To celebrate Africa Youth Month, ONE Champion Felix Brian Onyango is sharing how leaders in Africa can capitalize on youth power and opportunities. Effects from COVID-19 are further removing young leaders from opportunities to engage in meaningful COVID-19 response mechanisms and decisions due to social distancing and stay at home orders. According to Ashley Law, a youth specialist with International Foundation for Electoral systems, in her publication,“How to boost youth political participation during COVID-19” published in May this year, we...
ONE Champion Felix Brian Onyango shares why it’s important to raise up the voices of today’s youth. International Youth Day on 12 August gives an opportunity to celebrate and bring to the forefront young peoples’ voices, actions, and initiatives, as well as their meaningful, universal, and equitable engagement. The theme of International Youth Day 2020 is “Youth Engagement for Global Action,” which aptly highlights the ways in which the engagement of young people at the local, national, and global levels...