African Leadership Institute/Project Pakati – African Youth-Led and Youth-Serving Organizations Portal
Deadline: November 15, 2019
Are
you an African Youth-Led and Youth-Serving Organisation? The African
Leadership Institute (AFLI), through the Project Pakati initiative, is
developing a project titled African Youth-Led and Youth-Serving
Organizations Portal to assist African NGO’s led by and serving the
youth of the continent.
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Youth-led
organizations are run and staffed by young people, and their members
are all young people. Whilst youth-serving organizations are important
as they ignite active citizenry, civic duty, and volunteerism at the
community levels, several challenges exist. Firstly, they are generally
poorly funded as donors and funders struggle to identify these
organisations. Secondly, youth-led/serving organizations do not leverage
lessons learnt by other similar organizations as information sharing
opportunities are limited. Thirdly, governments do not acknowledge the
important contributions of these organizations with young people
frustrated that they do not get credit and support for the role they
play towards the social and economic development of their communities.
In
response to the above challenges, through the AFLI/Project Pakati
Secretariat, the African Youth-Led and Youth Serving organization Portal
project intends to profile such organisations with the intention to
make them visible and discoverable.
About AFLI
The
African Leadership Institute (AFLI) is unique among leadership
initiatives in that it focuses on building the capacity and capability
of visionary and strategic leadership across the continent. Developing
exceptional leaders representing all spheres of society, the Institute’s
flagship programme is the prestigious Archbishop Tutu Leadership
Fellowship. Offering a multifaceted learning experience and run in
partnership with Oxford University, it is awarded annually to 20-25
carefully chosen candidates, nominated from across Africa.
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Benefits
Below, the benefits for your organisation of being profiled on the portal:
The portal will make your organisation discoverable by potential funders and donors;
It will provide capacity building and peer learning for organizations
It will enhance and promote information exchange between the organizations
It will assist in recognising youth-led/serving organisations for their work and efforts and the role of young people in building African economies
It will provide data to the African Union & other institutions which have placed African youth at the centre of their strategies
It will encourage more young people to be engaged and exercise their agency. There are many young people who want to volunteer but do not know where to start
It will also facilitate connections between youth-led/serving organisations – in the same country or across different African countries – so they can share best practices, experiences and challenges.
Lastly, it will help recognize the contribution of youth led organizations towards continental and global agendas (Agenda 2063, SDGs etc).
Eligibility
To submit details of your organisation, you must be a non-profit organisation working in any one of the following areas and based on the African continent:
Employment and Entrepreneurship
Education and Skills Development
Health and Wellbeing
Governance and Youth Empowerment
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Application
For more information on the progress of this project, you can visit the directory while it is being beta-tested and check to see if you can submit your organisation at the submission form. The form itself won’t be turned on and visible until AFLI is ready to allow it to be used by public, and instructions will be provided while it is being tested.
For more information, visit AFL Institute.
To submit CLICK HERE!
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