ENGAGING THE AFRICAN YOUTH

 

HOW TO ENGAGE THE AFRICAN YOUTH IN BEING THEIR OWN CHAMPIONS AND ADVOCATES TOWARDS ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY.

Advocacy is the foremost approach for engaging African young people in designing, implementing, and evaluating policies and programs that address challenges that affect their well-being. 

Young people are the advocates of change. Advocacy is pivotal in achieving human rights principles and outcomes geared towards empowering youths in Africa to take up space in achieving political, economic, and social sustainability in the continent.

 Youth are the driving force behind economic prosperity in future decades.

The complexity of social change, policy influence, and limitation of digital media create considerable challenges in achieving the expected advocacy outcomes of youth and children in society. 

I CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Efforts at advocacy are often constrained by different institutional and pragmatic challenges such as the status of children in society, the hierarchical family, social and political structure, and the inherent intricacies of international development.

In Africa, the complicated human rights context and the perception of children in society create major challenges for effective advocacy by young people. 

KIDS GETTING EDUCATED AT A LOCAL CHURCH

The patronizing and patriarchal nature of society still affects the perception and participation of children and their civic engagement roles. Moreover, despite the technological growth in the continent, this has not altered the status of children in society.

 The digital divide between parents and children often leads to greater parental control of the use of social media although major inequities exist in terms of access and utilization of digital media by a different group of young people hence hindering effective advocacy.