The main powerpoint presentation of the kick off meeting in Accra

1. Youth in Action
December 2011 – December 2012

2. Welcome in Accra!

3. Akwaaba in Accra!
"Mah che“ = Good Morning
"Mah ha" = Good Afternoon
"Mah jo" = Good Evening
"Me daa se" = Thank you
"Sain" = How much
"Yiw" = Yes
"Daabi" = No
"Me paa cho" = Please
"Bra mu" = Come in

4. Short introduction

6. Compose ‘rules of engagement’
What rules do we need to work together?

7. Responsibilities
• Safety and security briefing
• Going out
– Minimum two persons
– Take your phone + numbers
– Always inform Plan staff
• If you want alcohol  you pay
 sign child protection code

8. Contact info
• George York (Plan Ghana)
• Direct Telephone: +233-21-778039/764 405
• Marijs van Hoek (Plan Netherlands)
• 00 2 33249060467 (Mobile Ghana)
• Marijs.van.hoek@plannederland.nl
• Sun Lodge: Address: P. O. Box AN 6909 Accra North
Ghana - West Africa
Tel: (233) 030 2 229795 / 030 2 229758 / 030 2 244778 / 030
2 244792
Fax: (233) 030 2 242238

10. Morning program

11. Afternoon program

13. Introduction game
1) What is your first impression of Ghana?
2) What is your favourite food?
3) How do you say “Hello” and “How are you?”
“I am fine” in your language?
4) Why did you join the Youth in Action project?

15. The project
- 6 countries
- 18 participants
- 2 international events (Accra,
Brussels)
- Producing 2 movies and 1
cartoon
- Reaching 540 youth directly
- Reaching 6000 youth indirectly
- Reaching 50 policymakers
- Final conference with 100
participants

16. Theme
How does youth unemployment takes shape
and how does this affect girls in particular? Why
does youth unemployment has a different affect
on girls, and what are causes?

17. Youth unemployment

18. Why youth unemployment focus?
• Youth have less experience and fewer skills than
many adults
• 2009: 75,8 billion young people unemployed (ILO
2011)
• After finding work: job instability, few
opportunities for skills development/
advancement, joblessness
• They are more likely to be in vulnerable jobs
• Youth account for 23,5% of the total working
poor (ILO)

19. Young people around the world

20. Why young people?
• Young people have the right to participate!
• Lack of participation can lead to civil unrest
(Arab Spring: youth unemployment rate 2010
25,5 % in the Middle East, Paris riots 2010)
• Young people talking about themselves ≠
adults talking about the problems youth are
facing
• Young people are the future!

21. Girls

22. Why focus on girls?
• Girls in particular fail to complete six years of
primary education and often find them selves
vulnerable to sexual abuse after finding work
in bars of as domestic servants.
• 54 % of all children of school going age who
are not enrolled in school are female.
• Out of the world’s 130 million out of school
youth, 70 % are girls.

23. Goal 1:
Involvement of youth in home country
• Awareness raising about employment
opportunities for girls in West Africa (Ghana),
linked to opportunities for youth in country of
origin
- Direct outreach: 90 youth (workshops in schools)
per country
- Indirect outreach: 1000 youth (social media) per
country

24. Goal 2:
Lobby
• Influence 50 (5 on each country + 20 during
the conference in Brussel) policymakers about
employment opportunities for girls using West
Africa (Ghana) as an example for developing
countries.
– on parliament in country of origin
– on EU Parliamentarians

25. Planning Feb- Dec
26 Feb - 2 Kick off meeting in Accra
March Finish cartoon, film, workshop
Mar – Dec Lobby
April - Oct Workshops
June Mid-term evaluation
8- 12 Oct Meeting in Brussel
11 Oct International Day of the Girl
Dec Evaluation

26. What do we expect from you?
• In your movie/cartoon (3 till 5 minutes)
– What’s the problem
– What are causes of the problem
– Example(s) of the problem
– (your) solution to the problem
• Your audience: youth 15 - 25

27. Groups
• ABAN: Cameroon – Lithuania (Movie)
• CAS: Sierra Leone – Norway (Movie)
• SWAA: Ghana – The Netherlands (Cartoon)

28. Society for Women Against Aids Ghana
To educate and raise the awareness of rural
Ghanaian women with regards to the HIV/AIDS
epidemic and related issues.
http://www.swaagh.org/

29. A Ban Against Neglects
20 ex-Kayayo stay for two years in Aburi
Learn skills (sowing), run a household,
cooking
http://www.aban.org/

30. Catholic Action for Streetchildren
Youth <19 years come on a daily basis
Learn skills, councelling
http://www.casghana.com/

32. Lobby message
• A good lobby:
– Has a good story
– Know her/his facts, provides data
– Works together
– Is creative
– The devil is in the detail

33. Lobby
• A good lobbyist has an extended network
• Knows what s/he is talking about
• Knows how the structures/hierarchy works
• We don’t expect you to have these skills, but
you
– Are are talking about yourself
– You have specific, interesting examples
– You come up with solutions

34. The story
An lobby example

35. The facts
• 1 at 7 girls need to get married before she is
15
• 1 at 3 girls is a mother before she is 15
• 62 million girls are not allowed to go to school
• 2/3 from all the HIV infected is a women
• 50% of all the victims of sexual violence are 15
year or younger.

36. Works together
• All plan offices

37. Creative
http://vimeo.com/29142326

38. Why lobby for Youth in Action?
• It’s important that everybody in the world can
work.
• If people in Africa don’t have work, it will
effect Europe - and the other way around.
• If you have the resources to lobby, you should
use them!

40. Interview
http://vimeo.com/33868374

41. Sawatsky quote
“The best questions are like clean windows. A
clean window gives a perfect view. When we ask
a question, we want to get a window into the
source. When you put values in your questions,
it's like putting dirt on the window. It obscures
the view of the lake beyond. People shouldn't
notice the question in an interview, just like
they shouldn't notice the window. They should
be looking at the lake."

42. Tips Interview
• Break the ice
• Tell about yourself
• Be honestly interested
• Whenever possible, prepare questions in
advance.
• Let the open questions do the work
Who, what, where, when why
• Don’t take answers for granted
• Summarize
• Resist the impulse to editorialize

43. Interview your neighbour
• 1) what do you want to know from the young
people you’re going to meet?
• 2) Why do you want to know this?
• 3) Which questions are you going to ask?
• 4) How are you going to ask them?

44. Want to know more?
• http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=677
• http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=678
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st
• http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/career-developm

46. How to develop a workshop
Cedi voor jou (= cedi for you)

47. Tips and tops of the
workshops you had this
week.

48. Tips for a good workshop
• Use an attractive title
• Inventorise the expectations of participants
• Use Interactive part (discussion/game/…)
• Be positive!
• Touch upon emotions
• Use your own story and qualities
(cartoon/film/ pictures)
• Always test your workshop!

49. Inspiration
• Human rights education
http://eycb.coe.int/compass/en/contents.html
• Workshops/ energizers
http://www.salto-youth.net