Deadline: 30 September, 2021
Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA), in collaboration with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat, has announced a call for participation in the YALDA-AfCFTA Youth Creative Competition.
Other partners include African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim Bank), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the International Trade Centre (ITC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The competition seeks to deepen African youths’ understanding of the AfCFTA’s instruments and how African youths can drive the AfCFTA agenda from their perspective.
Participants are to write on ‘The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): What is in it for young Africans’?
Benefits
- Winner will receive U.S.$1,000
- Second-place finisher will receive U.S.$500
- Third-place finisher will get U.S.$300
- Mentoring
- Publication of work
- Winner will present submission at a YALDA or one of the partners’ events
- Winner will have personal time with YALDA and partner institutions’ executive directors, presidents or chairpersons
- Winner will be interviewed by partner media houses
- Winner will get freelance contract for winners of the graphic design/animation and/or communications work with partner institutions
- Winner will secure short internship with one of the partner institutions
Eligibility
- Be a national of an African Union member state
- Submit a national I.D. as proof of citizenship
- Be residing permanently or temporarily in the continent
- Be aged between 18 and 35
- Be passionate about Africa’s development and deeper understanding of the AfCFTA
To enter and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Erik (HASH) Hersman
