{"id":144554,"date":"2022-12-27T15:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/?p=144554"},"modified":"2022-12-27T15:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T15:17:45","slug":"yali-regional-leadership-center-dakar-online-cohort-16-17-programme-for-young-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/yali-regional-leadership-center-dakar-online-cohort-16-17-programme-for-young-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"YALI Regional Leadership Center Dakar Online Cohort 16\/17 Programme for young Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Young African Leaders Initiative<\/u>\u00a0(YALI)<\/strong> is an initiative of Barack Obama, former President of the United States, which dates back to 2010. The objective is to support young African leaders in their efforts to stimulate growth and prosperity, strengthen democratic governance and improving peace and security in the African continent.<\/p>\n

Initially, it consisted of a series of high-level forums, including the Obama Forum with Young African Leaders in August 2010, the Pioneering Young African Women Forum in June 2011, and the Innovation and Partnership for Mentoring Young African Leaders of June 2012, in addition to the approximately two thousand (2000) youth activities that took place at US Embassies across the African continent.<\/p>\n

The Regional Leadership Centers were created in Africa, to have more impact by training more leaders.\u00a0The centers are based in Nairobi (Kenya), Pretoria (South Africa), Accra (Ghana) and Dakar (Senegal).
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\nThe YALI DAKAR Regional Leadership Center (CRL)<\/strong>\u00a0housed within the African Center for Higher Studies in Management (CESAG) offers two types of training in the following 3 areas: Business and Entrepreneurship, Civic Leadership and Public Management.\u00a0It is :<\/p>\n

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