Youthalize Development Group
Youthalize Development Group
The goals and strategic axes for Youthalize Development Groups (YDG) five-year strategy (2023-2027) and operational plan (2023-2027) are contained in this paper.
Through the involvement from a number of stakeholders and YDG partners, YDG used its local and regional networks to generate this document in an inclusive and participatory manner.
This paper, called "the five-year strategy (2021-2025), is a strategic vision that suggests a coordinated approach of YDG interventions in promoting Youth Development giving them the skills, voice, and opportunities to contribute to society. The result of this reflection constitute entry points for an advocacy towards Youth Mobilisastion, hence the name Youthalize, as a response to alleviating the negative impacts of the current socio-economic challenges on young people.
This Strategy was validated by the YDG Board.On the foundation of Youth Development and Mobilization YDG developed a strategic framework of three key pillars and three cross- cutting issues.
The Strategy recognises the importance of education and training, including technical and entrrepreneurial training. This pillar describes how YDG will address youth education through its operations and projects in economic and social infrastructure and inclusive social development.
Forward-looking government policies are required to ensure that youth are sufficiently adaptable to benefit from the economic empowerment opportunities offered by technological progress. The ability of Ssouth Africa to harness the opportunity of demographic dividend depends on their capacity to create jobs, transform their economys, invest in human capital and develop the private sector. This pillar describes how YDG will address youth economic empowerment through its programs in economic and technical infrastructure, and inclusive social development and through the local value chains.
Youth in South Africa should be fully engaged in shaping the changes that are affecting them. YDG will look at different strategies towards developing mechanisms to promote an enabling environment for youth engagement.
