Naway Gumeh

Naway Gumeh  is a responsible and committed journalist who displays an ability to write balanced, informative and engaging stories that give all involved parties an opportunity to have their say. He works as an investigative reporter responsible for writing news as well as providing coverage on political and economic events. He is also the host of Prime FM’s evening flagship program dubbed “The Brumm” (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Through the Accountability Incubator program, he intends to hold people and institutions responsible for their words and actions, whether it is through political fact-checking, investigations or other forms of reportage.

2021-02-15T11:14:56+00:0018th March 2020|

Nishant Khanal

Nishant Khanal is engaged in economic research, public policy, regional trade and development economics in South Asia. He has experience working on regional integration, poverty alleviation, leadership development and fund-raising in South Asia. He is a cofounder of Alankar Innovations, a digital media and social innovation platform that works on disaster, media and citizen engagement. Through the incubator he plans to develop NDR, an open forum to review development discourse in Nepal. It will be an open knowledge platform aimed at offering a critique on development practice and discussions in the country. The development initiatives in Nepal will be discussed [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Pratik Kunwar

Pratik Kunwar is a social entrepreneur and development professional. He is currently the Managing Director at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nepal. He is also a Global Shaper, a South Asia Connect participant (2018) and a Future Global Leaders program fellow (2018). Through the incubator, he plans to develop Shaasan, an initiative that makes actionable information accessible to the public, and their concerns immediately reachable to concerned political representatives. They do this by creating a decentralized cloud infrastructure with the oversight and analytics of a centralized civic data hub. A citizen can hold public officials accountable for their [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Rakesh Prasad Chaudhary

Rakesh Prasad Chaudhary is a journalist and social activist. He has worked as a freelance journalist for various local media outlets and is the founder of Visit Jaleshwar, a project aimed at empowering local youth by training them on digital literacy and craft production. As a part of Visit Jaleshwar, Rakesh’s wants to work on women empowerment through the incubator by providing women a platform to produce and sell the Mithila arts and crafts they produce. He also intends to engage youth in this platform for digital marketing through social media.

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Sheran Panazai

Sheran Panazai has five years of professional experience in the nonprofit sector and has also worked as a volunteer with various social ventures. Sheran aims to engage youth globally on a single platform where they can share, learn and re-learn ideas and bring them into action. He was recently selected for the Dalai Lama Fellow 2019 and Emerging Leaders of Pakistan Program 2016 for his work in preventing violent extremism. He is currently working as Project Lead at Tyche & Thoth. Through the incubator, he plans to develop an online system that will empower both senior government officers and civilians [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Silas N. Juaquellie

Silas N. Juaquellie has 10 years of experience working in development. He specialized in the educational sector a result-oriented professional with rich experience on evidence-based administrative approaches, training, civic engagement, community-based support programs, theatre skills development and human rights. He is the National Director of Burning Barriers Building Bridges Youth Theatre (B4YT) Liberia Inc., and a District Education officer at the Ministry of education. His program aims to promote access to justice and the development of a peaceful society for young Liberians in school through the arts. He believes that with adequate awareness, especially among the youth, this project will [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Stanford A. Joe

Stanford A. Joe has 14 years of experience working with youth from the church, community and the world. He also has nine years of experience in the non-profit sector and earned two Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Accounting from the African Methodist Episcopal University and Accounting and Criminal Justice from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion University. Stanford is also a 2018 graduate from the Young Political Leadership School, Semester Five and a Minister of the gospel, Assemblies of God Liberia Incorporated. Stanford has worked with several international and local organizations including Welthungerhilfe (Ex-German Agro Action), World Bank through the West [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Suman Ali Lashari

Suman Ali Lashari is a young human right activist. At the age of 18 in 2016, she survived an acid attack from her 40-year old brother in-law whose marriage proposal she had rejected. In 2018, after fighting for 17 months, she won her battle for justice. Suman is now working on legislation for acid attack crime and the licensing of open sale acid in Pakistan. Suman is the first acid attack survivor in Pakistan who is a social media activist with her real identity of ”acid survivor” promoting woman empowerment in Pakistan. Through the incubator, Suman wants to start a [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Sumi Limbu

Sumi Limbu is a Graduate student of Arts and Social Work, a compassionate learner, an activist who believes in the power of change and equality, and a lover of poetry and storytelling. She is one of the leader/changemakers of EmpoweHER 2018 (idea incubation leadership program initiated by Ujyalo Foundation) where her idea “SAKHI”, an awareness campaign about menstruation through comic books, received seed funding. She strongly believes that through education and working from the ground root level, one day we will be able to end deep-rooted patriarchy in society. Sumi is currently working at United World Schools Nepal as a [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Wilson Atumeyi

Wilson Atumeyi is an anti-corruption activist and a communication specialist with over 5 years of experience working across diverse sectors in the development space to achieve better life outcomes for marginalised and vulnerable communities. Wilson Atumeyi is the founder of WaterWide, an initiative that tracks government spending for water and sanitation and amplifies the voices of people living in rural communities in Nigeria. Poor access to water and sanitation are linked to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:44+00:0018th March 2020|
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