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Ebenezar Wikina

Ebenezar Wikina has over 11 years of experience in media, advocacy, youth development, and policy analysis (www.policyshapers.com). He is the founder of Policy Shapers, an open-source platform for policy ideas and dialogue led by young people which leverages technology to mainstream youth in policy development. Through the incubator, Ebenezar is organizing #NaijaPolicyHackathon; a 48-hour virtual hackathon aimed at crowdsourcing policy solutions to pressing challenges in Nigeria in a bid to set the agenda towards the 2023 general elections. Contact:'08073244817, Email: [email protected]

2022-02-17T09:00:01+00:0017th February 2022|

Warda Noor

A social activist, avid researcher and aspiring lawyer fighting for the basic rights of the common citizens. In past, five years, she has not only counselled 8000+ students on personal development opportunities but also educated around 1000 kids on protection against harassment. Her core work is centered around poverty alleviation where she has taken remarkable initiatives in her community like the distribution of ration in 3000 households during the first wave of COVID’19. She also led a volunteer team under which they arranged and distributed 300 PPE suits among local doctors in Layyah. She founded a platform named KhudKaar under [...]

2022-02-17T08:59:03+00:0017th February 2022|

Yusuf Muhammad Ladan

Yusuf Muhammad Ladan is a Journalist, Social Worker and Peace And youth inclusion advocate based in Sokoto. He is also the founder of the Frontiers for Peace Advocate Foundation that aims at promoting peace and ensure religious tolerance in Sokoto and Kebbi states. Through the incubator, Yusuf Ladan is coming up with a project that will combat banditry in Nigeria by reaching out to the youth in the affected areas using community dialogue and social media to combat youth recruitment into banditry and ensure understanding and tolerance among different ethno-religious youth groups. The impact of this project would reduce religious [...]

2022-02-17T08:58:40+00:0017th February 2022|

Muhammad Saad Khan

Muhammad Saad Shahbaz Khan is a Community Activist & Development Practitioner working for Transgender and other marginalized groups since 2017 with local, National and Global organizations. He has worked with organizations like Youth Lead, Commonwealth Youth Network for Gender Equality, YAN (Youth Advocacy Network), Wasaib Sanwaro, National AIDS Control Program, UNDP Pakistan, IYAFP (International Youth Alliance for Family Planning), SAYAN, Digital Rights Foundation etc. Saad has an M.Phil. in Computer science with specialization in  His initiative is  Pakistan first registered Transgender focused THINK TANK-CCRD (Center for Community Research & Development). CCRD (Center for Community Research & Development) is a research [...]

2022-02-17T08:57:06+00:0017th February 2022|

Yumna Hasni

Yumna has over nine years of experience in the development sector, in areas of program development, project management and communications. She completed her master’s degree in public policy and governance in 2019, from Australian National University, Canberra, under the Australia Award Scholarship Program. She is a fellow of the Legislative Fellowship Program for India and Pakistan, organized by the U.S. Department of State, for policy makers and development practioners. She is a development consultant and is currently working as a researcher in Rozan- NGO that works on gender-based violence, women and children rights. Previously she has worked in different NGOs [...]

2022-02-17T08:55:48+00:0017th February 2022|

Sushant Subedi

Sushant is a policy analyst by training and practice (at Invest Infra), with international experiences in sectors spanning social impact, research, and communication. Through Accountability Lab’s incubator program, he wants to build on the idea of the Citizen Manifesto Program (CMP), a digital platform that will allow citizens to set and share agendas with their local representatives. He wants to contribute to democratic innovation in Nepal by allowing citizens to provide their input in policy making during the lengthy periods between local elections. Sushant is also a founding member of Sansar, a student initiative which works to reduce plastic pollution [...]

2022-05-04T16:36:38+00:0017th February 2022|

Shrisha Nepal

Shrisha is currently working as a project coordinator at Jibiko Media. Her idea for the Incubator program is to start a women's podcast. The podcast will highlight struggles and successes of women in different economic sectors in Nepal. She aims to get conversations started about women’s journeys in competing and thriving in male dominant sectors and also celebrate the success stories of women who have been making remarkable differences in diverse areas. Previously, she has worked as a reporter at Wave magazine and as a communication officer at Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO).

2022-04-14T19:25:52+00:0017th February 2022|

Mavra Ghaznavi

Mavra Ghaznavi is the founder of the Shumaar Project, an open data initiative that advocates for access to high-quality data and improved governance through data-driven decision-making. She is also currently working to eradicate gender-based violence and child marriage in Punjab as the Provincial Technical Expert on Gender and GBV with UNFPA for the Aawaz II project. Prior to this, she worked closely with the Punjab government to reform medico-legal practices and improve the investigation of heinous offences using data insights as part of the Justice System Support Programme (JSSP) implemented by Adam Smith International. As part of JSSP, she successfully [...]

2022-02-17T08:54:19+00:0017th February 2022|

Prawesh Gautam

Prawesh is an MBA graduate and is currently a faculty at Pokhara College of Management and La Grandee International College. Prawesh was a fellow at Pokhara Research Centre’s Pre-Professional Parliamentary Support Program (PPSP). During his fellowship, his belief that it is important for youth to put themselves into civic knowledge and public policy formation was reinforced. As a result, he devised the idea of bringing together youth and locally elected representatives on the common floor where they will interact, discuss, and delegate thoughts, processes, and ideas for putting civil knowledge into action. He is also embarking upon an entrepreneurial journey [...]

2022-02-17T08:53:57+00:0017th February 2022|

Pabitra Khadka

Pabitra is currently working as a resident theatre artist at Shilpee Theatre. Her idea for the incubator is to empower local artists and enhance their capabilities to raise awareness about gender-based violence. She will encourage local artists to participate in this journey of activism through workshops and develop their abilities to use real life experiences from the local context. She plans to work with the rural communities where theatre has never reached. Pabitra firmly believes that theatre is a means of reflecting society through powerful stories and performances and stories have the power to inspire, leave a mark and raise [...]

2022-02-17T08:53:05+00:0017th February 2022|
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