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The Afrika Youth Movement (AYM), a pan-African youth-led movement promoting African youth’s participation in leadership and development processes aimed at transforming Africa is currently hosting its 2nd Annual Retreat and Youth Empowerment Forum in Accra, Ghana. The event is scheduled to last between April 18 and 22, 2018. “We are…

The 2nd African Youth SDGs Summit, the biggest gathering of African youths working towards the successful realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, themed: “Partnership with Youth to Achieve the SDGs: Moving from Policy to Practice,” has been launched Tuesday in Accra, Ghana. The 2nd edition of the…

Women’s economic empowerment is experiencing a resurgence of attention. This is inspired by Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5), which lays out goals for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and is mirrored by the International Women’s Day 2018 campaign theme #PressforProgress, dedicated to the achievement of gender parity around the world. Most…

Illicit financial flows in the form of corruption, human trafficking, illegal fishing, commodity smuggling, and trade invoicing errors cost Africa $50 billion per year, more than the continent receives in overall official development assistance and representing a threat to the Sustainable Development Goals, a new report has revealed.   Christin…

As the forthcoming Commonwealth Summit scheduled for April 2018 in the UK draws to a close, young planners, architects and urbanists of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP, RTPI) and Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA, RIBA) in Nigeria have shared their vision on how young people could help achieve Sustainable…

 Eze Eluchie is the Sub Saharan Africa representative at civil society taskforce of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs and a board member of the World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD); a group of individuals and non-governmental organizations working towards a ‘drug-free’ world As representative of Sub…

The Nigerian Youth SDGs Network Tuesday hosted a youth-focused roundtable on Goal 16 of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development otherwise known as the Sustainable Development Goals, which is about “promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive…

The Board of Directors of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation said it was difficult to choose a single recipient in its global competition for a $100 million grant that promises a bold solution to a critical problem of our time. I can see why. Ultimately, MacArthur awarded Sesame…

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has condemned in totality the ongoing herders-farmers conflicts in parts of Nigeria and bemoans the “seeming slow and inefficient” response of the Nigerian government to the crisis calling on the need for the government to become “more alert, sensitive and holistic” in addressing…

Mitchell Toomey is the global director of the United Nations SDG Action Campaign, a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General administered by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), mandated to support the UN system-wide and the Member States on advocacy and public engagement in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…