Youth Rights Advocacy for South African Professionals Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply the principles of the South African Constitution and the Children's Act to youth rights advocacy.
• Analyze the socio-economic and cultural barriers affecting youth rights in South Africa.
• Evaluate existing youth policies and programmes for their effectiveness in promoting youth rights.
• Design advocacy strategies that empower youth to participate in decision-making processes.
• Implement monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to assess the impact of youth rights initiatives.
• Demonstrate ethical and inclusive practices in youth advocacy work.

Target Audience

This course is designed for social workers, educators, youth workers, NGO staff, and government officials who engage with young people and seek to strengthen their advocacy for youth rights.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practicals are integrated throughout the course to provide hands-on experience in advocacy techniques. Learners will engage in simulations, role-plays, and campaign planning exercises to apply theoretical knowledge in realistic scenarios.

Practical Activities

• Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement Role-Play — Learners identify stakeholders for a given youth rights issue and conduct a simulated meeting with government officials and NGOs. (4h)
• Policy Brief and Advocacy Campaign Planning — Groups analyze a youth policy gap and draft a policy brief, then plan a short advocacy campaign including goals, activities, and messaging. (4h)
• Digital Advocacy Simulation — Learners create a digital advocacy post or short video on a youth rights topic and respond to simulated online challenges. (4h)
• Final Advocacy Action Plan Presentation — Each learner presents a personal advocacy action plan addressing a real youth rights issue they will pursue after the course. (4h)

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.