1. Peer Education-Social Behavior Change
This is designed to equip individuals with the necessary knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes associated with an effective peer education practitioner. Some of the areas we will cover include:
- Roles and responsibilities of a peer educator
- Planning and organizing peer education activities
- Methodologies to facilitate effective skills training sessions
- Reporting on activities completed
Content
- Welcome, who is gold, and Orientation to the Training
- What is Peer Education and Basic Terminology
- Peer Education Core Beliefs
- Roles and Responsibilities of Peer Educators
- Comparing Peer Education to other forms of Education
- Goals of your Programme
- Elements of a Healthy Lifestyle
- Informed Choices
- Challenges to the Effectiveness of a Peer Educator
- Appropriate Boundaries between Facilitators and Peer Educators
- Educational Principles and the 40+ methods
- How teens learn
- 11 Principles of Interactive Learning
- Communication Skills
- Practicums- Learning Experience
- Understanding Interactive Truths
Modality: Self-paced
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2. Boundaries and Mentoring
The aim is to orientate participants to the topic of boundaries. To specifically zoom into what these boundaries look like between Peer Educators and Facilitator Interns. This training also covers the role of mentoring, related skills and what this looks like for a Facilitator Intern mentoring a Peer Educator.
- What is a boundary?
- Defining critical boundaries:
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- Confidentiality
- Appropriate Facilitator Intern - Peer Educator relationships
- Personal Space and Boundaries
- Professional Competency and Integrity
- Defining boundaries through case studies
- Defining mentoring in the Peer Education space
- Types of mentoring
- The qualities of a mentor
- Implementing the GROW method
- Putting the GROW model into practice
Modality: Self-paced
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3. Advocacy and Visibility
The aim of this workshop is to orient participants to the concepts of advocacy and programme visibility and to understand how this can be used practically to make sure that community upliftment activities have the most impact possible and are in line with the four Sustainable Development Goals that gold-youth is focusing on.
- An Introduction to Advocacy and Programme Visibility
- Levels of Advocacy and Community Upliftment
- Advocacy Methods and Techniques – Being an Advocate
- Doing Programme Visibility Right - A Few Tips
Learning Outcomes:
- Introduce the concepts of advocacy and programme visibility.
- Explore the benefits of advocacy and programme visibility.
- Identify potential advocacy targets within communities.
- Gather information on community big issues, targets, and resources.
- Introduce advocacy methods and techniques.
- Introduce the gold advocacy Strategy: Sustainable Development Goals 1, 3, 4 & 8.
- Introduce the Advocacy framework and use it to plan an advocacy activity related to a major issue.
Modality: Self-paced
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4. Self-Development
The aim is to orient participants to the gold-youth values and core beliefs, as well as to support their exploration of individual values and holistic short- and long-term goals.
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will be oriented to the core values of gold-youth.
- Participants will be able to identify their personal values and how they affect their actions and lead to the future they desire.
- Participants will be able to recognize what they care about in life.
- Participants will be able to articulate their own life purpose statements
Modality: Self-paced
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5. Project Management
This workshop aims to equip gold Facilitator Interns with the skills necessary to effectively implement and manage a Workshop. This will include helping Facilitator Interns understand their role as a Project Manager when planning and conducting an event. The training will also cover some basic skills required for managing a project.
To help participants understand what project management is.
- To help participants understand the 4 phases of a project.
- To help participants understand how project management links to planning a workshop.
- To help participants understand the unique intention of a workshop.
- To prepare participants to plan a workshop of excellence for Peer Educators.
- To prepare participants to deliver a workshop of excellence through team effort.
- To equip participants to understand the dynamics of project management by learning how to manage an effective workshop.
- To equip participants to understand the importance of teamwork and delegation for effective workshop management.
- To assist participants in understanding how to use small group leaders in workshop management.
- To equip participants to plan and execute exciting workshop schedules, including “games with a purpose”.
- To help participants explore the skills training sessions to be delivered at the workshop.
- To help participants understand the planning team's role.
- To help participants understand the characteristics of a well-planned project.
Modality: Self-paced
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5. Entrepreneurship Training
The 7 skills of an entrepreneur:
- Opportunity Spotting: Having a problem-solving mindset and identifying opportunities
- Resourcefulness: Having a resourceful mindset
- Value Creation: Having a value-creation mindset
- Future fluency: Having digital literacy and a future-oriented mindset
- Financial Fluency: Having an economically literate mindset
- Collaboration Catalyst: Having a team approach and a networking mindset
- Risk Resilience: Having a risk-ready mindset
It also includes:
- Creating a business idea and refining it
- Understanding why an entrepreneur should be able to talk about their business
- Refining and delivering your business pitch
Modality: Self-paced
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| 5. Financial Literacy
This four-module course gives young people and emerging entrepreneurs in Africa the practical skills to manage money with confidence. Learners move from controlling everyday spending to using credit wisely, to growing their money and ideas, and finally to protecting themselves from scams and unfair treatment.
The course is practical rather than technical. It does not require learners to be wealthy or to understand stock markets. It focuses on real decisions young people face: budgeting a small income, saving through community clubs, judging whether a loan is worth it, funding a business idea, and spotting a fraudulent offer.
Target audience: youth and young entrepreneurs, including learners with little or no prior financial education.
Course aims:
- Build the habit of tracking, planning, and saving money
- Help learners borrow responsibly and manage debt
- Introduce safe, realistic ways to invest in themselves and their ventures
- Equip learners to recognize scams and assert their consumer rights
Modality: Self-paced
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5. How to Prepare Oneself for Employment
The purpose is to equip participants with the relevant skills related to:
- exploring and identifying work opportunities,
- selecting an appropriate training programme to access the chosen area of employment and
- being able to demonstrate the ability to apply for employment opportunities.
- having an entrepreneurial mindset
- developing a CV
- understanding interview etiquette
It also looks at answering this question:
How can I prepare myself for employment and support others in that process?
Modality: Self-paced
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