AFRICAN UNION YOUTH

VOLUNTEER CORPS (AU-YVC)

EMMANUEL ETIM
PROGRAMME MANAGER
D-HRST/HRY
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION
TEL: +251-910427020 EMAIL:
etime@africa-union.org
 SUMMARY PROFILE
Youth Volunteerism (Model)
Officially launched in Abuja, Nigeria: December 3, 2010
1500 applications received to date
2 sessions of Pre-deployment trainings held in Abuja and Equatorial
Guinea
Trained 205 from 36 AU Member States and from the Diaspora
55 deployed as at September 30
30 ongoing deployment arrangement for final departure by October
30
Unmet request from Member States reached 1,100 (South Sudan
alone 1,000)
Cost of the AUYVC= Monthly stipend $500; Medical and Health
Insurance, Initial settlement allowance; Travel ticket to and from
home country
AUTHORITY/MANDATE

African Youth Charter Article

11(h) 31(k)

Assembly decision
AU/Dec.274 (XVI) 2010 para.8

HRST/Division of Human
Resources and Youth- Term of
Reference
STRUCTURE
Dev., Integration Institution &
Peace & Security Shared Values
& Cooperation Capacity Bldng.
Knowledge and Inter-African Pan-African Competence
respect for exchange of Leadership building
Diversity knowledge and emergence Performance
Culture of skills Management, enhancement
Dialogue and Brain Gain Service delivery People
Mutual Reducing & oriented value
understanding Transaction Accountability chain
Ownership and cost of Aid Positive social Result based
involvement GDP Output (In capital management
longterm) Spirit of
Cost volunteerism
Containment
Where is the AU-YVC within the AUC?

AUYVC
HR & Y Project Team
Division

Dept
HRST

Office of the
Chairperson
Partnerships and Alliances

United Nations Volunteers (UNV), ILO and UNFPA

Peace Corps
Volunteer Service Organization
Quebec- Canada
JICA

Conceptual framework, systems for recruitment, matching, training

and deployment, Modules and Procedure Manuals etc
Current Profile of an AU-YV

Any Young person between

the age(s) 21-35

Post Secondary/High School

degree or equivalent technical
certification

Male or Female

Living in or outside of Africa

(Of African descent)

At least 1 year of previous

Volunteer or non-curricular
Community service activities
Implementation Arrangement

Support for AU-YVC

Virtualization of Programme Management activities
(promotion, mobilization & recruitment, shortlisting et al)
How to request for an AU-YVC?
How to become an AU-YVC?
Pre-deployment training and orientation
Deployment plan and arrangement
Performance indicators & Results Based
Resource Mobilization
Where are we now?
PMU- 8 technical staff
Volunteer Review Committee
Country Technical Mechanism (Continental
Policy Framework and Technical Guidance
Note to establish National Youth Volunteer
Programmes
 Where are they? Khartoum, Sudan, Juba South
Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bostwana, Rwanda,
Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South
Africa, Central Africa Republic, Nigeria,
Burkina faso, Cameroun, Ghana, Senegal etc
What are they doing? Public sector projects by
AU Member States in Policy development,
project management, service delivery
MATERIALS
Longitudinal Reporting on African Youth
Volunteerism
Concept and Practice of Youth Volunteerism in
Africa
About the AU-YVC
CHALLENGES
Programme Management still within the AUC
operational structure
Values systems and socio-economic
environment