Are you an African Youth-Led and Youth-Serving Organization?
We would like to profile your work! The African Leadership Institute (AFLI), through the Project Pakati initiative, is developing a project titled African Youth-Led and Youth-Serving Organizations Portal.
Youth-led organizations are run and staffed by young people, and their members are all young people. Whilst youth-serving organizations are important as they ignite active citizenry, civic duty, and volunteerism at the
community levels, several challenges exist.
To submit details of your organization, you must be a non-profit organization working in any one of the following areas and based on the African continent:
- Employment and Entrepreneurship
- Education and Skills Development
- Health and Wellbeing
- Governance and Youth Empowerment
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Below, the benefits for your organization of being profiled on the portal:
- The portal will make your organization discoverable by potential funders and donors;
- It will provide capacity building and peer learning for organizations
- It will enhance and promote information exchange between the organizations
- It will assist in recognizing youth-led/serving organizations for their work and efforts and the role of young
- people in building African economies
- It will provide data to the African Union & other institutions which have placed African youth at the centre of
- their strategies
- It will encourage more young people to be engaged and exercise their agency. There are many young people
- who want to volunteer but do not know where to start
- It will also facilitate connections between youth-led/serving organizations – in the same country or across
- different African countries – so they can share best practices, experiences and challenges.
- Lastly, it will help recognize the contribution of youth-led organizations towards continental and global agendas
- (Agenda 2063, SDGs etc).
DEADLINE: April 31, 2020.
To apply and for more information visit here.
