Young Women Leadership Program
Building a Better Future
The Young Women Leadership Program is designed to enhance the capability of young women, aged 18-24, to develop policy and programs that respond to Malagasy realities and needs. Youth First’s approach to leadership development is anchored on the belief that action learning is best achieved through a combination of methods that include practice, dialogue, exposure to new information and new perspectives, and personal reflection. The training is conducted with the acquisition of new skills, team work and critical reflections. Apart from developing their leadership skills at a personal level and in their communities, participants foster social innovation through the development of a community project to be implemented. During the course of the program, participants will be supported to develop a project for change to be implemented with their constituencies and, at the end of the program, a group of experts will select up to five projects to receive small grants from Youth First.
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Madagascar sees a new generation of women leaders
August 12, 2015
Our Young Women Leadership Program was featured in the UNFPA newsletter during the International Day of Youth. To read the full article please follow the link below:Â
http://www.unfpa.org/news/madagascar-sees-new-generation-women-leaders
Youth, Leader of the future
March, 2016
The success of the Young Women Leadership Program has been documented by the World Bank Group and is showcased in its Open Learning Campus.
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Africa's Youth in Action
The series showcase the profile of young, bright, innovative entrepreneurs and experts to crowdsource solutions to real-life development issues in Africa such as the importance of the arts, entrepreneurship, youth leadership and agriculture in development.
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