25TH May –Africa Day of Action
No more words-Take action!
Background
Join action/2015 Africa National Action Teams on 25 May to say to world leaders “No More Words – Take Action”
This Day of Action takes place during a month long publicengagementcampaign from 1-31 May, with over 15 million citizens from all corners of the world coming together to callon world leadersfor ambitious commitmentsduring the Sustainable Development Goals Summit in September andClimate Change conferencein December. The Global Day of Action on Africa Day is one of the 14 thematic days of action during the month.
Context
Though Africa is showing significant growth, social and economic inequalities continue to widen at all levels. Issues of security and peace are still a big challenge to the continent. In order for development to strive effectively, there is an urgent need to address and tackle holistically the continuous threats affecting its people including extreme poverty, indiscriminate abductions of young women and girls, the killing of innocent people and the effects of climate change To achieve agenda 2063, these issues must be addressed. Africa is full of potentials, and, our leaders and all partners concerned must do more to unleash them to the fullest.
Action/2015 campaign in Africa is therefore calling on ALL, to join hands, demand and ask our Leaders and any other relevant partners to take action on the (a) proposed new Sustainable Development Goal which seeks to “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, for ALL”, by 2030., and (b) commit the Climate Change negotiations which is expected to held in December, in Paris.
Join the campaign on May 25th to ask our Africa leaders for ACTION on poverty, inequality, climate change and also commit to finance the SDGs.
· In Cape Town, young people will be marching through the principal street to push their finance minister and the relevant stakeholders to commit to finance key national development agenda that affect their future
· In Cameroon, adolescents and youth will be holding an educational talk, press conference and / or a radio talk to discuss on the importance for budgetary allocation for financing the development agenda.
Call(s) to action:
1. a. MAKE A UNITY SYMBOL:Show support by making any unity symbol eg holding hands with two or more people and demand action from our leaders.
b. MAKE A “NO MORE WORDS-TAKE ACTION” sign: Take a picture of you/groups with your mouth (s) wrapped, covered or zipped with a scotch (tape) or anything, then you holding the Action Message.(eg take Action – Gender equality, Inequality, Financing for development –Asking your Finance Ministers to attend the summit in Addis etc..)
2. INSTAGRAMor FACEBOOK: share photos showing of your actions from different places eg Work place, market, public space etc by using the hash tag #action2015.
3. TWEET:use the hash tag #action2015 + specific message and share your thoughts and demands to Africa leaders to take action
4. SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS-Everyone use “NO MORE –TAKE ACTION” caption as its profile pictures.
2.HOST / JOIN AN EVENT:We encourage people to organize an event on 25th May to create awareness about the campaign in your locality. Consider a concert, rally, football match, etc or any community mobilization activities to send your messages across. You can share these activities on the May mobilization tracker for others to join you in your planning
3. Press statement: Share the press statement with any media outlets