STRATEGIES
4. INTERVENTION STRATEGIES, OUTCOMES AND KEY ACTIVITIES YEFL-Ghana’s key intervention strategies are as mentioned structured around social, political and economic empowerment of youth in Northern Ghana. In the following the objectives, outcomes, key intervention strategies and activities are outlined.
4.1 SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
This strategy is the driving force of YEFL GHANA’s existence and mandate. The strategy focuses on mobilizing and organizing youth by facilitating their physical interaction that promotes learning by doing, peer to peer engagements, information sharing that activates active civic engagements between young people and their respective societies. We realize this through the Youth Centres running as social enterprises and as platforms for youth organizing for change!
Objective: Youth have the capacity to co-create, learn and act together to influence change in their communities. 4.1.1 YOUTH ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE - YOUTH HUBS
YEFL-Ghana works with Youth Centers in Northern Region where young people are mobilized and have their agencies build for self empowerment and community development… (need a description of what it is and we can use the graphic illustration here as well) Our goal is to transform the Youth Centers into Youth Hubs that serve as physical spaces that ignite a network of young change-makers mobilized around specific issues and interests, where youth can
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feel free to engage, create and collaborate working to improve their communities and build their self-confidence. This will be driven by our Youth Peer-Led Transformation Model. This will promote learning by doing, information sharing, peer to peer engagements, networking, social movements, alliance and coalition building for socialization, responding to emerging needs and pressing issues. The Youth Centers need to be self-run and independent spaces for youth in the districts to meet and access different services and opportunities. The vision is that the Youth Centres will have a pool of products and services that they can offer to youth in the districts and that they will be able to fund and run these services from their revenue generated. The services and products will benefit the youth of the district and ensure continued social, economic and political development opportunities. So as a sustainability strategy, the Youth Centres will be supported to develop the Social Enterprise concept and run as social enterprises.
4.1.2 CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Culture defines our existence, to this end, we foster a conducive environment that breaks cultural barriers, clichés, and stereotypes by learning and unlearning with others. We call our cultural experience “A bridge to Practice and Learning.” In this regard, we bring together young people from different backgrounds to interact, share ideas and have fun. We offer a wide range of cultural varieties/platforms for cross-learning that bridges the gap between theory and practice. We have as examples facilitated cultural youth rallies between Danish high school youth and JHS students in several districts.
