OUR VISION
Youthhubafrica envisions Young people as catalysts of Africa’s sustainable development.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to empower young people with knowledge and skills to harness their potentials and take center stage for Africa’s development.
Our work has been focused on
| 1 | Leading advocacy, awareness and communications around the Sustainable Development Goals amongst young people in Africa. |
| 2 | Providing platforms for learning |
| 3 | Providing linkages for youth leaders in Africa |
| 4 | Connecting youths in Africa to resources and opportunities |
| 5 | Profiling young people in Africa involved in social change on the African Continent. |
| 6 | Providing ICT skills for young people across Africa |
| 7 | Policy advisory for governments on key youth priority areas |
| 8 | Organizational support for youth focused organization in Africa |
. . .Our activities In Nigeria reaches the 36 States of the Federation . . .
CURRENT PROJECTS
| Girls Education | i. Stand #withMalala International Campaign ii. Girls ICT Training |
| Governance and Accountability | i. FOI |
| Support for Youth Organizations | i. Youth Organisations Database in Africa (YoDA) ii. Support for organisations includes mini grants for programs and activities, technical assistance, training, social media reach and other support services. iii. YouthhubAfrica also supported strongly the African Union’s Department of political Affairs in running its #DGtrends youth discussions in Dakar and Nairobi in 2013 and 2014 respectively. |
| SRH/GBV | i. HIV Dance Concert ii. NoHoodieNoHoney: Youthhubafrica was a major consultant to UNFPA on the social media campaign, No Hoodie No Honey to target young people especially girls with information and skills on safer sex. iii. DaSubjectMatter |
| CV Review Programs | In its second edition, the Africa CV review programs has reached over 700 young Africans across 39 countries in 5 continents. |
| Media Support | i. Documentary for Population Council of Nigeria ii. Media Support for FCT Bee iii. Social Media consultancy for PPFA on DaSubjectMatter iv. Documentary on Female Genital Mutilation v. World Best News (WBN) |
| YouthhubAfrica TV | “Sandra’s Cross” is a web series that aims to cause a social engineering that will lead to better awareness and conversation about issues of Gender-Based Violence, particularly FGM and then trigger a behaviour change using new media technology and also aim |
| Youth and SDGs | SDGs Meetups: The #action2015 International Youth Day Meet-Up put together to commemorate the International Youth day brought 50 young leaders from across Nigeria together to discuss the post 2015 agenda and how to get their leaders committed to the implementation of the SDGs. |
Some Key Achievements so far
8
Great Years
Of profiling opportunities for young Africans including scholarships, conferences, workshops, news items, articles and events that can contribute to youth development for the continent.
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Girls Reached
Through the Stand with Malala campaign, we reached out to 11,650 school girls in Lagos, Kano, Cross river, Oyo states on girls education.
300
CVs Reviwed
The CV Review Project for youths across Africa initiated by YouthHubAfrica reviewed about 300 CVs and reached 700 African youths.