerships through ongoing communication and mutual benefit.

Target Audience

This course is designed for youth development practitioners, project coordinators, community liaison officers, and NGO staff who are responsible for establishing and managing partnerships with stakeholders such as government departments, schools, businesses, and community organisations.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment. However, a basic understanding of youth development contexts is beneficial.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practicals provide hands-on experience in stakeholder mapping, partnership negotiation, collaborative planning, and monitoring. Learners apply tools and techniques in simulated and real-world scenarios to build competence in forming and managing youth development partnerships.

Practical Activities

• Stakeholder Mapping Exercise — Learners conduct a stakeholder mapping and analysis for a given youth development scenario, identifying key stakeholders and their interests. (5h)
• Partnership Negotiation Role-Play — Learners role-play negotiating a partnership agreement between a youth organisation and a potential partner, addressing interests and concerns. (5h)
• Collaborative Action Planning Workshop — In groups, learners develop a collaborative action plan for a youth development partnership, including resource mobilisation and roles. (5h)
• Partnership Monitoring and Evaluation Simulation — Learners design an M&E framework for a partnership case study, collect simulated data, and report on partnership performance. (6h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.