Participate in African Union Commission youth consultation for Ouagaplus10 project progress

The 22th AU Assembly of Heads of States and Governments has decided that an Extraordinary Summit will be organized in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in September 2014, to examine the progress of implementation of the Ouagadougou 2004 Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment and Poverty Alleviation and adopt new policy instruments for the next decade. The Extraordinary Summit was preceded by a Special Session of the AU Labour and Social Affairs Commission under the theme “Employment, Poverty Eradication and Inclusive Development” which took place in Windhoek, Namibia from 23 to 25 April 2014. The Summit examined the progress of implementation of the Ouagadougou 2004 Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment and Poverty Alleviation. It also took critical decisions on the organization of the Extraordinary Assembly of Heads of States and Government to be held in September 2014 in Ouagadougou.Part of the aim of the Ouagaplus10 project is to have more visibility, contribution, comment and recommendations from young people around the continent and young African’s in the diaspora, including representatives of youth-led organizations aged between 15-35 years on the three themes namely:·

• Youth & women unemployment;

• Social Protection and

• Labour migration.

How exactly can you contribute? The African Union Commission in this regard, would like to invite all interest young people, especially youth African’s in the continent and in the diaspora to:

• Join the weekly e-consultations:

• To solicit youth perspectives on the three themes,

• A one month (closing 26 July 2014) consultative process with young people is being organized.

Visit the weekly e-discussion page and share your comments on various issues via Website, Facebook,  and Twitter.

Are you an unemployed or underemployed youth or   young woman? Are you a labour migrant or how has labour migration affected   you? We would like you to share your personal written story with us via   wangozib@africa-union.org  or  DIOPO@africa-union.org by 22 August 2014

Contribute a creative or artistic piece:* To bring additional   perspective to the findings of the online consultation, we would like to   invite youth to contribute paintings, animations and photographs that that   carries some insights on the themes. Please send it to:   wangozib@africa-union.org by 22 August 2014.