Ghana's Youth Commitments: Creating financing momentum

Young people will
1. Engage in fundraising activities, including crowdfunding, to support local projects
2. Engage in social entrepreneurship
3. Work with local government to outsource funding for communal projects
4. Advocate for opportunities of paid internships for young people while in school to give them capital for entrepreneurial start-ups
5. Utilize local government, religious and traditional structures for youth-led interventions
6. Employ smart ways of rolling out community engagements through the use of innovation and technology
7. Support adolescent and youth-led organisations and initiatives
8. Advocate for Government to subsidize costs of raw materials to generate revenue for youth-led start-ups
9. Leverage on the CSR activities of companies and institutions to source funding for projects
10. Invest in their own skills acquisition through capacity building workshops
11. Advocate for the strengthening of funding systems in Ghana such as common funds to be backed by legislations that hold leaders accountable

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action
  YoLe Fellows and AFRIYAN Ghana have organized a consultative event for young people to deliberate and have a unified front on the commitments that is representative of young people in Ghana at the Nairobi Summit.