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Empowering Youth, Transforming Futures

Championing youth leadership, policy engagement, and sustainable development across Africa.

Join a movement where young voices shape the future. Advocate, innovate, and lead with YAG

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Breaking Barriers, Empowering Girls

Advocating for menstrual health, dignity, and equal opportunities for every young girl.

Build & Design

Engage

Representing youth participation in decision-making, advocacy, and policy change.

Empower

Highlighting efforts to provide skills, enterprise support, and leadership opportunities for youth.

Transform

Reflecting the impact of youth-led initiatives, research, and global development contributions.

Our Strategic Goals

Empower Youth Decision-Making

Encourage Equitable Services

Foster Business and Enterprise-Based Support

Drive Youth-Led Policy Change

Youth & 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Engineer Youth-led Research and Advocacy

Partnership and coalition building

Enhance Youth Civic Engagement and Leadership

Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Future

About Us

Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG) is a dynamic, youth-led non-profit organization established in 2011, dedicated to mobilizing, empowering, and advancing the development of children and young people in Ghana with reach across Africa. Read More

Vision

A society where children and youth influence decisions that affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens.

Mission

To equip young people with the needed skills and information to advocate and influence laws and policies for effective meaningful and inclusive youth participation, empower youth leadership to engage at all levels of decision making towards a well-developed youth of Ghana.

Our Target Beneficiaries

“At YAG, children and young people are not just our beneficiaries, they are our key partners influening decisions that affect their lives”.

Youth Advocates Ghana – One Voice, One World

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Areas of Strategic Intervention

Youth, Health and Wellbeing

Youth, Peace and Security

Gender Equality and Girls Empowerment

Youth, Migration and Climate Actions

Youth Innovation and Enterprise development

Youth and Global Goals

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Featured News

Communique

COMMUNIQUÉ BY YOUTH ADVOCATES GHANA (YAG) ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT. For Immediate Release May 2025. Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG), a youth-led and youth-driven non-profit organization committed to mobilizing, empowering,...

Breaking the barriers

A Silent Crisis: Reproductive Health in Northern Ghana and the Path Forward In the villages of Northern and Upper East Ghana, women and girls wake up each day facing a silent crisis. The right to make decisions about their own bodies is out of reach - not because of...

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND IN COUNTRY

Mr. Mumuni Sulemana (standing left) addressing the participants. The youth have been urged to take advantage of the opportunities abound in the country to turn around their fortunes, rather than risking their lives on unregulated migration for ‘greener pastures’....

30 YOUNG PEOPLE IMPROVE CAPACITY TOWARDS PARTICIPATORY LOCAL GOVERNANCE PROCESS

Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG) in partnership with the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has built the capacity of Thirty (30) young people from the Nsawam-Adoagyiri and Ga West District on active participation in the local governance processes. The...

A total of fifteen (15) young people have received a three-day capacity building training on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) to serve as promoters and advocates of the SRH issues in their communities.

A total of fifteen (15) young people have received a three-day capacity building training on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) to serve as promoters and advocates of the SRH issues in their communities. The workshop was organized by the Youth Advocacy Ghana (YAG) a...