STEP 1: PERSONAL DETAILS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

1. Please provide your First Nameas it appears on your birth certificate, passport or national identification card.
2. Provide yourSurname or Family name as it appears on your birth certificate, passport or national identification card.
3. Provide any other given name(s).
4. Please provide an email address which you check regularly as this will be the primary mode of contacting you.
5. Please fill in your primary phone number. It will be a major means through which the team will contact you.
6. Provide an alternative phone number (if you have one) where we can reach you in case we cannot reach you on your primary phone number. This could be a parent, spouse, other family member, or work phone number.
7. If you use WhatsApp, please check yes and indicate the phone number to which your account is associated. This is optional.
8. If you have a Facebook and/or Twitter account, please check yes and indicate your handles. Note that this is optional.
9. Please fill in your Postal Address (P.O. Box number), if you have one.
10. Please provide yourDate of Birth by selecting the year, month, and day on the pop-up calendar or using the format (YYYY-MM-DD).
11. Please state your Nationality (E.g. Ghanaian)
12. Please state your current place and Country of Residence. (E.g. Accra – Ghana)
13. Please note that, all applicants non-resident in Uganda are required to have a passport in order to travel to Uganda. You will be required to fill in the number, country of issue, and date of expiration of your passport.
14. Ugandan applicants resident in Uganda will be required to fill in the ID number or Passport number and date of Issue of their ID Cards or Passport. Non-Ugandan Applicants resident in Ugnada will be required to do same with their passports.

STEP 2: EDUCATION AND LANGUAGES

Education

Please tell us about your educational background. Indicate your highest level of education completed, and your Course of Study, Name of Institution, Year of Completion. Please also indicate if you are currently enrolled in school/college/university. While the YAWC programme values a person’s education, there is no minimum level of education or minimum grade required for participation in the programme.

Languages

English/French language proficiency is required for participation in the YAWC 2023 East Africa Sub-regional congress. All activities will be conducted in English, including Keynote Addresses, Plenary Sessions, Presentation Sessions, Discussions, Meetings, Cultural Activities, and Social Interactions. Please fill in how you will evaluate your English language skills (Basic, Intermediate or Advanced) as accurately as possible and also tell us what other international languages you comprehend.

For delegates who are proficient in French, there would be a French translation for all the sessions at the congress.

STEP 3: WORK EXPERIENCE

Please tell us about your current or most recent work. This may include formal or informal employment, self-employment, or other forms of engagement with organisations. It is not mandatory that you are or have ever been employed, but we want to know as much about you as possible.

1. What is/was the name of the organization/company you work(ed) for?
2. What is/was your position or job title?

STEP 4: GROUP DISCUSSION SESSION SELECTION
Group Classification
There are Six (6) discussion groups to choose from: Network of Women in Politics, Network of Women Entrepreneurs, Higher Education for the Girl Child / STEM, Demographic Dividend and the Threat of Teenage Pregnancy, Economic Recovery after Covid-19 Pandemic and Conflict Management, Peace & Consensus building. Participants can participate only in one of the groups. Read the descriptions of each group carefully before making your selection. It must however be noted that, the selection panel may choose to re-assign a participant to a group other than the group she selected if they deem necessary.
NB: Discussions would be behind closed doors and the ‘Chatham rule’ will be adhered to.

GROUP ONE (1) – Network of Women in Politics
Politics is critical to every nation’s development. Unfortunately, in Africa, and many parts of the world, women are seldom involved in politics for diverse reasons. Thankfully, the world has awakened to the reality that women’s participation in politics is not only critical to their individual development, but more crucial to building prosperous nations, healthy families and inclusive growth. Many Parliaments across the world with this knowledge have passed legislations which seek to establish quota systems to favour women into politics at the highest levels.
Beyond the quota systems, there are entrenched underpinnings that still hold women back from politics, hence, the poor figures.
This group will discuss the ways in which women can be encouraged to take politics as a development tool to change the course of women in Africa.
The discussion will be guided by the following terms of reference:
1. How important are quota systems to women’s participation in politics and parliament?
2. Why have quota systems failed to get more women into politics? What are the alternatives? How can networking and grassroots mobilisation help to change the narrative?
3. Do successful women in politics have a role to play in reaching out to nurture inexperienced women into politics?

GROUP TWO (2) – Network of Women Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship is a key element to prosperous nations. Entrepreneurs are bearers and implementers of great and workable ideas which help to solve peculiar problems and yield profits. Prosperous nations boast of daring entrepreneurs and they thrive with access to essential economic resources. In most parts of Africa, women’s path to entrepreneurship is stifled right from the fundamentals with entrenched cultural beliefs and legislations that seem to limit their access to, ownership and management of economic resources as much as they possess life transforming ideas which need implementation. As a result, more women are caught up in ‘own account’ businesses which do not seem to grow in any form, except for purposes of survival.
Group TWO will discuss the various ways women could be empowered to look beyond setting up businesses for survival, to making global impact leveraging reliable networks.
The discussion will be guided by the following terms of reference:
1. What are the best business opportunities in Africa at the moment? How can women position themselves to take advantage of the opportunities?
2. How powerful is networking as a tool for business development?
3. What are the ways through which women can influence change in culture and legislations that limit women’s access to economic resources?
4. Identifying successful women entrepreneurs in Africa as role models; what must young women do to connect?

GROUP THREE (3) – Higher Education for the Girl Child / STEM
The statistics for girl child education has improved very significantly, thanks to massive campaigns across the world of the essence of girl child education. Yet, while we tout ourselves for our individual and collective roles, in ensuring that more and more girls are being enrolled in schools, a further reflection on their progress leaves much to be desired. As they climb higher on the educational ladder, more girls drop out of school than boys, and moreover, the girls seem to avoid STEM related courses.
This group will ascertain the major challenges to access to lifelong learning opportunities and equal access to quality education at mainly, secondary and tertiary education and technical and vocational training. And more importantly provide practicable solutions to these challenges.
The discussion will be guided by the following terms of reference:
1. How can girls realise their career paths through higher education in Africa?
2. Why do girls avoid STEM related courses on their way up the educational ladder?
3. Are STEM related career women discriminated upon?

GROUP FOUR (4) – Demographic Dividend and the Threat of Teenage Pregnancy
It is true that Africa is in a very good position with regards to the distribution of its population. However, for Africa to fully utilize the dividend in its demography, it must make optimum use of all its resources especially human. Teenage pregnancy remains a canker which limits Africa’s human resource potential. The panel discussion will navigate the threat of teenage pregnancy and suggest practical ways of reducing its occurrence drastically.
Guiding Questions
• How real is the threat of teenage pregnancy to Africa’s demographic dividend?
• What are the causes of teenage pregnancy?
• The effects of teenage pregnancy on Africa’s large human resource potential
• Bringing perpetrators to book; what the law says
• How do we safeguard our young girls from the teenage pregnancy menace? The sensitization factor.
• What is the best approach to getting victims of teenage pregnancy back on track?
GROUP FIVE (5) – Economic Recovery after Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has really affected the livelihood of people across the globe. It has hit the economies of nations including the giant economies. Africa has however had its fair share. Many countries on the continent recorded a negative economic growth rate in the year 2020. The second wave of the pandemic in the early part of the year 2021 puts countries’ economies in a nose dive. In admitting the reality, nations have agreed that the pandemic may/may not live with us. In the instance where the pandemic lives with us, we have to devise workable economic fundamentals to thrive as nations within the continent. However, if we are fortunate that the pandemic reduces drastically with the emergence of vaccines, there will be the need to pencil potent economic recovery strategies to lift the continent from economic despondency.
Group Five (5) will assess the effects of the covid-19 pandemic on the African continent and proffer economic solutions that are workable and they will work with the following terms of reference:
1. To what extent has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the livelihood of the people living on the African continent?
2. How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected women?
3. How prominent or otherwise were African governments’ strategies during the fight?
4. What are the potent economic strategies governments should adopt for recovery?
5. What role do citizens have to play in our journey to economic recovery?

GROUP (6) – CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, PEACE AND CONSENSUS BUILDING

STEP 5: PARALLEL/CAREER WORKSHOP SESSIONS SELECTION TRACK
In this section, a list of tracks representing the various topics that would be discussed in the form of a career workshop during sessions is outlined and each applicant is expected to select at most, two tracks that they would want to join in.
The tracks include the following;
Track 1: Politics/Leadership /Governance
Track 2: Business and Commerce
Track 3: Social Inclusion/Intervention Projects
Track 4: Sexual Harassment and Teenage Pregnancy
Track 5: Education and Training
Track 6: Communication/Media

NB: It must be noted that, delegate may be assigned to a session track other than what she selects if deemed necessary by organisers. Delegate will however be notified ahead of time to prepare towards discussions/workshop.

STEP 6: SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

 This information is used to better understand delegates in order to make provisions for special needs. The aggregate information collected through this form will be kept private and confidential.

1. Marital Status– Please indicate your marital status i.e. whether you are married or single or divorced. The YAWC Network does not discriminate on the basis of marital status.
2. Religious Affiliation–Please indicate your religious affiliation, if any. You may choose from one of the major religions in the world on the list, or write in any other religion that you adhere to. YAWC Network does not discriminate on the basis of religious affiliation or any other affiliations.
3. Disability– If you have a disability, please indicate here. If you select “Yes”, you will be asked additional information that may be helpful for EGGP Team to accommodate any special needs you may have. YAWC Network does not discriminate on the basis of disability.
4. Other Leadership Courses– Please indicate if you previously participated in a leadership or women empowerment course or training or conference.
5. YAWC Network– Are you a member of the YAWC Network, If not, would you be interested in joining our network?
6. How did you learn about the Young African Women Congress?– Please indicate all the channels of communication from which you learned about us and this Congress.
7. Kindly provide the name and contact information (her email address and/or telephone number) of a person you would like to recommend the congress to.

STEP 7: SUBMIT

This is the final step of your registration. Before you can submit, you must read and accept the following two statements:

Consent

In order to participate in the Young African Women Congress, I understand that I must meet the minimum eligibility requirements for admission to the programme, that I must pay the required registration fees, that I must meet the qualifications standards for the specific group that I have chosen, that I must be a young woman within age 18 – 45, and that my admission to the programme is subject to the determination by the organisers. I have read, understood, and will comply with the terms and conditions of the congress. I hereby certify that I have completed this registration fully and accurately to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any falsification, omission, or concealment of material fact may subject me to being prevented from participating in the congress.

Commitment

I hereby acknowledge that as a participant in the Young African Women Congress 2022, I confirm that I will abide by the time commitment as outlined in the full 4 Day programme.

Once you have read and checked both statements indicating your agreement, and have completed the other six (6) steps of the registration, you can click the “Submit” button.

If you have not answered any required questions, those questions will be indicated and you will have the opportunity to complete those questions. An email reminder may be sent to applicants who have started but not yet completed their registration before the deadline expires.

Please be sure to review your responses for comprehensiveness, accuracy, spelling, grammar and clarity. Once you have submitted your registration, you will not be able to make any additional changes to it.

Please note that registration that have been started but not officially submitted by the deadline will not be considered.

All applicants will receive an email acknowledging receipt of their registration and information about when/how candidates will be notified.

Good luck to you and thank you for your interest to participate in the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) 2022 East Africa Sub-regional congress.