The Ignite Africa Youth Project.
The Youth Climate Action Network (YCAN) is an initiative designed to empower young people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda to become active leaders in climate action. Recognising that Africa contributes the least to global greenhouse gas emissions yet suffers disproportionately from the impacts of climate change, YCAN seeks to bridge the gap between awareness and action by equipping young people with the knowledge, skills, and platforms needed to respond effectively to the climate crisis.
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.
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.
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.
