The youth unemployment rate in Sub-Saharan Africa has been cited by the World Bank as standing at around 21%, the second highest rate in the world after the Middle East and North Africa and 3.5 times higher than the adult unemployment rate in the region.
Welcome to YouthBridge Foundation
About US
Realizing the importance of tapping the potentials of the Ghanaian youth, the need to create supportive platforms to challenge their creativity, and making available to the youth critical information and resources needed for their total development, we decided to establish a non-governmental and non-profit organization called YOUTH BRIDGE FOUNDATION.Read More >>>
To achieve the MDGs, we call on African Governments to:
- Re-affirm their commitments to the achievement of the MDGs by 2015.
- Work with their citizens, parliaments and local governments to develop and implement break-through action plans.
- Address inequality, discrimination and marginalization of specific social groups including people with disabilities, women, youth as integral part of the breakthrough plans.
- Address resource leakages and corruption with urgency.
- Act urgently to implement the African protocol on women’s rights and similar undertakings in relation to youth, children and people living with disabilities.
- Put employment and decent work for women and young people at the centre of economic policies.
- Uphold all continental agreements and protocols to budget adequately for the achievement of the MDGs including such targets as 15% to
health, 10% to Agriculture, 10% to education. - Put more efforts into mobilising and retaining domestic resources
through fair and efficient taxation, fair sharing of natural resource rents and the prevention of illicit capital flight. “ENSURE THAT NO WOMAN SHOULD DIE GIVING LIFE” .
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European Union Support Economic Literacy Project
The European Union Delegation to Ghana has supported Youth Bridge Foundation through the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning to launch its Economic Literacy Project.
Youth and Governance
Ghana’s democratic process has been described in many spheres as a ‘developing democracy’ since the promulgation of the 1992 Constitution. Successive elections in Ghana have witnessed marginal increase in the numbers of young members in the legislature; however, the active involvement of the Ghanaian youth in national governance (i.e. social, economic and corporate) is yet to be institutionalized.Read More>>>
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Distinguished Patrons
Prof. Samuel Quainoo
Amy Smythe
Samuel Asante Duodu
Dr. Philomena Nyarko
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