Voice Africa's Future (VAF) is an agenda2030 youth initiative of African Monitor running in 10 African countries through partner organizations to ensure that SDGs implementation process is sustainable, specific, measurable and visible for the next 30 years and beyond. VAF started in 2012 as a post2015 youth consultation initiative building up to the adoption of SDGs ( http://ttcmobile.com/give-africas-future-a-voice-via-sms/#more-2637 ). VAF collected over 77,000 youth aspirations called “KeyAsks” for the new development framework. These asks fed into the formulation of national development plans and SDGs country drafts informing the regional discussions and the SDGs open working group.

The African Monitor leads the resource mobilization and trains youth champions and their country team leaders to equip them with needed skills, information and knowledge to mobilize fellow youth, gather information required on various policies and SDGS/ National Development Plan implementation process as well as doing the monitoring of the implementation process. The local partners in the 10 African Counties in liaison with the African monitor regional liaisons officer draw country VAF plans and oversee daily activities of the VAF champions as well as hold quarterly multi-stakeholders high level policy dialogues to disseminate information, share SDGs/National Development Plan implementation updates highlighting opportunities, gaps and recommendations as well as national progress shadow reporting.

The initiative will collect, analyze and use data collected from the various national Development Plan / SDGs stakeholders to track the progress, identify gaps and make recommendations/present a case. From time of initiation, the initiative has used mobile phone based SMS technology and on-line platforms to collect information, disseminate it and as well as making a case through recommendations and petitions to put pressure of stakeholders and governments to raise their ambitions of archiving SDGs in sustainable, measurable and tangible ways that uplift the quality of life and rights of ordinary citizens. There will also be use of multi-stakeholders’ dialogues and webinars with country teams, prominent policy persons, government officials and key stake holders.

Voice Africa's Future (VAF) is an initiative of African Monitor running in 10 African countries through partner organizations who identify / voluntarily recruit VAF youth champions who volunteer for 24 months. The youth champions select among themselves a country team leader who links with the African monitor regional liaison who is charged in liaison with partner organizations to train country teams, transfer information, knowledge and skills, guide and oversee their work and hold multi-stakeholder high level policy dialogues.

Response To African youth dynamics (Uganda), Talent Youth Association (Ethiopia), Organization of African Youth ( Kenya and Malawi), Youth Advocates- Ghana, Uganda National NGO Forum, Africa Unite (South Africa), United Nations Association of South Africa, Civil Society MDG Campaign/GCAP Zambia, West Africa Youth Network (Burkina Faso), International youth Organization (Kenya), Northern Youth Network, No one left behind Tanzania.