This youth-informed policy brief, developed under the Cyber Rights Campus Connect initiative by The Youth Café in partnership with KICTANet and Internews, highlights critical gaps in Kenya’s digital governance. Emerging from a policy hackathon held on 16th May 2025 during the Africa Tech Policy Summit (AfTPS), the initiative aimed to empower human rights defenders and organizations to co-create policy innovations and align Kenya’s digital policies to address online safety, data protection, and content moderation challenges.
Policy Brief | Young Peoples Awareness Of African Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement
This paper is a summation of the learnings gleaned from The African Youth Cafe’s just concluded first of its kind Continental Scoping Study on African Young Peoples’ Awareness of the AfCFTA and their perceived role as stakeholders in its implementation under the ongoing AfCFTA Youth Inclusion Accelerator Project (AfCFTA-YIAP) aimed toward Amplified Continental Youth Mobilization, Awareness and Engagement in AfCFTA Processes.
Meaningful Youth Engagement in Policy and Decision-making Processes
The present policy brief is one such input. It elaborates on the ideas first proposed in Our Common Agenda, taking into account subsequent guidance from Member States and over one year of intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder consultations, and rooted in the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments.