Youth Accountability Initiative

Youth Accountability Initiative A Pan-African youth initiative empowering young people to track public finance across the continent.

🌏Clicks to Change: Digital Communication, Influence and Youth PowerHow can young people move from digital visibility to ...
16/09/2026

🌏Clicks to Change: Digital Communication, Influence and Youth Power

How can young people move from digital visibility to meaningful influence and change?

Youth Accountability Initiative will be represented by Munashe Cuthbert Masiyiwa, Team Lead at Youth Accountability Initiative, Zimbabwe, at the third webinar in the AIRCE series.

The webinar will bring together diverse African voices to explore how young people can use digital platforms to shape public discourse, influence decision-making and amplify African perspectives.

Date: 30 September 2026
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EAT
Format: Online

Register to join the conversation:
https://airce.org/events/Digital%20Influence%20&%20Visibility

Under the theme “Clicks to Change: Digital Communication, Influence & Youth Power,” the conversation forms part of the journey towards the 2nd African Impact Forum & Gala Dinner on 5 December 2026 in Nairobi and the broader vision of shaping Africa’s Next Narrative.

🌍💰 WHO IS FOLLOWING THE CLIMATE MONEY?🚨 Introducing our new project: Follow the Climate Money — Enhancing Finance Accoun...
16/09/2026

🌍💰 WHO IS FOLLOWING THE CLIMATE MONEY?

🚨 Introducing our new project: Follow the Climate Money — Enhancing Finance Accountability and Resource Justice in Zimbabwe.

Climate finance is flowing into Zimbabwe. But where is the money going? Who decides? Who benefits? And what difference is it making in communities facing the impacts of climate change?

Through Follow the Climate Money, Youth Accountability Initiative will strengthen public finance accountability, natural resource governance, citizen participation and resource justice around climate and development financing in Zimbabwe.

Follow the money. Track the impact. Demand climate justice.

Supported by ActionAid

TrustAfricaEmbassy of Ireland, PretoriaKofi Annan FoundationHivos Regional Office Southern AfricaOpen Society FoundationsEmbassy of Switzerland to Malawi, Zambia and ZimbabweHivos

15/09/2026

🌍ACCOUNTABILITY CREW SPOTLIGHT 🔎

Blessing Mamombe reflects on the 2nd Youth Public Finance Indaba and the growing demand for critical minerals across Africa.

Critical minerals can create jobs, drive industrialisation and contribute to community development but only if Africa can turn its mineral wealth into meaningful opportunities for its people.

The minerals are here. The question is: who benefits?

Open Society Foundations Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria Kofi Annan Foundation Hivos Regional Office Southern Africa ActionAid Embassy of Switzerland to Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

🌏 Happy New Week✨This week, we join communities and movements around the world in marking the Global Week of Climate Act...
14/09/2026

🌏 Happy New Week✨

This week, we join communities and movements around the world in marking the Global Week of Climate Action a time to turn the urgency of the climate crisis into meaningful collective action.

Climate action is not simply about acknowledging that our planet is changing. It is about confronting the systems and inequalities that determine who experiences the greatest harm and who has the power to shape solutions.

We must ask:

Who is responsible for climate harm?
Who pays for it?
Where is climate finance going?
Who decides how it is spent?
Are affected communities being heard?

At Youth Accountability Initiative, we believe climate action must go hand in hand with justice, accountability and participation.

Young people deserve more than a future shaped for us without us. We must be part of the decisions that determine how climate policies are designed, how resources are allocated and how communities transition towards sustainable economies.

This Global Week of Climate Action, let us move beyond awareness without action, commitments without implementation and finance without accountability.

Let us organise. Let us participate. Let us follow the climate money. Let us demand a transition that is green, just, inclusive and accountable.

The climate crisis demands action. And action demands accountability.

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10/09/2026

Street CiviTok: Mutare Series 🎤⛏️🌍

The streets have something to say.

We were in Sakubva, Mutare, listening to young people share their views on mining and how it is affecting their communities.

One young person spoke about Penhalonga, raising concerns about land degradation and whether communities are truly benefiting from the mineral wealth being extracted around them.

Mining cannot only be about what we take from the ground. It must also be about what communities gain, what we protect and what we leave behind.

Young people should be stewards of our environment and voices for accountability.

Let’s question mining companies.
Let’s demand responsible mining.
Let’s advocate for environmental protection.
And let’s push for value addition, so Zimbabwe can create more jobs, industries and opportunities from its mineral wealth.

The streets have spoken. Are we listening? 👀

🎥 Street CiviTok: Mutare Series

ActionAid Zimbabwe ActionAid Open Society Foundations Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria Hivos Regional Office Southern Africa Hivos Southern Africa Trust

09/09/2026

🌍Mining may extract minerals, but who is left carrying the cost?

Environmental destruction caused by irresponsible mining does not affect everyone equally. Women and young people can face some of the greatest impacts from disrupted livelihoods and environmental degradation to fewer economic opportunities.

Accountability Crew Member Ropafadzo Mutsango shares what responsible mining means for women and young people, and why communities must have a meaningful voice in decisions around their natural resources.

We also need to ask: Where is the value going?

Our minerals should not leave communities as raw materials while the jobs, industries and economic benefits are created elsewhere. Value addition can help keep more value, skills and opportunities within our communities and countries.

At Youth Accountability Initiative , we are advocating for mining that protects the dignity of people and the environment.

Our resources. Our communities. Our future. Those who cause harm must . ActionAid Zimbabwe ActionAid Open Society Foundations Hivos Regional Office Southern Africa Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria

08/09/2026

What if Africa’s critical minerals could finance Africa’s own future? 🌍

🎥 Accountability Crew Spotlight

At the 2nd Youth Public Finance Indaba, Denis Gyeyir of Open Society Foundations called for stronger youth voices and power in shaping accountable resource governance across Africa.

Reflecting on his keynote, one participant highlighted a critical question: Are we getting enough value from the resources we extract?

Africa must move from simply extracting and exporting critical minerals to adding value, storing value and returning that value to our economies and communities.

Our minerals should not only leave our continent as raw materials. They should help build industries, create decent opportunities and contribute to a self-financing development engine for Africa.

Young people have a critical role to play in demanding transparency, accountability and a fairer share of Africa’s resource wealth.

The resources are ours. The future is ours. The accountability must be ours too.

TrustAfricaActionAid ZimbabweEmbassy of Ireland, PretoriaKofi Annan FoundationHivos Regional Office Southern AfricaEmbassy of Switzerland to Malawi, Zambia and ZimbabweSouthern Africa Trust

The future we want is not something we should only talk about sometimes, we have to paint it. 🎨🌍✊🏾In Mutare, Youth Accou...
07/09/2026

The future we want is not something we should only talk about sometimes, we have to paint it. 🎨🌍✊🏾

In Mutare, Youth Accountability Initiative (YAI), supported by Hivos Regional Office Southern Africa and ActionAid Zimbabwe , brought young people together for a community mural painting celebrating the power of young people to shape their communities and protect the environment.

Through art, young people expressed a vision of communities where we participate, protect our environment and ensure that natural resources benefit people and communities.

A big thank you to Vocational Skills Training Hub for providing the space for young people to gather, create and paint the future they want to see.

Young people are shaping communities today — not just preparing to lead tomorrow.

Kofi Annan FoundationEmbassy of Ireland, PretoriaAccountability Lab East and Southern Africa - ALESAOpen Society FoundationsOne Young WorldEmbassy of Switzerland to Malawi, Zambia and ZimbabweSouthern Africa Trust

🌏 Happy New Week ✨How do we finance Zimbabwe’s development when resources that could finance that development continue t...
07/09/2026

🌏 Happy New Week ✨

How do we finance Zimbabwe’s development when resources that could finance that development continue to be lost through illicit financial flows?

Zimbabwe needs greater domestic resource mobilisation, sustainable financing and stronger fiscal capacity to meet its development priorities. But we must also confront the resources lost through illicit financial flows.

When resources leave the economy through illicit channels, they are resources that cannot be invested in public services, infrastructure, livelihoods and opportunities.

For young Zimbabweans, this matters deeply. We will inherit the consequences of today’s economic and financing decisions.

That is why young people must have a meaningful voice in conversations about how Zimbabwe mobilises, protects and invests its resources.

Financing development is not only about finding more money. It is also about closing the leakages that prevent the resources we already have from financing the future we need.
TrustAfricaActionAid ZimbabweOpen Society FoundationsCIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen ParticipationKofi Annan FoundationHivosEU Delegation to ZimbabweAccountability Lab East and Southern Africa - ALESA

04/09/2026

⛏️ When a mine comes to a community, don’t just ask: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MINERALS?

Ask: WHAT HAPPENS TO WOMEN?

Are women benefiting from the jobs and businesses created by mining?
Are they part of decisions about their communities?
If minerals are processed locally, are women being equipped to participate in value addition?
Are their land, livelihoods and rights being protected?

Mineral wealth should not mean that communities carry the harm while others take the benefits.

Minerals should bring dignity to both people and the environment. 🌍

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ActionAid ZimbabweKofi Annan FoundationHivos Regional Office Southern AfricaActionAid

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