Advocacy – Digitalise Youth
Are you passionate about digital rights and empowering young voices?
The Youth Democracy Cohort is offering Digital Advocacy Grants to selected organisations in the Sahel and neighbouring regions. This is your chance to drive real policy change, creating safe, inclusive, and accessible digital spaces for youth political participation.
Apply by 11 April
Digitalise Youth seeks to empower youth activists and human rights defenders to advocate for digital rights through capacity building, financial support, and collaborative campaigns. The project will enable young activists and organisations to advocate for digital rights at local, regional, and international levels while targeting bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to push for the ratification of the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity and Personal Data Protection.
The project will support content creators and develop a digital rights toolkit for advocacy campaigns. Through existing platforms such as the Youth Democracy Cohort and Open Government Partnership, Digitalise Youth will engage with policy and tech stakeholders to strengthen youth-led digital rights advocacy and contribute to a more inclusive digital landscape in Africa.
Illustrations by Okeno Adem for the Digital Democracy Initiative
