Project
SpeakUp; StandOut
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Amount Funded
79,614 EUROProject Duration
01 Aug 2021 - 01 Apr 2023 -
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Lead organisation
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Nigeria Youth SDGs Network is a coalition of youth-led civil society organisations made up of 250+ members in 21 states of Nigeria. Their mission is to amplify the voice of youth and enhance their participation in the developmental agenda. NGYouthSDGs provides opportunities for youth-led/focus civil society organisations to make their voice count and holds the government accountable for the SDGs; they also raise awareness across communities.
Their vision is to create a platform for youth-led/focus civil society organisations to understand their roles, responsibilities, and engagements in advocating and driving accountability for Sustainable Development.
Their mission is to educate, empower and engage youth-led/focus civil society organisations to know, understand and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements for the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through awareness creation on developmental issues and identifying local best practices for the sustainable development of their primary community.Focal persons within the network are:
Joshua Alade their National Coordinator, Leadership and Resource lead is a proven strategic thinker and team leader, able to synthesize diverse and complex information to find key linkages that drive impact.
Daniel Nwaeze (Partnership and Growth) is the media and communications coordinator at Afrika Youth Movement; a youth-led movement with over 10,000 members in over 41 countries. He is passionate about everything youth, media, and information literacy. In 2016, Daniel joined Dragon Africa as a Communications Strategist where his role involved helping build strategies for clients ranging from government institutions/agencies to private organisations and INGOs. He currently coordinates the GAPMIL Youth sub-committee globally which successfully developed Global Action Plan and Regional Action Plans for media and information literacy in 5 regions (Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America, Caribbean and Latin American and Africa) and working with 12 youth ambassadors and 11 regional coordinators across the globe to promote media and information literacy.
Goodness Ogeyi Odey (Program and Project) is a young woman passionate about young people’s Development, Health Equity, Sustainable Development, and Gender Equality. She is a Local Pathways 2020 Fellow of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN); A Towards Unity For Health TUFH 2020 Fellow for Complex System Thinking toward Policy and System Change, and a YALI RLC Cohort 13 Fellow. She also works as an advocacy associate with International Youth Alliance for Family Planning IYAFP on the Sustaining Evidence Driven Advocacy SEDA Project in Nigeria aimed at policy advocacy to ensure young people have improved access to youth-friendly sexual reproductive health and right SRHR services, especially at the grassroots primary health care facilities.
Adenike Alade (Communications and Strategy) is a social and behaviour change communication specialist, a marketing strategist, and a data analyst. She leverages data to make informed decisions on how to communicate rightly and shape people’s behavior. She has worked on different projects and led digital campaigns including the #ReadersAreLeaders campaign that drove massive online conversation on the need to bring back the reading culture. She currently leads the Lagos office of Step Up Nigeria where she is in charge of coordinating community projects and engaging senior-level stakeholders with a goal to institutionalize anti-corruption education.
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Organisation
Nigeria Youth SDGs Network is a coalition of youth-led civil society organisations made up of 250+ members in 21 states of Nigeria. Their mission is to amplify the voice of youth and enhance their participation in the developmental agenda. NGYouthSDGs provides opportunities for youth-led/focus civil society organisations to make their voice count and holds the government accountable for the SDGs; they also raise awareness across communities.
Their vision is to create a platform for youth-led/focus civil society organisations to understand their roles, responsibilities, and engagements in advocating and driving accountability for Sustainable Development.
Their mission is to educate, empower and engage youth-led/focus civil society organisations to know, understand and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements for the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through awareness creation on developmental issues and identifying local best practices for the sustainable development of their primary community.Focal persons within the network are:
Joshua Alade their National Coordinator, Leadership and Resource lead is a proven strategic thinker and team leader, able to synthesize diverse and complex information to find key linkages that drive impact.
Daniel Nwaeze (Partnership and Growth) is the media and communications coordinator at Afrika Youth Movement; a youth-led movement with over 10,000 members in over 41 countries. He is passionate about everything youth, media, and information literacy. In 2016, Daniel joined Dragon Africa as a Communications Strategist where his role involved helping build strategies for clients ranging from government institutions/agencies to private organisations and INGOs. He currently coordinates the GAPMIL Youth sub-committee globally which successfully developed Global Action Plan and Regional Action Plans for media and information literacy in 5 regions (Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America, Caribbean and Latin American and Africa) and working with 12 youth ambassadors and 11 regional coordinators across the globe to promote media and information literacy.
Goodness Ogeyi Odey (Program and Project) is a young woman passionate about young people’s Development, Health Equity, Sustainable Development, and Gender Equality. She is a Local Pathways 2020 Fellow of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN); A Towards Unity For Health TUFH 2020 Fellow for Complex System Thinking toward Policy and System Change, and a YALI RLC Cohort 13 Fellow. She also works as an advocacy associate with International Youth Alliance for Family Planning IYAFP on the Sustaining Evidence Driven Advocacy SEDA Project in Nigeria aimed at policy advocacy to ensure young people have improved access to youth-friendly sexual reproductive health and right SRHR services, especially at the grassroots primary health care facilities.
Adenike Alade (Communications and Strategy) is a social and behaviour change communication specialist, a marketing strategist, and a data analyst. She leverages data to make informed decisions on how to communicate rightly and shape people’s behavior. She has worked on different projects and led digital campaigns including the #ReadersAreLeaders campaign that drove massive online conversation on the need to bring back the reading culture. She currently leads the Lagos office of Step Up Nigeria where she is in charge of coordinating community projects and engaging senior-level stakeholders with a goal to institutionalize anti-corruption education.
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Project
Network of Youth for Sustainable Initiative is a movement of young Nigerians committed to speaking out to change the situation of young people in Nigeria. This project is concerned about the widespread unethical practice of altered information by pro-government agencies, concealing evidence, exaggerating truths aimed at misinforming the public, political disenfranchisement, and government incessant clampdown on dissents. They seek to lead a campaign to speak up and stand out through counter-narratives, organize training on digital security and media and information literacy (MIL); push for accountability, greater political participation, and influence and/or bring a stop to unfavourable policy changes being proposed by the government.
The Nigeria Youth SDGs Network(NGYouthSDGs), Center For Youth Advocacy and Development (CEYAD), and Afrika Youth Movement (AYM) will lead on ensuring young people can air their voices, demand accountability, and see a fair equitable system including where activists, dissidents and especially youth-led and youth-focused groups are well represented and better equipped.
First is engagement on digital security and MIL. The events of 2020 exposed the weakness of activists and youth organisations digital infrastructure and understanding of the media landscape. This training will focus on facilitating and understanding the essentials of digital security for activists and will stretch to provide access to premium security features for select activists due to heightened government surveillance and clampdowns and attacks on legal financial support for the works of young activists and dissidents.
This will be followed with MIL. MIL as noted by UNESCO provides answers to the questions on:
how can we access, search, critically assess, use and contribute content wisely, both online and offline? How can we engage with media and ICTs to promote equality, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, peace, freedom of expression, and access to information?
The target here will be 15 activists and dissidents focusing on 3 of the rightsholders group: young people, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. They hope to retrain them on creative mobilizing and digital campaigning. They will work additionally with journalists and bloggers to better amplify the stories of the activists and dissidents. including support with premium access to digital security features to protect them from government surveillance and clampdowns and the possibility of an internet shutdown.
Following this is youth engagement on accountability, social justice, and political participation. They hope to follow a design thinking approach, adopt a train-the-trainer mobiliser model and build a toolkit. This will ensure a level of social and political consciousness among the populace; drive massive needs to enroll the voters registry, make sound demands, and use the power of the ballot to cause a radical change in the political system to make it work for young people and accommodating activists and dissidents.
Adopting a Training of Trainer model, the target for this is a total of 50 youth trainers within the3 rightsholders group of Voice with proven records of grassroots engagements. This will cover a minimum of 15 youth trainers across Abuja, Enugu, and Lagos.
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Network of Youth for Sustainable Initiative is a movement of young Nigerians committed to speaking out to change the situation of young people in Nigeria. This project is concerned about the widespread unethical practice of altered information by pro-government agencies, concealing evidence, exaggerating truths aimed at misinforming the public, political disenfranchisement, and government incessant clampdown on dissents. They seek to lead a campaign to speak up and stand out through counter-narratives, organize training on digital security and media and information literacy (MIL); push for accountability, greater political participation, and influence and/or bring a stop to unfavourable policy changes being proposed by the government.
The Nigeria Youth SDGs Network(NGYouthSDGs), Center For Youth Advocacy and Development (CEYAD), and Afrika Youth Movement (AYM) will lead on ensuring young people can air their voices, demand accountability, and see a fair equitable system including where activists, dissidents and especially youth-led and youth-focused groups are well represented and better equipped.
First is engagement on digital security and MIL. The events of 2020 exposed the weakness of activists and youth organisations digital infrastructure and understanding of the media landscape. This training will focus on facilitating and understanding the essentials of digital security for activists and will stretch to provide access to premium security features for select activists due to heightened government surveillance and clampdowns and attacks on legal financial support for the works of young activists and dissidents.
This will be followed with MIL. MIL as noted by UNESCO provides answers to the questions on:
how can we access, search, critically assess, use and contribute content wisely, both online and offline? How can we engage with media and ICTs to promote equality, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, peace, freedom of expression, and access to information?
The target here will be 15 activists and dissidents focusing on 3 of the rightsholders group: young people, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. They hope to retrain them on creative mobilizing and digital campaigning. They will work additionally with journalists and bloggers to better amplify the stories of the activists and dissidents. including support with premium access to digital security features to protect them from government surveillance and clampdowns and the possibility of an internet shutdown.
Following this is youth engagement on accountability, social justice, and political participation. They hope to follow a design thinking approach, adopt a train-the-trainer mobiliser model and build a toolkit. This will ensure a level of social and political consciousness among the populace; drive massive needs to enroll the voters registry, make sound demands, and use the power of the ballot to cause a radical change in the political system to make it work for young people and accommodating activists and dissidents.
Adopting a Training of Trainer model, the target for this is a total of 50 youth trainers within the3 rightsholders group of Voice with proven records of grassroots engagements. This will cover a minimum of 15 youth trainers across Abuja, Enugu, and Lagos.