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Collecting in-depth qualitative data to get insightful perspectives and understanding digital media literacy in Kenya. Media literacy is a tool to prepare future generations to combat the rising tide of information warfare. A thorough fact-checking process that delineates disinformation, misinformation and teaches to differentiate between clickbait, satire, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and other content on the internet is necessary.
Since, one of the focus areas highlighted in the Theory of Change is Education and Skills. The Youth Café aspires to provide high quality education and training systems that are efficient and that facilitate young people’s access and integration. Through our collaboration with Films Pour Enfants, we hope to harness the skills and apply the knowledge from both organizations to build an educated society.
With the shift in technology, young people should be able to embody this new subculture of digital transformation while still considering the ethical and moral principles that should apply. If we can't be able to coexist peacefully in the digital space, then media sustainability is in danger. Media freedom is surely the heart of a helpful democracy when used to embrace the unique perceptions and stances of different people.
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?
Please join The Youth Café, USAID, IREX, and the other Youth Excel consortium for Youth Excel’s Global Launch event! Join a set of dynamic activities and speakers to discuss a shared question:
“How might we, as the global youth development community, leverage youth-led research and learning so that international development works better for young people, their communities, and the world?”
Through our collaboration with #LearningPlanet, we hope to facilitate exchanges between both organizations to share best practices, methodologies, and innovative pedagogy, in order to help each other thrive and positively impact society, enhance youth employability through career and skill development programs, design and maintain an online information platform for students, enable virtual exchange and capacity building of students, teachers, networks and schools, and foster network development among various stakeholders such as students, experts, institutions etc.
Dear Secretary Blinken and Acting Administrator Steele,
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), the leading nonpartisan global network to end violent conflict and build sustainable peace, on behalf of its 130+ members working in 181 countries and The Youth Cafe undersigned organizations, urges the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to ensure conflict prevention and peacebuilding programs are robustly funded and integrated in the U.S. government’s COVID-19 strategy and supplemental funding from the American Rescue Plan.
The Youth Café is determined to look at TVET institutions as what they are: excellent institutions for skills building in line of different careers. However, for this to happen collectively, the Ministry of Education requires to adopt a vigorous communication scheme that highlights the benefits of these institutions, their competitive edge and the success stories necessary to influence the thinking of students as well as parents. The goals to achieve social equity and present all students with good options for training could be elevated by the resourcefulness and strength of all tertiary institutions. Strengthening TVET institutions is a matter of national growth and a closer inch towards sustainable education.
