Youth Leadership Development

Africa’s greatest need today is ethical and entrepreneurial leadership. Too often, we have invested in addressing the symptoms of bad leadership in Africa- we give blankets, medicine and food to those impacted by war, poverty and famine. But these efforts will never stop unless we develop leaders who prevent wars from occurring in the first place, entrepreneurs who create jobs and scientists who sustainably increase food production and access to healthcare.

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Our Leadership and Governance Program seeks to catalyze the emergence of a new generation of youth leaders who will participate effectively in forging a strong democratic, people-centred development and sustainable economic emancipation in Nigeria. Major highlights of our Leadership and Governance Program include: entrepreneurial and financial management training; educational seminars on democracy and good governance, health, gender issues, human rights, citizenship and social responsibilities and a mentoring program that connects established and emerging youth leaders.

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The program empowers young people by supporting the creation of youth-generated activities that promote self-worth, responsibility and intergenerational respect and communication. The Program seeks to foster, develop and support youth initiative, and a strong representational youth voice in the service and decision-making life of our nation, and to engage youth as resources for peace, democracy and good governance, interfaith dialogue and agents for change, growth and sustainable development. The Leadership and Governance explores various models of leadership that have been developed from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

Center for Faith and Community Development fosters leadership development that promotes pluralism and rejects corruption. The organization builds cross-cultural teams of young women and men with skills to emerge from dysfunctional families and challenging situations to become peer-leaders and agents of peace, capable of helping themselves, of shaping a positive and sustainable society that rejects violence, and who insist on communication excellence and unbridled compassion for all.