Defending Girls’ and Young Women’s Rights: What’s the take? What kind of work do you do? I am an advocate of Girls’ Rights; I work to empower Gender-Based Violence survivors to champion for change in their communities so that they can be part of policy and political debates inclusive of decision making. Petrider Paul [...]
Young Women as Active Agents of Social Change Sheripher Dinala What kind of work do you do? My work is mostly centered on young women and girls’ empowerment. I work with women and men of all ages. My goal is to make sure that young women and girls are empowered to make informed decisions [...]
Digital Skills & Youth in Africa What kind of work do you do? I use three words to describe what I do: People, Technology, and Transformation. My day to day job is very diverse and engaging; most of the time I am on my laptop corresponding with team members and coordinating projects. Aside from that, I [...]
NAYD was 10 years old on 27th March 2017. Quoting from the first INSPIRE magazine 'In March 2007, precisely on the 27th and 28th, some thirty youths from different youth led programmes around Africa met in Cameroon to lay the ground work for the Network of African Youths for Development (NAYD). The idea behind NAYD [...]
Ubuntu & cooperation towhttp://nayd.kwaje.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpards development in Africa Patson Malisa is a Diplomacy Advocate, Thought Leader, Executive and Facilitator. He has served in national and continental youth platforms since the age of 18, advocating the convening of government and civil society to the dialogue forum for the advancing of policy for the Upliftment of youth. He serves [...]
Community Engagement for Social Change What kind of work do you do? I’m an activist and academic, so I do a lot of my social change work through research and teaching. I run a feminist biology and technology laboratory (https://civiclaboratory.nl/), where we infuse everything we do, from choosing research projects to building scientific instruments, with [...]
Citizen-led Accountability What kind of work do you do? We empower marginalized communities through access to information by getting them aware and more informed about government policies and budget. We see a gap between the government and the people and work to breach the gap. Though the work is not easy or fun, we [...]
What kind of work do you do? Zaren Healey White I’m currently working at Memorial and before that I worked in local news media in St. John’s. I’ve always been passionate about writing and contributing tohttp://nayd.kwaje.com/wp-admin/post-new.php public discourse, and working in the media definitely helped me develop more avenues for contributing to larger [...]
Energy for Sustainable Development Tim Dobermann What kind of work do you do? By training, I am a development economist. I look at policies which can help a country grow, taking into account the specific context. My time has been spent in developing Asia, working together with the government in Myanmar on various [...]
Foreign Aid in the post-2015 Development Phase What kind of work do you do? I am a sociologist of development. I study processes of globalization and social change with a focus on foreign aid/development assistance and gender in politics. Previously, I worked for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on Canada’s aid programs to [...]
