Descent Dube

Descent Dube is the Founder and the Executive Director of a youth organisation called Matobo Youth Development Initiative (MYDI). Based in Matobo, Descent is passionate about community mobilisation through active youth participation. His incubator project is aimed at ensuring young people can access information and participate in community dialogue and policy making processes. Ultimately, he wants to equip young people to become responsible citizens and occupy leadership positions in civil society.

2021-02-09T12:47:51+00:009th February 2021|

Mthokozisi Ndebele

Mthokozisi Ndebele has ten years' experience in Zimbabwe's civil society sector focusing on development communications, project design implementation and monitoring. Based in Bulawayo, Mthokozisi is currently with the Women's Institute for Leadership Development. Through the incubator, he is developing the Gender Accountability for Peace and Security (GAPS) project which seeks to fight gender inequity by increasing citizen's access to public information. The project specifically focuses on Matabeleland North and seeks to monitor the disbursement of the "Devolution Funds" and their subsequent use across the seven districts.

2021-02-09T12:47:51+00:009th February 2021|

Khalid Shah

Shah Khalid Shah Jee hails from the Bajaur District, in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Shah Jee completed his post graduate degree in Journalism & Mass Communication in 2008 and Persian Literature in 2012 at the University of Peshawar. He is a Senior Reporter for the Radio Pakistan Peshawar programme "Qadam Pa Qadam", Tribal News Network and culture and environmental writer for the online website Waziristan Times, an independent news website established by a group of experienced journalists from Tribal District on a mission to bring untold and unheard voices of Tribal Areas. His Incubator idea aims to [...]

2021-02-15T10:09:51+00:009th February 2021|

Sabir Ali

Sabir Ali is a human rights activist working with women and girls to improve their political participation and access to family planning and sexual reproductive health services. He is an advocate for the rights of women and children, and has dedicated himself to working to ensure the prevention of gender-based violence, improved access to GBV response services and improving civic spaces including youth engagement.His incubator idea is aimed at providing digital civic spaces for discourse around issues faced by youth of Pakistan focusing on youth engagement and ensuring sufficient representation in policy formulation. Follow him on LinkedIn.

2021-02-15T10:12:45+00:009th February 2021|

Iyanuoluwa Moyinoluwa Shittu

Iyanuoluwa Moyinoluwa Shittu is an SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) advocate based in Ondo State. Driven by her passion to ensure access to clean water for all, Iyanuoluwa carried out a borehole project in her host community during her time in the The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Her incubator project is Water Works, an initiative that will link vulnerable communities to sources of clean water and also allow Iyanuoluwa to advocate for water sanitation and hygiene in Ondo State, particularly as a containment measure for Covid-19. Follow her on Twitter.

2021-02-09T12:47:43+00:009th February 2021|

Halima Idris

Halima Idris hails from Bauchi State and is an alumnus of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth and Exchange Study program of the United States Department of State. She's passionate about holding elected representatives accountable and, through the incubator, is developing the Beyond Election Candidate Accountability Project (BECAP) for this purpose. BECAP is a sensitization and awareness campaign that aims to help communities hold political candidates accountable for the promises they made during their election campaigns by equipping citizens with knowledge and training.

2021-02-09T12:47:43+00:009th February 2021|

Catherine Ugochinyere Stephen

Catherine Ugochinyere Stephen is an Education Counselor and women's advocate based in Abuja. She is also a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative Network and likes to counsel children and adolescents. Through the incubator, Catherine is building Cathy Ventures, an anonymous accountable platform that can raise tuition for children from poor backgrounds who would otherwise not be able to access education. Her project was inspired by her own childhood experiences. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

2021-02-09T12:47:43+00:009th February 2021|

Anne Obode

Anne Obode is an entrepreneur, startup business coach, speaker, blogger and podcaster based in Abuja. She is also the founder of the SecureMe initiative that aims to use digital methods to solve the problem of insecurity in Africa. Through the incubator, Anne is developing an application called Secureme.ng that will combat crime in Nigeria by using technology to enhance the means of communication between victims of crime and the police. The impact of this project would be increases in both the levels of security in Nigeria and accountability on the part of the Nigerian Police.

2021-02-09T12:47:43+00:009th February 2021|

Ezekiel Opeoluwa Oyeyemi

Ezekiel Opeoluwa Oyeyemi is a social entrepreneur and climate change advocate based in Kwara State. He is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of the social enterprise Freedom Recyclers. Through the support of the incubator, Ezekiel aims to use climate change awareness and sensitization of the youth in his community to promote a sustainable COVID-19 recovery that benefits both the people and the planet through the circular economy. Follow him on Twitter.

2021-02-09T12:47:43+00:009th February 2021|

Moses Albert

Moses Albert is a child protection and welfare expert and a social entrepreneur based in Edo State. He has a passion for community engagement and awareness campaigns. He is currently supervising the Living Your Dreams Initiative, a project that focuses on protecting the rights of children. He is also a Co-founder of the Icare African Initiative. Through the support of the Incubator he is developing the Justice4her project, which is aimed at building an effective reporting and evidence gathering system that will increase the rate of getting justice for survivors of child defilement/rape and reduce child defilement through a community [...]

2021-02-19T10:43:58+00:009th February 2021|
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