Leadership Effectiveness for Youth Integral Development: A Bane for Literacy and Poverty Alleviation

Theme

Leadership effectiveness for youth integral development: a bane for literacy and poverty Alleviation

Introduction to the Concept

Leadership to diverse folks means and carries distinct logos. In simple terms, leadership is an act of leading that entails an individual working in a group of others to motivate, engage, influence and enable them to put in toward growth, development and success of the set up's internal and external policies and projects. It becomes effective when it is promise keeping, problems solving, people oriented, formidable and led by example. This also mean good governance… i.e., it must entail the right and just use of power to create atmosphere of peace, freedom, unity and trust that makes all feel desiring to contribute to lasting growth and sustainable development. Youth integral development on the other hand is a process that prepares young people mentally, intellectually, morally, physically and spiritually to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a well instituted series of programs and training that help them gain competencies, technical knowledge, confidence and skills.

Literacy in context of this project is more than just being able to read and write, to meaning a critical learning and research processes that expose persons to a wide range of knowledge and wisdom, which makes them find strength to cope, triumph over ignorance, build moral and spiritual values, have tolerance and respect for each other, get the power to live healthier and develop skills, ideas and potentialities that can be channeled toward the common good of all human persons and the society. Poverty alleviation is a means through which a burden of material deprivation, powerlessness, alienation, lack of choice and freedom, pain and hunger, dependence, vulnerability, insecurity and complete ignorance and illiteracy state is lifted from the poor and marginalized persons in the society.

Concept Description and Rationale

The youth of today will one day be leaders and lead in various capacities in their nations; build economies and make decisions that will have impact on the society and in the life of the yet to be born generation.

Over the past few times, the idea of leadership and good leadership are so much used in different problems solving articles and papers in many ways for different reasons. But for the purpose of precision and more effect, this project will focus on exploring every scope that makes leadership what it means to be effective and how its effectiveness will aid solve some illnesses surrounding Youth integral development, and how this development can help create a sound and literacy environment that advances the course of living and promote intrinsic dignity. This time, not just for the young people but for all and sundry. This will be realized through holding of diverse educational programs and events that targeted:

• Influencing government policy making process
• Ensure that this policy is sound and have prospects of delivering promises made
• Have provision for engaging youth in implementation and decision making process that will lead to the fulfillment of basic needs, • ensure achieving of the Millennium Development goals (M D Gs), and sustainable advancements in all faces of the society so that all are free from poverty and live in a way equal to their dignity and realize their full potentials.

This is an Ercon International designed program to help strengthen leadership development projects in African Communities through education and social events that engage leaders/Youth in and on interacting platforms, with focus on effectiveness in delivering services that seek to develop young people into self-sustained individuals, able to build self-esteem and positive attitudes and skills around vocational practices that will expose them, and offer the opportunity to train in not just a particular skill needed for a particular career, but the entrepreneurial skills that make them versatile to finding and maintaining all manner of employments. That is the rationale behind this project. It is believed that with effective leadership through motivation and engagement in this direction, the integral development of our young ones can be achieved and literacy advancement will be sure, which of course will make poverty history in our ailing African communities.

For the purpose of this project however, our definition of leadership would be streamlined to that of political leadership, exploring the need for its effectiveness in service delivery to the persons (youth)and communities, especially the backward, as we try to critically study some of the problems associated with its ineffectiveness and involved strategies for solving them.

Problem Finding and Analysis

Leadership ineffectiveness - sometimes regarded to as bad governance has a lot of questions around it that require urgent answers from not only people in position of leadership, but the followers also…! Who must be blamed is not the focus at stake, but who suffers the impact of the effect and how solution could be proffer to ensure the common good of all. According to the conventional wisdom, the impact of poor standard of leadership or governance falls most heavily on the poor, who as a result of marginalization and inequality are generally disengaged and/or are excluded from the body that legislates, plans, makes rules and polices that affect their lives and promote their dignity, rights; and which allocates and administers national resources to projects that have direct bearing on them.