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Development Generation Africa International is committed to ensuring the active participation of African children and youth towards their development and engagement in development efforts and issues that affect them. Financing for Development process is an issue that we believe would affect the lives of young people and solidly want to participate to make the voices of the African young people heard, from financing youth employment to addressing HIV/AIDS and climate change, our input matters.
As a group, we believe from 2009 that the prospects of FDI inflows to be more favourable to
African young people faces the daunting challenges of poverty, lack of education and unemployment, we believe lowering the high levels of poverty through financing for development will bring down the poverty level and enhance our sustained growth and development.
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WHAT IS DGAi?
Development Generation Africa International (DGAi) is a vision into the future. It is an organization that promotes advocacy and provides a range of programmes that bring vital services to underserved children and youth to acquire skills, develop themselves, apply the knowledge and skills required for active participation and empowerment; while building their inherent capacities for opportunities and better engagement of vulnerable populations for community service and development.
DGAi deliver an expanding range of non-profit services, including basic education and life-long learning on issues, consultancy in policy advocacy, children and youth development issues project management; personal and professional development; up-to-date information and opportunities for community building and engagement as well as opportunities for children and youth participation in Health, Environment, ICT, Education and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well engagement programmes in Gender, Climate Change, Rural Development, Human Rights and Democracy.
At Development Generation Africa International, we believe the future is blank, without active children and youth who are inspired, informed and involved in community, national and international development frameworks and agenda!
We also publish the Quarterly African Children and Youth Speakers Corner publication and magazine - "Developmentals"
WHY DGAi?
Development Generation Africa International (DGAi) believes a platform for African children and youth development is necessary for a number of reasons. African communities face the same type of crisis of children and youth: limited access to (quality) education; unemployment; the threat of HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria; social, political and economic exclusion; poverty, etc.
Development Generation Africa International is providing the mechanism for articulating emerging concerns of children and youth in
1. Children and youth in economic development
2. Children and youth in social transformation
3. Children and youth in governance and political development.
DGAi was founded to be a veritable children and youth platform for debating, discussing and initiating concrete strategies for
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EVENTS:
YES Sweden 2010
Attend the fifth Global Youth Employment Summit in 2010
Date:
Venue: Conference Centre,
More information: http://www.yesweb.org/docs/YESSweden2010.pdf
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AIDS 2010
The XVIII International AIDS Conference
Date: 18-23 July, 2010
Venue:
More information: http://www.aids2010.org
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SPEAK Nigeria Essay Competition is currently accepting submissions for the 2009 contest on what Nigerian youth think and feel about the 14 Point Agenda and the Millennium Development Goals and how young people would work with government and other stakeholders to achieve these goals.
Submit essay to: The Editor – Developmentals Magazine on thedgai@gmail.com
Deadline: April 7th, 2009