YOUTH FOR RESULTS KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING EVENT April 2-‐4, 2014, Tunis DRAFT CONCEPT NOTE BACKGROUND The drive to achieve results continues to reshape the African continent, bringing about more focused and capable states. For Africa to become a pole for global growth in the years ahead, it must unleash its regional integration potential, build strong institutions and instill a results culture that infuses all areas of public affairs. This requires implementing the African transformation agenda which is grounded in the vision of a new continent aspiring to stability, an integrated and thriving continent with competitive, diversified and sustainable economies. Since the launch of the Africa for Results Initiative (AfriK4R) in 2012, members of the African Community of Practice (AfCoP) on managing for development results put an emphasis on empowering key groups, such as youth representatives. The AfriK4R is an AfCoP intiative focused on a regional approach to achieving development results. The 3000+ AfCoP members make their organizations more results-‐oriented and accountable through exchanging good practices on MfDR and providing development solutions to one another. The African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), provides support to AfCoP members to strengthen development processes in countries and regional economic communities. It partners with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Western African Monetary Union (WAEMU) to accelerate regional policy implementation through MfDR tools and principles. Both institutional and individual practitioners’ MfDR capacity constitute key imperative steps towards developing a results oriented performance culture. Taken alone however, they remain insufficient for either ensuring a results oriented culture or enshrining accountability in governance practices. Attentive to these inadequacies, the AfriK4R initiative proposes a series of MfDR knowledge and training events targeting key sectors of society such as youth, gender and relevant groups like mineral resources professionals and AfCoP’s results network partners. AFRIK4R AND YOUTH FOR RESULTS NETWORK To ensure that youth effectively contribute to the development agenda, the AfCoP launched the Youth for Results (Y4R) Network during its 2013 AfCoP Annual Meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Y4R Network represents a culmination of efforts made by youth representatives at previous regional events in exchanging good results practices in youth development. The Y4R Network 1
aims to contribute to youth development through policy formulation and promoting accountability in governance. Finally, the Y4R network puts a focus on strengthening regional integration efforts. This focus on youth stems from the belief that youth face an exciting era of possibility with technological advancements like computers, mobile phones, and the internet, which can facilitate learning and expose youth to many opportunities. African youth have the power to influence their communities and represent the social and economic future of their respective societies. Furthermore, youth represent Africa’s future work force, thus greatly impacting economic growth within the region. African youth face massive challenges. Two-‐thirds of Africa’s population of one billion is under 35 years, with over 35% of Africans between 15 and 35 years. It is expected that the African youth population will double by 2045, and by 2100, Africa’s share of the global youth population will increase from 15% to 41%. This makes Sub-‐Saharan Africa the youngest and fastest growing region in the world, leading to the so-‐called “youth bulge”, which is both an opportunity and a challenge for Africa’s future. Despite their great promise, African youth remain the most vulnerable group in the region. On average, 72% of young Africans live on less than $2 a day. Of the 10 million youth living with HIV/AIDS, 6.2 million are found in Africa; most of who are too poor to afford antiretroviral drugs. While many African countries are on track to achieving the Millennium Development Goal on universal primary education, sub-‐Saharan Africa still has the world’s lowest primary enrolment rate at 77%. To overcome these challenges, the African Union’s (AU) African Youth Charter adopted in 2006 refers to youth as “Africa’s greatest resource”. The launch of the 2004 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Strategic Framework for Youth and the AU’s declaration of the 2009-‐2018 period as a Decade of Youth Development both underscore the importance and urgency of addressing issues affecting African youth. Mindful of these challenges facing Africa's youth, AfCoP is organizing an AfriK4R knowledge and training event entirely dedicated to youth and MfDR. For youth to play their role in helping Africa achieve sustainable economic development, social progress and poverty reduction, they need to be equipped with the requisite knowledge of development issues. OBJECTIVES Guided by the “learning by doing” principle, the training program follows a practical approach featuring relevant case studies and practical exercises. Promoting interactions, it applies adult learning techniques and uses a performance -‐based management approach. The main trainer will facilitate both plenary and group sessions of the training and emphasize participatory approaches, using presentations and visualization tools.
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The training objective is to inform, dialogue with, and empower African youth leaders, by enhancing their abilities and role as change agents who can help trigger and accelerate Africa’s transformation. Specifically, the training's specific objectives are threefold: ! Initiating MfDR capacity acquisition among African youth leaders; ! Providing a solid understanding of the major challenges facing African youth; ! Presenting tools and approaches for greater youth engagement in the development agenda; and ! Developing a Youth for Results Action Plan. PARTICIPANTS Youth representatives interested in the results and regional integration agendas will participate in the meeting. It is expected that the meeting will gather around thirty participants coming mostly from the WAEMU and COMESA’s member states, with a balance between Anglophone and Francophone participants.
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YOUTH FOR RESULTS KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING EVENT April 2-‐4, 2014, Tunis DRAFT AGENDA DAY 1, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014
Youth and Results-‐Based Management 08:30-‐09:00
Registration–The entire meeting will be facilitated by Kango Laré-‐Lantone.
09:00-‐09:30
Opening Statements—Statements from the AfriK4R Coordinator and AfDB Results Division Manager, the Quality and Results Department Director, and the Y4R Coordinator
09:30-‐10:00
Keynote speech—Youth engagement matters
10:00-‐10:30
Health Break
10:30-‐11:05
Presentation of the Workshop — Introduction of participants; Workshop objectives; Rules of the game and Agenda
11:05-‐11:50
Panel discussion on keynote speech—Panellists will discuss youth-‐ challenges in Africa and opportunities for youth engagement into, and contribution, to the results agenda.
11:50-‐12:30
General Plenary Discussion — Participants will discuss the youth contribution to the results agenda and broader youth-‐related challenges in Africa.
12:30-‐13:30
Lunch and Networking
13:30-‐14:15
Presentation—Results-‐Based Management and managing for development results
14:15-‐15:00
Presentation—Leadership for results.
15:00-‐15:15
Health Break
15:15-‐16:00
Presentation—Planning for outcomes and results-‐based budgeting
16:00-‐16:45
Presentation—Monitoring and evaluation
16:45-‐17:30
Presentation—Accountability & Partnership
DAY 2, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014
Applying Knowledge for Youth Results 09:00-‐09:15
Overview of the first day: lessons and questions
09:15-‐09:30
Groups Formation —Case study on MfDR applied to youth.
09:30-‐11:00
Group Work 1—Applying causal analysis to distinguish immediate, underlying and root causes. Groups will report in plenary.
11:00-‐12:30
Group Work 2— Applying causal analysis to build a results chain. Groups will report in plenary.
12:30—14:00
Lunch and Networking
14:00-‐15:20
Group Work 3—Formulation of SMART results and indicators. Groups will report in plenary.
15:20-‐15:55
Health Break
15:35-‐17:00
Group Work 4—Assigning indicators to the different levels of results. Groups will report in plenary.
17:00-‐17:30
Plenary Session—Assessing the assumptions and risks.
DAY 3, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014
Youth for Results Action Plan 09:00-‐09:15
Overview of the second day: lessons and questions
09:15-‐10:30
Youth Stories—Youth representatives will showcase select results stories.
10:30-‐10:45
Presentation—Attributes of an effective action plan.
11:00-‐12:30
Group Work—Youth for results action plan development.
12:30-‐13:30
Lunch and networking
13:30-‐15:00
Group Work—Youth for results action plan discussion.
15:30-‐15:45
Training Workshop Evaluation and Closing
15:45-‐16:00
Closing Tea/Coffee