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第25回優秀賞“African youth as a source of hope and ingenuity :The role of the United Nations in engaging youngpeople to help overcome poverty in Africa”Gregory LavenderAbstractThe crisis of African youth is emblematic of the world’s failure to address the multiplechallenges of poverty in Africa. However, images of young Africans engaged incivil conflict, and as jobless on the streets of slum like cities only tell a small part ofthe story. This paper takes the position that African youth presents one of the biggestsources of hope and one of the most promising opportunities for addressing the challengeof poverty in Africa. It demonstrates some of the ways that the United Nationsand its various agencies, in line with the principles of human development, can contributeto changing attitudes towards African youth, and to building their capacity tocreate long-term holistic solutions to poverty across the continent. There is extensiveevidence of the way young people’s ingenuity, energy and resilience can be harnessedto generate real and positive change. No one size fits all approach will work, but theUnited Nations is in a unique position to offer powerful ideals, and technical and materialassistance that will allow African youth to realize their full potential and generatethe kind of locally grounded solutions that should be the basis of any comprehensivechallenge to poverty. Recent United Nations policy advances related to youth anddevelopment represent an important step forward, however more needs to be doneto reflect the centrality of youth to effectively challenging poverty in the developingworld.695