Our priority themes
While active on a number of cross-cutting issues, The Youth Café carries out eight catalytic, action-driven, and progressive activities to which it brings a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective approach for the sake of helping young citizens. These are: 1)Culture, Arts and Sports; 2) Governance and Political Inclusion: Accountability; 3) Governance and Political Inclusion: Remittances; 4) Peace and Security 5) Education and Vocational Skills; 6) Business, Job Creation and Entrepreneurship; 7) Universal Health Coverage; and 8) Environmental Preservation and Climate Change.These Eight Pillars of The Youth Café provide an essential organizing structure for the development and implementation of its various programs and initiatives, which all play a critical role in reducing youth deprivation and socio-economic empowerment of young people in the continent.
Summary of Our Work in Numbers
The Youth Cafe has served youth for 12 years and during this period, it has collaborated with more than 120 organizations and completed over 30 projects in all our thematic areas. Its impact is felt over Africa and beyond.
120+ Partners
The number of organisational partners.
50+ Projects
The number of projects The Youth Cafe has completed.
13 of Years Work
Number of years The Youth Cafe has served the youth.
52+ Countries Reached
Number of countries The Youth Cafe has reached.
A 2D animated video we have developed to give you a better insight into our projects under these focus areas.
What Caught Our Attention: Our Programs
While active on a number of cross-cutting issues, The Youth Café carries out eight catalytic, action-driven, and progressive activities to which it brings a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective approach for the sake of helping young citizens. These Eight Pillars of The Youth Café provide an essential organizing structure for the development and implementation of its various programs and initiatives, which all play a critical role in reducing youth deprivation and socio-economic empowerment of young people in the continent.
The topic of youth is growing in importance in African policies and is a key focus of The Youth Café and it’s partners. We believe that investing in youth is a precondition for accelerated inclusive growth and sustainable development. In accordance with our aspiration to involve young people actively in political processes affecting their livelihoods and future prospects, we ensure a strengthened and meaningful inclusion of youth along the following priority themes:
Our Principles
The Youth Cafe’s Principles
The Youth Café Principles have been developed by over 1,500 of our members drawn from the East- and the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and the Sahel Regions coordinated by The Youth Café Secretariat. The principles are a call to action for governments, civil society, private and public sector, bilateral and multilateral and knowledge institutions to invest in the prospects of young people and to work in partnership with young people.
“The Youth Café seeks to build a world on the collective principles of solidarity, justice, equity, universality, inclusion, human rights, diversity and the integrity of the planet. We strive for a resilient world where young people and all rights holders in all their diversity are equals in decision making.
We stand for the idea that places where power and influence are most concentrated must recognize and operationalize the importance of the actions and views of young people in promoting and protecting the rights of all and the wellbeing of the planet for both the present and future generations. To do this, we galvanize young people everywhere to engage in the international work to build a political landscape to realize its collective purpose.
We work to ensure diversity and inclusion of all young people, taking into account (among other things) region, geography, gender identity, sex, socioeconomic status, faith, religion, culture, ethnicity, creed, (dis)ability, sexuality, marginalized grouping, legal status, and any other status.”