Projects

Source: The Foundation for Young Australians

Challenge Ya! is a competitive grants program of The Foundation for Young Australians. It aims to provide small grants to groups of young people for ideas that are initiated and developed by young people.

In 2004-5, The Australian Youth Research Centre was commissioned to carry out a small evaluation of the Challenge Ya! grants program, looking particularly at the degree to which the program operates within the broader youth participation principles of the Foundation, the accessiility of the grant processes and projects for agencies and young people.

The evaluation report provided the Foundation with an overview of understandings of youth participation, a summary of Challenge Ya! over the past three years and responses from a sample of successful and unsuccessful grants applicants (both young people and workers) from different areas of Australia. The final report presented some recommendations for improved processes.

Contact: Roger Holdsworth

Contact: r.holdsworth@edfac.unimelb.edu.au