Deadline: 20-Jul-22
World Bank Group (WB) has launched a poetry competition to showcase the importance of education and access to quality learning for young people in Western and Central Africa.
Applicants can share a creative, inspiring, and artistic 1-minute video of yourself reciting YOUR ORIGINAL POEM for the chance to get featured on their social media channels.
Through poetry, show and tell us how can education unlock you potential and/or impact your community?
A new World Bank regional education strategy for Western and Central Africa outlines priority areas, guiding principles, and policy options to support countries in increasing access to education and improving the quality of learning over the next three years. The strategy focuses on the common challenges within a highly diverse region and covers all the sub-sectors of education, including formal and informal, technical, and vocational education, as well as higher education. It prioritizes interventions based on the potential to make the most significant impact within a three-year timeframe, building on lessons learned and best practices from the region and across the world.
Eligibility Criteria
- A citizen of a Western & Central African member country (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Togo)
- You must be between 18 and 35 years old
- They strongly encourage diverse, untraditional, and unheard voices to enter this competition
- Bank staff including its consultants and their immediate family members, contractors and their employees are not eligible to participate.
For more information, visit https://wb.forms.fm/youthactonedu-spoken-word-competition/forms/9300?