This panel will bring together experiences from community-based organizations and young people building social transformation from within their own territories. Drawing on processes supported and funded by Global Fund for Children (GFC), we will explore how communities adapt, reinvent, and create methodologies to respond to their challenges while recognizing local knowledge and capacities.

RECARGA strengthens networks of trust and collaboration in Guatemala and Honduras to reimagine education; SEED supports early childhood care and development in Honduras; and HEEL co-creates new narratives with young people around masculinities and gender justice in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

This panel will explore youth leadership, collaboration, and peer learning, as well as the conditions that enable practices to be adapted to specific contexts, strengthen solutions from the grassroots, and connect them to broader change. GFC will facilitate a reflection on how accompaniment, flexible funding, and networks can sustain these processes without losing their territorial roots.