Date: May 17, 2025
Author: AYCPD Editorial Team
Africa’s youth population is its greatest asset—but also its most vulnerable demographic to poverty, conflict, and injustice. Community-led initiatives, such as Vision Bearerz in Kenya, illustrate how urban farming projects can transform slum areas into hubs of food security and youth employment AP News. At AYCPD, founded in 2021 in Cameroon, we adopt a similar grassroots ethos, focusing on Local Community Development, Social Welfare, and Mechanized Agriculture Empowerment among internally displaced and deprived communities UNICEF.
Through our YOCAP collaborative farming scheme, we train over 2,000 youths annually in agro-enterprise development—addressing the critical lack of access to farmland, start-up capital, and mechanized equipment uaccameroon.org. Complementing this, the Cameroon Youth Agribusiness Hub leverages the fertile Mungo basin to tackle youth unemployment, equipping young agripreneurs with technical and business skills youthagrihubs.org. Evidence-based research underscores the importance of inclusive mechanization policies for sustainable agriculture across Africa ScienceDirect.
Peacebuilding lies at the heart of our mission: in partnership with ACCORD and the African Union’s Youth for Peace programme, AYCPD engages youth groups in developing national action plans for peace and security, ensuring young voices shape policy and conflict resolution processes ACCORD peaceau.org. As we strive toward the UN SDG 2030 targets and AU Agenda 2063, AYCPD calls on volunteers, donors, and civic leaders to join our roundtable for youth cooperation—because sustainable peace and development demand empowered, united youths across Africa.
