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.
Focus Group Discussions collect in-depth qualitative data to get insightful perspectives on a specific topic. This was the intent of the three Focus Group Discussions that we organized to understand digital media literacy in Kenya. As part of our Youth Excel project activity, we are looking to advance youth digital media literacy and civic reasoning in Kenya.
The Youth Café conducted Key Informant Interviews to expand our knowledge on media literacy in Kenya and the intervention measures that would apply. The information collected through these interviews informs the digital media literacy handbook that The Youth Café is designing for the Youth Excel project.
The Youth Café seeks to equip young people with critical media literacy skills: critical thinking, fact-checking, online safety, social media verification, and quality assessment of online information and their sources through a dedicated handbook. This report encapsulates The Process, Findings of the Literature Review, Findings from the Focus Group Discussions and Key Informant Interviews, Conclusions and finally Recommendations.
We welcome the opportunity to develop and refine our Theory of Change as part of organizational Performance Improvement within Youth Excel, a 5-year USAID global flagship youth development program centered on Implementation Research. Our intended outcome is to build a practical theory to underpin our ambitious youth-led community transformation efforts. This Theory of Change is based on organizational performance improvement as an approach to build the capacity of The Youth Café which focuses on achieving our strategies. We recognize that high performing youth-led and youth-serving organizations like we desire to be, need to be exceptional in four domains identified by our Performance Improvement framework: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Relevancy, and Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR).
This strategy will guide The Youth Cafe in addressing and working to advance youth-led approaches toward achieving sustainable development, social equity, innovative solutions, community resilience, and transformative change. Our plan is ambitious but also appropriate to the scale of the challenge and the opportunity to make a difference. Executing this strategy will require extensive partnerships and new resources. It will require us to sermon our strengths and continue to learn and adapt in order to support the young people we are dedicated to serve and live up to the youth-led principles we embrace.
It is often believed that without opportunity, entrepreneurship would not exist. Identification and pursuit of opportunities are believed to be at the very heart of entrepreneurial success, which sets entrepreneurs apart from other members of society. However, according to the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report, only about one-third of South Africans were able to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities within their communities. In Uganda, the majority of the youth entrepreneurs are said to be engaged in low margin businesses that are only able to meet the day-to-day needs of the owners with very little differentiation amongst them.
The pandemic and measures taken to curtail its spread have compounded food insecurity on the African continent. Food insecurity challenges were already evident due to previous and ongoing extreme climatic conditions (floods and droughts in southern Africa), pests (locusts in East Africa), civil unrest, slow economic growth, and high levels of unemployment and poverty. This book covers various topics related to agriculture and food security challenges faced by African countries. Africa’s population has been increasing and is estimated to reach 1.2 billion by 2050.
