If you are familiar with the phrase that preaches taking two to knit a bargain, you most likely have wondered if there is a third party and or beneficiary lurking. Questions like these, unless obvious, are often left unanswered. They say for every rule, there is an allowable variation. In this story, you are certainly satisfying your curiosity about who takes the bargain.
This is a story of Fondation Botnar and STAR-Ghana Foundation knitting a bargain for and with the city of Koforidua, so you would be absolutely right to say two “Foundations and a city” is an exception of the knitting rule because it is a three-way bargain. A bargain that requires “duty bearers to take young people seriously and get young people involved in governance.” This has become necessary because of the apparent exclusion of the youth in local governance according to the District League Table valuation.
During a two-day project development workshop in Koforidua, Project Manager for ‘Action for Youth Development (AfYD) Our City Project’ , Dr Ernestina Korleki-Tetteh, highlighted the steps preceding the workshop, and the different levels of engagements with stakeholders including young people, the courtesy calls on the Omanhene, the municipal chief executive among others, to deliberate and provide input for the design and implementation of the pro-youth project.
Community Based Organizations (CBOs) took turns to pitch their project proposals and undertook review exercises to tailor the drafts to more youth-centered initiatives. The engagement of these potential partners is under the ‘Action for Youth Development (AfYD) Our City Project’ implemented by STAR-Ghana Foundation with funding from Fondation BOTNAR.
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