Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung@ 40 in Ghana national and historical significance is invited to share an experience with the participants. Guests to these sessions have included former Ministers, Parliamentarians, Supreme Court Judges and heads of governance institutions. In one session, Nana Dr. S.K.B. Asante, the man who chaired the panel of experts who drafted the Constitution of Ghana, shared some insight about the process of making the 1992 Constitution. With a blend of wit, humour and deep intellectual analysis, Nana took participants through tales of the intrigues, schemes and negotiations which eventually produced the blue print for governance in Ghana. When it was over, one participant said she felt she had gone“around the nation in a day.” Nana himself, the diplomat, academic and lawyer said he had gone through “perceptive questioning and introspective probing” he had not anticipated from young people. After training, alumni meet periodically to catch up with the latest information on governance in Ghana especially new government policies that have implications for the youth and to mobilise support for emerging youth initiatives. This forum dubbed Political Café is also used to share experiences and upgrade their knowledge. A related Alumni Training offers special opportunity for trainees to“return” to the classroom on any topic they want to study. This may be an issue that they may have studied but want to return to because of certain new experiences that either challenges their learning or provides a point for debate. It may sometimes also be about an issue which has become topical because of some global occurrence. Challenges The biggest challenge which confronted the youth programmes from the start was a general attitude that what was needed to sustain democracy in Ghana was elite commitment. This belief legitimised the marginalisation of other segments of society including women and the youth and trivialised their exclusion as an issue. As 53