PROMOTING REGIONAL COLLABORATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENTLivingstone, Zambia, December 2-5 2013

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Promoting Regional Collaboration for Youth EmpowermentLivingstone, Zambia, December 2-5 2013

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CONTENTSACRONYMS .......................................................................................................... VII

1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................1

2 OPENING SESSION ............................................................................................2

Conference working sessions and outcomes ........................................................4

3 DAY I: EXPLORING THE BUILDING BLOCKS .....................................................4

a) Day I Technical Plenary Presentations ..............................................................4

b) Day I Outcomes of Working Group Discussions ..............................................5

4 DAY II: INTEGRATING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT ................7

a) Day II Technical Plenary Presentations .............................................................7

b) Day II Outcomes of Working Group Discussions .............................................7

5 DAY III: SCALING UP .......................................................................................10

a) Day III Roundtable Discussion – Youth Focus of RECs ....................................10

b) Day III Outcomes of Working Group Discussions ...........................................10

6 DAY IV: THE WAY FORWARD AND CLOSING SESSION .................................13

7 CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE ..........................14

i. Establishment and strengthening of national youth councils .........................14

ii. Formation of One Stop Youth Centres .........................................................14

iii. Entrepreneurship .........................................................................................15

iv. Banking on partnerships ..............................................................................15

v. Specific recommendations for RECs ..............................................................15

vi. Consensus on what the RECs can be doing ..................................................15

8 INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENTS AND SUPPORT ..........................................17

i. Africa Youth trust ........................................................................................17

ii. YEGO ..........................................................................................................17

iii. Plan International .........................................................................................17

iv. Civil Society in SADC ....................................................................................17

v. East African Community ..............................................................................17

vi. ECOWAS (Nigeria – government national youth council rep) ........................17

vii. Commonwealth Youth Programme ..............................................................17

viii. UN-Habitat ..................................................................................................18

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9 AGREEMENTS ON THE WAY FORWARD ........................................................19

10 ANNEXES.........................................................................................................20

Annex I – Livingstone Declaration ......................................................................20

Annex II – Action Plan .......................................................................................22

Annex III – Youth Empowerment Models ...........................................................27

Annex IV – List of participants ...........................................................................30

Annex V – Conference Agenda ..........................................................................35

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ACRONYMSAIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AfDB African Development Bank

AMCOW African Ministers Conference on Water

AU African Union

AYC African Youth Charter

AMU Arab Maghreb Union

BDS Business Development Services

CBO Community Based Organization

CSO Civil Society Organization

CSR Corporate social Responsibility

CYP Commonwealth Youth Program

EAC East African Community

ECOWAS Economic Community of Western African States

EXCO Executive Committee

FBO Faith Based Organization

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

ICCO Inter-church Organization for Development Cooperation

ILO International Labour Organization

IMF International Monetary Fund

JYEIA Joint Intervention on Employment and Skills Development

MP Member of Parliament

NGO Non-governmental Organization

NYC National Youth Council

OSYC One Stop Youth Centre

OSYRIC One Stop Youth Resource Centre

PSO Private Sector Organization

REC Regional Economic Community

RYC Regional Youth Council

SADC Southern African Development Community

SMS Short Messaging Service

UN United Nations

UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature

YALDA Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa

YEGO Youth Empowerment for Global Opportunities

YEC Youth Employment Centres

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1 INTRODUCTIONSince 2006 UN-Habitat has been facilitating the establishment of “One Stop Youth Centres” (OSYCs) in cities across Africa. The model aims to provide a neutral space for young people, especially from marginalised urban communities, where they can interact with one another and with youth-serving agencies. OSYCs are managed in a manner that enables young people to constructively explore their own potential, where mentorship and information, training and counselling can be easily accessed.

The Centres have been addressing two over-arching focus areas identified by young people: empowerment for improved livelihood opportunities and civic engagement. Under the livelihoods focus a strong supplementary interest that has emerged is a keen interest in engaging in “green economy” initiatives.

There has been an increasing demand from UN-Habitat’s member states to replicate the model in their own countries. In the absence of sufficient human and financial resources needed to meet this demand, the Agency intends to pursue a strategy of engaging a range of partners to fill this resource gap, and to develop and provide technical support, through training and tools, in order to assist countries (and cities) to set up and operate One Stop Youth Centres.

To meet this need, UN-Habitat together with the Commonwealth Youth Program held a conference on Promoting Regional Collaboration for Youth Empowerment from 2-5 December 2013 at Chrismar Hotel in Livingstone, Zambia. The conference was aimed at designing a process to support coherence and collaboration on youth empowerment initiatives and One Stop Youth Centres across Africa through engagement with regional economic communities’ youth

programs, including promotion of green economy opportunities for improving youth livelihoods.

The conference attracted more than fifty delegates from across Africa, among them youth representatives, government representatives, civil society organizations, and development partners.

Specifically the participants were brought together to:

i. Share information on existing and proposed country/regional programs that relate to youth empowerment;

ii. Identify possibilities for better collaboration, with particular focus on scaling up of the One Stop Youth Centre model and related approaches through engagement at regional and sub-regional levels;

iii. Develop strategies and approaches to engage youth in green economy initiatives, through development of youth-led business models for marketing green technologies.

Anticipated results of the conference were:

• Identification of the key opportunities and challenges in facilitating youth economic empowerment, social development and civic engagement;

• Agreement on the core critical elements of the One Stop Youth Centre model needed to facilitate addressing opportunities and challenges across Africa;

• Action plans for implementation of AU and REC policies and strategies on youth through establishment and strengthening of OSYCs;

• Forging of inter-agency partnerships to support the action plans.

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2 OPENING SESSIONThe conference was officially opened by Mr. Hamid el-Bashir, the UNICEF Country Representative representing the UN Resident Representative in Zambia.

In his opening remarks, Mr. El-Bashir noted the importance of the conference and its theme of youth empowerment as timely and pertinent. Youth empowerment is an area of convergence for the UN system in Zambia, especially with the UN aim to deliver as one. He gave examples of UN health initiatives that encourage youth friendly health services; HIV and AIDS programmes that address youth issues and similarly education initiatives aimed at tackling gender based violence and teenage pregnancy. In addition he highlighted youth empowerment programmes that support youth in entrepreneurship, particularly the employability of youth in green economy initiatives.

He underscored the need for the conference to deliberate on a variety of issues that affect the youth sector in the continent, including inclusiveness of multidimensional youth programmes and centres, contextualising and replicating to avoid reinventing the wheel and working in close partnership with the UN system in each country especially given that the UN system has undergone reforms.

He further stressed that the youth must lead the process and come up with innovative approaches to tackle these issues, as well as addressing concerns of youth with disabilities and HIV and AIDS, education and youth employability, innovation, documentation and violence against youth and the vulnerability of youth.

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Other delegates to address the conference during the opening session included:

• Mr. Mathias Spaliviero representing the UN-Habitat Director of the Regional Office for Africa;

• Mr. Timothy Gakuo, Director of Youth in the Kenya Ministry of Devolution and Planning;

• Mrs. Perpetue Miganda, Principal Gender and Community Development Officer, East African Community Secretariat;

• Mr. Victor Mensah, Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) Manager;

• Mr. Alexander Chileshe, National Technical Adviser UN-Habitat in Zambia.

In his remarks the UN-Habitat representative, Mathias Spaliviero, emphasised the need for One Stop Youth Centres that provide public spaces for youth engagement and promote different youth initiatives. He stressed the need for scaling up the idea to reach more youths. Mr. Mensah from the Commonwealth Youth Programme pointed to the role of the CYP as an intergovernmental organisation that promotes youth empowerment ideas that can be taken up by the member countries in implementing their various programmes.

The Director of Youth from Kenya pointed out that the 2010 Kenyan constitution commits the government to

youth empowerment. The government has set up programmes including the Enterprise Development Fund, the National Youth Service and the Uwezo fund. Youth empowerment is also included in the Kenya National Medium Term Plan under the country’s Vision 2030, with special mention of the setting up of youth development centres in each County similar to the aim of One Stop Youth Centres.

Ms. Perpetue Miganda noted that one of the EAC’s operational principles is people-centred and market driven. In this regard, the EAC Treaty provides for multi-sectoral stakeholder participation that includes the youth. She pointed put that in order to implement these provisions, the EAC has adopted a Social Development Policy Framework with youth as a major pillar of development. The EAC has further developed a Youth Policy and an operational plan for youth development. Youth in the EAC face similar challenges as others on the continent that include unemployment and underemployment, inadequate skills for employability, inadequate opportunities in formal employment, lack of access to finance, youth vulnerability to political manipulation, poor health, drug and alcohol abuse among others. The conference, she underlined, was important in moving beyond policies to concrete tangible actions on youth empowerment.

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Day I goal: To identify best practices and principles for fostering youth empowerment through One Stop Youth Centres.

a) Day I Technical Plenary Presentations

The session was chaired by Victor Mensah, CYP.

The technical plenary explored the building blocks of youth empowerment which included presentations and discussions on different models and initiatives.

• Ms. Mutinta Munyati, UN-Habitat - One Stop Youth Centre model;

• Ms. Martha Mkupasi, Ms. Immaculate Gitta Mr. Wainaina Mr. Emmanuel Bigenimana, Mr. Wainaina Muiruri – One Stop Youth Centres in practice: Coordinators of existing centres Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Kampala, Uganda, Kigali, Rwanda, and Nairobi, Kenya;

• Mr. John Banda, International Labour Organization - Youth economic and cultural empowerment: supporting youth in the arts and green economies;

• Mr. Jean-Claude Adzalla - DeafAid: Accessibility and inclusiveness

• Ms. Joanna Fatch, Interim Youth Advisory Group of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) - Engagement in development processes: presentation of the Policy and Strategy for Mainstreaming Youth in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Africa

• Mr. Rob Sinclair, Nottawasaga Institute - Knowledge-building: African Youth Strategy on Learning for Sustainability (Worldwide Fund for Nature)

• Ms. Keter Chebet Plan International - “Think Youth”: presentation on youth economic empowerment and governance in East and Southern Africa

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CONFERENCE WORKING SESSIONS AND OUTCOMES

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b) Day I Outcomes of Working Group Discussions

Group 1: Social development initiatives (sports, health, arts and culture, environment, peace and security)

Highlights of the discussion: The group presented cases on the Burkina Faso based Association Jeunesse Sans Frontiere, Undugu Family from Uganda, Milango (opening doors) International from Kenya, Rwanda’s YEGO (Youth Empowerment for Global Opportunities) and Zambia’s “wealth creation through art”.

Group 1 participants concluded that social development initiatives should have the following characteristics:

•Be home-grown/locally developed•Emphasize sustainable models and/or

income generating potential•Creating a sense of community

ownership or be based on partnerships

Recommendations: One-stop centres should focus on Partnerships and Collaborations and development of income generating activities.

Group 2: Economic empowerment initiatives

Highlights of the discussion: Challenges were identified as a lack of youth voice, weak learning from experience, poor matching of training to market needs, lack of mentoring, and political manipulation and corruption. Training is often top-down and impractical.

Recommendations: The group recommended the establishment of youth platforms for advocacy and the development of youth funds.

Group 3: Institutional support to youth led development: policies, programs, finance and technical support

Highlights of the discussion: successful

examples of institutional support include youth procurement quotas, youth-friendly centres, legislated National Youth Councils and leadership training for NYCs. Challenges include the lack of funding for youth programs, weak capacity of youth groups in procurement processes, and the lack of documentation of best practices.

Recommendations: The group focused on national, regional and continental initiatives and recommended:

• Setting up funds targeting youth and assigned to a selected custodian

• Proactive communication on Government policies to ensure interest of the youth constituency is triggered

• Harmonize standards for youth policies and youth council legislation

• Establish all NYCs by law to act as a safety net for youth representation

• Elevation of AU Youth Division to a fully fledged department, appointment of an AU Youth Commissioner and establishment of a reporting mechanism

• Improve monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the African Youth Charter & domestication mechanism

• Meaningful participation of youth in mainstream planning and budgeting

• Strengthening implementation of commitments to include youth in government delegations to meetings

• Promote learning between One Stop Youth Centres (OSYCs); country exchange

• Advocacy for establishment of OSYCs anchored on the AYC, Decade Plan of Action on Youth and National Youth Policies

• Enhance co-ordination and monitoring mechanisms within available mechanisms at RECs and reporting of youth empowerment centres; AU should promote

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increased co-ordination of learning between the RECs

• Proactive engagement of PSO and CSR funds

• Create space for PSO representation in committees and boards

Group 4: Youth-led centres as hubs of innovation and empowerment

The group considered case studies from Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia, resulting in the following discussions:

Highlights of the discussion: successful examples of centres as hubs highlighted the importance of building on local resources and expertise, and recognizing the transitional nature of youth. Challenges include excessive government control and politicization, as well as lack of space for youth centres, and poor resources.

Recommendations:

The Youth Led Hub must include:

• Participation of youths at all levels• Primary beneficiaries should be young

people

• A Hub can either be physical or virtual Empowerment requires:

• Equipping the youth with different skills

• Involving the youth in meaningful development

• Enhancing potential, knowledge and ability

What makes the centres work?• Using local resources and expertise• Continuous mobilization of young

people• Programmes at these centres should

primarily target youths• Continuous branding of youth

programs• Youths must sit on decision making

bodies• Target all types of youths (male/

female, disabled, marginalized)

Opportunities for the OSYCs: • Meeting the challenge of youth

unemployment • Information dissemination• Job and wealth creation• It provides a platform for information

of favourable policies

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Day II goal: To develop a framework strategy for supporting youth economic and social empowerment.

a) Day II Technical Plenary Presentations

The technical plenary explored integrating economic and social empowerment, through the following presentations:

• Mr. Carlo Chege, African Wildlife Foundation & East African Social Enterprise Network - Overview on social and green enterprise

• Mr. Victor Mensah, CYP - Identifying leaders in the Commonwealth Youth Training Model

• Experiences on the ground - Models of green technology entrepreneurship and social enterprise:

o Ms. Bolanle Olafunmiloye, Chairperson Wealth Creation Agency, Ondo State, Nigeria Agriculture-based livelihoods: a model of BDS for youth agri-business and green technology – the Ondo Centre Agri-Business initiative

o John Banda, ILO Zambia National Project Coordinator - Youth Employment ILO Lusaka Youth in the Arts – International Labour Organization’s initiative around the ITTO conference in Livingstone

o Richard Hamba, Teens Uganda - Renewable Energy Training of Trainers

o Abraham Temu, Kibo Foundation - A UN-Habitat-City of Kampala-KiBO Partnership: “No youth Left behind” program

b) Day II Outcomes of Working Group Discussions

Working groups focused on identifying strategies and models for sustainable economic and social youth empowerment through answering the following questions:

- How do we target? - Who are the partners? - What can be done at regional

level?- What do we measure?

Group 1: Skills and knowledge development

Highlights of the Discussion: the group underlined the need for regional leadership in skills development through establishing regional centres of excellence, strengthening school curricula, increasing funding and measuring the efficiency of green technology entrepreneurship.

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Working group presentation

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Recommendations:Activities should include:• Community mobilization and

sensitization• Tailor made/specific technical and

hands on training• Relevant university faculties to share

their research findings e.g. on green technology with youth centres, relevant organizations and individuals that may need that knowledge

• Institutions and agencies should increase access to open and distance learning to youth

Partners should include all levels of Government (National and Local), public and private sector, NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, CSOs, Media, Youth, Academia, RECs (SADC, EAC, ECOWAS) and International Development Partners (UN-Habitat)

Regional level activities can include:

• Collaboration and sharing of information

• Development of Regional Centres of Expertise - pilot regional centers for skills development and sharing of best practices

• Creation of a regional body for policy advice, methodological guidance and technical assistance in skills identification and provision

• Introduction of green technology education in school curricula

• Regional fund mobilization, lobbying and advocacy

• Sustainable regional know-how and innovative technology transfer

We should measure:• Baseline indicators• Viability and Sustainability of projects• Amount of data/products available

from the skills and knowledge development activities

• Expansion of green technologies and social enterprises

Group 2: Youth-focused Business Development Services (BDS)

Highlights of the Discussion: the group focused on the use of media, social networks and internet learning platforms, academic forums as well as informal learning and peer-to-peer learning. Business Development Services (BDS) must integrate a wide range of programs and tailor products and services to meet the diverse needs of young people. It should be comprehensive, flexible, culturally sensitive and integrated.

Recommendations:

Mechanisms for supporting youth business should include: • E- platforms• Social media - mobile, SMS, Facebook,

Twitter, Whatsapp • Religious and other social groupings• Community meetings (through local

leadership)• Community radios to target rural youth • Information platform in institutions of

learning (pitching, notice boards, etc.)• Informal settings (water points, markets

etc.) • Peer-to-peer learning

At the regional level:• Facilitate youth trans-boundary

business-enabling policies• Young people to lobby RECs to ensure

they mainstream youth • Collaboration among regional

organizations to harness and share information

We should measure:• Number of young people accessing the

services • Relevance - are they tailor-made to suit

context • Sustainability of the business• Ability to generate or create

employment • Profitability of the business• Growth of the business- diversification

and value chains • Increase in demand for the BDS• Willingness to pay for the services

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Group 3: Advocating and fostering an enabling institutional environment

Highlights of the Discussion: The group defined an enabling environment as policies and processes that allow youth empowerment, and actions should include advocacy for policy, strategic planning and legislation to ensure establishment and sustainability of centres.

Recommendations:

Specific actions should include:

• Regular consultation of government on policy development

• Proactive communication on policies to ensure interest of youth is triggered

• Establish NYCs in all countries as a safety net for youth representation

• Elevate African Union (AU) Youth Division to a full department; appoint AU Youth Commissioner; appoint a youth commissioner (ECOWAS) and create Directorate and Commissioner of youth (SADC and EAC)

• Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and governments to improve monitoring of implementation & domestication of African Youth Charter especially provisions on establishment of Youth Empowerment Centres (YECs)

• Meaningful participation of youth in mainstream government planning and budgeting processes

• Strengthen UN/REC commitments to include youth in government delegations

• Promote learning between OSYCs• Advocacy for establishment of OSYCs

anchored in AYC, Decade Plan of Action for Youth and National Youth Policies

• Proactive engagement of private sector organizations and CSR funds; create space for PSO representation in committees and boards for youth empowerment

• AU to promote co-ordination of learning between the RECs

We should measure:• Number of youth beneficiaries • Number of functional youth

formations• Number of functional centres

established• Reduction in disempowering factors• Increase in youth skills• Number of youth representative

bodies• Increase in skills to engage

institutional development

Group 4: Financial service and investment for youth-led enterprise

Highlights of the Discussion: The group stated financial services must be accessible, affordable, available, youth friendly, suitable, sustainable and demand-driven. A key challenge is that banks finance “businesses”, not “ideas”, so youth need to learn how to turn their ideas into bankable businesses.

Recommendations:

Regional level financial support mechanisms can include:• Regional Youth Banks• Regional Development banks with

specific products for youth• Harmonization of policy dealing with

green & social enterprise• Update regional youth policies to capture

green & social enterprisesA time to reach out

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• Regional Credit Guarantee schemes• Mandatory profit allocations for CSR

(e.g. Nigeria, India)• Support & promotion of youth

Savings & Cooperatives at the regional level

We should measure:• Uptake level (Number of youth going

for financial services)• Financial Portfolio (what percentage

has been given to youth)• The amount allocated to green & social

enterprise• The number of viable enterprises that

have been set up and running• The number of jobs created• The returns from investments (How

much profit, how much goes back to the community)

• Repayment rate

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a) Day III Roundtable Discussion – Youth Focus of RECs

A roundtable discussion on the youth focus of Regional Economic Communities was facilitated by Mr. Victor Mensah of CYP. Participants were representatives of EAC, Nigeria Federal Ministry of Youth (working with ECOWAS), Kenya Ministry of Planning and Devolution, UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board, a SADC CSO (KUWUKA JDA, Mozambique), Inter-church Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO), Plan International, African Youth Trust, UN-Habitat and Rwanda YEGO. The facilitator structured the discussion like a television talk show, with audience participation led by Ifeanyi Uzoh of the Nigeria Habitat Youth Network.

Discussants presented their views on incorporating OSYCs and social entrepreneurship training in RECs and country planning, and indicated areas in which they could contribute to regional and national strategies.

b) Day III Outcomes of Working Group Discussions

Working Groups focused on strategies for scaling up the One Stop Youth Centre model and green technologies and social enterprise focusing on:

• Scaling up at regional level

• Scaling up at national level

• Partnerships and coordination

• Formulation of the Livingstone Declaration

This session was organized as an “Urban Café”, where participants migrated from group to group every ten minutes in order that all could have input to all the topics.

Group 1: Scaling up at regional level

Highlights of the Discussion: the group focused on various strategies for strengthening the role of RECs in promoting youth empowerment across their regions.

Recommendations:

Activities should include:

• Policy and institutional framework that provides for the establishment of a youth commission

• Monitoring of youth charter and other policies

• Follow up on intentions for mainstreaming youth in the regional bodies; map existing policies that address youth concerns; identify the challenges that RECS face in mainstreaming youth

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• Enabling policies for young people in cross border trade, mainstreaming youth employment issues in all protocols; learn from models of movement of goods, free trade zones, preferential trade areas

• Sharing of lessons learnt in the region and exchange visits; identify effective/best practices; use ICT, social media to establish youth empowerment community of practice within the region

• Inter university collaboration

• Reduce the disconnect between the Sub-Saharan and northern block

• Enhancing capacity of regional youth network to effectively lobby RECS

Group 2: Scaling up at national level

Highlights of the Discussion: the group focused on ideas for strengthening and expanding OSYCs at national level, looking at program vision and design, info sharing and capacity-building, and development of partnerships.

Recommendations:

Activities should include:

• Engage national and local authorities in management of the centres, lobby for more resources in private sector

and government, engage youth beneficiaries and stakeholders to ensure sustainability; advocate for Government agencies in charge of the youth to allocate a special provision for youth information

• Centres should be designed and built up by youth for sense of ownership - youths must give back to the centre; centres should recognize peoples efforts

• Different levels of management: management (daily running of activities), board (final say), advisory (technical support)

• Identify common goal and vision across youth centres but adopt what is relevant to any particular youth centre according to needs assessment; take into consideration issues of access, accessibility and equity in information provision for youth; target audience and core needs; develop strategies for sustainability, strategic plan and business plan

• Constant remodelling and innovation, creative thinking in developing programs for the OSYC; curricula should also include all youth groups (university graduates and disadvantaged dropouts at any level)

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• capacity building for centre managers in information collecting, analysis and dissemination using ICT; share good examples/successes with other countries; map challenges and possibilities

• Build partnerships and external relations:

o Pitch it up in media for easy sell (publicity branding)

o Work closely with NYC (link it with national bodies)

o Greater involvement of private sector (opportunity for internship,

youths to get business mindsets)o Partnership with local universities

and research to support innovationo Link to schools within the

community

Group 3: Partnerships and coordination

Highlights of the Discussion: the group focused on what kind of partnerships were needed at national, regional and continental levels, including actors that will play an active role.

Recommendations:Partners to be engaged should include:

NATIONAL REGIONAL CONTINENTAL

ü Youthü Local Governmentsü National Governments

(Executive and National Assembly)

ü National Youth Councilü Traditional leadersü Private Sector

Organizations (Businesses, banks and financial institution)

ü NGOs (youth orgs)üMediaü Development partnersü Religious Institutionsü Academic Institutionsü Disabled Peoples

Organization and Organizations for People with disability

ü Security Agencies

ü Youthü REC secretariatü Regional NGOs (EACSOF,

AYT,EASEN, PLAN,EABC, BANK ABC)

ü Development partners (TMEA, GIZ, SIDA, OSISA)

ü Inter University councilsü Regional media bodiesü SADC

ü Youth ü AU (AUC/ AU Youth Divü Common Wealthü PYUü COMYü UN Agencies (ILO,

UNHABITAT, UNIDO, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO,UNEP)

ü Development Partners (AfDB, Mastercard Foundation, Multichoice Africa Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)

ü African Decade for Persons with Disability

ü Africa Water Association and the Global Water Partnership

ü NEPAD (New Partnership for African Development)

üMultinational foundation

Group 4: Formulation of the Livingstone Declaration

Highlights of the Discussion: The final session of Day III was a plenary to build consensus on the Livingstone Declaration, taking into consideration the outputs of each of the working groups. See Annex I for the Declaration.

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Day IV goal: To forge partner commitments and action plans for implementation of the strategies.

The closing session was facilitated by Joanna Fatch. The Livingstone Declaration was presented to the Minister of Youth and Sport of Zambia by Wanjeri Ndegwa, Executive Director, Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA). An overview of commitments and next steps was presented by Bolanle Olafunmiloye, Ondo State, Nigeria. Specific commitments are outlined in Section 8, below.

The official closing was conducted by Hon. Chishimba Kambwili MP, Minister of Youth and Sport, Zambia. In his closing remarks Hon. Kambwili pointed to the Zambian government’s drive to ensure the achievement of equal rights and opportunities for young people and the formulation of the Youth Employment and Empowerment Strategy with the support of cooperating partners. He further pointed out that the ministry was in the process of reviewing the 2006 National Youth Policy and the 1986 National Youth Development Council Act. This is to ensure that both the policy and Act take on board emerging

issues in youth development and therefore make them more relevant to the current needs of young people.

The Minister acknowledged the use of One Stop Youth Centres in enabling effective engagement that contributes to overall socio-economic development on the continent. He commended the organisers of the conference - UN-Habitat and the Commonwealth Youth Programme. The Minister reiterated the need to harness the youth bulge, calling it a demographic bonus, through human capital development and skills that contribute to productivity. He acknowledged that the growth could only be attained through investment in skills and education while providing opportunities for gainful employment and platforms that allow civic and political participation of young people.

He concluded by emphasising the need for partnerships and collaboration between national governments and other organisations at the national and international levels to ensure youth empowerment. The Minister committed to championing the youth cause at both the SADC and continent levels.

The Minister then formally declared the conference closed.

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Wanjeri Ndegwa presents Livingstone Declaration to the Minister

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The following highlights points of consensus from the different sessions on actions that should be taken to enhance regional collaboration for youth empowerment. Based on this consensus the Livingstone Declaration was drafted and presented to the Chief Guest.

i. Establishment and strengthening of national youth councils

• Formalization of establishment of youth councils to facilitate funding from central governments and hence guaranteeing their support for the councils while removing their dependency on political goodwill for funding

• Outline the relationship between the national youth councils and one stop youth centres – preferably a symbiotic relationship between the two

• We must take into account that some youth councils have strong political undertones that may have implications for socio-economic development (selective development)

• Support National Youth Councils that are functioning properly, inclusive, mobilise funds and capable to make and provide feedback to the youth.

ii. Formation of One Stop Youth Centres

• Have to be youth driven and innovative and where necessary borrowing from other models and providing training that matches labour market demands

• Accessibility and inclusiveness of all youth, making special effort to include those that are out of the mainstream and the physically challenged

• Whether the centres will be taken to the youth or the youth to the centres – bearing in mind the physical infrastructure and technical process implications and considering centres as safe spaces for the youth

• Relevance - generating information only or also disseminating information; youth centres that are context based – recognising the peculiarities of communities- hence tailoring initiatives to respond to the needs of the surrounding community

• Innovation – not only innovative centres but also centres as incubators of innovation hence going beyond ideas

• Going beyond physical structures to properly resourced youth centres with appropriate personnel, systems and programmes

• Role of governments – differentiating between government intervention and interference; the OSYC agenda should be a national agenda hence the need for a government that supports the young people and one that is ready to collaborate with neighbours to address the challenges at the regional level

• Marrying youth employability and training and also monitoring the processes entails:

o Mentorship and internships programmes that also support youth to acquire experience while learning/training

o Placing emphasis on employable skills; partnership with employers – government, private sector and civil society - is key in designing programmes. Addressing skills mismatch requires being mindful

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of what skills employers are looking for and how the centres respond to this gap.

o Striking a balance between job seekers and job creators by creating demand and also using available resources and creating systems that help people train others – the multiplier effect. It is important to think through the whole cycle of what has to be achieved.

iii. Entrepreneurship

• Actualising the concept of entrepreneurship requires capacity, innovation and resources

• Businesses do not break even or make profit overnight therefore capacity building is important to avoid romanticising

• Use corporate expertise and not just ask for their money

• Thinking beyond the funding idea becomes easy to deal with. The issues are in integration - thinking about the sustainability aspect i.e. what the impact is on the holistic level and how it goes

• In investing in youth entrepreneurship it is important to find ways banks can be encouraged to create products that best serve the youth as an alternative to coming up with youth specific financial institutions. It takes creating competition for commercial banks to make them do things differently.

iv. Banking on partnerships

• No single institution can develop young people on its own

• Credibility of youth organisations is key in nurturing partnerships

• In building on existing structures and not coming up with new ones there

is need to know who the different partners are and how to engage with them

• Curbing corruption - sometimes the funds are available but they do not always get to the centres

• Involve all stakeholders

• Begin with an end in mind in measuring sustainability and success of programmes in the centres, asking whether or not the centres bring added value bearing in mind the financial, environmental, institutional, technological, and social components.

v. Specific recommendations for RECs

• Create an enabling environment for youth empowerment at the regional level by developing, implementing and monitoring regional policies, protocols and strategies on youth

• Establish regional youth centres for skills development

• Harmonise education curricula to include entrepreneurship in order to impart economic empowerment concepts early

• Create a platform that encourages youth to participate in regional integration initiatives

• Open up spaces for participation in regional integration taking into account that currently regional integration is seen as a government-only initiative.

vi. Consensus on what the RECs can be doing

• Develop guidelines for national youth council elections so as to enhance the legitimacy of the institutions and mechanisms for transition

• Monitor implementation of youth legislation at the national level

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• Foster collaboration on youth empowerment at the regional level

• Encourage the establishment of OSYCs at the national level with clear coordination mechanisms and establish a platform for regional level exchange

• Put in place policy and institutional frameworks that provide for establishment of youth commissions and Regional Youth Councils (RYCs) in EAC, ECOWAS, SADC, ECCAS, AMU, etc.

• Formulate regional policies that specifically deal with youth entrepreneurship and establishment of Regional Youth Development Banks

• Encourage the mainstreaming of youth issues in all protocols

• Put in place a conducive legislative environment for private sector participation in youth empowerment initiatives

• Develop clear structures for youth involvement in national and regional deliberations and processes.

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i. Africa Youth trust

i. Will continue to partner with the youth centre in Nairobi and supplement resources and help with sustainability of the centres

ii. Will continue to engage and partner with the national youth council and play a key role in the process of its formation and capacity building

iii. Seeks an opportunity to partner with SADC and share lessons

iv. Continued partnership with the OSYC.

ii. YEGO

i. Open to exchange programmes especially regarding capacity building and sharing experiences

ii. Will continue working with the East African Community to establish a regional OSYC.

iii. Plan International

i. Hoping to learn from the functional centres and to be able to incorporate the model into Plan’s work with youth

ii. Will work in close partnership with the RECs in implementing the organisation’s areas of operation

iii. Seeks opportunities to partner with other organisations/ institutions.

iv. Civil Society in SADC

i. Will continue to engage at the national level in order to move forward in youth empowerment

ii. Will make input to the SADC youth strategy being developed.

v. East African Community

i. Will continue consultations with UN-Habitat on how to implement the recommendations from the conference and include other partners in the programme

ii. Recognises the urgency to work with the organisations represented at the conference to work on putting in place an EAC youth platform

iii. Will advocate for the development of an EAC strategy for promoting youth entrepreneurs.

vi. ECOWAS (Nigeria – government national youth council rep)

i. Commits to delivering government policies that give the centres support

ii. Seeks to nurture strong partnerships with different institutions

iii. Will continue advocating for effective participation of youth.

vii. Commonwealth Youth Programme

i. Commits to documentation and benchmarking of youth empowerment approaches

ii. Developing models and measurements especially for youth development workers - what kind of models exist and what can be used to ensure youth empowerment

iii. Will provide capacity building of the people managing the centres using key youth empowerment principles so that they contribute effectively towards youth empowerment.

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viii. UN-Habitat

i. Will continue interaction with different partners

ii. Will follow up on ECOWAS and SADC

iii. Will share documentation and other material for the creation of youth centres as well as other youth empowerment related studies and reports.

iv. Will provide a platform for exchange.

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We need to measure outcomes and so emphasis has to be placed on the impact of different youth initiatives and on their sustainability beyond the separate programs, projects and political administrations.

Documenting experiences – best practices and lessons learned – will serve to inform and build capacity for strengthening youth empowerment in different countries; things work differently in different areas so when learning from experiences we must contextualise them to meet local needs.

Conference participants agreed on promulgation of the “Livingstone

Declaration on Regional Collaboration for Youth Empowerment”. The Declaration identifies actions to be undertaken by three main target groups, namely: national governments, regional bodies, and all other stakeholders including youth bodies, Civil Society Organizations, development partners and the media. The Declaration is attached as Annex I to this report.

It was also agreed to develop an action plan outlining what is to be done by all participants as well as other engaged stakeholders. UN-Habitat will take responsibility for preparing this action plan for distribution to and further input by all participants.

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10 ANNEXES

Annex I – Livingstone Declaration

We, the youth of Africa, government representatives, civil society organizations, development partners, regional economic community representatives and private sector representatives gathered at Chrismar Hotel, Livingstone, Zambia, from 2nd - 5th December 2013, to promote regional collaboration for youth empowerment,

• Acknowledging the efforts made by African heads of state and government in promoting youth development,

• Appreciating the various policies and institutional frameworks in place at continental, regional and national level such as the African Youth Charter and the Pan African Youth Union,

• Concerned over the continuing socio-economic, political, and environmental challenges faced by young people in Africa especially unemployment,

• And noting that young people constitute well over 50% of the population in many African countries.

Call upon the African heads of state and government to:

i. Set up and support the establishment of One Stop Youth Centres (OSYCs) as hubs for youth development and empowerment;

ii. Where absent, formulate, and where existing, review and update youth policies taking into account lessons learnt and ensure meaningful participation of youth in this process;

iii. Ensure meaningful involvement of young people in national budgetary processes and management of funds allocated to youth;

iv. Encourage each country to, where absent, establish, and where existing,

strengthen, a legislative framework for functional National Youth Councils (NYCs) with clear mandate and roles, which should include coordination of youth groups and youth-supporting institutions;

v. Adopt the UN youth empowerment index as official criteria to measure progress and commitment at country level towards youth empowerment.

Call upon all regional bodies to:

i. Encourage establishment of OSYCs at national and sub-national levels and establish a platform for information exchange, learning and capacity-building at the regional level;

ii. Put in place policy and institutional frameworks that provide for the establishment of youth commissions and Regional Youth Councils (RYCs) in all Regional Economic Communities;

iii. Develop mechanisms for youth involvement in national and regional policy deliberations and programmes;

ix. Formulate regional policies to support youth entrepreneurship and establish Regional Youth Development Banks;

x. Put in place conducive policies for private sector participation in youth empowerment initiatives.

Furthermore, we call on all stake-holders including youth bodies, civil society organizations, development partners and the media to:

i. Encourage the setting up of OSYCs and support them with necessary resources to address specific youth issues;

ii. Monitor and follow up on mechanisms set up by governments for youth programmes;

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iii. Enhance the capacity of regional youth networks to be effective in lobbying and advocating for youth empowerment in the regions;

iv. Promote principles of access and equity in information and services provision for youth to ensure inclusion of special interest and marginalized groups, including youth with disabilities;

v. Partner with local universities and research institutions to support innovation and knowledge development, as well as involve local communities, CSOs, private sector and other stakeholders in OSYC programmes;

In conclusion we believe that a society prospers when it recognizes and supports the potential of young people, and we therefore call on all Governments, Regional Economic Communities and other stakeholders to join us and all the youth of Africa in the search for deeper integration, participation and development of our continent.

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Annex II – Action Plan

Follow-up Action Plan to the Regional Conference on Promoting Collaboration for Youth Empowerment

Livingstone, Zambia, 2 to 5 December, 2013

Activity Actors Tasks Responsible TimelineOutcome documentsDeclaration Habitat, NI •Edit declaration

•Publish and distributeMutinta Available on

UN-Habitat website

Outcomes report

NI, Habitat •Conference outcomes report draft

•Review draft (share draft with key partners)

•Publish and disseminate

NI 6/1/14

RECS follow-up

EAC

EAC EAC PerpetueUN-HabitatNI

•Roadmap•Review EAC meeting with

ROA•MoU•Concept note on joint

program•EAC-UN-Habitat working

session•Identify partners•Prepare regional

consultation forum

Mutinta 17/12/2013Jan 2013

Kenya Min Planning/ Youth AffairsHabitatAYT

•Meeting with PS and Director Youth to discuss promoting OSYC concept at County level; also social enterprise and green technology entrepreneurship

•Input to EAC strategy

NI/Mutinta Jan 2013

AYT •Meeting to discuss promoting OSYC concept at County level in Kenya

•Seek input on EAC strategy

Mutinta/NI

DeafAid Meeting with Jean-Claude Adzalla on capacity-building OSYCs to support physically challenged youth• Explore possibility of hosting

a stakeholder meeting to mainstream issues of physically challenged youth in One Stop Centres

Mutinta

Oracle Discuss engagement in EAC strategy

Mutinta

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Activity Actors Tasks Responsible TimelineOSYC •Adopt approaches for

social enterprise and green technology entrepreneurship and support to physically challenged youth

YALDAAltawoon Youth Centre

•Organize, mobilize and educate Kenyan youth on importance of engaging their respective counties governments on the need to establish OSYC model

Mutinta/PaulAbdi

Rwanda MinYICT •Engage in development of EAC youth strategy

OSYC •Document lessons learned in roll-out of OSYCs at district level in Rwanda

Emmanuel

Governance for Africa

Cyrus Munyaburanga

Uganda Min Youth •Engage in development of EAC strategy

OSYC •Promote the scaling up of OSYC in various parts of the country

Immaculate

NYC Fred OnyangoICCO •Convene meeting of

Uganda participants to plan country level follow-up

Kibo Fdn Abraham TemuTeens Uganda •Popularize Kampala and

Arua OSYCs thru info sharing ie print, internet, dialogue, media

•Generate data base for youth centers with access to the One-Stop youth centers for collaboration.

•Share strategies/approaches for engaging youth in sustainable Livelihood; i.e. urban Agric, Energy, non-motorized Transport, culture, etc.

Richard Hamba

C3 Group •Generate internship training/ volunteer programme

•Concept development, branding and Research, enhance communication at national/regional level

Richard Hamba

Tanzania Min Youth •Engage in development of EAC strategy

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Activity Actors Tasks Responsible TimelineOSYC Martha

MukupaziTz Youth Network

Rahma Bajun

Plan Stella Tungaraza

Burundi Min Youth •Engage in development of EAC strategy

RECS follow-up

ECOWAS

ECOWAS ECOWASWAEMUUsman

•Send report and propose forum

•Convene regional consultation forum

MutintaFrancis Chuks

Nigeria Min Youth Engage in planning regional forum

Aminu Usman

Ondo State Develop model of BDS for youth agri-business and green technology

Ms. Bolanle Olafunmiloye

Habitat Youth Network

Engage in planning regional forum for ECOWAS

Ifeanyi Uzoh

Burkina Faso Association Jeunesse Sans Frontière Burkina (AJSFB)

Link up with UN-Habitat Mohamed Compaore

RECS follow-up

SADC

SADC SADC •Send report and propose forum

•Request update on SADC youth strategy

•Camilo to follow up

Camilo Correia

Zambia Min Youth •Letter to Minister encouraging advocacy to SADC & AU

•Propose leadership in SADC forum for OSYCs

•Propose Livingstone OSYC

Alex Chileshe/Mutinta

UN Res RepHabitat ZambiaILO

Letter proposing inclusion of OSYC concept in UN SWAP on youth

Hamid el-BashirAlex Chileshe

Youth AliveYMCA/GEA-ZAMBIACTYA

Consultation on Livingstone OSYC

Jere M. FrancisAudrey LupashaOscar NyaywaSibu Malambo

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Activity Actors Tasks Responsible TimelineILO Zambia • Propose documentation

dissemination on arts entrepreneurship and green technology to other countries

• Link to Rwanda YEGO talent promotion initiative

John Banda

Plan Zambia Support Livingstone OSYC TemboMozambique KUWUKA JDA Contact SADC to facilitate

consultationsCamilo Correia

Malawi Concerned Youth Link to SADC youth forum Jackson Mtungila

Zimbabwe Young Voices Concept on youth and land issues

Tayiona Sanangurai

RECS follow-up

ECCAS

ECCAS ECCASCAEMUUN-HabitatDeafAid

• Send report• Invite to ECOWAS meeting• Explore possibility

of organizing a mini Livingstone

RECS follow-up

AMU

AMU Qadir (Tunisia) ROA to convene working session

Partner follow-upCommon-wealth YP

CYPHabitat

• Promote Youth Empowerment Index

• Promote OSYC concept and outcomes of conference to Commonwealth countries

• Support Development of youth centres in commonwealth countries through capacity development for youth economic empowerment and youth entrepreneurship

YAB Habitat On-line consultation on follow-up to conference

Victoria

UEB UEBHabitatPlanAYT

Discuss engagement with REC youth strategies and OSYC model

NI, AYT, UN-Habitat

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Activity Actors Tasks Responsible TimelinePlan Plan

Habitat• Meeting with regional office• Concept on partnership with

Habitat• Discuss support to OSYCs in

region• Discuss support to green

technology entrepreneurship

UN-Habitat, NI

WWF WWFHabitat

• Meet regional director (Niall O’Connell)

• Facilitate WWF-Habitat partnership on WWF Youth Strategy

NI, UN-Habitat

AMCOW AMCOWWaterAidUN-HabitatNI

Link REC strategies to AMCOW youth strategy

Nelson GomondaJoanna Fatch

WaterAid WaterAidHabitatNI

Develop concepts on youth in green technology water entrepreneurship

UN-Habitat (Adom), NI

Technical follow-upGreen technology and social en-trepreneurship

East Africa Social Enterprise Network

• Do a needs analysis to identify gaps in adoption, implementation and scaling up of green tech and social entrepreneurship

• Organise and hold a stakeholders forum on green tech and social entrepreneurship and develop an action plan

• Develop capacity building program on green technology and social entrepreneurship

Carlo Chege

Disabled opportunities

DeafAid Develop capacity building strategy on OSYC engagement with physically challenged youthExplore possibility of hosting a stakeholder meeting to mainstream issues of physically challenged youth in One Stop Centres

Jean-Claude/Mutinta

OSYC toolkit UN-Habitat Generate a research plan for data collection, management and production of draft toolkit print, video and online

UN-Habitat/NI

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i. UN-Habitat - One Stop Youth Centres

UN-Habitat’s Urban Economy sub-programme seeks to create jobs for young people by having demonstration projects and mainstreaming youth. The OSYCs are an entry point with government as they work with local governments. Other UN-Habitat initiatives include:

a) Urban Youth Fund - established in response to the call for a fund that links young people to finances;

b) OSYCs, and

c) The Youth Advisory Board - provides a platform for young people to advise UN-Habitat on issues and concerns on how programmes are planned and implemented.

Located mainly in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, as well as Sierra Leone), One Stop Youth Centres focus beyond skills by giving young people a physical space to meet and engage. Manuals have been developed on setting up centres, participatory planning and entrepreneurship, areas that were identified by the Youth Advisory Board. The OSYCs are founded on the ‘Kampala principles’1 and provide training that is more practical compared to those offered by academic institutions.

1 The “Kampala principles”, developed by an East African youth workshop in Kampala, Uganda, in 2007, guide UN-Habitat interventions in Youth-Led Development. They are as follows:i. Youth define their own development goals

and objectives;ii. Youth have a social and physical space

to participate in development and to be regularly consulted;

iii. Adult mentorship and peer-to-peer mentorship are encouraged;

iv. Youth act as role models to help other youth engage in development; and

v. Youth are integrated into all local and national development programmes and frameworks.

Of the five countries, the YEGO (Youth Empowerment for Global Opportunities) model in Rwanda stands out. It connects job seekers and job providers and is scaling-up OSYCs across the country. The initiative is driven by the government’s need to tackle social and economic challenges faced by young people but also seeing them as a vital resource for the future growth of the country.

ii. DeafAid

The DeafAid model emphasises accessibility and inclusiveness especially regarding the provision of information to the youth taking into account a shift towards knowledge driven economies. Knowledge economies imply learning what we hear which however leaves others behind, especially the disabled. Training that disadvantages the disabled perpetuates disability-induced poverty especially of those from poor families. Broken links in information access result in the disabled not accessing resources and services.

DeafAid promotes empowerment that is inclusive of disabled youth. The aim is at improving multi-dimensional access to information bearing in mind the need to package information for those outside the mainstream. The DeafAid Model as such aims to develop a medium of communication and translating concepts so as to relay information to the deaf. It is based on the belief that given an opportunity the deaf can realise their potential. Hence, when thinking youth, think all youth.

The OSYC concept provides an excellent opportunity to address these issues through making the spaces accessible and welcoming to disabled youth.

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iii. ILO

The UN System-wide Action Plan (UN-SWAP) on youth in Zambia, led by ILO has five goals and 14 specific commitments including education, entrepreneurship, governance and participation. The five pillars of the call to action are:

• Macro economic policies should be able to create employment

• Have a robust public employment information system

• Linking graduates to industry

• Health and safety issues to be considered at work.

The ILO-AfDB-UNECA-AU joint intervention on employment and skills development (JYEIA) was launched on 12 September 2013. The ILO/IMF emphasize growth with jobs and that jobs will form part of the targets for the sustainable development goals.

iv. AMCOW Policy and Strategy on Mainstreaming Youth in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Africa

Approved by the Executive Committee of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW-EXCO) on June 6, 2013, the AMCOW Policy and Strategy on Mainstreaming Youth in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Africa aims to ensure youth engagement for the sustainable development and management of the water and sanitation sector towards social and economic prosperity for Africa. Specifically, the Policy and Strategy aims to:

• Enhance social and economic development by investing in youth

• Ensure sustainability by empowering youth through knowledge

• Promote innovation through recognizing and supporting the contribution of young people in the sector

• Improve governance and leadership and

• Cross-sector/broadening the sector

In its decision the EXCO directs AMCOW Secretariat to implement the strategy by developing youth programmes as well as youth water prizes in collaboration with supporting partners, member countries and regional economic communities. The EXCO further recommended that member countries Ministries responsible for Water and Sanitation consider the domestication and implementation of the AMCOW Policy and Strategy as is suitable within the national operating environment. A portfolio of projects has since been developed.

v. Plan International

Plan International has developed a Regional Youth Framework for Youth in Governance and Economic Security and the Resource Mobilisation Framework. The Youth Framework aims to provide a road map for Plan International to design programs that support young people’s active participation in decisions that affect their lives and those of the communities. The goal is for youth in the region to be economically secure and actively engaged in governance at all levels. This will be done through:

a) Equipping young people with knowledge and skills that prepare them to secure gainful employment and participation in governance

b) Putting in place and implementing policies that support young people socially and economically

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c) Strengthening the ability of young people to exercise their rights and engage in development process and

d) Supporting regional and international development processes to effectively address the challenges of young people.

Several programmes are already running at country level, for example the Banking on Change programme in partnership with Barclays is on financial education and business skills and has reached more than 3000 young people. The young people have formed savings groups and are learning business management. There is also focus on girls’ economic capacity that aims at building economic capacity of girls (banking on change in Zambia and Kenya – governance project which strengthens youth in engaging with funds that government put in place).

vi. WWF

As part of the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development WWF developed a Pan-African Youth Strategy on Learning for Sustainability aimed at aligning country programs and mobilizing partnerships. The Strategy looks at changes that give youth an added advantage as agents of change. Developed by the youth, it addresses four critical areas namely:

a) How to equip youth in order for them to play their roles now and in the future;

b) Taking advantage of the fact that youth can mobilise as never before in a positive and constructive way;

c) How to build skills and promote youth as agents of change and focusing on alternatives i.e. the green economy and social enterprise where there is potential for youth to gain employment; and

d) Supporting innovation.

The focus is on learning for sustainability – youth learning and youth teaching as well.

vii. KiBo Foundation

Based on the belief in Africa’s vast human and natural resources and the attached duty of how they are used, the model’s success is as a result of partnership. With the City of Kampala and UN-Habitat as partners, among others, the KiBO model is based on the following assumptions: using models that are more empathetic; youth must be investors; and giving back – raising money for others for instance. The Foundation focuses on work readiness programmes – a bridge programme; layering training to include job training so that youth exit the program with experience; and going beyond the idea to involve business incubation. A revenue based model, the youths pay for 40% of the cost for the programmes while 60% is sponsored. The programmes work with youth that leave school early and also with two orphanages for children between the ages of 10 and16.

There exist opportunities for replication as together with CISCO and UN-Habitat the KiBO Foundation will be going to Rwanda and partnering with YEGO among others. The model is centred on the values of integrity and trust and in developing a culture of excellence in the delivery of the entire value chain.

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Annex IV – List of participants

Participants at the Regional Conference on Promoting Collaboration for Youth Empowerment

Livingstone, Zambia, 2 to 5 December, 2013

NAME COUNTRY ORGANIZATION CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr. Francis Anyaegbu Nigeria UN-Habitat YAB Member

francis.anyaegbu@gmail.com, Skype: francisanyaegbu, Tel No. +2348038385859

Ms. Stella Agara Kenya UN-Habitat YAB Member

stellamelus@gmail.com, stella.Agara@actionaid.org Tel:+265993366323 254733867230/ +254710442960

Mr. Emmanuel Bigenimana Rwanda One Stop Youth Center Kigali

One Stop Youth Centre National Coordinator, UN-Habitat- Ministry of Youth and ICT, Kigali, Rwanda. Email:emmabigena1977@yahoo.com, Tel: +250788690937

Mr. Kenneth Kika Uganda KaJJansi Youth Kampala One Stop Youth Centre Kajjansi Youth in Development Initiative, Email: kika_ken23@yahoo.com; +256781457196

Ms. Immaculate Gita Uganda One Stop Youth Center Kampala

Programme Coordinator, One Stop Youth Centre, Kampala, Uganda, Email: immaculate.gitta@undp.org

Mr. Mohamed Compaore Burkina-Faso Association Jeunesse Sans Frontiere Burkina (AJSFB),Burkina Faso Youth Assoc.

01 BP 3976 Ouagadougou 01, 00226 50.34.30.70, 00226 50.45.65.25, Ouagadougou, Kadiogo,Email: wcamed@yahoo.fr

Mr. Richard Hamba   Energy (To be identify by Vincent Kitio)

Kampala + 256 712/702 675138, hambarichard@yahoo.com

Mr. Aminu Usman Nigeria Ministry of Youth Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Nigeria, Youth Development Officer Email: ameenuhamid@yahoo.com,

Ms. Bolanle Olafunmiloye Nigeria Ondo State Government

Special Assistant to the Governor on Community Development and NGO matters, Ondo State, Nigeria, Email: ab.olafunmiloye@gmail.com

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NAME COUNTRY ORGANIZATION CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr. Mohammed Abdi Kenya Altawoon Youth Center

altaawonyouth@yahoo.com, abdirach@gmail.com Tel No. +254722156173

Mr. Muiruri Wainana Kenya One Stop Youth Center Nairobi

One Stop Youth Centre Coordinator, Nairobi, Kenya, wainaich@gmail.com, Tel No. +254 726861377

Mr. Tayiona Sanangurai Zimbabwe Young Voices, Zimbabwe

No.8, 92nd Avenue, Greencroft, Harare, +263772316782, Email: youngvoiceszim@gmail.com

Mr. NHANCALE CAMILO CORREIA

Mozambique KUWUKA JDA - Youth Development and Environmental Advocacy

caconha@tdm.co.mz, Chair of the Board Youth Development and Environmental Advocacy Telefax: +258 21 329473, Maputo, Mocambique

Ms. Martha Mukupazi Tanzania One Stop Youth Center Dar Es Salam

Dar es Salaam City Council, P.O.Box 9084 Cell: +255 713 300 208, E-mail: mjmkupasi@yahoo.com

Mr. Rapheal Obonyo Kenya UN-Habitat YAB Member

raphojuma@hotmail.com

Mr. Jere M. Francis Zambia Youth Alive Tel: +260 979-405-508, francisjere@ymail.com,

Ms. Audrey Lupasha Zambia Youth Alive Tel: +260 979-885-719, lupashaudrey@gmail.com

Ms. Regina Zulu Bokola Zambia Youth Alive Tel: +260 978-337-275, Ginazulu91@gmail.com

Mr. Daniel Twaambo, Zambia Youth Rep Danet.vpa@hotmail.com

Ms Melody Garufu Zambia Chawama Youth Resource Centre

melodygarufu@gmail.com

Mr Morris Siwakwi Zambia Kalingalinga Youth Resource Centre

Popopo, Annie <A.Popopo@commonwealth.int>

Ms. Annie Popopo Zambia Commonwealth Youth Programme - Africa Centre 

A.Popopo@commonwealth.int

Mr. Victor Mensah Zambia Programme Manager Youth Enterprise and Sustainable Livelihoods, Commonwealth Secretariat

VMensah@cypafrica.org.zm

Ms. Magdalene Wanjugu Kenya African Youth Trust wanjugu@africayouthtrust.org, +254 725232171

Mr. Ifeanyi Uzoh - Nigeria Coordinator Nigeria Habitat Youth Network

Nigeria Habitat Youth Network, Email: info@nigerianyouthhabitat.org,

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NAME COUNTRY ORGANIZATION CONTACT INFORMATION

Ms.Taiwo Olayemi Olubukunola

Nigeria Youth Representative Federal Ministry of Youth, Nigeria +234726405126

Ms. Nalishebo mubiana Zambia Youth Alive Tel: +260 976-666-185, lstoneyaz@yahoo.com

Mr. Jean-Claude Adzalla, Kenya Deaf Aid Jean-Claude Adzalla <jadzalla@deafaid.org>

Mr. Wilson Nyabera Kenya Deaf Aid willynyabera@gmail.com

Ms. Peninah Gatiwh Kenya Deaf Aid peshgatiwh@yahoo.com

Mr John Suzyo Banda Zambia Youth Employment National Coordinator

bandajs@ilo.org or phone 260211257356, mobile 260977486120.

Mr. Hamid el-Bashir, Zambia Zambia Country Representative

Mr. Hamid el-Bashir, UNICEF Zambia Country Representative P.O. Box 33610, Lusaka, Republic of Zambia,

Ms. Perpetue Miganda   Principal Gender and Community Development Officer, East Africa Community

P.O. Box 1096, Arusha-Tanzania Email: Perpetue Miganda <PMiganda@eachq.org>

Mr. Cyrus MUNYABURANGA

Rwanda Executive Director, Governance for Africa

Email: cyrusnkusi@gmail.com, Phone: +250 788 890 266

Ms. Belyse ZINARYAKUNZE Burundi   Email: belysezinaryakunze@yahoo.fr, Tel +257 78 249235

Ms. Rahma AHMAD BAJUN

Tanzania   Email: bajanga@yahoo.com, Phone: +255 75 5709 909

Ms. Faith WANJERI NDEGWA

Kenya Executive Director, Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA),

United States International University - Africa (USIU) Email: wanjeri.ndegwa@yaldafrica.org Phone: +254 733388681/ 704406466

Mr. Fred ONYANGO Uganda National Youth Council

Email: fonyango28@yahoo.com, Tel: +256 703 823 436

Mr. Abraham E. Temu Uganda Kibo Foundation Mr. Abraham E. Temu Kibo Foundation, Kampala, Uganda. Tel: (256) 776 536 738 Email: abraham.temu@kibofoundation.com

Ms. Joanna Fatch South Africa Water Aid joanna fatch <joanna_fatch@yahoo.com>

Mr. Tembo Samuel Zambia Economic Empowerment Manager

Samuel.Tembo@plan-international.org – Plan Zambia

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NAME COUNTRY ORGANIZATION CONTACT INFORMATION

Ms Diane C. Mukuka Zambia Economic Empowerment Coordinator

Diane.Mukuka@plan-international.org – Plan Zambia 

Ms. Stella Tungaraza Tanzania Microfinance Advisor Stella.Tungaraza@plan-international.org – Plan Tanzania , +255 786544888

Ms. Stella Simuyu Kenya Project Officer, Governance

stella.simiyu@plan-international.org

Ms. Keter Chebet Kenya Plan Regional of Eastern and Southern Africa

Keter, Chebet Chebet.Keter@plan-international.org – Plan Regional of Eastern and Southern Africa

Ms. Rachel Kyozira Uganda Program Officer - Fair Climate and Community

Program Officer - Fair Climate and Community Based Disaster Risk Management ICCO Regional Office Central & Eastern Africa plot 1608 Kironde Road, Muyenga, P.O. Box 33333, Kampala, Uganda O: +256 (0) 312 267 131 M: +256 (0) 772 590 289 E: Rachel.Kyozira@icco.nl I: www.icco.nl

Mr. Carlos Chege Kenya East African Social Enterprise Network

East African Social Enterprise NetworkNairobi, KenyaEmail: carloschege@yahoo.co.uk

Mr. Edward Chileka Malawi Youth Representative Youth Consultative Forum

Mr. Timothy Gakuu Kenya Director of Youth Affairs

timgakuu@yahoo.com

Mr. Rahow Abdi Kenya National Youth Council

captorah63@hotmail.com, +254 726405126

Mr. Nuhu Bulu Zoaka Nigeria Ministry of Youth Director (Social Mobilization), Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Nigeria

Hon. Chishimba Kambwili Zambia Minister of Youth and Sports

Collinsmulonda@gmail.com, sue.muna@gmail.com

Mr. Alexander Chileshe Zambia UN-Habitat, National Technical Adviser

Alexander Chileshe <alexander.chileshe@undp.org>

Mr. Mathias Spaliviero Kenya UN-Habitat mathias.spaliviero@unhabitat.org

Ms. Mutinta Munyati Kenya UN-Habitat Mutinta.Munyati@unhabitat.org, Tel: +254 20 7624290

Ms. Victoria Chebet Kenya UN-Habitat Victoria.Chebet@unhabitat.org, Tel: +254 20 7625677

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NAME COUNTRY ORGANIZATION CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr. Paul Wambua Kenya UN-Habitat Paul.Wambua@unhabitat.org,Tel: +254 20 7624218

Mr. Akolade Aderibigbe Kenya UN-Habitat Akolade.Aderibigbe@unhabitat.org, Tel: +254 20 762 3767

Mr. Rob Sinclair Kenya Nottawasaga Institute Box 6511, 00100 Nairobi GPO, Nairobi, Kenya tel. +254 (20) 445-4077, 269-4216 mobile: +254 (0)733-874-883 e-mail: rob@nottawasaga.net

Ms. Christabel Hanongo Zambia Contact Trust Youth Organization

miyobac@yahoo.com

Ms. Berth Muleya Zambia Youth Development Organization

Bethmuleya@gmail.com

Mr. Mapenzi Simmeenba Zambia Youth Development Organization

mapenzisimweenba@yahoo.com

Mr. Oscar Nyaywa Zambia YMCA oscarnyaywa@gmail.com

Mr. Ben T. Tembo Zambia Platform for Youth Development

pydzambia@yahoo.com

Mr. Gift Munkombwe Zambia Planned Parent Hood Organization

munkombwegift@gmail.com

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Annex V – Conference Agenda

Promoting Regional Collaboration for Youth Empowerment Livingstone, Zambia, December 2-5 2013

Agenda and ProcessDate and Time

Activities Who Process

Day 1 – Institutional framework

Day goal:

To identify best practices and principles for fostering youth empowerment through One Stop Youth Centres

8:30 – 9:00

9:00 – 10:15

Registration of participants

Opening Plenary

Welcome Statements:úUN-HabitatúCommonwealth Representative úUN-Habitat  Executive Director’s RepresentativeúUN Resident CoordinatorúDirector of Youth, Ministry of Devolution and

Planning, Kenya úUnder Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Youth and

Sports, South SudanúPermanent Secretary of Federal Ministry of Youth

Development, NigeriaúMinister of Youth, Sports and Child

Development, Zambia

Vote of thanks by a Youth Representative

Chair: Victor Mensah, CYP

Statements to be each max 5 mins

10:15 – 10:30 Workshop Overview - facilitator Rob Sinclair10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment break11:00 – 13:00 Technical Plenary – exploring the building

blocks

úOverview of the One Stop Youth Centre (OSYC) Model Ms. Mutinta Munyati

úOSYCs in practice – Coordinators of existing centres

úYouth economic and cultural empowerment – supporting youth in the arts and green economies (Mr. John Banda, International Labour Organization)

úAccessibility and inclusiveness - DeafAid model (Mr. Jean-Claude Adzalla)

úEngagement in development processes - African Ministers’ Council on Water Model (Joanna Fatch, AMCOW Interim Youth Advisory Group)

úKnowledge-building – African Youth Strategy on Learning for Sustainability (World Wildlife Fund )

ú “Think Youth” – youth economic empowerment and governance in East and Southern Africa (Plan International)

Chair: Tayiona Sanangurai, Young Voices, Zimbabwe

Presentations 10 mins ea. Followed by 10 mins plenary discussion after every 2 presentations

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

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Date and Time

Activities Who Process

14:00

Afternoon Session

Working Groups: Identifying success factors, challenges and opportunities in:i. Social development initiatives (sports, health,

arts and culture, environment, peace and security)

ii. Economic empowerment initiatives

iii. Institutional support to youth led development: policies, programs, finance and technical support

iv. Youth-led centres as hubs of innovation and empowerment

Orientation: Rob SinclairWG facilita-tors:úFrancis

Anyaegbu

úJohn Banda

úMagdalene Wanjugu

úRaphael Obonyo

WG Tasks:a. Define the

theme & core objectives

b. Identify case stories under this theme

c. What works and what doesn’t?

d. What are the opportunities for OSYCs?

15:30 – 16:00 Refreshment break16:00 – 17:00 Report back by WGs to Plenary and plenary

discussionFacilitator

Day 2 – Program Framework

Day goal:

To develop a framework strategy for supporting youth economic and social empowerment

9:00 - 10:30 Morning Session

Report back by WGs to Plenary and plenary discussion

facilitator

10:30 – 11:45 Refreshment break

10:45

Technical Plenary – integrating economic and social empowermentúOverview on youth unemployment and

entrepreneurship – UNIDO (Anantha Krishnan)úOverview on social and green enterprise – Mr.

Carlo Chege, African Wildlife Foundation & East African Social Enterprise Network

úIdentifying leaders – Mr. Vicútor Mensah, Commonwealth Youth Training

ModelúExperiences on the ground - Models of green

technology entrepreneurship and social enterprise:

• Ecological enterprise - “Youth skills development for ecological safety”, IESCO)

• Agriculture-based livelihoods - Ondo Centre Agri-Business Model (Ms. Bolanle Olafunmiloye)

• Youth in the Arts – International Labour Organization

• Renewable Energy Training of Trainers - Teens Uganda

• A UN-Habitat-City of Kampala-KiBO Partnership: “No youth Left Behind” (Abraham Temu, Kibo Foundation)

• Cisco Academies – Hital Muraj, Cisco

Chair: Carlo Chege African Wildlife Foundation

Presentations 10 mins ea. Followed by 10 mins plenary discussion after every 2 presentations

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

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Date and Time

Activities Who Process

15:30 – 18:00 Working Groups: Identifying strategies and models for sustainable economic and social youth empowerment through green technologies and social enterprise focusing on:

i. Skills and knowledge development ii. Youth-focused business development

servicesiii. Advocating and fostering an enabling

institutional environmentiv. Financial service and investment for youth-

led enterprise

WG facilitators:

úFrancis Anyaegbu

úJohn Banda

úMagdalene Wanjugu

úRaphael Obonyo

WG task:a. How do

we target? Who? How? Research?

b. Who are the partners?

c. What can be done at regional level

d. What do we measure?

14:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Session

Working Group Discussions to develop strategies for scaling up the One Stop Youth Centre Model

WG facilitators:

WG task:

Day 3 – Scaling Up

Day goal:

To agree on strategies for implementation of REC strategies through youth centres for economic and social empowerment

8:30 – 9:30 Morning Session

Report back by WGs to Plenary and plenary discussion

Summary of recommendations on targeting, partnerships and regional collaboration

facilitator

9:45 – 10:45 Plenary:úRoundtable discussion on youth focus of

Regional Economic Communities and other partners

• EAC• ECOWAS • Camilo Correia, KUWUKA JDA

Mozambique• ICCO• Plan International• African Youth Trust• UN-Habitat• Rwanda YEGO

Chair: Victor

10:45 – 11:15 Refreshment breakPlenary Discussion: Addressing the political and policy dimension – building on the African Youth Charter, linking to municipal and national government policies

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

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Date and Time

Activities Who Process

14:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Session

Working Groups: strategies for scaling up the One Stop Youth Centre model and green technologies and social enterprise focusing on:i. Scaling up at regional levelii. Scaling up at national leveliii. Partnerships and coordinationiv. Livingstone Declaration

WG facilitators:úFrancis

AnyaegbuúJohn

BandaúMagdalene

WanjuguúRaphael

Obonyo

WG task:

15:30 – 16:00 Refreshment break

16:00 – 17:00 WGs report back Contribution of partners

Day 4 – Way Forward

Day goal:

To forge partner commitments to and action plans for implementation of the strategies

9:00 – 11:00 Morning Session

YAB presentation

Livingstone Declaration

Plenary discussion:

úIncorporating OSYCs and social entrepreneurship training in REC and country planning

úPartnership, Capacity building and advocacy action plan

úContribution of partners

Chair:

11:00 – 11:30 Refreshment break11:30 – 13:00 Closing Session

úNext stepsúWorkshop evaluations

Closing remarks (session ends 13:00 hours)

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