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Youth and Governance Focus Group: Issues Paper

Youth and Governance Focus Group: Issues Paper
ADF IV on Governance for a Progressing Africa, October 11 – 15 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

African Youth Foundation: Publications and related links

The African Youth Foundation (AYF) is a non-profit development organisation based in Germany. AYF was established in 2000 to aid young people in Africa, as well as African Nationals abroad and Europeans with African descent, to undertake projects which will enable them obtain skills necessary for their future livelihoods.

Youth leaders appeal to the African Union

Text of the address to the AU Summit, Addis Ababa, 6 July 2004, by youth representatives Félicien Boussola of the Central African Republic and Ntako Florette of Burundi

NEPAD and Youth Employability

NEPAD and Youth Employability: By Ore Kane and Cheikhou Thiome, NEPAD.

Goals and Objectives

AYP is an initiative by the youth for the youth and in it African Youth voices can be heard crying aloud for alleviation of poverty, an end to social and armed conflict, clear policies dealing with the HIV/AIDS pandemic and a call for responsible leadership and good governance

Transnational Governance and the Pacification of Youth: the Contribution of Civic Education to Disempowerment in Malawi

Harri Englund Institute for African and Asian Studies P.O.Box 59 00014 University of Helsinki Finland Harri.Englund@Helsinki.Fi

Youth and Good Governance

The aim of this website is to stimulate a dialogue on governance issues among youth by emphasizing the role they can play in demanding accountability from their government.

Youth Networks and Governance

Through the Youth Networks and Governance (YNG) programme, CYP works to ensure that young people exercise their right to be involved in developing and implementing public policy. Our goal is to create and strengthen networks of young people, which they will use to influence decision-making processes and bring about change in governance in their countries.

African Youth Hosted by Inter-Region Economic Network

In late March, members of the African Youth Parliament from 42 countries converged here in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss a wide range of issues including: proper governance, HIV/AIDS, conflict resolution, poverty and education.

World Youth Report 2003: The global situation of young people

The World Youth Report 2003 provides an overview of the global situation of young people. The first 10 chapters focus on the priority areas identified by the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) , adopted by the General Assembly in 1995. The remaining five chapters address some of the newer issues that were later identified as additional priorities for youth and were adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2003.

Making Commitments Matter: A toolkit for young people to evaluate national youth policy

This Toolkit is meant for national youth organizations and/or representatives working with youth. It can be used as a tool to: assess your country's progress in reaching the WPAY goals, prioritize your organization's work, based on your findings and Initiate actions at the national level.

Mobilizing Youth For Africa (2002 - 2005)

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Africa youth program is a segment of the AFSC's work on Africa that seeks to engage and mobilize young people to contribute towards the vision and goals of its Africa Initiative plan.

African Network of Young Peace-builders

Positive Africa's mission is to impulse the broadcasting of objective information for the promotion of a better image of Africa and effectively combating the root causes of poverty in the continent. It aims to build a continent which reposes on the value of good governance, the respect of human rights and duties, inter-communal dialogue and humanism. Our action group of research puts emphasis on the study and analysis of world and continental strategies for the economic, cultural and social development.

Links to institutions

Youth Employment

Youth Employment: Pathway Out of Poverty for Half of the Labor Force in the Developing World

UNESCO: Section for Youth

The Section for Youth at UNESCO works for and with youth, which is according the United Nations constituted by people aged between 15 and 25 years old. We give an impulsion and a coherence to UNESCO's Action WITH and FOR Youth and we communicate directly with young people through a wide network of youth associations and NGO's

The BDT Youth Programme

The third ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-02), held in March 2002 in Istanbul-Turkey, established The Youth Initiative in the framework of Special Initiatives and in accordance with Resolution 38, instructed the Director of Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT):
· to seek appropriate means of integrating youth issues into the activities of BDT;
· to include into the activities of BDT, youth programmes with emphasis on capacity building;
· to create initiatives of follow-up youth support for the development of ICT capacities of youth.

About Youth and Good Governance

The World Bank Group's mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty.

African Regional Youth Initiative

The African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI) is a collaboration of hundreds of youth and community-based projects and organizations in Africa working to fight HIV/AIDS. ARYI addresses HIV/AIDS in a comprehensive manner by engaging in activities that mobilize and empower communities, increase participation of women and youth, facilitate dialogue between organizations in different countries and other activities that build capacity such as training in policy and advocacy.