Promoting solution-oriented policy and social dialogue
Youth Leadership
The Leadership and Governance Academy aims to develop the capacity of young people and their formations to enable them to absorb and adapt to shocks, and to transform systemic inequalities into system change enablers.
Youth Programmes
Youth Programme
YouLead is a flagship Youth Leadership Program working to unlock youth leadership potential for a prosperous region by identifying, recognizing, connecting and fostering cooperation among Africa’s vibrant and influential young leaders and their initiatives.
It is a joint initiative of MS TCDC and the East African Community (EAC). H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, former President of Tanzania is YouLead’s current Patron.
Youth programme
In a bid to reach more young people at community level in addition to the YouLead program, the Hub is created to connect youth in our community to youth power, network, potential and prompt change.
The Hub is a platform driven by young people to facilitate social, experience-based and youth centered solutions to the challenges faced by young people.
Youth Hub Arusha welcomes youth from all walks of life from 18 - 35 years to be members.
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
Projects
Project
A Pan African tool for Measuring Human Dignity based on the African Union Agenda 2063 Youth Governance Architecture Studies, Continental Studies on Youth Inclusion in the Africa Free Trade Area Agreement processes.
The ADI intends to base its indicators on three thematic areas, namely:
- Human Dignity - the dignity of all African humans everywhere on earth.
- Human Development.
- Peace and Justice for all Africans.
Social Dialogues
Democratic culture thrives on continuous interaction between the leaders and citizens.
MS TCDC provides safe and conducive spaces and platforms for social dialogues through which leaders, representatives, and other duty bearers can interact with citizens on public policy. This is to ensure that interventions are people-centered and responsive to people's needs.
We facilitate a series of gatherings where duty bearers and rights holders interact and discuss topical issues.
SIGNATURE EVENTS
YouLead Summit is YouLead’s annual climax event, providing a forum for young leaders to craft responses to challenges and opportunities facing African youth and work toward solutions for a prosperous continent. The summit focuses on two programmatic areas: Youth in Politics and Youth in Business and Enterprise.
Arusha Debates seeks to highlight pressing continental development issues that require policy attention and financial investment and to generate insights into how to make social and economic development a reality for ever greater numbers of Africans.
Every debate explores:
- A problem that if solved would lead to improvements of African lives.
- Examine the pros and cons of current efforts to solve such problems and put forward different alternative approaches to solving them.
D4D brings together the diversity of Africa’s democratic community, including scholars, religious leaders, NGO leaders, donors, trade unionists, students, professionals, artists, women leaders, farmers’ associations and political formations.
The conference is the flagship event of the Africa Drive for Democracy network, which is co-convened and hosted by the MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation, the Institute for Security Studies and the Center for Strategic Litigation.
This is an annual gathering that convenes civil society organisations to discuss issues pertaining to the civic space, and moot solutions to the dysfunctional status of social infrastructure in Africa, and the path to resilient communities, responsive civil society, and responsible states.
This forum supports reflection on the progress made and the challenges encountered over the previous year while providing clarity around what the future of civic space should look like, and how that journey should be charted.
RESIDENCIES
Dedicated space for transnational collaborators to build collective power
Fellowship residencies are an arrangement where a selected fellow or a group of fellow is admitted to reside at the campus for a determined number of days, weeks or months.
In the present-day residence model, during their residence period, fellows undertake their chosen residence assignments in collaboration with MS TCDC Faculty and use some of their residence time to reflect on their own career and personal advancement plans. They get involved in designing and facilitating training, seminars and conferences, share experiences, and connect with and utilise the networking opportunities that we offer.