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The AFS Forum 2024 underscored and reaffirmed the fundamental importance of food systems, and the critical situation faced by the food and agriculture sectors on this continent. Under the theme “Innovate, Accelerate, and Scale: Delivering Food Systems Transformation in a Digital and Climate Era”, it set out to launch Africa’s food systems into a transformative era based on sustainability and resilience.
The Youth Cafe took part in the 2023 Global Philanthropy Forum conference, which focused on evolving mindsets and confronting orthodoxies in philanthropy. The program sought to engage in needed conversations but was not often conducted in a public forum. It sought roadmaps for funders to embed topics like accountability, localization and justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in their global work. Over the 2.5 days, 220 people were in attendance from 31 countries -- a truly global conversation. Watch The Youth Cafe’s speech.
WINGSForum aims to provide a platform to imagine, explore and experiment with different paths as individuals, organizations, and as a field. It brought together more than 350 attendees from over 50 countries from October 3-5, 2023, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. Philanthropy leaders, professionals, networks, experts and changemakers from around the world representing all forms and types of philanthropy were here.
The Youth Café was privileged to participate in a research project “Administration Costs Research Project (ACRP)” conducted by Humentum. The Youth Café, through its staff actively took part in a series of recommendations and interventions led by Humentum to address insufficient cost coverage in project grants in ten countries around the world.
The Youth Café has been working with partners to produce research relevant to young people such as the more recent Covid-19 impact on youth in partnership with University of Sussex. How do you see youth-led research impacting youth development in a way the more “traditional” research doesn’t?
