Since, one of the focus areas highlighted in the Theory of Change is Education and Skills. The Youth Café aspires to provide high quality education and training systems that are efficient and that facilitate young people’s access and integration. Through our collaboration with Films Pour Enfants, we hope to harness the skills and apply the knowledge from both organizations to build an educated society.
How the Digital and Media Literacy persona event creation went down!
Digital Media Literacy Focus Group Discussions
With the shift in technology, young people should be able to embody this new subculture of digital transformation while still considering the ethical and moral principles that should apply. If we can't be able to coexist peacefully in the digital space, then media sustainability is in danger. Media freedom is surely the heart of a helpful democracy when used to embrace the unique perceptions and stances of different people.
Youth Excel Global Launch Event
Please join The Youth Café, USAID, IREX, and the other Youth Excel consortium for Youth Excel’s Global Launch event! Join a set of dynamic activities and speakers to discuss a shared question:
“How might we, as the global youth development community, leverage youth-led research and learning so that international development works better for young people, their communities, and the world?”
The Youth Café Partnership With #LearningPlanet
Through our collaboration with #LearningPlanet, we hope to facilitate exchanges between both organizations to share best practices, methodologies, and innovative pedagogy, in order to help each other thrive and positively impact society, enhance youth employability through career and skill development programs, design and maintain an online information platform for students, enable virtual exchange and capacity building of students, teachers, networks and schools, and foster network development among various stakeholders such as students, experts, institutions etc.
The Youth Cafe Sign-On Letter to U.S. Admin: Ensuring Conflict Prevention in the American Rescue Plan.
Dear Secretary Blinken and Acting Administrator Steele,
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), the leading nonpartisan global network to end violent conflict and build sustainable peace, on behalf of its 130+ members working in 181 countries and The Youth Cafe undersigned organizations, urges the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to ensure conflict prevention and peacebuilding programs are robustly funded and integrated in the U.S. government’s COVID-19 strategy and supplemental funding from the American Rescue Plan.
Changing the Narrative of TVET Institutions in Kenya
The Youth Café is determined to look at TVET institutions as what they are: excellent institutions for skills building in line of different careers. However, for this to happen collectively, the Ministry of Education requires to adopt a vigorous communication scheme that highlights the benefits of these institutions, their competitive edge and the success stories necessary to influence the thinking of students as well as parents. The goals to achieve social equity and present all students with good options for training could be elevated by the resourcefulness and strength of all tertiary institutions. Strengthening TVET institutions is a matter of national growth and a closer inch towards sustainable education.
Youth Excel Releases Global Gender and Inclusion Analysis
Youth Excel aims to advance gender equality by using research, learning, and data to change systems and transform norms, shifting power differentials so that diverse youth—including youth of all genders in different age categories—influence development agendas and development decision making. In late 2020, we conducted a Global GESI Analysis through desk research to (1) compile data and identify broad trends in line with Youth Excel’s work; (2) provide recommendations for Youth Excel activities.
Advancing Youth Online Civic Reasoning in Kenya!
The Youth Cafe is part of the IREX led consortium implementing Youth Excel, which is a 5-year USAID-funded program. The Youth Excel will support young leaders and youth-led and youth-serving organizations around the globe to conduct quality implementation research; use data and learnings to improve their own cross-sectoral, positive youth development programs; synthesize data and learning; and engage in intergenerational dialogue with adult decision-makers so that together youth and adults can shape and advance data-informed development policies, agendas, and programs.
Global Partnership for the Youth Peace and Security Agenda
The Youth Café recently won a position to co-chair the Knowledge mobilization sector of this coalition as solutions for sustainable peace are generated. Knowledge mobilization will include a lot of data collection and report writing necessary to gear attention of key stakeholders. We are excited about the possibilities of this coalition in implementing the global peace agenda and in sharing information and decision making with the US Congress. It is imperative that donors, policy makers, institutions of higher learning and youth leaders come together to drive the global peace agenda forward.