About Us
We believe that community participation is key in making a meaningful social change.
By nature, we —the youths —have the desire to make the world a better place, even if that world is only the small world of one community. What’s important to note is that positive change in a community doesn’t stop at what is visible, but it also extends to what is felt and experienced.
In order to make a change that is not only impactful, but also meaningful, it’s necessary to hear and see from the perspectives of those who want that change. That’s why we focus on nurturing a participatory mindset, to ensure the full participation of the community directly impacted by social issues so that real change can be made —from them, by them, and for them.
We work to assist young social change practitioners mainstream participation in their practices, be it on an individual or organizational level.
About Us
The development systems are broken. More than ever, we need more inclusive, participatory, and locally-driven development practices; community participation is the key to unlock sustainable and inclusive changes amidst centralized, top-down approaches that overlook local needs and impose outsider-centric solutions for communities.
The status-quo must change. Participate is a post-development agency challenging the status quo of current development systems. We are a group of multi-disciplinary leaders, innovators and practitioners committed to building more inclusive and participatory societies, ensuring every voice is heard and every community is empowered to drives its own progress.
Our initiatives are centered around 3 main objectives:
- Cultivating a participatory mindset in creating change
- Creating an environment that supports a participatory mindset in driving change
- Facilitating cross-sector collaboration to prioritize participation in initiatives aimed at creating chang
About Us
The development systems are broken. More than ever, we need more inclusive, participatory, and locally-driven development practices; community participation is the key to unlock sustainable and inclusive changes amidst centralized, top-down approaches that overlook local needs and impose outsider-centric solutions for communities.
The status-quo must change. Participate is a post-development agency challenging the status quo of current development systems. We are a group of multi-disciplinary leaders, innovators and practitioners committed to building more inclusive and participatory societies, ensuring every voice is heard and every community is empowered to drives its own progress.
Our initiatives are centered around 3 main objectives:
- Cultivating a participatory mindset in creating change
- Creating an environment that supports a participatory mindset in driving change
- Facilitating cross-sector collaboration to prioritize participation in initiatives aimed at creating chang
Our Approach
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A social change should be a lasting transformation where communities get the chance to continue producing knowledge and finding new learnings, hence creating a development that is sustainable.
Our initiative uses a collaborative and cyclical learning approach adapted from the Participatory Action Research (PAR) method in social change. This cycle ensures a shared understanding between social change practitioners and the targeted community. At the core of xChange process, there are:
- Action
- Participation
- Transformational change
- Reflectivity & reflexivity
How we plan to achieve this
We provide two main services:
We help accelerate development reforms with like-minded organizations.
We cultivate a participatory mindset in every change-maker through
We internalize the participatory mindset
Your heart might be all set on participating to make a change, but is your mind also set on letting the community affected by the problems participate as well? We make sure that everyone involved in the process towards change start with these questions:
Who owns the problem?
Who are you on this?
Whose reality counts?
Our past clients
*The list includes our past mentees from SocialX, an incubation program held under our previous brand name.