How the COVID19 Pandemic Accelerated Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed the landscape of human interactions. As mobility and physical gatherings were restricted, people resorted to digital versions of everyday practices from before the pandemic began, forcing them to take an extraordinary digital leap. Since life cannot really take a long break, businesses, schools, and other institutions began to look […]
Lifting 100 Million People Out of Poverty: Four Things Nigeria Needs to Do
Joshua Alade According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate in Nigeria is about 27.1 percent which means about 22 million people do not have jobs and if you add the underemployment rate it is nearly about 54 percent. Young people make up a significant portion of this statistics as about 60 percent […]
Why Advocacy is the Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria
Written by Chinedu Nnawetanma The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 aspirations for economic, social, environmental and political prosperity that every country in the world is enjoined to achieve by 2030. The SDGs were launched by the United Nations in 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the previous global goals whose timeline ran from 2000 […]
Call for Submission/Nomination of Stories of African Youth-Led Organizations
UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office Abuja in partnership with the Pan-African Youth Network for a Culture of Peace (PAYNCoP), and the Center for Youth Advocacy and Development (CEYAD) invites African youth organizations to submit original and innovative experiences that document impactful youth engagements spanning across development pillars that have and/or are currently transforming the trajectory of […]
Global Goals Week: Youth Shaping the World We Want
In commemoration of the fifth year of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a virtual hangout was organized to coincide with the Global Goals Week. The aim of the virtual hangout stems from the need to evaluate how far the SDGs have been achieved over these years. Considering certain gaps that exist in between achieving these […]
Nigeria takes steps to implement the Nigeria Youth Employment Action Plan (NIYEAP)
September 3rd 2020 The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development in partnership with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the International Labour Organization have commenced a nation-wide campaign to comprehend the aspirations of young Nigerians on decent work. The campaign which is being managed by the Nigeria Youth SDGs […]
Oxfam Nigeria and NGYouthSDGs Launch #IYDInnovationChallenge: Share Your Impact Stories To Win Up To 300,000 Naira in Cash Prizes
This year, the United Nation’s International Youth Day 2020 is focused on “Youth Engagement for Global Action” and explores medium engage youth from the local level to the global level. There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a serious challenge but it has also presented an opportunity, notably for several […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Mayowa Adegbile
Mayowa Adegbile is the founder of the Ashake Foundation. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory; I work with a lot of women who depend on daily sales and with the lockdown, we started receiving calls that there was no hope for food and hunger was inevitable. These women in most cases are the breadwinners of their home […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Aminat Ibrahim
Meet Aminat Modupe Ibrahim, a Kectil Colleague, and the team lead at MayMed Innova. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory. At the onset of the coronavirus, I was informing people who follow me on social media on the virus and how they can stay safe. When the first index person was reported in Nigeria, I knew that […]
Pursuing the Decade of Action Amidst a Global Pandemic
The year 2020 ushered in a new decade making exactly ten years to the 2030 target for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the beginning of the year, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres made a call for an ambitious push to intensify efforts required for the achievement of the global goals. In […]
