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The EU Action Plan On Human Rights And Democracy 2020–2024 is a framework, one of purpose and direction, with a broad range of policies, tools, and political and financial instruments. This EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024 is the third Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy adopted by the EU. As with the previous two Action Plans, the objective is to enhance and hone EU efforts to promote human rights and democracy worldwide.

EU Action Plan On Human Rights And Democracy 2020 – 2024

Investment Guidelines For Youth In Agrifood System In Africa

Investment Guidelines For Youth In Agrifood System In Africa

Africa as a region has the highest percentage of youth in the world, with an estimated 420 million youth aged 15 to 35 (AfDB, 2018), and its share of rural youth is projected to rise to 37 percent by 2050 (IFAD, 2019a). Young people as producers and traders of food, as workers, innovators, and entrepreneurs, and as policy actors are already playing an important role in agrifood systems. Given the appropriate support and enabling environment, they can take advantage of new opportunities, develop innovative solutions, and contribute to building sustainable and resilient agrifood systems.

Engaging Young People In Open Government | A Communication Guide

Engaging Young People In Open Government | A Communication Guide

Open government strategies and initiatives aim to support democracy and inclusive growth. They are an important tool to increase transparency, accountability, and integrity, whilst building stronger relationships between government and citizens allowing them to participate in policy-making. As the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government underlines, open government, and stakeholder participation initiatives should include specific efforts “dedicated to reaching out to the most relevant, vulnerable, underrepresented, or marginalized groups in society”. Although youth are a highly heterogeneous group with different backgrounds, skills, and capacities, they often find it more difficult than other segments of society to make their voices heard. Youth can be considered as one of the groups that requires specific efforts.

Youth Candidacy in Nigeria’s 2023 Elections

In the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct elections in 176,846 polling units for elections into the office of the President, Governors, National Assembly, and State House of Assembly seats. Eighteen political parties nominated a total of 15,336 candidates for the one Presidential, 28 governorship elections, 469 legislative seats in the National Assembly, and 993 legislative seats in the State Houses of Assembly. According to the African Youth Charter, youths are classified as persons between the ages of 18 – and 35 years. The National Youth Policy defines 15 – 29 as the youth age bracket for Nigeria.

Youth, Political Participation And Decision-Making

Youth, Political Participation And Decision-Making

They can be a creative force, a dynamic source of innovations, and they have undoubtedly, throughout history, participated, contributed, and even catalyzed important changes in political systems, power-sharing dynamics, and economic opportunities. However, youth also face poverty, barriers to education, multiple forms of discrimination, and limited employment prospects and opportunities.

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Promoting Entrepreneurship Among African Youth

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Promoting Entrepreneurship Among African Youth

Acknowledging the importance of investing in and creating space and opportunities for young people for them to realize their full potential, The Youth Cafe has proposed several initiatives geared towards youth empowerment. The AU Agenda 2063 recognises the need to do this as a prerequisite for achieving the socio-economic transformation of Africa. This initiative is aimed at reaching millions of youth from across the continent with opportunities and interventions in key areas of employment, entrepreneurship, education and engagement.

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Promoting A Better Food Future | World Food Forum

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Promoting A Better Food Future | World Food Forum

Over the past years, there has been an explosion of interest in the role of youth in food and agriculture systems. Youth have seized this opportunity, and many diverse youth groups have published political position statements on a variety of global food and agricultural governance topics. This compendium aims to analytically summarize youth calls to action in 2020 and 2021 around food and agricultural systems topics.