Yiaga Africa announces the call for applications for the Turn Up Democracy Challenge 1.0. The challenge invites young people to submit creative ideas on how to work with policy makers to solve a social problem in their community or innovative ways to promote social cohesion. Background and Eligibility The Turn Up Democracy Challenge 1.0 is...
Yiaga Africa has recommended that the Students Loan (Access to Higher Education) Act, 2023 be amended due to ambiguity and numerous challenges posed by the act. The call was made during the one-day Legislative Summit on the Students Loans and Access to Higher Education Act, organized by the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee with support...
Yiaga Africa and the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) of the National Assembly have charged young lawmakers to introduce important and quality legislative bills that will impact positively on their constituents. Young lawmakers were also reminded that the basic tools for making laws is the bill and for them to understand that the quality of legislation...
On July 28, Yiaga Africa presented its report of observation of the 2023 general elections titled, “Dashed Hopes?” at a press conference attended by election stakeholders including members of political parties, civil society organisations, donor partners, security agencies and the media. The comprehensive 90-page, four-part report detailed Yiaga Africa’s election engagement strategy which saw the...
On Monday, Yiaga Africa and WeLead Trust, a youth leadership and advocacy organisation based in Zimbabwe, hosted a Twitter Space event titled “HERSTORY: Amplifying Women’s Voices in Elections.” The conversation featured distinguished young speakers who are politicians and activists from several parts of Africa, each providing valuable insights on fostering youth engagement in politics, the...
Yiaga Africa, following her commitment to fostering the growth and empowerment of young legislators who embody the essential qualities of character, capacity, and competence required for effective public office, has engaged in productive conversations with the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF). The objective of this meeting was to develop a framework for the National and state...
Yiaga Africa and the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) have emphasized the importance of bolstering capacity-building efforts for young parliamentarians and promoting mentorship by experienced legislators to ensure the highest standards of representation. This call was made at the successfully concluded Convergence 5.0, an event that marked a significant milestone as the largest gathering of young...
Yiaga Africa has provided SLE 75,000 to support civic projects aimed at mobilising young civic actors towards increased voter education and citizen mobilisation initiatives for the 24 June 2023 General Elections in Sierra Leone. The elections, which will be the fifth consecutive one since the end of the country’s civil war in 2002, will see...
Yiaga Africa, a pan-African non-governmental organization whose mission is to build and support sustainable democracy anchored on the principles of inclusion, accountability, and justice through research, advocacy, and capacity development and the African Movement for Democracy (AMD) with support from the National Endowment for Democracy hosted a two-day Regional Dialogue on Democratic Accountability in West...
From May 9 – 11, 2023, the Ghana Center for Democracy and Development (CDD-Ghana), Yiaga Africa, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) convened a lessons-learning conference to advance efforts by citizen election observers to formulate, adopt and disseminate guidance for more systematic and comprehensive election observation that responds to the new realities of election observation...
