The Youth Empowerment Synergy

The Tackling Poverty Together (TPT) project was initiated to convince stakeholders of the importance of working with youth to achieve poverty reduction. Started in 2005 by the National Council for Swedish Youth Organisation (LSU) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the project is operational in seven countries namely Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Liberia, Uganda, and Malawi.


TPT is intended to highlight and strengthen young people’s role in development policies in general and poverty reduction strategies in particular. Youth organisations in participating countries are taking actions in order to increase young people’s participation in poverty reduction processes. Through the development and implementation of action plans the TPT country teams are gaining hands-on experience in advocacy for greater inclusion in decision-making processes. As a result, young people have achieved greater recognition and involvement in the national processes of poverty reduction.

In Ghana, the TPT team is hosted at the Youth Empowerment Synergy and comprises of a growing network of youth groups across the country, and a steering committee comprising representatives of five member organisations.

Under this project, several capacity building activities have been undertaken since 2005, including physical workshops in participating countries and online courses. The Ghana Team led by YES recently released its flagship publication ‘Keeping the Promise – A toolkit for young people to assess national policies for youth in Ghana’.

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