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Kadoma youths stand up and take action
Youth Alliance for Democracy
September 24, 2010

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Summary: the Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty Program is part of Youth Alliance for Democracy's Strategic Goal of encouraging Accountable leadership among young political leadership within their constituencies. The program is in line with Government Work Plan for 2010 which seeks to improve service delivery at community level by resuscitating the nation's infrastructure, health care systems, education, antiretroviral therapy, address gender disparities, etc and is in line with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals that seeks to end absolute poverty in the world by 2015 and is cognisant that from the 8 MDGs 7 of them relate directly to youth and the overall objective is:

• To foster social accountability by the country's government and political leadership and build communities' capacity to participate and make demands to and hold their leaders accountable towards the implementation and achievement of Millennium Development Gaols.

The program is done using and adapting the concept of social accountability and principles of the MDGs. Social accountability refers to a broad range of actions including the voting process, and mechanisms that citizens, communities and civil society organisations use to hold government officials and bureaucrats accountable. This includes citizen participation in public policy making, participatory budgeting and budget tracking, monitoring of public service delivery, citizen advisory boards and lobbying and advocacy campaigns. The program also factors best political leadership practises among youths in political positions and aims at encouraging governments, both at the national and local level governance, community based strides towards attaining Millennium Development Goals and cultivates a Zero Tolerance Attitude towards ineffective political leadership. A survey carried out by the United Nations in 2008 contained in the Human Report ranked Zimbabwe as a nation whose populace is living below the Poverty Datum Line owing to political conflict, corruption and no clear cut economic policy to steer the nation towards poverty reduction among other social ills.

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