Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Children
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Debt Relief
Development
Disabled Persons
Economics and Finance
Education
Environment
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
Governance
HIV/AIDS
Habitat
Human Rights
Financing for Development:
External debt
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Women and the economy
Women and the environment
Women in power and decision-making
Population:
International migration
Population distribution and internal migration
Population growth
Population structure
Reproduction, family formation and the status of women
Public Administration:
Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
Governance and Public Administration
Knowledge Systems and E-government
Public Financial Management
Public Service and Management Innovation
Socio-Economic Governance and Management
Social Development:
Conflict
Disabled persons
Employment
Poverty
Social policy
Youth
Statistics:
Civil registration systems
Country or region codes
Crime and criminal justice statistics
Demographic and social surveys
Development indicators
Disability Statistics
Environmental Accounts
Geographical names
Household Statistics
Informal Sector Statistics
International Comparison Programme
International Economic and Social Classifications
International migration
Labour and Compensation
Methodological publications in statistics
National accounting
Official statistics, principles and practices
Population and housing censuses
Poverty statistics
Price and Quantity Statistics
Services Statistics
Social Statistics and Social Monitoring
Statistical activities classification
Statistics on international trade in services
Time-use statistics
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
Zimbabwe
Madagascar
Niger
South Africa
Sudan
Gabon
Mozambique
Botswana
Mauritius
Uganda
Denmark
Seychelles
Malawi
Egypt
Ethiopia
Kenya
Senegal
Mali
Nigeria
Gambia
Tunisia
Rwanda
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ghana
Liberia
Eswatini
Burundi
Zambia
Namibia
Lesotho
Morocco
Libya
Somalia
United Republic of Tanzania
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2008 |
| Organizational structure: |
The African Youth Panel (AYP) was initiated under support of the Danish NGO Forum in spring of 2008 to enable African youths give inputs into the Danish Africa Commission processes. The project for the establishment of the Panel was funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The panel comprised of 60 young women and men from 23 African countries who gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in November 2008 and constituted the first meeting of the African Youth Panel (AYP). The members of the Panel demonstrated leadership and commitment for Africa. They developed initiatives that were taken as recommendations to the final launching of the Danish Africa Commission Final Report that took place on the 6th of May 2009.
Danish Africa Commission recognized the importance of AYP in the production of its recommendations and adoption of the initiatives in a report to which the main objective was to “help Africa to benefit from Globalization, with the commitment of ensuring that it takes ownership of the recommendations and initiatives identified as key areas of concern for growth, employment creation and for competitiveness”.
The African Youth Panel (AYP) is a non-profit and non-governmental platform of participation and exchange among youths in Africa, promoting the culture of development and implementing local, national and regional initiatives. The structure of AYP comprise of a Panellist of 60 young people in over 23 African countries, the Steering Committee is the governance arm of the AYP with representatives from all sub-regions of Africa and an African youth from the Diaspora. The committee is headed by a Chairperson, a Coordinator to implement decisions of the AYP and two (2) technical advisors. The committee consists of nine members.
The biggest achievement of the AYP, apart from influencing the work of DAC is having showed young people’s ability to convene the message of engagement, intelligence and capacity of acting on behalf of the youth of Africa. At a meeting with the former Danish Minister for Development Ulla Tørnæs in 2009, the Steering Committee of the Youth Panel was promised that the minister would look favourably upon at least one project proposal from the Youth Panel for possible support in continuation of the work of AYP.
The AYP strengths are considered to be the followings:
1. Being a genuine initiative
2. Continental approach of action, intervention and achievement
3. Dynamic and energetic
4. Broad, diverse, gender balanced
5. Members come from all areas of social and economic backgrounds (civil society organizations, academia, business) and contribute knowledge that is therefore broad and applicable to most African contexts
6. Promoting Peer-to-Peer exchange with the perspective South-South and South- North cooperation.
7. Recognized by the members of the Danish Africa Commission and the Danish Government
AYP General Strategies
1. Awareness-raising/ Sensitisation
2. Collaboration/ Networking
3. Advocacy/ Lobbying
4. Capacity-Building/ Training
5. Research/ documentation
6. Initiating model projects and influencing decisions.
7. Monitoring & evaluation |
| Number and type of members: |
The panel is comprised of 60 young women and men, representing their organizations, from 23 African countries. |
| Funding structure: |
Foreign and international grants
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