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This room seeks to lay the basics of our TORs as task team members, we will be sharing our successes, challenges and futures prospects for continuing our role as champions of youths voices in Liberia, Africa and the World at large

On May 6 and 7, 2025, Yundeh Alfreda Butler, the Climate Change Lead for the Liberia Youth Task Team (LYTT), along with ...
09/05/2025

On May 6 and 7, 2025, Yundeh Alfreda Butler, the Climate Change Lead for the Liberia Youth Task Team (LYTT), along with Teddy P. Taylor from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia and Emmanuel D. Wilson from Liberian Youth for Climate Actions, represented Liberia at a subregional workshop in Accra, Ghana. This workshop was organized by Youth Opportunity for Transformation in Africa (YOTA), through their Africa Youth Partnership program with funding from Ford Foundation.

Participants from six African countries—Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Liberia, and The Gambia—came together for this event.

The workshop focused on establishing a National Youth Delegates Program in each of these countries. This program aims to amplify the voices of young people, enabling them to represent their countries on international platforms. Additionally, it provides opportunities for training and mentorship for other youth, particularly in the areas of climate negotiations and diplomacy.

Are you a victim of Drugs Abuse? Have you been a victim to drug user? Are you a health practitioner and wants to share t...
09/03/2025

Are you a victim of Drugs Abuse?
Have you been a victim to drug user?
Are you a health practitioner and wants to share the effect of drugs and substance abuse?
Are you a law enforcer and wants to weight in on how the government is tackling the war against drugs?
Is your community a haven for drug users?

Join us this Friday, October 14, 2022 @ 4pm as we have a live chat on Drugs and Substance Abuse......





Day 1 of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 in Kigali was very resourceful and upbuilding for our representative and he...
09/03/2025

Day 1 of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 in Kigali was very resourceful and upbuilding for our representative and he is grateful to us for the representation 🙏🙏.

It afforded him the opportunity to network with young people from around the continent and see top African Leaders, as they discussed continental recovery efforts.
His resolve to see our advocacy focus under Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which is the provision of increase access to finances, grants and loans for young entrepreneurs and innovators was renewed. This is so because of what was said during the speech of Mr. Maxwell Gomera, UNDP Resident Representative for Rwanda, he said that 80% of young people businesses fail to reach their full potential because of lack of access to finances, grants and loans.

Ford Foundation
YOTA - Youth Opportunity & Transformation in Africa
Restless Development Zimbabwe


Day 2 of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 was a learning experience for our representative at the YCA 2022. Jacob was...
09/03/2025

Day 2 of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 was a learning experience for our representative at the YCA 2022. Jacob was opportune to participate in a side event, titled, Masterclasses: He's an entrepreneur.

Doing said event, He was able to raise one of the policy positions in our AYP Call to Action that talked about enabling gender neutrality in sectoral, industry and market behaviors through intervention that address pre-existing market behaviors constraining women-led enterprise, that includes supporting young women entrepreneurs to cross over into male-dominated sector.

With that in context, He told the presenter that it’s imperative that African governments and development partners increase their efforts for a gender neutrality across sectors in our African economies.






A brief statement from our Team Leader, Mr. Jacob B. Swee who’s currently attending the YouthConnekt Africa Summit in Rw...
09/03/2025

A brief statement from our Team Leader, Mr. Jacob B. Swee who’s currently attending the YouthConnekt Africa Summit in Rwanda, Kigali. Thanks to the African Youth Partnership of Youth Opportunity and Transformation in Africa with a funding from Ford Foundation for sponsoring the trip of this great personality.

On Day 3 of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 afforded our representative to meet and greet Youth Task Team members fr...
09/03/2025

On Day 3 of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 afforded our representative to meet and greet Youth Task Team members from East and Southern Africa. Also, they had a knowledge sharing meeting to discuss how various regions Youth Task Teams can complement each other.

Our representative, in person of Team Lead Jacob El Luhan Swee Jr. seized an opportunity to explain to participants about Africa Youth Partnership - Liberia Youth Task Team advocacy under health and well being, precisely the passage of the amended law of the Liberian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act of 2014.

This happened when the facilitators for a side event on mental health didn’t turn up, hence our Team Lead along with other YTT members from East and Southern Africa initiated the session.

During our Lead turn to speak, he gives a brief correlation among Mental Health, Drugs and Substances Abuse and COVID-19 pandemic, he told participants that it’s important that young people of Africa raise up and demand their governments and development partners to institute a robust strategy that will discourage drug cartel from using Africa as a transit hub for Drugs and harmful Substances. If this is achieve, he said will help to reduce the number of mental disorder cases cause by the abuse of drugs and substances.






LYTT first program: Education and SkillsCOVID-19 has had far reaching effects across all sectors including education in ...
09/03/2025

LYTT first program: Education and Skills

COVID-19 has had far reaching effects across all sectors including education in Liberia. Some of the effects are visible while others are being considered based on lessons from the Ebola Virus outbreak in 2014. After being ravaged by 14 years of civil war, the Education System in Liberia was on the path of post-war recovery with some significant gains made before it was again hit by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014 which undermined these gains. The outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the subsequent lockdown of the country in 2020 have made matters worse for education in Liberia. Liberia has an estimated population of 4.94 million people with 54 percent of the population living below the poverty line.

The population is growing rapidly with a fertility rate of 4.6 children per woman in 20152. More than two-thirds of the population is under the age of 35 and nearly one-half of the population lives in urban areas. There are acute disparities in income, health and education outcomes between rural and urban populations, exacerbated by poor infrastructure and limited domestic investments. Severe malnutrition is also prevalent with almost one-third (32 percent) 3 of children under five years old being stunted.

At the Africa Youth Partnership, we challenge all to embolden young people to escalate their contributions to the African recovery agenda by spearheading a network of local catalytic solutions, supported by regional advocacy and policy influencing. We adhere to the fact that there should be no recovery efforts on the continent without the youths.

Against this backdrop, on the 26th of October 2022, at 10 am on icampus, Carey Street, Monrovia, Liberia, our organization, the Liberia Youth Task Team of the Africa Youth Partnership and Youth Opportunity and Transformation in Africa for an Equitable Recovery from the Global COVID-19 Pandemic will host a National Dialogue on the THEME: Provision of Technical, Vocational, Technical, and Training for Marginalized (At-Risk Youths, Visually Impaired and Physical Challenge) Groups. This dialogue will bring together local, national and international stakeholders of Liberia to discuss the theme under review that will contribute to the development of those marginalized (At-Risk Youths, Visually Impaired and Physical Challenge) groups in Liberia.

Policy brief is expected to be drafted from this national dialogue with anticipated outcomes where applicable. Some invitees are; Group of 77 (Disable), Christian Association of the blind. (Disable), National Commission on Disabilities, Political Leaders, Press Union of Liberia, Student and Youth Community-FLY, LINSU, USAID, UNDP, GIZ, World Bank, UNICEF, EU Mission in Liberia, the Ireland African Fellowship Program , Ministry of Education, National Civil Society Council of Liberia and many other institutions will be present. We therefore encourage the public to follow this development and attend where possible to contribute to the theme. This is a national call and we welcome each and every one of you.


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