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Strengthening Youth Livelihoods And Enterprise Innovation In Africa’s Digital Era

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Strengthening Youth Livelihoods And Enterprise Innovation In Africa’s Digital Era

The Youth Café has cross-published this report in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). This publication is the second of two to explore the findings and insights from an online global consultation, held in July 2020, exploring young Africans’ use of digital technologies in different areas in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. More specifically, this paper discusses the topics of the second day of the consultation, when participants delved into employment in the gig economy, business and tech innovation, and financial inclusion.

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Advancing Youth-centred Digital Ecosystems In Africa In A Post-Covid-19 World

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Advancing Youth-centred Digital Ecosystems In Africa In A Post-Covid-19 World

The Youth Café has cross-published this report in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). This publication is the first of two to explore the findings and insights from an online global consultation, held in July 2020, exploring young Africans’ use of digital technologies in different areas in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards For Organizations Around The World

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Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards For Organizations Around The World

The latest edition of Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) was launched on April 2021 and was developed to address the challenges faced in organizations and community through discrimination, inequity, and exclusion.

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The Kenyan Youth Manifesto | Youth Development Agenda

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The Kenyan Youth Manifesto | Youth Development Agenda

Being the product of an elaborate deliberative process involving young people. Building on national constitutions, Regional Economic Communities, National Youth Policies, Youth Charter to unveil a foundational document to frame the youth development agenda.

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The African Youth Charter | Empowering Young People Through Youth Participation And Equal Partnership

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The African Youth Charter | Empowering Young People Through Youth Participation And Equal Partnership

The Charter is a political and legal document which serves as the strategic framework that gives direction for youth empowerment and development at continental, regional and national levels.

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Our Theory Of Change | A Pathway For Action, Sustainability, Results, Learning, And Adaptation

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Our Theory Of Change | A Pathway For Action, Sustainability, Results, Learning, And Adaptation

We welcome the opportunity to develop and refine our Theory of Change as part of organizational Performance Improvement within Youth Excel, a 5-year USAID global flagship youth development program centered on Implementation Research. Our intended outcome is to build a practical theory to underpin our ambitious youth-led community transformation efforts. This Theory of Change is based on organizational performance improvement as an approach to build the capacity of The Youth Café which focuses on achieving our strategies. We recognize that high performing youth-led and youth-serving organizations like we desire to be, need to be exceptional in four domains identified by our Performance Improvement framework: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Relevancy, and Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR).

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The Youth Cafés Strategic Plan 2021 - 2023

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The Youth Cafés Strategic Plan 2021 - 2023

This strategy will guide The Youth Cafe in addressing and working to advance youth-led approaches toward achieving sustainable development, social equity, innovative solutions, community resilience, and transformative change. Our plan is ambitious but also appropriate to the scale of the challenge and the opportunity to make a difference. Executing this strategy will require extensive partnerships and new resources. It will require us to sermon our strengths and continue to learn and adapt in order to support the young people we are dedicated to serve and live up to the youth-led principles we embrace.