Africa's greatest resource is its youth. Yet, this abundant resource has been relatively untapped and facing cross-cutting issues such as limited access to education and finances, deterring health, scarce employment opportunities and low wages, and often excluded from local decision-making. As a result, these challenges, individually and collectively, obstruct the youth from meaningfully contributing to the social, economic and political transformation of their nations and the African continent at large.

YouthConnekt is a platform designed to connect the youth for socio-economic transformation. The purpose of the YouthConnekt Africa (YCA) Hub is to provide a holistic solution to alleviate the challenges faced by African youth by widening the pool of economic, social and civic leadership opportunities through National YouthConnekt initiatives. Essentially, the Hub will be supporting already existing African youth empowerment initiatives to propel and scale their efforts further.

How does the YouthConnekt Africa Hub work?

YCA Hub's central role is to primarily strengthen the African youth empowerment ecosystem by equipping already existing initiatives with technical and financial resources, knowledge sharing and improved national ownership of the youth's socio-economic transformation agenda.

Through national YouthConnekt initiatives, the Hub accomplishes its mandate by:

• - Coordinating a global network to create a continental ecosystem for African youth;
• - Sharing experience and knowledge on program and policy design, youth initiatives, fund setting and reporting;
• - Providing a conduit for resources at scale and data on youth to up-skill and finance African youth-led enterprises.

5 Key Goals of YouthConnekt Africa

• - Create 10 million jobs for youth
• - Empower 25 million youth with skills
• - Nurture 1 million young leaders
• - Connect 100 million young Africans
• - Close the gender gap.