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Youth-led, community-driven: Understanding how to collectively fix our waste management systems 

Youth-led, community-driven: Understanding how to collectively fix our waste management systems 

by 50 Percent | May 4, 2026 | News

Fellows from The 50 Percent Nairobi hub spent time in Kawangware engaging residents in a community baraza to understand how waste management systems function from the ground up. What emerged was a system with multiple moving parts; each functioning yet rarely in...
Sustainable Business Internship programme launches at Strathmore University Business School 

Sustainable Business Internship programme launches at Strathmore University Business School 

by 50 Percent | Mar 26, 2026 | News

The Sustainable Business Internship (SBI) programme officially launched last week with a three-day training workshop at Strathmore University Business School in Nairobi, Kenya.  Led by The 50 Percent (the Club of Rome), Sustainable Kenya and Strathmore University...
From storytelling to systems change: Lessons from the Catalyst Programme in Dominica

From storytelling to systems change: Lessons from the Catalyst Programme in Dominica

by Sharon Aguilar | Mar 3, 2026 | News

Last November, 29 young leaders from the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, and North America gathered on the island of Waitukubuli — Dominica — for the first edition of The Catalyst Programme. Powered by the BMoreAg Foundation in partnership with The 50Percent,...
Systems thinking as civic practice: Insights from the Nairobi hub workshop

Systems thinking as civic practice: Insights from the Nairobi hub workshop

by The 50 Percent | Jan 22, 2026 | News

Nairobi hub fellows at the Systems thinking workshop On 4 December 2025, the 50 Percent ‘Nairobi youth hub’ convened its first systems-thinking workshop, marking a deliberate step toward strengthening fellows’ analytical capacity and grounding their civic engagement...
Why storytelling should be central to your systems-change work

Why storytelling should be central to your systems-change work

by Vanessa Terschluse, Head of Content & Advocacy at The 50 Percent | Dec 16, 2025 | News

When it comes to creating change, storytelling is often dismissed – it is emotional, ineffective, even frivolous. But in the world we’re living in today, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have to rebuild connection in a fragmented world, to counter...
A new resource for young changemakers: The guide to storytelling

A new resource for young changemakers: The guide to storytelling

by 50 Percent | Nov 25, 2025 | News

In the world we’re living in today, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have. Stories help us make sense of crisis, connect across differences and reimagine what our shared future could look like. That’s why we are launching the Young person’s guide to...
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