The Shamiri Model: Implement the Shamiri intervention, focusing on cultivating a growth mindset, gratitude practices, and value-aligned actions to reduce mental health problems and improve overall well-being.
The Global Democracy Coalition (GDC) Forum 2025 African Regional Forum
The Global Democracy Coalition (GDC) Forum 2025 African Regional Dialogue, led by The Youth Café in collaboration with regional GDC partners, will convene a diverse group of democracy advocates, civil society leaders, policymakers, and youth representatives. Set for March 28, 2025, , celebrating the intersection of democracy, environmental justice, and human rights. This unique timing amplifies the event's focus on the critical intersection between democratic resilience and environmental stewardship, rooted in Africa’s pressing socio-political and ecological challenges.
Project Fact Sheet | The African Union-European Union Innovation Platform
The African Union-European Union Innovation Platform (henceforth: AEIP or Platform) builds a network of African and European stakeholders strengthening links between innovation ecosystems in an inclusive and collaborative manner, ensuring equal benefits (as per the CONNECT destination of the Horizon Europe 2023-2024 Work Programme). The AEIP will be driven by the members of the consortium, many of whom collaborated successfully before on the Africa-Europe Innovation Partnership, an EU-funded initiative that paved the way for the AU-EU Innovation Agenda.
Project Fact Sheet | Voices United: Bridging Rural CSOs for Inclusive Growth in Kajiado County of Kenya
The "Voices United" project aims to address the systemic marginalization of rural youth and women-led civil society organizations (CSOs) in Kajiado County, Kenya. By providing tailored digital advocacy training, networking opportunities, and leadership development, the project seeks to empower 1,000 youth and young women, helping them to actively contribute to governance and policy processes.
Project Fact Sheet | The Support Programme to the Africa-EU Migration and Mobility Dialogue (MMD III)
The project delivers a large-scale social media campaign alongside focused schools engagement in four countries, reaching more than 50,000,000 direct beneficiaries. The target countries are diverse, but they have a common need to strengthen resistance to risky, irregular migration. Many young people grow up in environments that encourage them to invest in offers from smugglers and traffickers.
Project Fact Sheet | Digital Media Literacy and Youth Civic Reasoning in Kenya
The Digital Media Literacy and Youth Civic Reasoning in Kenya project empowers youth to combat misinformation, particularly during elections. By equipping young people with skills in fact-checking, online safety, and social media verification, the project promotes informed civic engagement and strengthens democracy. Key to the initiative is our Youth Media Literacy Handbook, supported by dynamic workshops, grassroots training, and community forums.
The Sauti ya Vijana Nairobi Project | Supporting Responsive, Transparent, And Accountable Leadership.
The Sauti ya Vijana Nairobi Project seeks to encourage the establishment of receptive, open, and accountable leadership. The main goal of this project is to organize a roundtable with the theme "Building youth-adult partnerships in local governance" that will bring together 40 young people from various youth organizations to debate local governance issues across all sectors as a community of practice. The County Youth Advocacy Handbook will be developed, designed, and distributed as part of this project using the case studies.
