We are an alliance of 15 youth-led/youth-focussed organisations that supports youth-led accountability of duty-bearers articulated around the capacity-building of a network of youth-led organizations that are already active in youth`-led accountability. Working through youth-led organizations we hope to create a sustainable way to engage young people in accountability work while making it safer than training young people directly and asking them to stand up in front of their leaders.

We train Youth-led organizations so their capacity is strengthened and increased to deliver for their peers and communities in a sustainable way. Bringing them all together in a network will support their collective actions. With this increased capacity, they will better be able to inform and influence State actors on service provision issues pertaining to young people and will take action for dialogue between State actors and young people. Ultimately, this will result in Youth-Focused and Youth-Led Organizations collectively being able to hold State actors accountable and to influence their decisions.

The project supports the network of YLOs and YFOs to take on evidence-based advocacy targeting State actors, demanding for young people’s rights to be represented in decision-making spaces as mapped out and identified in Government institutions. Interventions will strive to better understand mandates and responsibilities of duty-bearers for services targeted at young people.