Weaving together a network of Ghanaian organisations committed to meaningful youth agency, advocacy and participation across education, health, urban resilience and digital spaces.
What is the Ghana Alliance?
The Ghana Alliance is a collective network of organisations that support meaningful youth participation, advocacy and agency across education, health, urban resilience and digital spaces in Ghana. The Alliance focused on bringing together organisations to leverage each other's skills, build more effective partnerships, and drive greater long-term impact with and for young people.
Alliance member organisations
Why the Ghana Alliance?
Despite a rich ecosystem of organisations working with and for young people across Ghana, a key finding from our initial scoping was stark: most organisations were entirely unaware of one another, even where their work directly overlapped across health, education, technology and civic participation.
This fragmentation limits the potential for collective advocacy, shared learning and coordinated action — and leaves young people's voices scattered rather than amplified. The Ghana Alliance was conceived to address this directly.
The problem
Most organisations were unaware of each other despite working on overlapping issues with and for young people across Ghana — a fragmented ecosystem with limited collective voice and missed opportunities for partnership, shared learning and coordinated advocacy.
The opportunity
A collective Alliance with shared values and coordinated action enables stronger advocacy at local, national and global levels — creating a trusted, sustainable community of practice where organisations can share knowledge, resources and opportunities in service of young people.
Our manifesto
The Ghana Alliance Manifesto is a living declaration — co-created, co-designed and co-validated by all Alliance members through a democratic process. It is a guide for our actions, a source of accountability, and an invitation to others who share our vision.
"A Ghana where every young person acts on their agency, driving sustainable, transformative change within their communities, benefiting from and contributing to a fairer, more inclusive world."
Values
Five core values guide the Alliance: Foundations, Inclusive and Equitable Practices, Empowerment and Engagement, Collaborative Action, and Long-Term Quality Change.
Intention
Young people at the centre of change — as drivers of equity, innovation and systemic change. Alliance members as supporters working at various intersections with young people.
Vision
Young people are not just the future but the present leaders of change. By investing in their potential, we can collectively address the root causes of inequality, injustice and exclusion.
What sustains us
The four pillars that underpin the Alliance and will guide its growth from pilot into sustained implementation. The Alliance will continue regardless of funding — because the community we have built is real.
Young people
Ghana Youth Alliance steering group, youth-led advocacy, youth engagement design and action — young people directing the motion of the Alliance.
Capabilities
Learning Circles, partnership-storming, opportunity matching and governance development — building the skills and systems the Alliance needs to thrive.
Collective impact
Impact Standards co-designed with and for young people, weaving and storytelling — making the invisible, impactful work of the Alliance visible.
Society
Advocacy coordination across health, education, civic participation and digital technologies, alongside ecosystem weaving with Ghanaian and global networks.
A year of building and learning
Across the pilot period, Partnership Bureau facilitated multiple sessions, events and engagements with Alliance members — turning an idea into a reality.
Alliance Summit
The formal launch of the Ghana Alliance. All member organisations convened to make their member pledge, vote on a governance model, and plan next steps together. Fondation Botnar staff and board members were present — meeting the organisations that turn their resources into real-world impact.
Learning Circles
Member-led sessions on Partnerships, Fundraising and Advocacy — a space for candid, convivial exchange that members said is rarely available in civil society.
Youth Dialogues
Multi-region participatory sessions with young people aged 16–25 across Ghana. Young people expressed themselves through spoken word, drawing and performance. The sessions resulted in a youth-authored manifesto and the formation of the Ghana Youth Alliance steering group.
Governance
Alliance members reviewed four governance models before democratically voting for the anchor-and-satellite structure. Flexible and task-oriented, with room to decentralise as trust and capacity grow.
Impact in action
Collective impact is the record of our connections and changes — typically invisible moments that have a powerful and lasting effect on relationships, attitudes and practices. These are the tangible signs of what a sustained Alliance can achieve, emerging from just nine months of engagement.
Grant support
Alliance members support each other for grant applications based on previous experiences and successes.
Government engagement
Alliance members lead various engagements with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Youth Development and Empowerment and other agencies on youth agency, advocacy and participation — intending to engage Alliance members as a collective force.
Youth connection
The young people that Alliance members have been collaobrating with develop their own collective - the Ghana Youth Alliance to be the voices and leaders of change across their communities in Ghana.
Promotion & collaboration
Alliance members collaborate on summits and convenings together to platform youth agency, and have co-developed learning forums and dialogues with the ecosystem across the world.
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