Funded by Sida through the Swedish National Youth Council and the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, the project sought to strengthen the role of young people in poverty reduction strategy processes (PRSP) in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

The TPT project built the capacity and skills of youth organisations in those countries to engage in PRSPs processes; created opportunities through cooperation between the youth networks and in-country partners to apply skills related to PRSP processes; and increased the linkages between the youth and regional/national policy efforts in support of effective youth development.

YOTA hosted a series of capacity building activities, including an Africa regional workshop in Accra. YOTA also developed a toolkit for assessing national progress in reaching youth development priorities contained in the World Programme of Action for Youth. More than 5,000 youth participated in country-level PRSP processes under this project, resulting in seven Youth-PRSPs that ultimately influenced public policy.

In Ghana, the project stimulated the inclusion of dedicated youth outcomes in the second Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategies (GPRS II).