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The Youth Advocates Graduation event closing photo
This was a wrap-up session organized and conducted to facilitate the trainers and trainees to present the outcomes of the four YAG training cohorts to the Ministry of Youth and other strategic partners, and discuss on next steps and possible scaling up of the emerging innovations proposed by Youth Advocates.
Objectives:
• Showcase the benefits of the YAG training and action plan presentation
• Provision of certificates to trained Youth Advocates
• Launch a Youth Advocates Network and peer networking platform for young changemakers.
The participants of this event were the trained advocates, youth with promising advocacy work, Ministry of Youth and other relevant government institutions, youth-led non-governmental organizations and others working with young people.
The event was executed through presentations and storytelling, the documentary video of YAG journey in Rwanda, Exhibition of the initiatives of trained advocates, Panel discussion on the meaningful youth engagement, Presentation of the recommendations and call to actions generated during the YAG training, speeches of distinguished officials and youth advocates, awarding the certificates to the trained youth advocates, and ended by the networking cocktail.
“As the ministry of youth, we promise you the support from Government and we encourage you to join efforts and bring more innovations that contribute to the country development”. Said Director General of youth empowerment, Ministry of Youth in her closing remarks"
