The EU Action Plan On Human Rights And Democracy 2020–2024 is a framework, one of purpose and direction, with a broad range of policies, tools, and political and financial instruments. This EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024 is the third Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy adopted by the EU. As with the previous two Action Plans, the objective is to enhance and hone EU efforts to promote human rights and democracy worldwide.
Advance Africa provides a list of current resources for Funds for: Youth Projects in Africa 2020; Apply for Funding for Africa Youth Projects. Global Youth Empowerment Fund. Africa Grants for Youth Programs 2020. Africa Youth Empowerment Grants 2020. International Funding Agencies for Youths in Africa. Grants for Youth Sports. Grant Funding Opportunities for Youths and Youth in Africa.
UK aid to aim is to help 5,000 young Kenyan girls who have dropped out of school due to early marriage, motherhood and gender-based violence get back into education. The UK will also improve affordability and accessibility to voluntary family planning and vocational skills training for millions across Africa. This will save girls’ lives and allow young people to plan their families, stay in education and get better jobs to support Africa’s future prosperity.
The EU’s **relationship** with Africa is a **key priority** for the **new Commission**. The new COVID reality makes this relationship all the more important. The ongoing **COVID-19 pandemic** and the growing urgency of the **climate crisis** show at the same time how **interdependent** our two continents are, and why it is **so important** that both continents **act urgently** to seize the **shared opportunities** that lie ahead and to tackle the **common challenges** that we all face. This **pandemic** knows no borders and, as it has demonstrated, a global response and an ability to act as an **international community** are essential.
It is our mission to empower youth to reach their full potential by using a Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach. By engaging youth, their families, communities, and governments in innovative programs, we build young people’s skills, assets, and competencies; foster healthy relationships; strengthen the enabling environment, and transform systems.
This report begins by laying out the dynamics of the youth employment challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa: The demographic transition, the role of mineral exports, the largely untapped reservoir of opportunities in farming, and the aspirations of youth and policy makers, which focus on the wage employment sector at the expense of more immediate opportunities in family farming and household enterprises. The report then examines obstacles faced by households and firms in meeting the youth employment challenge. It focuses primarily on productivity because it is the key to higher earnings as well as to more stable, less vulnerable, livelihoods. The report identifies specific areas where government intervention can reduce obstacles to productivity growth.
African Youth Development Foundation (AFRYDEF) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization established in Nigeria in 1999 to mobilize resources and to promote and support sustainable youth empowerment and rural development initiatives in Africa.
In AFRYDEF, they envision an African society where children, youths and women in the rural areas are viewed as assets and resources, and thus encouraged to develop their full potentials.
Young Africans are the key to an African renaissance and will remain players in and advocates of social transformation and development in many spheres. The enormous benefits young people can contribute are realized when an investment is made in young people’s education, employment, health care, empowerment and effective civil participation. Several initiatives on youth education and employment have been undertaken in Africa, but these need to be deepened in order to exploit the full potential of young people in contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development.
APAYE speaks primarily to Goal 18 of the Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063 and (given the cross-cutting nature of youth issues) contributes to all the other goals and seven aspirations of Agenda 2063. It unleashes the potential of African young people and thus positions youth at the center of Africa’s development
Africa has the youngest population in the world with more than 400 million young people aged between the ages of 15 to 35 years necessitating an increase of investment in economic and social development factors, in order to improve the development index of African nations. The AU has developed several youth development policies and programs at the continental level aimed at ensuring the continent benefits from its demographic dividend. The policies include the African Youth Charter, Youth Decade Plan of Action, and the Malabo Decision on Youth Empowerment, all of which are implemented through various AU Agenda 2063 programmes.
