About us
Who We Are
The Youth Bridge Foundation (YBF) is an independent non-profit organization committed to youth development across the continent of Africa and the Diaspora. We strive to achieve this purpose and mandate through cutting-edge and evidence based youth research, sustained advocacy, training and mentorship. Headquartered in Ghana and accredited with the UN ECOSOC Special Consultative status since 2011, YBF is not a membership-based organization but works with a network of youth across the Continent. The Foundation currently has Country offices in Zambia and the USA.
Youth Bridge Foundation
Vision Statement
To harness the potential of the youth to become responsible and participating citizens for sustainable development.
Youth Bridge Foundation
Mission Statement
Partnership
We acknowledge and appreciate every effort and collective mobilization with a common goal.
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Our Values
At Youth Bridge Foundation, we are driven by a set of core values that reflect our commitment to the youth and the broader society. These values guide our actions, decisions, and interactions as we strive to create a positive impact on the lives of young people across Africa and the Diaspora.
Disability Desk
Disability Desk
Informed by our Value of ‘Equity’, the Foundation mainstreams gender and disability perspectives in its programs and projects to ensure that both girls’/ boys’ needs and youths with disability needs are taken into consideration.
We recognize that, especially youth with disabilities have peculiar concerns with different needs, different levels of access, opportunities and constraints that require conscious attention in addressing.
The Foundation appreciates this as a fundamental step for inclusion and responsiveness to Youth Development issues. For the purposes of integration and exhibiting our commitment to ‘Equity’, we strengthened our Access To Justice & Disability Program by establishing a Disability Desk.
The Desk has young people with disability as officers with an oversight by a Team of PWD expert. For us inclusion entails recognizing the barriers and constraints to inclusion and finding ways of improving it by giving equal opportunities to all. We thus approach these social problems caused by a lack of access to justice through the culturally resonant method of storytelling to raise awareness, develop capacities on existing laws and where and how to access them, and advocate for enforcement by those responsible for upholding such rights.
In collaboration with the Transitions Promotion Program of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Accra therefore, the Youth Bridge Foundation (YBF) is expanding the “Youth in Local Governance” project to the Northern and Western Regions of Ghana.
Endorsements
The AYGC initiative by the Youth Bridge Foundation seeks to build a connected African Youth which was a dream the former president of Ghana - Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, other African founding fathers and I shared and worked at achieving. For this reason, I recommend the African Youth and Governance Convergence.
Kenneth Kaunda
Subsidiary Platforms
AYGC is a 4-tier leadership grooming and an all year round program with an annual
Convergence of youth and experts from Africa and the Diaspora in the areas of
- Leadership grooming
- Cascade of mentorship
- Community impact
- Networking & exchanges
YBF initiated the African Youth and Governance Convergence (AYGC) in 2009
Youth Bridge Multimedia is a registered subsidiary of YBF and consists of TV and Radio. It is a youth focused channel that seeks to impact the youth for development through information sharing, education and entertainment. It also seeks to create spaces for
the youth to evolve, engage and entertain themselves. Programmes are to be aired in friendly and convenient manner to the Youth for easier access and usage. Programmes are geared towards the capacity building of the youth (and/or youth oriented organizations).
The Youth Bridge Education and Mentorship Scheme (YBEMS) is a subsidiary organization of Youth Bridge Foundation the national scholarship fund, after school
support and mentoring/coaching, internships and job placements
The Youth Bridge Alliance is a lose network of all voluntary independent youth-focused organizations to brainstorm and discuss issues relating to youth development in Ghana
and Africa.
The YBRI is a subsidiary organization of the Youth Bridge Foundation (YBF), set up to inter alia, conduct research that characterizes the situation of the youth in Africa and the Diaspora, identifies gaps and opportunities to strengthen youth development through practice and policy. YBRI undertakes evidence based academic research on young
African Youth And Governance Convergence
Youth Bridge Multimedia
Youth Bridge Education and Mentorship Scheme (YBEMS)
Youth Bridge Alliance
We commend the Youth Bridge Foundation for opening and allowing a stage for young people to be seen and heard it.
Dennia Gayle UNFPA Ghana Deputy Rep. 2014