YEC

YEC Excellence Awards

YEC EXCELLENCE AWARDS is a special project of the Youth Model Parliament of YEC. The Awards is organised to Honour outstanding Youth Leaders who through their trade or profession have and are delivering impact in their communities and nation at large.

This is organised by the Youth Model Parliament-MP Secretariat to honour, celebrate and project individual, organisation and group efforts and achievements which are directed towards community and national Development.

Our Vision

To celebrate heroes and agents of change and to project the ideals of commitment, diligence and service of young leaders towards self, community and national development.

Our Mission

  1. To encourage individual and corporate commitments towards Personal Social Responsibility/Corporate Social Responsibility towards self and local community development in Africa.
  2. To establish a social change community fund to champion the implementation of community development initiatives of the Youth in the 16 regions of Ghana. To support Youth Model Parliament-YMP (Youth Policy for Community Change initiatives).
  3. To reward, celebrate and project good deeds and contributions made by Youth leaders and corporate bodies towards people and National development.
  4. To promote the ideals of Responsibility, integrity, compassion and Excellence in tomorrow's Leaders today.

Focus Areas

  1. Personal Development
  2. Value creation and Service
  3. Courageous innovations
  4. Implementation of initiatives for community development

Criteria

A nominee must satisfy the following

  1. Your endeavour, be it for profit, non-profit, in government etc must be impacting lives of the people you serve
  2. Must have a verifiable record of your personal growth through active service to people.
  3. Your endeavour must honour the ideals of responsibility, integrity, compassion and Excellence leading to community and National development.

Selection Processes

Our selection process is done by the governing board of YEC Excellence Awards at the Youth Model Parliament-YMP Secretariat. Individuals or groups are nominated in an open application Exercise. The Secretariat receives the nominations, and the board reviews and examines the same.

After the Evaluation by the Board, the shortlisted nominees are officially informed. Flyers and art works are done in a time frame, and a timeline for voting for selected categories is communicated. When the process comes to an end, winners are informed and invited to our Awards and Dinner night and presented with their Special Awards and Citations.

Awards Categories

As a project of Youth Model Parliament-YMP of Youth Empowerment Consortium-YEC, Categories are divided into two.

  1. The First Category is dedicated to members of Youth Model Parliament only. You must be a Member of YEC programs to pick and be selected for such an Award. This will not require Voting. The Awards Governing Board will determine Winners based on their commitment and dedication to the activities of Youth Model Parliament-YMP. A member of Youth Model Parliament can pick up to four nominations. Two from category one and two from category two. Nominations from category one will not undergo voting. Your performance in the house this year will determine your stand. Nominations in category two will undergo voting.
  2. The Second Category is for the General Public. You must be 18 years to 40. This will require a percentage of Voting. If you are a member of Youth Model Parliament-YMP and pick a nomination in this second category, the percentage of Voting will be applied. A vote is 0.50 pesewas. Verifiable work done will form 50% and votes contribution also, 50%. You can pick a maximum of two categories.

YEC Youth Policy For Community Change Fund

The fund is a by product of YEC Excellence Awards. The funds will be used to support programs, projects and initiatives geared towards Youth leadership development for sustainable impact and National Transformation.

The General Secretary’s Welcome Remark

You are welcome to the Youth Empowerment Consortium-YEC, Established on February 15, 2017. The Youth Empowerment Consortium-YEC envisions a transformed Africa by 2035.

In the book: Good to Great, Professor Jim Collins and his research team observed that to take an organisation from a good status to greatness requires disciplined people, disciplined thinking, and disciplined placement and action in that order. In other words, real and lasting change begins with principled people; skill is important but secondary to character.

In describing the secrets to Singapore’s development, Lee Kuan Yew, the late former Prime Minister of Singapore, in his book, From Third World to First, wrote: “…. we had to train our people and equip them to provide First World standards of service. I believed this was possible, that we could re-educate and re-orientate our people with help of schools, trade unions, community centres, and social organisations…. [and] get our people to change their Third World habits”.

Changing the “third world habits” means shifting mindsets from corrupt and unproductive mentality to that based on integrity, productivity, and innovation. This was achieved through intensive and deliberate re-orientation training programs deployed on formal, non-formal, and informal education platforms.

This attests to the fact that human capital development is the step that determines the rate at which a nation is transformed. For Africa to transform and experience economic growth, there must be a deliberate effort to raise disciplined and skilled people across the continent.

As we embark on this journey together, let us be guided by the principles of collaboration, resilience, and compassion. The challenges that our youth faces are vast, but so too are their talents, dreams, and aspirations.

YEC is not just an organisation; it is a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to harnessing the potential of our youth.

I invite you to actively participate in our programs, initiatives, and advocacy efforts. Your ideas, passion, and commitment are the driving forces that will propel our world to new heights. Together, we can create a future where every youth leader will have the opportunity to thrive, learn, and lead.

YEC has set a target to train by 2030, about twenty-one thousand (21000) individuals, especially the youths, in value reorientation, basic leadership skills so that they can make some positive contribution to nation-building. We invite you to join us in this campaign by:

  1. Register and be trained in one of our practical leadership development programs and attend our leadership events.
  2. Arrange for a group to be trained by our team of Young transformational leaders.
  3. Sponsor others by making a contribution to YEC which will be used to train youths across the nations.

Africa must rise to her destiny and it requires the efforts of all of us.
God bless you.

Mr. Edward Marfo
General Secretary – YEC