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.
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 [...]
Lilian Elochukwu Efobi is a Lagos-based advocate of quality education for all, good governance, accountability, transparency, and youth inclusion in the governance process. Through the incubator, she is developing the Governance Barometer Project, a monitoring and evaluation mechanism which will collect and measure data that contributes to the overall national development of Nigeria. Through her Governance Barometer, she will measure the performance of elected political leaders and appointed public servants through certain defined metrics.
Yusuf Temilola Nurudeen is Senior Associate at the Legal Hub Partnership in Lagos. He is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Young Lawyers Forum, Ikeja Branch, where he administers the implementation of ideas and policies related to capacity development, mentorship, and the welfare of 500 young lawyers. Through the support of the incubator, he is developing The Pro Bono Centre, an initiative that provides pro-bono legal services to victims of injustice including those who have been wrongfully incarcerated.
Rachel Affiong Umoh is a psychotherapist, counselor, disability advocate, humanitarian aid worker and a freelance journalist with freedom radio in Kaduna State. She is also the founder and CEO of TWIM (The Wonder In Me) an NGO that supports the rehabilitation of the most vulnerable including persons with disabilities (PWDs), internally displaced people and persons living with psychological disorders. Through the incubator, she is developing a project that will increase access to participation in elections for PWDs in Nigeria.
Ibrahim Muazzam Shehu is a certified teacher, activist, gender advocate, and policy ambassador based in Abuja. He is the founder of Society For Gender Equality, Educational Advancement & Struggles Against Educational Injustices. Through the support of the incubator, Ibrahim plans to keep using his organization to carry out COVID-19 awareness campaigns and distributing essential supplies such as face masks to vulnerable communities.
Ajeeba Aslam is a social development professional with over two decades of professional and volunteer experience of working on development and humanitarian issues in Pakistan, Malawi, Tajikistan, Syria and Jordan. She is the founding chairperson of Foundation for Ageing and Inclusive Development (FAID-Age Friendly Pakistan), an initiative working for the wellbeing of older people in Pakistan. As part of the incubator, her idea is to build a platform for the inclusion of aging citizens in development processes and addressing their immediate issues.Follow her on Twitter.
Alisha Sherazi holds a Master of Philosophy in Educational Planning Management from Bahauddin Zakariya University - BZU and she is the 2nd MPhil scholar in the transgender community of Pakistan. She is a board member at the Youth Active Alliance Foundation and a Coordination Consultant for Gender Minorities at the UNDP Youth Empowerment Program. She is the first transgender person in Pakistan who is recruited by United Nations as a Coordination Officer. She is also involved in activism activities; supporting her community through different endeavors for the betterment of their life. Her incubator idea is to develop a support program [...]
Audrey is originally from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. He studied a degree in Public Administration, which has allowed him to work in the three levels of government; municipal, state and federal. This accumulation of experience allowed him to start an application for portable devices called GobernApp, whose three main objectives are to promote and encourage citizen participation, motivate municipal governments to automate their processes and that the development and implementation of social programs and public policies are based on qualitative and quantitative data. Through the incubator, Audrey hopes to continue expanding this project.
Gauri Shankar Sah is the Program Manager at Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN) in Province 2 which is an umbrella organization representing the collective voices of all the municipalities in Nepal. Sah has worked with a range of development partners and also serves as Provincial Resource Person in supporting Subnational Governments for Localizing Sustainable Development Goals. Through the incubator program he plans to develop "Accountable", an initiative that makes actionable information accessible to the public, and also ensures their concerns reach relevant political representatives. He's motivated by helping citizens become active shapers and collaborators in the policy-making process to ensure [...]
