Here we look at youth-led development broadly. It brings together evidence, good practice, toolkits and evaluations from youth-led programmes from different organisations, and features articles, blog posts, creative media, case studies and research pieces written by young people active in the development sector.
“Young people are the future” – how often have we all heard this sentence being muttered and have rolled our eyes? And how often have we pointed out in meetings,
The outgoing Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, made youth one of the priorities of his second term, aiming to “address the needs of the largest generation of
The role of data in development has been articulated at the highest policy levels. The Post-2015 Development Agenda report called for a “data revolution for sustainable development, with a new
The problem in Cameroon has never been the lack of institutions, policies and laws on youth, but rather the absence of political willingness to effectively monitor and implement these laws
Sustainable development is a concept that has been on the global agenda for quite a while, not least with the upcoming replacement of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 with
During the constant armed conflicts and wars in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, women have been the main target of revenge and discrimination from all sides. Sexual violence remains
In this article we examine how state governance has affected the respect of human rights and democracy in Africa. Illustrated by the case study of the University of Buea in
In June 2012, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from various groups including governments, the private sector and civil society, came together at the infamous Rio+20 conference to shape
Poverty remains the greatest challenge for the Kenyan government, with unemployment levels increasing even further every year. In Kenya, the informal sector is bearing the burden of absorbing the increased
There is a range of literature on the role of young people in conflict situations, most focusing on young people as violent by nature rather than as a product of
