Building Blocks for Peace Foundation has announced four\nfinalists for the 2020 Most Outstanding Young Peacebuilders Award. The\nannouncement was made after careful review of over 20 applications by the award\ncommittee made up of youth activist, NGO leaders and peace practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria Youth4Peace Awards is an annual event designed to\nreward, celebrate and showcase young people who are making exceptional efforts\nto conflict prevention, peacebuilding and sustainable development across\nNigeria in commemoration of the adoption of the United Nations Security Council\nResolution 2250, the first UN resolution on Youth, Peace and Security. This historic\nglobal policy framework adopted in December 2015, explores how conflict impacts\nyoung people\u2019s lives and what must be done to mitigate its effects. It\nspecifically calls for the recognition of young people as critical stakeholders\nin peace processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2020 finalists are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Obasanjo Fajemirokun <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Obasanjo Fajemirokun is a social entrepreneur with over\nthree years of experience providing access to inclusive and equitable quality\neducation in low-income communities. He is an alumnus of Teach For Nigeria,\nwhere he focused on bridging the gap of educational inequality in underserved\ncommunity schools. Obasanjo has\nsuccessfully taught, led, equipped, and impacted over 150 pupils using a\nlearner-centred teaching method that ensured pupils acquired literacy and\nnumeracy skills. Also, he used game-based and connection-based learnings to\ndevelop skills. Due to his passion for youth development, he founded Brace-up\nThe Young, a Youth-led organization focused on educating and mentoring young\npeople to become innovative and accountable leaders in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Obasanjo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business\nAdministration from Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State. He is also a\nTeachSDGs Ambassador, SozoNetworks Youth-In-Development fellow, Theirworld\nGlobal Youth Ambassador, and a 2019 Opengov Social Innovation Challenge winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Oluwatoyin Esther Agaja<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Oluwatoyin Esther Agaja is a 27 years old youth who is\nworking to become a transformational leader. She is a youth development\nadvocate; founder of Eco Diversified International, an organization that is\nworking to promote Climate and Environmental literacy among the young\ngeneration which supports the Sustainable Development Goals. As a founder, she\nis saddled with the day-to-day running of the organization, taking up roles by\nworking with volunteers on different activities, motivating team leads to\nachieve a common goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oluwatoyin is a graduate of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida\nUniversity with Bachelors Degree in Pure\/Applied Chemistry, her passion for\nmore knowledge led her to take professional certification courses which include\nproject management professional, Health, Safety and Environment (HSE 1-3),\ndiploma in Environmental Management, Facility management among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Michael Afolami<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Afolami is a peacebuilder and development\nprofessional with over four years of experience in leveraging development for\npeace and conflict prevention. He is the founder and programme manager of Peace\nActor Network (PAN), a peacebuilding organization using peace education,\ncapacity building and community engagement to build peace and prevent violent\nconflict. At PAN, Michael leads the design, monitoring and evaluation of\npeacebuilding and development projects. Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in\nInternational Relations. He is a global advocate with IMCS Pax Romana where he\nis engaged with the advocacy to curb youth violence through meaningful youth\neducation, empowerment, employment, and engagement in political processes.\nMichael is a compassionate integrity advocate, Erasmus virtual dialogue\nfacilitator, peace ambassador of the Institute for Economics and Peace, and an\nalumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative network. His research interest\nis generally on the peace-conflict-development nexus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. ORUGBO ENDURANCE OVUODO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ovuodo Endurance\nOrugbo is a feminist and a Peacebuilder. She rose to prominence as a voice for\ndemocracy, SGBV, Peacebuilding and shot to global fame as an activist during\n2018\/2019 where she raised her voice to speak on peace for the Niger Delta\nWomen. She recently received an award to study at Young Political Leadership\nSchool, Africa. She is a graduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers\nState, Nigeria with Bachelor in Theatre Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is the Gender Officer\/Secretary with the Center for\nPeace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), one of Delta Pan-African peacebuilding\nmovement. She served on the Board of Directors of the Niger Delta Women in\nDialogue as well as the youngest committee chair on Commission on Sexual\nMisconduct in her community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She received trainings including 2016 Monitoring and\nEvaluation course by PIND FOUNDATION,\n2017-2020 peacebuilding and safe environmental trainings by CEPEJ, 2019\nActivisms training by ANEEJ, 2019 proposal trainings at both CEPEJ and NDWID and 2020 she was appointed as CLEEN FOUNDATION,\nDelta State Coordinator, Impact Youth Sustainability Delta State Coordinator,\namong others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ovuodo\u2019s extensive experiences over the past decade made her\na leading voice known for rebranding Africa and commitment to youth\nempowerment, Peacebuilding and Africa\u2019s integration where she was severally\nappointed to represent her office at Search for Common Ground Programme, Peace\nInitiative of Niger Delta, ANEEJ, Niger Delta Women in Dialogue, Delta State\nOGP among others due to their confidence in her discharge of duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security, Building Blocks for Peace Foundation in collaboration with the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding- Nigeria,\u00a0 Sanctuary of Hope Foundation and other peacebuilding partners shall be recognizing and rewarding 2 Outstanding Young Peacebuilders\/Organizations who are exceptional in the year 2020. Award winners will go home with a Seed grant of $150, Peacebuilding materials and access Technical guidance for 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n POSTED BY BBFORPEACE ADMIN<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Building Blocks for Peace Foundation has announced four finalists for the 2020 Most Outstanding Young Peacebuilders Award. 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