When is your organisation eligible to apply?
● Your organisation must be a non-profit, operating as a Trust,
Community Based Organisation (CBO) or as a Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO)/Civil Society Organisation (CSO) with a clear
social mission.
● Your organisation must be youth-led: young people (aged 18-35)
represent the organisation’s governance and have primary
decision-making power over the organisation’s direction and
programmes (100% is aged 18-35) and are directly involved in
designing and carrying out activities (>80% is aged 18-35)
● Your project must be youth-led: all staff (100%) working on
implementing the project should be young people (aged 18-35)
● You are a youth organisation that is formal: you are legally registered
in your country, have an organisation bank account and a clear
governance structure.
● You are located and registered in one of the 12 African Youth Action
Lab focus countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania,
Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
● Your proposed activity takes place in one or more of the above 12
countries.
What kind of activities can you propose?
Your proposal can have a diversity of activities that build upon each
other. We are excited to receive your ideas!
As general guidance, we can identify three broad types of activities:
Meaningful youth participation in decision-making
For example: a new methodology for young people to monitor the
commitment of decision-makers to increase access to quality
education
Implementation of a youth-driven solution
For example: implementation of a new climate resilience approach in
each context.
Sharing and scaling of a distinct activity with other youth
organisations beyond their own context
For example: development of an online learning product
The activities you propose can be a mixture of the broad types of
activities above and do not need to ‘fit in one box’.
When is your organisation eligible to apply?
● Your organisation must be a non-profit, operating as a Trust,
Community Based Organisation (CBO) or as a Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO)/Civil Society Organisation (CSO) with a clear
social mission.
● Your organisation must be youth-led: young people (aged 18-35)
represent the organisation’s governance and have primary
decision-making power over the organisation’s direction and
programmes (100% is aged 18-35) and are directly involved in
designing and carrying out activities (>80% is aged 18-35)
● Your project must be youth-led: all staff (100%) working on
implementing the project should be young people (aged 18-35)
● You are a youth organisation that is formal: you are legally registered
in your country, have an organisation bank account and a clear
governance structure.
● You are located and registered in one of the 12 African Youth Action
Lab focus countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania,
Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
● Your proposed activity takes place in one or more of the above 12
countries.
What kind of activities can you propose?
Your proposal can have a diversity of activities that build upon each
other. We are excited to receive your ideas!
As general guidance, we can identify three broad types of activities:
Meaningful youth participation in decision-making
For example: a new methodology for young people to monitor the
commitment of decision-makers to increase access to quality
education
Implementation of a youth-driven solution
For example: implementation of a new climate resilience approach in
each context.
Sharing and scaling of a distinct activity with other youth
organisations beyond their own context
For example: development of an online learning product
The activities you propose can be a mixture of the broad types of
activities above and do not need to ‘fit in one box’.