Apply Now: EU Launches Malawi Youth Sounding Board 2025–2027 to Empower Young Leaders

In Malawi, youth is a key crosscutting space of engagement for the European Union Delegation. The Multi-Annual Indicative Programme (MIP) 2021-2027 helps these aspirations set in Malawi’s long-term growth methods. In explicit, and in connection to the “Malawi 2063 Agenda”, the European Union is working with the Government of Malawi on enhancing the contribution of considered one of its most dear property, youth and ladies.

EU help to youth cuts throughout the three major precedence areas introduced by the MIP: i) Green and resilient financial transformation; ii) Democratic and financial governance; iii) Human growth and social inclusion.

As part of its technique to strengthen youth engagement, the EUD Malawi has established its personal Malawi Youth Sounding Board (MW-YSB) with a two-year mandate, operating from December 2023 to December 2025.

The first cohort of the MW-YSB introduced collectively 15 younger graduates from tertiary establishments. This section created a possibility for them to interact instantly with EU cooperation insurance policies, making these insurance policies extra participatory, related, and responsive to the wants of Malawian youth. It additionally supplied a platform for creativity, peer studying, and exchanges with regional and worldwide counterparts, enabling members to share views and contribute to the EU’s work in Malawi.

Building on this basis, the EU Delegation intends to launch a Call for Candidatures to recruit the members of the brand new Youth Sounding Board co-hort that can run for the subsequent two years (January 2026 – December 2027).

What is the Youth Sounding Board?

The Malawi Youth Sounding Board (MW-YSB) is a chance for younger Malawians to be nearer to the European Union cooperation coverage, to make it extra participatory, related and efficient for younger individuals. The YSB is an area for creativity and exchanges that can permit members to present their views and contribute to the work of the European Union in Malawi.

Given the promptly evolving coverage context following the elections, the Malawi Youth Sounding Board will play a pivotal position in advocating for priorities of the youth, promote job creation, vocational coaching, and entrepreneurship, that are important for assuaging youth unemployment. It may also give attention to susceptible youth, by selling youth empowerment and employment by EU initiatives in Malawi and by strengthening connections with native and community-based youth organizations. 

The MW-YSB will purpose to make EU motion extra participatory, related and efficient by finishing up the next (non-exhaustive) record of actions:

• Ensure lively youth involvement in dialogues and collaborations between the EU and Civil Society Organisations to advocate for youth views and priorities;
• Contribute to the roll-out of programmes particular actions related for youth particularly within the space associated to employment and entrepreneurship growth;
• Supporting EU initiatives within the nation by gathering youth feedbacks on these Actions, with the target of guaranteeing that these align with the wants and expectations of the youth;
• Enhance youth data on EU work in Malawi in addition to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge on programmes benefitting Malawian youth, together with on sectors associated to youth employment, expertise growth and training;
• Create actual partnerships with related buildings and present networks in Malawi, and doubtlessly globally, facilitating collaboration and sharing of studying alternatives.

Participation to the MW-YSB is on a voluntary foundation. Notwithstanding, the EU Delegation in Malawi will reimburse prices incurred by members within the implementation of all of the actions organised within the context of the MW-YSB.

The MW-YSB will additional:

• Participate in trainings to purchase the mandatory data to carry out ad-hoc actions;
• Hold not less than 4 conferences a 12 months with the entire Youth Sounding Board;
• Participate in actions and area visits organised by the EU Delegation;
• Provide stories and feedbacks all through the 2 years mandate.

The MW- YSB shall be composed of a most 8 members, who shall:

• Be Malawian nationals resident within the nation, between 18 and 30 years of age;
• Be artistic, motivated and prepared to contribute to functioning of the Board;
• Have a eager curiosity in growth cooperation and particularly in these areas prioritised by the EU in its partnership with the Government of Malawi, together with in training/Technical, Entrepreneurial, and Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) and employment;
• Have command of spoken and written English.