Commitment title:

Demographic diversity and sustainable development

Commitment description:

Young people will
1. Advocate for increased funding for family planning
2. Hold leaders accountable using monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to make sure that project implementation has the intended results and impact
3. Encourage fellow young people to consider mechanized farming and advocate for funding to make agriculture attractive to the youth
4. Advocate for equal disbursement of resources especially for youth start-ups and project implementers
5. Advocate for quality and digitized data systems and disaggregated data to facilitate young people’s engagement and uptake of developmental projects
6. Advocate for adolescent and youth friendly services where young people can go for counselling services
7. Advocate for equal opportunities for all groups of young people, including persons with disabilities and other marginalised groups
8. Commit to avoid judgemental and discriminatory attitudes towards other young people who access family planning, including persons with disabilities and marginalized groups
9. Commit to avoid judgemental and discriminatory attitudes towards persons with disabilities and marginalized groups
10. Increase access to technical and vocational skill training and sharing knowledge with other young people
11. Increase advocacy to break and deconstruct the myths and misconceptions surrounding family planning
12. Commit to youth-led initiatives and capacity building on inclusiveness to achieve sustainable development

Modes of engagement:
  • Policy and guidance
    Ghanaian youth 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.
  • Programmatic action
    Ghanaian youth 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.
Commitment to be actioned in: Ghana
Submitted from: Ghana
Submitted by
AfriYAN Ghana
Thematic area
Draw on demographic diversity to drive economic growth and achieve sustainable development
Commitment category

(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.