SERVE/Young Africa – Building Capacity to Advance Young Africa 2017-2019 Erasmus Project

Project Title

SERVE/Young Africa – Building Capacity to Advance Young Africa 2017-2019

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Young Africa works for the empowerment of young people in Africa, especially for the disadvantaged and most vulnerable. SERVE focuses specifically on programmes and projects that help communities enhance the lives of children and young people and recognizes that gender equality is pivotal to achieving justice, equality and sustainable development. The project will use the expertise to build social inclusion, better employment opportunities and increase life-chances of young people who are marginalized. The Serve Young Africa Capacity Building programme has three key elements:• Training for Young Africa Centre Directors from each of the 5 partner countries in the area of Leadership and Management as well as safeguarding training. The purpose of this training is to build their capacity to meet the current and changing needs of some of the most marginalized and disadvantaged young people in the project areas. Young Africa has an excellent informal and non-formal learning environment that uses youth work methodologies to enhance young people’s learning in their chosen vocational course. • Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) teachers play a key role in the non-formal learning environment. As part of the programme they will have training in approaches to youth work that will build skills and confidence in working with young people with limited educational opportunities. Small scale research examining the impact of the youth work methodology in the TVET training has demonstrated that it has significantly added value to young people’s ability to communicate with employers, articulate their own value and improve their employment opportunities.• An Access Course for Young People not yet able to apply for TVET training. Increasingly Young Africa wish to open opportunities for young people who do not meet the criteria for entrance to a TVET programme. The third element of the programme is an innovative pilot programme aimed at providing an access course utilizing youth work methodologies to build confidence, enhance skills, promote communication skills and prepare young people without formal qualifications for entrance into a non-formal leading to formal learning environment such as TVET.The programme will build on the knowledge and experience of the Programme Country (Ireland), the Partner Countries (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana). The project design will use innovative training and learning methods supporting exchange of best practice enhancing relationships across each of the partner countries. A variety of methods will be used to deliver the programme including Group Work, Technology Enhanced Learning as well as Practice Based Activities.A quality assurance/review and evaluation process will be written into the overall project to ensure needs are being met, to articulate impact, to identify areas for improvement and to share and celebrate the work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113188,32 Eur

Project Coordinator

SERVE IN SOLIDARITY IRELAND & Country: IE

Project Partners

• YOUNG AFRICA (BOTSWANA) TRUST
• YOUNG AFRICA (NAMIBIA) TRUST
• ASSOCIACAO YOUNG AFRICA – MOCAMBIQUE
• YOUNG AFRICA INTERANTIONAL AFRICA HUB TRUST
• YOUNG AFRICA