Africa has 845 million youth. We have 845 million reasons to work with them!
KEY FACTS AND FIGURES
• 26 international organizations are members of the Group of Friends of The Youth Cafe, which also acts in partnership with hundreds of civil society actors.
• 23 Memoranda of Understanding signed with academic institutions, think tanks, foundations and international organizations to amplify the impact of The Youth Cafe's work.
• Since 2015, the Internship Programme has received over 25,000 applications from 60+ countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa. As of 2019, 1,240 young leaders from 49 countries have been selected as The Youth Cafe Interns for their professional achievements and commitment to foster community development.
• Close to 600 The Youth Cafe members from 91 countries are part of Learning Circles, web-based platforms where members can collaborate by exchanging knowledge, best practices and expertise in their field of action.
• Since 2012, the Youth Innovation Award, a partnership between The Youth Cafe and its partners, has supported 40+ organizations coming from 30+ countries to expand and scale up their innovative projects encouraging youth engagement dialogue. The selected organizations expanded their operations to over 100 countries, impacting over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
• Since 2013, The Youth Cafe has launched seven editions of its Youth Enterprise Fund, providing seed funding and capacity-building to 34 youth-led organizations based in Africa. Their projects promoting youth empowerment reached 94,055 direct beneficiaries in 39 countries. In total, more than 1.7 million direct and indirect beneficiaries have been impacted over the past six years.
•Since 2016, 40 regional youth leaders, aged 18 to 25, from 23 different countries, were intensively trained in entrepreneurship, leadership development, focused on East Africa. These participants reached over 1,000 individuals by organizing step-down governance activities in their own organizations and communities.
• The Innovate Africa as an online clearinghouse for short professional courses benefits from the involvement of 33 active partner organizations from 24 countries and the participation of over 6,000 registered individual users from across Africa, attracting over 43,000 unique visitors per year.
• Since 2018, expert blog posts, accepted and published from over 1,200 experts in international development and youth empowerment representing 90+ countries, have been published on our "Perspectives" with over 1.5 million combined views on websites, micro-sites, and RSS feeds.
• Through Digital Skills for Africa workshops targeting marginalized segments of young people from different cultural and background, over 6,100 participants learned ICT skills.
• Nearly 450 experts have spoken at #YouthPower Symposia and over 1,600 people have attended the series, representing more than 20 countries. Around 25 million Twitter accounts have been reached with more than 35 million impressions. The hashtag #EmpowerYouth trended as No. 1 in several African cities and countries, showing the interest of the global community in finding concrete ways to empower young people counter.