Youth Advocates Ghana works to empower adolescent girls and boys between the ages of 10-17 through the Free to Flow Project. Through this project, YAG educates both adolescent girls and boys on menstrual hygiene, sexual and gender-based violence while creating safe spaces to advance children’s rights in schools and communities, and tackle the root causes of discrimination especially against girls.This Project is funded by Global Fund for Children under the PEAK Initiative.

‘One Planet’ strives to work with youth in schools and wider communities across Ghana to raise awareness of what climate change is, existing environmental degradation issues and what can be done Counter the trajectories of further human-induced environmental damage in Ghana. The project aims to address existing issues to reach towards meeting SDGs 6, 13, 14 and 15.

Youth participation and development are crucial to the implementation and achievement of all the SDG targets and indicators. YAG has taken a lead role in facilitating youth-based SDG platforms in Ghana and across Africa. Through YAG’s partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), it is working with and mobilizing young people in Africa to work in the SDGs’ accountability process through capacity building training, networking and knowledge sharing to ensure the voice of young people in the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process in Africa.

YAG, in collaboration with Marie Stopes International, Ghana (MSI), is leading the charge in Ghana to pilot a transformative agenda on social structures and Ghana’s education workforce to ensure a safe launch and implementation of Reproductive Health Education in Ghana’s education curriculum through the European Commission funded Youth 4 Health programme in Ghana.

YAG is in a new partnership with World Health Organization (WHO) for the Youth for Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake Project in the Bono East, Savannah, Western North and Oti Region.The project seeks to generate demands for Covid-19 vaccination, address myths and misconceptions around vaccination and promote the uptake of Covid-19 vaccination among girls, women and vulnerable groups in districts that have low COVID-19 vaccination rate in Ghana.

YAG is part of a global consortium implementing the SDG Innovation Challenge. The SDG Innovation Challenge was created as a pan-African ideation space for young people to come together in developing and connecting practical solution ideas for challenges faced by their local communities at the grassroots level. The initiative has grown in capacity and impact since 2020, creating space and opportunity for intersection among youth activism, SDG advocacy, and policy-making. Innovation teams that succeed in the SDG Innovation Challenge will compete for award winning packages, continued support, prize money, global recognition and more. The organizers and partners of the SDG Innovation Challenge 2022 – include Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG), The Melton Foundation, GrassRoots Hub Ghana, TECHFARM Hub, Shibuka, and Spaceship Academy.