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The Youth Cafe has seen an extraordinary period of growth, learning, and innovation, particularly in the critical areas of anti-corruption and good governance. Since our finding, we have witnessed a growing recognition of the pivotal role that youth play in driving accountability, transparency, and governance reforms across Africa. Amid ongoing challenges such as economic instability, the global shift towards digital activism and the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,
The Youth Café is extremely humbled and honored to be chosen as one of the five finalists for this year's WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award. The WIN WIN Youth Award is an international award that aims to empower and reward young people who play an active role in the creation of a more sustainable future. It is one of the world’s leading sustainability awards and has for the last 21 years awarded individuals and organizations for its contribution to a sustainable world.
Through our collaboration with #LearningPlanet, we hope to facilitate exchanges between both organizations to share best practices, methodologies, and innovative pedagogy, in order to help each other thrive and positively impact society, enhance youth employability through career and skill development programs, design and maintain an online information platform for students, enable virtual exchange and capacity building of students, teachers, networks and schools, and foster network development among various stakeholders such as students, experts, institutions etc.
The meeting assessed the implementation of the ICGLR Heads of State and Government Declaration on Youth Unemployment and the Pact on Security, Stability and development. Further, it looked at ways of developing the ICGLR Regional Action Plan on UNSC Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security as adopted by the ICGLR Heads of State and Government during their 8th Ordinary Summit held on 20th November 2020. The meeting also received presentations on the UNSCR 1325 process for peer learning. This came on the heels of a developments in the region, including elections in the Republic of Burundi, Tanzania and Central Africa Republic.
