SDG Youth Platform on Voluntary National Review in Africa

Youth participation and development is 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) and UNFPA Ghana, is working with and mobilizing young people in Ghana and 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 continues to explore collaborations to scale up its activities on the SDGs in Africa. This will allow YAG to further expand on the following activities:

• Scale youth engagement and participation on the SDGs through the annual African Youth SDGs Summit
• Initiate and activate youth engagements that galvanize political commitment and influence policy for a people-centered, just and sustainable development by leveraging on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and Agenda 2063
• Build the capacity of youth leaders and networks to collect quality data needed to capture underlying development realities for youth.
• Enhance state’s accountability on SDGs through effective youth participation in voluntary national reviews
• Foster peer exchange between youth in Africa and Europe.
• Ensure that young people are capacitated to lead and engage in multistakeholder councils and other processes meant to strengthen the implementation of the SDGS post the VNRs
• Equip youth with the skills to leverage on technology to create opportunities for collaboration and build networks, and to also advocate for issues affecting youth.
• Create a sense of ownership of the SDGS among young people.
• Generate a youth paper position on the SDGs and Agenda 2063