The Youth Cafe

Capability Handbook

Since 2012, The Youth Cafe has been working with young men and women in Kenya and around Africa as a trailblazer in advancing youth-led approaches toward achieving sustainable development, social equity, innovative solutions, community resilience, and transformative change.

We are Africa’s largest convening community of professionals harnessing youth advocacy, policy, and research for social impact, with over 3,500 member organizations and over 947,000 individual members virtually from every country in Africa. We engage monthly through over 260,000 touchpoints and an annual digital reach of 4.3 million. The Youth Cafe is youth-led.

We bring a track record spanning over a decade in trailblazing youth-led development and embedding research and learning in programs to strengthen systems and development outcomes, a passion for enabling diverse youth to shape development, a broad network of donors and partners, and vast Africawide networks of youth leaders and youth-led/youth-serving organizations and groups (YL/ YSOGs).