POLICY ADVOCACY & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
KEY ACTIVITIES
- Advocacy campaigns: Ujana creates mass awareness about a social issue and drives its advocacy & PR campaigns at grassroots levels.
- Marketing and Enrolment Drives: Done in collaboration with Community based organisations led by youth to equip them with leadership & softs kills for long term capacities.
- Stakeholder Forums: Partnering with other like minded Organisations e.g Youth Skills Hunt Forum, Youth Employment Conference, International Youth Week
- Digital Campaigns: Information sharing on Social Media through Tweet Chats, webinars, and drive campaigns online.
Ujana Afrika endeavors to continue driving public policy action by fostering conversations among young people and providing for policy dialogue and co-designing policy interventions to social issues such as in the Education Sector.
In addition to championing TVET, Ujana is advocating for the participation of young people at the highest levels of decision-making. In its promoting youth leadership area of work, the organization empowers young leaders through ensuring they are in institutions of learning and that they are able to access the much needed support to fulfill their potential.
Ujana Afrika’s founder is Lynette Mwende Ndile, a passionate social policy practitioner who has revolutionised education sector reforms through interpreting key evidence based research findings in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for policy action by multinational organisations. Through public policy advocacy, she has provided thought leadership on education sector reforms and used her voice to engage with state and non-state actors to drive policy action.
Lynette was the Youth Member in The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, 2022-2023.
