2REST Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities: Mapping street youth lived resiliences through analysis of secondary data

2REST Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities is a two-year project analysing secondary data from Growing up on the Streets using a multisystemic resilience approach and involving international partners including early career researchers and street youth.

2REST has delivered a significant evidence base on the nature of street youth multisystemic resilience and the support required from policy and practice linked to the principles of the United Nations General Comment 21, on the Rights of Children in Street Situations (UNGC21), offering tools and applications for improving the lives and opportunities for street young people across Africa and globally and helping street youth to achieve adult lives they value.

2REST builds capacity through training and analysis, to create impactful, practical outcomes that can be used in policy development and implementation and street youth engagement. 

2REST policy briefs

• 2REST Policy brief: Resilient Systems supporting Street Children & Youth to meet their Basic Needs
• 2REST Policy brief: Resilient Health Systems for Street Children & Youth
• 2REST Policy brief: Resilient Livelihood Systems for Street Children & Youth
• 2REST Policy brief: Resilient Violence Reduction Systems for Street Children & Youth 

2REST advocacy tools

• 2REST Advocacy Pack: An open-source pack for practitioners and advocates working with street children and youth across Africa and beyond
• 2REST Advocacy Tool 1: Engaging with international and regional bodies
• 2REST Advocacy Tool 2: Promoting inclusive policies and laws for street youth
• 2REST Advocacy Tool 3: Changing practice: Transforming public service practices toward street youth
• 2REST Advocacy Tool 4: Capacitating young people living in street situations to defend their rights
• 2REST Advocacy Tool 5: Making and using the story maps – raising awareness of the lived realities of street youth globally