Abdul-Malik Abdul-Latif
Ghana
Public Services Management

Abdul-Malik Abdul-Latif is a Nutritionist and Public Health Professional with 5 years experience in the implementation of programmes targeted towards the improvement of maternal and child health. He holds a Master of Public Health degree with some experience in the economic evaluation of health care programmes. His research interests are in maternal and child health. He is credited for the operationalization of the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre in Nkwanta South District, which serves as a referral facility for the management of cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition in four districts in Northern Volta, Ghana. He is a member of the Ghana Nutrition Association.

Abukari Rahama
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Abukari Rahama is a vibrant Learners Guide and ambassador. She is a passionate change maker in her community whose dream is to become a midwife to help pregnant women and educate her community members on the need for good sanitation. Abukari is a member of Cama from Camfed Ghana.

Afua Serwah Nyamekye Nkansah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Afua Serwah Nyamekye Nkansah, is a law student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. Through her internship at KPN Law Consult Law Firm, as a research assistant on the "Election Petitions in Africa", she helped in the development of the law and delivery of justice. She also managed cases, wrote legal opinions, and drafted legal documents. Currently, she is interning at the Attorney General’s Office, Ghana where she undertakes clerkship duties for the Principal State Attorney. The YALI program will build her leadership edge for future justice service endeavors.

Ama Duncan
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Ama Duncan is a Corporate Trainer, Founder of The Fabulous Woman Network (TFWN) and Corporate Training Solutions (CTS). She is a Public Speaker, Writer and Radio Panellist who is very passionate about celebrating women. Her organization, The Fabulous Woman Network with over 2,000,000 views on facebook in total, has organized a conference for 300`+ women, training sessions for 100 participants and shared over 120 inspirational stories on social media. Ama was the Learning and Development Manager for an international 4 star hotel in Ghana. Before that, she had stints with Standard Chartered Bank, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Baylis and Harding PLC (UK) and Camp joy (US). She is a graduate of Paris Graduate School of Management with Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Human Resources, University of Ghana and Archbishop Porter Girls School.

Augustina Dotse
Ghana
Public Services Management

Ms. Augustina Dotse is national service personnel with a Non-Governmental Organization. The organization’s main concern is to help improve the livelihood of the deprived children in the Baatsona community through health and educational programs. So far, Augustina has screened 188 children as part of the organization’s bi-annual screening exercise to determine the health status of children who are consistently dewormed and provided with hygienic kits including toothbrushes and pastes. The organization also provides food for struggling families and enrolls registered children in schools with the proper learning stationeries.

Beatrice Annangfio
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Beatrice Annangfio, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Damsel Foundation, a foundation for career coaching and mentorship for young females in rural and under-developed urban areas in Ghana. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Laws. Beatrice has played significant roles in student activism as the first female Speaker of Parliament in KNUST, Chief Justice of the University Students Association of Ghana and the Majority leader of Students of Parliament.

She is the Co-Author of Modern Standard English and has four publications to her credit.

Bernice Adu-Boahen
Ghana
Public Services Management

Bernice Adu-Boahen is a self-motivated and energetic young lady who is a passionate advocate of proper management of the environment. She was ranked among the first 5% of a class of 120 students and was therefore retained by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology for her National Service as a Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Geography and Rural Development for the 2015/2016 academic years.

Christopher Arthur
Ghana
Public Services Management

Chris Arthur is the president and founder of Redeem Africa Leadership Foundation (an NGO aimed at developing leadership skills and community-help projects in Central region, Ghana. He helped establish Sunset Christian Academy, a community school for needy families in Agona Swedru with a current population of 175 pupils. He has been involved in students’ leadership, a member of Law Students Association at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), TESCON President, KNUST 2013/14, STUNNAD National President, Member of Academic Board, KNUST in 2010-2012, Member of the Editorial Board, KNUST in 2011-2012, and Member of Ghana Students Parliament in 2010-2013. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Social Work, KUNST in 2014 and Diploma in Biblical and Ministry Studies from SIBI, Lubbock, TX, USA (External Division) in 2006.

Daniel Ackah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Daniel Ackah is a civic leader by training and an educationist by profession. Ackah is passionate about positive influential change, youth capacity development and entrepreneurial training. He is the President of African Christian Youth Network (ACYN) in Takoradi, Ghana in areas of advocacy, training, education and counseling. Daniel served in Abuesi in the Shama district of the western region of Ghana in 2009.

He started ACYN in 2015 to help reduce the school dropout rate and to promote girl child education. His team has been able to get 60 girls back to school and given entrepreneurial training to 25 parents to start businesses.

Dominic Bassah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Dominic Bassah holds a BSC in Community Nutrition from the University for Development Studies, Ghana and an MSc in Public and Environmental Health Sciences form the University of Birmingham, UK. He has a strong passion for tackling inequalities in society, health advocacy and behavior change communication. He has worked extensively on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Organization Project that seeks to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections along the corridor of Abidjan and Lagos.

Dominic specializes in food safety and control, health protection, community nutrition, environmental protection and climate change. He believes a lasting solution is one engineered by the beneficiaries.

Doreen Aboagyewaa Awuah
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Doreen Aboagyewaa Awuah works with African textiles to produce African products such as shoes, bags, dresses among others.

She used profits from her business to sponsor her university education.

She has been an employer of labor for four years and hopes, in the near future to expand her business and create more employment for people with interest and skills to promote made in Ghana products.

Edna Ayena
Ghana
Public Services Management

Edna Ayena is an aspiring UN Ambassador, a model United Nations trainer for Lifelink Ghana and the sponsorship director of Enactus UG, among others. At age 19, She is an inspiration to young ladies in Ghana. While in Achimota School, she was elected deputy senior girls prefect and appointed SRC treasurer.

Her natural desire to help the needy and destitute motivated her to take on the challenge as the current Head of operations and Marketing coordinator of Pasyance Selfless Servant hood. Edna believes in the mantra, "Service to Man is Service to God".

Emmanuel Quainoo
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Emmanuel Quainoo is a multi-faceted business professional with training in accounting, finance, corporate management and economics. Mr Quainoo is extremely passionate about creating value and improving livelihood through the impartation of knowledge and relevant skills, and has been a volunteer instructor for Compassion International, Ghana, in helping to train over 300 poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable children.

He completed my first degree in Commerce (B.COM) from University of Cape Coast, in May 2016. The University of Cape Coast Business School twice awarded Emmanuel in 2013 and 2015 in recognition of his outstanding grades and excellence performance. In a quest to improve standard of living, especially in rural areas, Mr Quainoo is currently working out ways of processing agricultural wastes to create more economic value.

Esi Asare Prah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Esi Asare Prah is a feminist and youth activist passionate about girls‚ education and sexual reproductive health and rights. She is a member of Youth Action Movement-Ghana and former Cape Coast branch Chairperson. She led her team to reach over 1000 university students, 6 senior high schools and 10 communities with Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Information and Services. Esi runs girl child clubs with about 200 girls in her community. She volunteers at Marie Stopes International - Ghana. Esi actively participates in global and national population & health conferences and work on some projects in Ghana.

Gideon Debrah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Gideon Debrah is the Executive Director of Destykids Foundation which supports deprived kids through school, a TV talk show producer that seeks to outdoor young people affecting the society and publisher of "The Window Magazine". He read Psychology and Foundations of Education from the University of Cape Coast.

Gideon is hard working, reliable and resourceful with excellent organizational and staff management skills, combined with the ability to prioritize a substantial workload.

Gloria Boafo
Ghana
Public Services Management

Gloria Boafo is an articulate and confident environmentalist who relishes challenges and working under pressure. She has genuine interest in Environmental Resource Management and her greatest strengths are research, communication and writing.

She facilitates risk assessment and hazard analysis and monitors mining sites to manage and reduce site risks and environmental impacts since her voluntary and research works have been in small-scale mining communities in Ashanti and Western Region, Ghana.

Gloria has expertise in providing administrative support and guidance to identify factors affected by conflicts that arise between meeting needs and protecting natural resources.

Godfred Osei Kwarteng
Ghana
Public Services Management

Godfred Osei Kwarteng is a confident and result oriented social development officer with over 3 years experience in Afigya Kwabre district. His strong educational background in Psychology and extensive experience in Social Development enables him to strategically implement social development programs such as the Ghana School Feeding Program and Africa Health Markets for Equity in the district.

He has a solid record of community empowerment through mobilization, sensitization, and participatory skills to embark on fund raising and communal labour towards self-help construction projects like bore holes, clinics and toilet facilities. He hopes to further his career with an international humanitarian/socia development agency.

Hannah Abakah Turkson
Ghana
Public Services Management

Hannah Turkson is an aspiring lawyer and currently an Assistant Revenue Officer of the Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority. She currently facilitates international trade and helps collect revenue via the Pre Arrival Assessment Reporting System (PAARS) where Customs Classification and Valuation Reports (CCVR’s) are issued prior to the arrival of vessels to prevent delays at the ports.

After completing the Young African Leadership Institute (YALI) Regional Leadership Center West Africa program, it is Hannah’s desire to bring immediate and strategic value to her workplace and continue her professional career by applying and developing her skills and knowledge further.

Irene Ali Dery
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Irene Ali Dery is a determined and optimistic young lady who is interested in projects that have a positive impact on society. This led her to work on a project that centers on securing women’s land rights in Ghana. She is a member of the Ghana Think Foundation where she channels her intellect to organize bar camps. She is also the co-founder of the One Child One foot project.

Irene holds a Bachelor’s degree in Land Economy from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

Isaac Tetteh-Ashong
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Isaac Tetteh-Ashong is a conscientious and self-motivated individual with great enthusiasm and determination to succeed. He is hard working, reliable and resourceful with excellent organizational and staff management skills, combined with the ability to prioritize a substantial workload. He successfully receives, assimilates and evaluates information quickly in order to complete any task efficiently.

Isabella Osei
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Isabella Osei is a Banking and Finance student at the University of Professional Studies. She has a certificate in Project Management and I.C.T from the Landmark Institute, Ghana. She is also a proud member of ENACTUS, an organization dedicated to volunteer works and impacting lives. Isabella is a writer who is responsible, organized and demonstrates a strong ability to manage projects and motivate others to achieve set targets. Her major driving force is the dream to impact lives, one person at a time.

John Affaidzi Appiah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

John Appiah is an accomplished communications specialist who has developed his career working in various high profile positions in multinational and international organizations operating in Ghana.

He has worked as Marketing Manager for Invest in Africa, Communications Manager for the British High Commission, Head of Customer Service for INTU-IT and Lead Producer for Joy FM’s flagship current affairs programs (Super Morning Show & News File).

John has an M.A in Communication Studies and a B.A in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon. He is the founder of Ghana Youth Watch, an NGO that champion’s youth empowerment in Ghana.

John Osei
Ghana
Public Services Management

John Osei is a Pan-African who believes in building strong institutions, empowering the youth and nurturing leaders. He is the President of Action Aim Ghana which engages in projects that improve teaching and learning. He is also an entrepreneur with focus on providing affordable financial solutions to rural folks.

Josephine Akwele Offei
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Josephine Akwele Offei is the Secretary-General and administrative head of Rally for the Goals organization. She is also the Portfolio Manager for the World’s Largest Lesson project in the organization (a UNICEF-SDGs Initiatives for school children). She coordinated the Global Goals Cocktail Forum for stakeholders which attracted personalities from Academia, Government, Corporate and Civil Society entreating them to adapt the goals. She also coordinated a stakeholders meeting for over 200 grassroots Queen mothers on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has 5years prior working experience in Banking and Finance. Josephine holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.

Juliana Yorke
Ghana
Public Services Management

Juliana Yorke is a media professional with 5 years of experience in Broadcast Journalism and Production. She believes in the ability and power of the media to effectively drive social change and development.

Excited by everything News and Current Affairs, She has worked at Metro TV, Multi TV and TV3 and is currently the Operations Coordinator of Vision Africa Production. Between July 2011 and May 2013, she actively participated and contributed to the establishment of the Joy News brand on Multi TV and is also part of the team that birthed the current flagship morning show on TV3 Network.

Kpaoulou Jerald Tamba
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Kpaoulou Jerald Tamba is a social entrepreneur and Co-Founder of ACEC-Ghana; a capacity development firm providing career mentorship to high school students and helping youth develop entrepreneurial skills through a series of community campaigns.

He presently leads a team developing a career magazine for senior high schools aimed at making the transition from secondary to tertiary education much simpler and informed. Jerald serves as a trainer and mentor, and has so far trained over 200 persons and spoken at over 25 conferences in Ghana and Liberia.

Loretta Oduro-Ayisi
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Loretta Oduro-Ayisi has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work and is very committed to serving the needs of marginalized persons especially children, women and special needs individuals. She is committed to creating a change mostly in the area of child illiteracy.

Loretta loves to volunteer thus, participated in the United Day for caring. She was also a Peer Educator with the ‘No-Yawa’ Initiative founded by Marie Stopes International, Ghana.

She is a bronze and silver holder of the Head of State Award scheme and the Linneaus Palme Scholarship beneficiary.

Mohammed Faisal
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Mohammed Faisal just completed University for Development Studies in Ghana and is about to start his national service this September.

His desire to see positive change in the municipality led to the formation of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Child Liberty Foundation, in collaboration with his peers where he has acted as the Executive director since early February 2016. He has been the projects manager since June 2015.

Moses Kyei
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Mr. Moses Kyei holds a Higher National Diploma in Statistics from Kumasi Polytechnic and Bsc. Degree in Finance from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).

He has worked with the GIMPA Business School as an Administrator for the past six years and has extensive experience in preparation of budgets, financial reports and analysis, program evaluation analysis and facilitators payment request.

As part of his achievements, he was the first Administrator of the GIMPA Business School to run program evaluation analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS).

Nana Nyama Danso
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Nana Nyama Danso aspires to become an International Development Practitioner who works with International Non Governmental Organizations. She is currently an intern at African Aurora Business Network.

In 2012, she volunteered at the Autism Awareness Training Centre, the Lighthouse Chapel Mission School in WA and other private institutions in Ghana.

Nyama believes in empowering vulnerable people so they can lead their personal development and change. At her current workplace, she trains the youth in the construction value chain (YIEDIE) on improving entrepreneurial skills.

Patricia Ama Bonsu
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Patricia Ama Bonsu is a broadcast journalist and producer at Ultimate 106.9fm, a member of the EIB Network. With her 4 years experience in the media, she’s produced compelling content on issues regarding health of women and children.

Ms. Bonsu is also a member of the Global Shapers Community (Kumasi Hub), the Ghana Think Foundation and the Young African Leaders Network, Ghana. Her passion for community service and change, led her to fundraise to support children living with cancer, HIV/AIDS at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Her biggest dream now is to help expose autistic children to the digital world.

Peter Nanzonige
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Nanzonige Peter is a teacher by profession and a final year student of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana studying commerce/accounting (B’com). Peter is committed to serving the less privileged in society. He holds an HND in Accounting from Takoradi Polytechnic and a Diploma in Education from University of Education, Winneba. He has worked as a staff and a volunteer with MASLOC, HAYTAFORD, NAWAG, Nadowli/Kaleo District Assembly, Jacob’s Well Appeal Ghana, and Wa PTA/SMC Coalition. Peter won Vodafone world of difference project in 2012 and trained about 15 groups comprising about 150 women on skills training on income generating activities. Some past projects include CETA-plus, ITCD, Livelihood-microcredit among others mostly leading in the fiels of advocacy, monitoring and evaluation aspects.

Petra Dzidedi Deku-Amegbor
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Petra Dzidedi Deku-Amegbor is the Program Officer for the Bengls Centre. The Bengls Centre was established in Ghana in 2015 to engage the youth in peace education through training, advocacy and empowerment.

So far, Bengls Centre has held two training programs at the Suhum Islamic Girls Senior High School, which resulted in the payment of fees of six under-privileged girls, and the halting of a purported forced marriage of a participant with the help of school authorities.

Pinaman Mansa Ackaah-Gyasi
Ghana
Public Services Management

Pinaman Ackaah-Gyasi is a Civil and Petroleum Engineer by training and a Gender Desk Officer/ Activist. As Principal Engineer, Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, she enforces national building regulations, monitoring and evaluation. As a Gender Desk Officer, she facilitates workshops, capacity building programs and campaigns in Gender Mainstreaming and Equity, Violence against women and children, and National Peace keeping.

She is dedicated to creating an enabling environment to empower the youth; especially the girl-child and is currently helping 3 girls and a boy get quality education with her personal funds.

Her past projects include UNICEF Integrated Water and Sanitation Project, Community Lead Total Sanitation Program and Team Lead, Water and Sanitation department.

Priscilla Asare
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Priscilla Asare holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She is a self-motivated lady who is passionate about impacting lives through education and recently led a project, "The Lady‚ Äì Kurofa". The initiative empowered 20 young females in the Kurofa rural area to bridge the gap between rural and urban lifestyles and equip them with practical sessions on grooming, social etiquette and entrepreneurship.

She hopes to develop specialist skills in Process Engineering and contribute to the development of Ghana.

Quinnette Rosetta Ghuttliebs
Ghana
Public Services Management

Quinnette R. Ghuttliebs is an articulate and smart young lady with good communication skills. She is a graduate of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) where she studied business administration.

She is interested in international relations and hopes to further her studies in the areas of international law and globalization. She plans to be an effective advocate of the girl child and youth development as her career in advocacy and diplomacy advances.

Richard Apau
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Mr. Richard Apau holds a bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science, all from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He served and worked with the Institute of Distance Learning (IDL), KNUST as IT Administrator and currently working as Graduate and Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science, KNUST where he assists Lecturers in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Richard is Co-Founder and Director of Operations for Broadview Research and IT Consult. He is also Co-Founder and Director of Programs and Projects, Youth Without Borders Ghana; Youth based development and empowerment non-governmental organization.

Salman Faris Ayuba
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Salman Faris Ayuba is a young advocate with a passion for Development work. As a member of Curious Minds Ghana (Tamale Chapter) since 2011, Salman has helped organized series of outreach programs on topics such as Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Child Marriage, Child and women rights in society. The organization holds a 30mins radio discussion every week on same topics. Salman was the Vice President of the Student Representative Council of the University for Development Studies, Wa campus (2015-2016 administration). As a young person with lots of exuberance, he believes the youth has a remarkable role to play in achieving sustainable development.

Samuel Aboagye Insaidoo
Ghana
Public Services Management

Samuel Aboagye Insaidoo was adjudged Municipal, Regional and National best teacher 2014. He was given a car as prize money. Samuel trained his students (writers and debaters club) to win the regional quiz competition on history and culture in 2016. He holds an MA and Mphil English from University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology respectively.

Samuel Kofi Kutin
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Samuel Kofi Kutin is an Industrious and versatile young boy who has assiduously completed his first degree in BSc. Procurement Management, from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is a young man who already holds HND in Purchasing and Supply, from Kumasi Polytechnic. A demonstrated leader, a team player, analytical and initiator, who can quickly adapt to any organizational culture with great interpersonal and communication skills, coupled with the flexibility and experience required to remain highly focused in a fast-paced demanding environment.

Sherifa Awudu
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Sherifa Awudu is a member of Curious Minds Ghana. She is a Reproductive Health advocate and a Nutrition Student studying at the University for Development studies. She is passionate about young people especially, women and children. She is also an advocate on good nutrition for Pregnant and lactating mothers as well as infants and toddlers. She has over 6 years of active volunteer experience and is currently working as the Projects Assistant for the Northern Zone and currently executing the dance4life project in the Northern and Upper East Region of Ghana.www.curiousminds.org

Stephen Kwame Jones
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Stephen Jones is head at the Centre for Ideas & Youth Empowerment (CIYEM), an infant non-profit organization established to foster and promote Youth Empowerment in the areas of Capacity Building and Education.

Stephen is also an Author and youth speaker and has had the privilege of speaking at a number of youth conferences in Accra. Stephen Graduated from the University of Ghana in 2010 with first class honors and was among the top 5% of his graduating class. At the corporate level, Stephen has about 5 years of working experience in areas including Research, Administration, and Human Resource Management.

Wisdom Kafui Honu
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Wisdom Kafui Honu is a Finance Student who is very passionate about Quality Education in Africa. He is the Co-founder of Idea Africa, an NGO that builds innovative libraries with $350 for rural communities around Africa. He also equips children between the ages of six and sixteen with excellent computer coding skills, to develop their capacity in problem solving both in and outside the classroom. In eleven months, He has built three libraries in Ghana and one currently on going in Nigeria.

About 600 children benefit from these libraries. He also reaches out to children in very deprived communities in Ghana with mobile Library services. His Code for Kids project won the overall best Project last year Life link model UN conference in Ghana.

Yaa Amankwaa Owusu-Amoah
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Yaa Amankwaa Owusu-Amoah is a student leader and treasurer of the Ghana Institute of Management and Graduate Studies (GIMPA) Student Representative Council (SRC) for the 2015/2016 academic year. She received the leadership award as the best student leader at the 16th congregation of GIMPA, the first time the institution gave this award. Her experience in that position led to the start of The Financial Integrity Conferences. The idea is to train student leaders on financial management, financial planning, leadership and governance. Corruption is a major challenge in Africa and Yaa believes that this program will impart the next generation of leaders and help win the fight against this menace.

Zakiyu Iddris Tandunayir
Ghana
Business & Entrepreneurship

Zakiyu Iddris Tandunayir holds B.A in Development Communications from African University College of Communications (AUCC). He is the C.E.O of ZIT Social Media, a social media management and marketing and consulting company in Ghana. He is the founder of Hope for the Street Child Foundation, an initiative to give care to the street and the needy children in Accra. He is also the President and Founder of Change for Zongo Youth, a youth movement that seeks to bring about positive change in our Zongo communities through education, talent development, awards, entrepreneurship training, leadership training and youth activism.

Grace Kamara
Ghana
Public Services Management

Grace Kamara is a recipient of the prestigious International Leader of Tomorrow Award at the University of British Columbia, Canada. As a double major in International Relations and Gender Studies, Grace seeks to be a voice for gender equality on international forums. To this effect, Ms. Kamara has worked with the SEND- Fingo Microfinance Group, offering small-scale loans to female entrepreneurs, in efforts to offer each woman an opportunity for self-development and economic progress. As part of the USAID "People For Health," Project, Ms. Kamara strives to increase the potential and advocacy capacity for marginalized groups in Ghanaian society to access health care. Excited about pursuing a Masters in International Security, Ms Kamara is currently producing an online database that simplifies and synthesizes the Ghanaian position on various issues in International Politics.

Adedotun Adeniyi
Ghana
Civil Society Leadership

Joel A. Adeniyi is the CEO at Minds and Moments Initiative – a non-governmental organization that is poised to educate, enlighten and empower young people to become resourceful, reliable and responsible for themselves and the Nation. Joel was the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Council Peace Ambassador for Nigeria. He is certified in Project Management and has implemented several projects with the support of different international organizations. His thematic areas are: Leadership, Purpose Discovery, Community Development Services, Nation Building, Education, Entrepreneurship and Reproductive Health.

Adelu Alexis Ezinne Adelu
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Alexis Adelu is a graduate of Psychology from the University of Lagos in Nigeria and currently a Human Rights activist with Partnership for Justice where she works with survivors of rape and sexual assault under the Gender Justice Programme. She has worked actively in sensitizing over 400 secondary school students, and 200 women and 100 men on signs and symptoms of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) through trainings and town hall meetings. Her goal is to see every woman and girl child free from the chains of ignorance and stand up against SGBV. www.mirabelcentre.org; www.pjnigeria.org.

Adeniyan Adekemi
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Adekemi is a dentist by profession, and the founder of the Charming Smiles Foundation; an organization started in 2013 with the aim of catering to free oral health care for the less privileged. She is the co-founder of ‘Komplete Woman’ an organization whose aim is to inspire and mentor young women to discover their purpose early. She is an associate fellow of the Royal commonwealth society. She is passionate about influencing the younger generation to fan the flame of their potential. www.kompletewoman.org

Ayoola Benedict Temitope
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Ayoola Benedict is a young dynamic, Nollywood actor, an eccentric writer and a movie producer. He holds a bachelors degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Abuja. He is passionate about the transfer of cultural values and moral education through his movies. He has featured in over 30 movies and is the producer of Alabahun (Tortoise); a series of movies centered on human development, education and fixing broken homes through cultural inculcation.

Benjamin Michael
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Benjamin Michael is the CEO of Computer Initiative for All, a social enterprise committed to ensuring computer literacy in Nigeria. During his undergraduate days he was the Team Leader of ENACTUS at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, where he and his team designed a fuel-less generator that won the Sahara Energy Light Up challenge. He is an ambassador with the Global Milky way Youth Foundation and volunteers with CITY Hope Foundation. He wants to make a great impact all around the world.

Celestina Obiekea
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Celestina Obiekea, is a scientist with a keen interest in research and development. She holds a Master’s degree in virology and a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology both from the University of Ibadan. She currently works as the strategy and information officer at Silver Lining for the Needy Initiative (SLNI). She also volunteers for the ONE campaign in Africa and is an avid gender and health activist. She is also a Rotarian of the District-9125. She is a freelance writer and currently writes a column on health for Leadership Friday; a local newspaper.

Chidinma Perpetua Chikwelu
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Chidinma Perpetua Chikwelu is a teacher, a volunteer tutor and an entrepreneur. She is a freelance writer and an advocate for the rights, empowerment and education of women and children. She is a graduate of Childhood Education from the University of Abuja. She works as a volunteer for various NGOs such as the Junior Chambers International and the World Impact Development Foundation. She received an award in 2013 as the Best Serving Corps member in Nasarawa state for her outstanding service in the rural community where she was posted.

Okwaraogoma Chika Bridget
Nigeria
Public Services Management

Chika Bridget Okwaraogoma graduated from the university of Jos in September 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She assumed many leadership roles during her school days, and served as the departmental president from March 2010-July 2011. She is a passionate teacher and has gradually risen up the ranks in her organization; first as an intervention teacher, then a class teaching assistant and now a class teacher for the past two years.

Chika Onyekwere
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Chika is a young engineer and an emerging entrepreneur who wishes to acquire skills and knowledge to impact the society. She is also keen to increase her leadership capacity and put her ideas, innovations, expertise and passion towards achieving a more unified society. Her primary goal is see a healthier society that is free of waste and pollution.

Chukwuneme Right
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Chukwuneme Right is a Registered Nurse with certifications in Emergency nursing, Public Health, Medical Auditing and Research. He is presently the senior health officer at Oilserv Ltd, where we serves as a health analyst, strategic health planner and healthcare manager with strong health maintenance and promotion focus. Motivated by his passion to improve lives, he begun coordinating medical volunteers for local and international agencies, he also serves as a mentorship program facilitator and has through that developed excellent leadership skills in volunteer coordination, medical business management and entrepreneurship.

Elizabeth Okon
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Elizabeth Co-founded a women’s empowerment organization in 2014, with the aim to promote entrepreneurial education, economic independence and political awareness among women and young people. Since 2014, her organization has been able to provide functional literacy and vocational skills training to more than 50 people geared towards ending violence against women and promoting gender equality in her community. Her work has been instrumental in encouraging education for all as well as socio-economic self-reliance among women. Elizabeth recently completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, in Nigeria.

Emmanuel Attah
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Mr Emmanuel Attah is a young innovator, farmer and social entrepreneur. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Agriculture Makurdi, Nigeria and is an alumnus of the US Department of States Global Innovation in Science and Technology Program. In 2013, he established his farm for the production and distribution of protein foods such as chicken and eggs to combat protein-energy malnutrition and also works as the Director of Operations at Hypro Technologies engaged in developing sustainable protein solution using insect protein for livestock nutrition as low cost feeds input for farmers to increase their livelihoods.

Dr. Emmanuel Egbroko
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Dr Emmanuel Egbroko is a Pharmacist with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Benin in Nigeria. He recently completed a yearlong internship program at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) where he excelled greatly. He is a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) and the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN). He has held several leadership roles and is currently the Coordinator of the Diabetes and Hypertension Education and Lifesaving Program (DHELP), a public health program designed to help curb the rise in prevalence of diabetes and hypertension in Nigeria since 2012.

Amb. Emmanuel Gabari
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Emmanuel is a Television/Radio Broadcaster. He also produces and presents two weekly television programs on Abubakar Rimi Television (ARTV) Kano State, Nigeria. He is the Lead Coordinator of the African Focus For Youth Development (AFFYD) where he serves his community through polio vaccination of children in rural areas, capacity building for young people on good governance, drug abuse rehabilitation for the youth as well as economic resilience training for young people.

Eniola Ennmae Adeniji
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Eniola thinks deeply about the causes of human suffering and she is dedicated to creating conditions for human flourishing. She holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and is a certified Teen Coach. She has 6 years of combined experience as a digital marketer and a fashion designer. She is also a chef in the making. Her dream is to see women and teens empowered with education in Nigeria. She is the founder of Woman of Value, House of Mae & Enamora Foods. She is the pioneer of the Mae Read and Write Club, where over 100 girls are taught to read and review a book each month in Nigeria.

Ides Mildred Aziegbe
Nigeria
Public Services Management

Ides is the Senior Programme Officer of the citizen-led household survey that assesses the foundational literacy and numeracy competencies that Nigerian children possess. Prior to joining the project, she worked at The Carter Center in Atlanta, where she supported numerous development programs. Ides holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Central European University in Budapest where she received a full fellowship. She also earned a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Languages from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Ides has worked in both the profit and non-profit sectors. She speaks English and French fluently.

Momoh Osezua Amos
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Momoh Osezua Amos is a medical doctor from Nigeria who has a great flair for public health and socio-economic development through education. He has worked in both private and public health sectors in Nigeria, and most recently with the Family health international 360 (SIDHAS project) as a volunteer. He believes in taking every challenge as an opportunity to learn new and better ways of doing things. He is enthusiastic doctor, with excellent social skills. He loves to read, listen to music, and meet people. He also enjoys engaging in political and intellectual conversations.

Nelson Akerele
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Nelson is a middle-level Professional and a dynamic leader. He is a speaker and trainer with over 2,000 training hours. He hopes to impact his society with sustainable social change and transformational leadership. Over the past four years, he has supported 1,825 Vulnerable Children and 600 Caregivers with essential services as well as 4,527 Youths on Sexual Reproductive Health programs. He has trained 1,058 health and non-health actors on effective health services delivery, institutional capacity development, and organization leadership. He is a Fellow of the Civil Society Leadership Institute (CSLI)

Olowe Oreoluwa Elizabeth
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Oreoluwa Elizabeth Olowe is a social worker with a commitment to community service. She runs an NGO (Caregivers Child Foundation), with a vision to provide academic support for about 500 less privileged children each as well as equip them with vocational skills. She holds a degree in Law and she desires to help build a better future for community she serves.

Olutomiwa Binuyo
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Olutomiwa is a member of the All Nigeria United Nations Students and Youths Association, an organization that propagates the ideals of the United Nations. He founded the Miracle Teens Fellowship, a leadership organization that has contributed positively to the lives of over 500 young people in the Ibadan community and beyond. Due to his commitment to community service from the tender age of 15, he became a literacy fellow at the Literacy Education Empowerment Development in Nigeria. He is also a Fellow at the 2016 West and Central Africa Peace Fellowship organized by the World Peace Initiative, Thailand.

Oluwatosin Adebusuyi
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Tosin Adebusuyi has a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Babcock University in Nigeria and Masters in Public Health from the University of Glasgow. She is the President of Treasure Jars Youth Centre (www.treasurejars.org), a non-governmental organization that focuses on Adolescent Health, Life Skills and Entrepreneurship. Over 3,500 youths have directly benefitted from sexuality education and life skills programs, and business networking events she organizes with her team. She organized entrepreneurship trainings for 60 youths in Osogbo, Nigeria, which was funded by the United States Department of State. Tosin has developed strong management and communication skills through the projects she coordinates.

Dr. Omohomo Duze
Nigeria
Public Services Management

Dr. Duze is a medical doctor currently resident in Lagos, Nigeria. Driven by the love for her patients, her goal is to contribute to the development and implementation of health policies that will ensure access to health for the poor in her society. She is an avid volunteer and has organized and participated in several health outreaches and preventive health programs in both Ghana and Nigeria. Dr. Duze also lends her voice on local radio to advocate for a healthier society. She obtained her medical degree in 2010 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.

Onyia Olivia
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Olivia Onyia is the General Manager at Gist FM, a radio station in Nigeria that empowers and trains youth through ‘The Live Studio’, and places aspiring journalists in media houses for internships and employment. Olivia holds a degree in Economics, speaks four languages (Chinese, English, French and Igbo) and was trained at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Dan Mason/Journalism clinic. Olivia is also a grassroots organizer and social justice campaigner. She is the founder of the McOlivia Foundation (www.mcoliviafoundation.com), a charity organization that provides access to basic education and health care for hundreds of orphaned children in Enugu, Nigeria through the ’Everybody Deserves a Merry Christmas’ project which is in its third consecutive year. She is currently working on establishing a skill acquisition center that will train and employ young people.

Prince Joshua Oyeniyi
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Prince Joshua is the 2015 Global Student Entrepreneur Award Winner in West Africa and The United States of America. He is also a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Award Fellowship Winner in Africa for 2016. in 2013 he started an enterprise with less than a dollar and has gone on to build a business worth millions of naira thus inspiring thousands around Africa. He was featured exclusively on the Voice of America TV as an outstanding Young African Entrepreneur. He looks forward to building a media empire of Radio and television stations as well as a Public Relations Brand.

Adara Rebecca Modupeoluwa
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Rebecca Modupeoluwa is a young entrepreneur with the desire to reduce unemployment in her community. Although a graduate of Food Science and Technology, her passion for skills acquisition and entrepreneurship led her to fashion designing and hair dressing with the intention of establishing a fashion institute to reduce unemployment. She has established a hairdressing salon employing two young school leavers as stylists and two apprentices from her community. She is currently working on the establishment of a fashion school with the capacity to train twenty students per session and help them set up businesses thereafter.

Samson Ozah
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Samson is a lawyer and a development enthusiast. He has a keen interest in energy, education, infrastructure and security issues in Africa. He is also passionate about law and policy issues with implications on development outcomes in Africa and globally. He is a member if the #STANDUPFORNIGERIA organization, which seeks to engage discourse on the socioeconomic issues besetting Nigeria. More information can be accessed on https://standupfornigeria.com/. He is an author and a publisher, and looks forward to providing leadership in his interest areas and has a global impact.

Samuel Temitope Segun
Nigeria
Public Services Management

Samuel Segun is an Educator, Researcher, Social Entrepreneur and a Youth Development Expert. In 2012, he founded Uptrend Media (www.uptrendmedia.org) and in 2015, founded Redwood Leadership (www.redwoodleadership.org). One of its initiatives, Project 2031 Nigeria, has over 75 active team members and engages more than 300 volunteers nation-wide. In research, his work focuses on developing social structures for African nations. As youth leader, he engages youths on participation in governance, accountability, community service and nation building. Samuel works as a mentor with the American Corner in Calabar, Nigeria and sits on the TEDx Calabar Board, where he serves as the Deputy Executive Producer. He is a recipient of the UNDP West Africa Youth Integrity Fellowship, and the Award of Commendation for National Youth Service.

Temitope Joseph Soneye
Nigeria
Business & Entrepreneurship

Temitope Soneye is a committed and passionate change-maker, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, where he serves as Project Manager of students in free enterprise (SIFE). In 2013, Temitope won the SUSI Grant at the University of Connecticut, in 2014 the Ashoka Youth Grant, and became a GAYL Fellow in 2015. He currently dedicates a huge part of his time to empowering unemployed youth in Nigeria to become Agribusiness leaders and thus helping them to contribute positively to their communities.

Umar Aderibigbe
Nigeria
Civil Society Leadership

Umar Aderibigbe received a bachelor’s degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomoso, Nigeria. He proceeded to work with Circuit Atlantic Limited, a fast growing ecommerce startup, where he later became Chief Operating Officer (COO). Passionate about assisting people, he has been civically engaged and serving the public through volunteerism for the past 5 years. Umar currently volunteers with ‘An-Nusra Foundation’ (annusrahfoundation.com), where he has assisted to raise money to help people with health challenges in his community. He aspires to become a successful Civic leader providing innovative solutions, and contributing to National development.

Acho Wilson Yuh
Cameroon
Public Services Management

Acho Wilson Yuh is a graduate of Political Science (Msc) and Law (LLB). He has over five years’ practice experience in Policy Analysis, Peace Reporting and Research. Mr Yuh is currently a PhD student in Political Science and building a speciality in Youth Leadership. He is an International Correspondent with the Organization for World Peace (OWP) and works as a Strategic Policy Advisor with the Tayong Center for Leadership Development (TCLD). The TCLD has successfully trained over 500 top business executives from major corporations all over Cameroon on strategic leadership, customer service and organisational performance.

Akouyu A. Akohleng Chefor
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Akouyu Alphonse is a pioneer Commonwealth Correspondent based in Bamenda Cameroon. In 2015, he was assigned to report on the Africa Region Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting. He joined Reignite Action for Development, a UK Registered Charity in August 2015 as a volunteer Project Design Officer working in Cameroon. Alphonse became part of the Membership Committee of the Commonwealth Youth Council in May 2016, working as the Team Lead on an initiative targeted at the development of young people in rural areas. He currently is an Ashoka Changemakers Scholar and the editor of the Ashoka Scholars Cameroon blog. https://ashokascholarscmr.wordpress.com/

Amabo Sirri Reinhardt
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Amabo Sirri Reinhardt is a graduate of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon. She’s has an in-depth knowledge in International Relations and International Law. Currently carrying out Research for a Masters dissertation on the access to Reproductive rights in Cameroon. Reinhardt holds a BSc in Law from the University of Yaounde II and a Certificate in Conflict Management from the GIZ E-learning Global Campus. She possesses work experience in matters of human rights and freedom having interned for the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms. She has volunteered and stays passionate about women inclusion in politics, and works with a Civil society organization on the promotion of female political participation and women empowerment.

Anye Cho Bovinille
Cameroon
Business & Entrepreneurship

ANYE CHO BOVINILLE is Chemical Engineer and received his BSc from Catholic University Institute of Buea (CUIB). With over two years of working experience as President/Co-founder at NATURAL MOSQUITO REPELLENT CREAM (NMRC). Bovinille was a participant at PARIS COP 21: African Off Events, in FRANCE. He is among the 1,000 selected 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) for African Entrepreneurs. Bovinille’s business idea received its nomination on the strength of having the potentials to scale and transform the lives of people and communities in Africa.

Anye Cho Bovinille
Cameroon
Business & Entrepreneurship

ANYE CHO BOVINILLE is Chemical Engineer and received his BSc from Catholic University Institute of Buea (CUIB). With over two years of working experience as President/Co-founder at NATURAL MOSQUITO REPELLENT CREAM (NMRC). Bovinille was a participant at PARIS COP 21: African Off Events, in FRANCE. He is among the 1,000 selected 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) for African Entrepreneurs. Bovinille’s business idea received its nomination on the strength of having the potentials to scale and transform the lives of people and communities in Africa.

Berenice Andofughi Ayong
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Berenice Andofughi Ayong is a graduate from the university of Buea, Cameroon. She holds a double major in Gender Studies and Law. Also a holder of a certificate in Project Management from the Pan African Institute for Development West Africa. Her work interest is within the domain of women and girls’ empowerment. Since graduation Berenice has worked as an intern /staff with two notable firms. In 2015, she joined HERO (HEALTH Education and Research Organization) Cameroon and coordinates regular community and media campaigns on issues affecting young girls.

Besong Ebot Ferdinand
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Besong Ebot Ferdinand, holds a Bachelor of Education degree in Curriculum Studies and Teaching-class from University of Buea, Cameroon. He also holds a certificate in Advanced Business Management and Public Service Governance from the International Governance Institute, UK. Ferdinand is the Founder/ CEO of International Centre for Community Development and the Right for the Girl Child, Cameroon.

Dr. Besong Eta Oben
Cameroon
Public Services Management

Besong Eta Oben is a Medical Doctor, humanitarian and youth activist. He has worked as the health project manager of Plan International Cameroon which is providing quality healthcare to 23026 refugees. He is driven by a passion for developing the health care sector of Africa. He currently works as the Medical Coordinator with Community Humanitarian Emergency Board (COHEB) International. The COHEB is dedicated to providing free and quality healthcare to the internally displaced population in the Central African Republic, while encouraging social cohesion amongst diverse groups.

Enow Awah Georges Stevens
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Enow A. Georges is a Cameroonian Youth Development Worker and an esteemed Emerging Entrepreneur. A community leader and health personnel who has coordinated and implemented extensive work on comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), feminist and youth leadership, HIV and AIDS, policy engagement, project management, peer education and capacity building. In 2013 he became the youngest recipient of the award Youth Ambassador in Cameroon for the fight Against Malaria (KO PALU). Enow is committed to seeing an Africa where basic health care and Sexual and Reproductive health and rights (SRHR) will have full inclusion in society.

Dr Epie Terrence Beteck
Cameroon
Business & Entrepreneurship

Dr Epie Terrence Beteck is a Medical Doctor by training, Lecture in Traumatology. He was made Assistant Manager of Good Shepard Restaurant/Poultry at the age of 17 years. He has over 10 years of experience in Poultry/Pig farming and has served 4 years as Vice President of SERNARSER Mixed Farming Common Initiative Group. He is the Founder /CEO of Electronic Rendezvous (e-RDV) Ltd, a company that sends electronic patient reminders about their hospital appointments in Cameroon. His e-RDV initiative has over 20,000 subscribers in Cameroon and the numbers are still counting. Thanks to his initiative some of the HIV centres he works with have witness a more than 50% decrease in default rate for HIV drug collection and 94.5% of his patients classify the quality of his services as satisfactory.

Franklin Titang
Cameroon
Public Services Management

Franklin Titang works as a Policy/Advocacy Manager for Value Health Africa (VAHA) Cameroon. The VAHA focuses on research and policy advocacy for health policy reforms for the prevention of chronic diseases in rural communities in Cameroon. Franklin also serves as the Co-Founder of the Institute of Leadership & Business Bamenda, Cameroon. To date, Franklin’s organization has successfully organized 02 workshops on youth entrepreneurship and over 04 advocacy campaigns and 03 radio talk shows on the prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Cameroon. With these projects, he has been able to reach out to almost 1000 men, women and youths in 03 subdivisions of the North West Region of Cameroon.

Jerome Kimbi Joko
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Jerome Joko is a 25-year-old Cameroonian entrepreneur. He holds an LLB in Law from the University of Buea, Cameroon. He is the Co-founder and CEO of JokoGroup, a start-up company with interest in innovating the agricultural and energy sector by providing sustainable green alternatives, which will minimize negative effects on the global environment and on the economy.

He is presently working on IlluCycle, a project that recycles organic waste to get marketable products.

Lesly Grace Jingwa Kakdeu
Cameroon
Business & Entrepreneurship

Jingwa Kakdeu Lesly Grace is a sophomore accounting student at Catholic University Institute of Buea (CUIB). After serving as a hostess for Source Du Pays S.A, she joined the NATURAL MOSQUITOE REPELLENT CREAM (NMRC) as Vice President/Co-founder. She spearheads the key aspects of NMRC such as marketing, research (getting customer feedbacks, creating awareness about NMRC and localizing strategic sales points). As an active citizen, she is a leading member of Junior Chambers International (JCI) by serving as the 2016 Financial Sectary for JCI- Catholic University Institute of Buea (JCI-CUIB).

Marriane Enow Tabi
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Marriane Enow Tabi is a Gender Equality Activist, HIV/AIDs Peer Educator. She also works as a Journalist with The Post, an English language bi-weekly Newspaper in Yaoundé, Cameroon. As a young and passionate writer, she writes on sexual reproductive health, human rights, sexual violence and issues that affects women’s health. Marriane promotes smart and young ambitious women through the She Leads Africa, (SLA). Marriane loves travelling, and making people smile, especially the less privilege in the society.

Mbuih Zukane Retruyap
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Mbuih is a Senior Youth Worker and a freelancer International Development Expert. Since 2009, he is the Community Manager at the Dschang University. In 2010, he founded an organization dubbed ICAD. He is also the Co-founder of the African Network of Youth Policy Experts. Mbuih obtained a 3 fold Masters (in International Cooperation, Humanitarian Action and Sustainable Development) from the International Relations Institute, Cameroon. He has obtained United Nations (UN) diplomas from UNICEF, UNDP, UNWOMEN. He currently runs two (2) projects, W4D (Transforming waste to produce artisanal biogas) and Blind Chat (An online free chat and bulk SMS between HIV patients and health Pundits)

Nsom Genesis
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Nsom Genesis as worked as a Youth Worker since 2006. He has spent three years as a Support Staff at the Delegation of Youth Affairs Bui and a year in Nkambe as Chief of Bureau. He has also worked as the Sub Divisional Delegate of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Belo. Genesis now serves as the Executive Director of VOLUNTEERS FOR STRATEGIC YOUTH SERVICES (an NGO). His achievements include the economic empowerment of 41 youths worth 57.842.300frs CFA, facilitation of the legalization of 102 youth associations. Genesis, through his organization has successfully trained 100 young volunteers, and created 27 Civic Education clubs and 8 Volunteers Clubs in schools amongst others.

Patamaken A. Simon Ndibnuh
Cameroon
Public Services Management

Patamaken Aneck Simon Ndibnuh, is a trained Biologist and Environmental Engineer. Professionally, he works as an Environmental Inspector working for the Cameroon’s Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development. Since April 2014, he has been serving as the Divisional Chief of office for Environmental Inspections and Evaluations for the Mayo-Louti Division, North Region of Cameroon. Simon is passionate about issues related to natural resource protection. He has participated in numerous projects related to the provision of basic sanitation infrastructure and water to poor communities. He also works to build the capacities of youths on the importance of biodiversity protection and preservation.

Paul Lola Ngong
Cameroon
Public Services Management

Paul Lola Ngong is a Senior Pharmacy Technician and Store Keeper in Chief with the Fonds Regional pour la Promotion de la sante del’Adamaoua (GIP/FRPS-AD) of the Cameroon ministry of public health. He has contributed considerably to the availability of quality drug supplies in the region and is training of some 30 community pharmacy attendants. As a motivational speaker and life coach with a desire to work with youths, Paul has helped about 300 young people walk towards a successful life through his monthly True Love Waits retreats and one on one mentoring.

Ruddy F. Morfaw Azanu
Cameroon
Public Services Management

Fualefeh Morfaw Ruddy is a Law graduate with over three years work experience in Leadership and entrepreneurship. She has engaged in training over 200 young people on leadership. She has a two years work experience on the promotion and protection of Rights at the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms in Cameroon. She is also a resource person with other Civil Society Organisations. Ruddy is a recipient of the 2015/2016 Prestigious Les Nanas Awards, sponsored by the U.S Embassy in Cameroon.

She works presently with The Emerge with Irene International Association (www.emerge withirene.com) as Managing Director.

Sirri Chiara
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Sirri Chiara is a certified Chartered Accountant currently working with Location Materiel Manutenion et Levage Ltd. She has years of experience of ledger processes, reconciliations, budgeting, Business and Financial analysis, internal control etc. Chiara is an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); seeking to Leverage her professional expertise and experience into a managerial role as a Financial Analyst. She is the Finance Director for YAWL (Young African Women in Leadership).

Stanley Ngee Sheni
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Stanley Ngee Sheni, is a graduate from The University of Bamenda, with a BBA in Management and Entrepreneurship. In the past 2 years, he has been a regular volunteer for The Greens Environmental organization in Bamenda.

Tangang Tangang Andrew
Cameroon
Civil Society Leadership

Tangang Andrew currently serves as Secretary General of Local Youth Corner (LOYOC) Cameroon and is a member of the Restless Development and Plan UK’s Youth Governance and Accountability Task Team. As a student and youth leader, Andrew has empowered over 4000 young people across Cameroon and beyond. He is an advocate for youth participation in governance, peace building and quality education, among others. Andrew represented young Cameroonians at the 2014 World Conference on Youth in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He currently coordinates the Local Accountability Advocates initiative, which trains young Cameroonians on using social accountability for effective governance in local communities.

Tchokote Herve
Cameroon
Business & Entrepreneurship

Tchokote Herve is the chairman and CEO of selfconsult.org (Africa’s Medical Network). As a Programmer, he constantly seeks to transform the world through technology. His key orientation is to ease understanding and communication amongst African people in order to boost Africa’s development. He has launched several projects including medical applications, educational software (gojamaa.com) and online voting systems (cuib-cameroon.org/cceaf2015). His passion is to build applications that solve Africa’s problems and alleviates poverty. In 2015 he became a recipient of the award for The Most Innovative Student in the Catholic University Institute of Buea (CUIB). In June2016, he became the 3rd price winner for the regional entrepreneurship challenge organized by the Ministry of Innovation and Research in Cameroon.

Alpha S. Kollie
Liberia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Alpha S. Kollie is a Social Entrepreneur, Educator, Environmental Activist and Global Change maker. He is the founder of Global Green village Enterprise; a community based Social enterprise concerned with Waste management and plastic recycling.

He has served as program officer at Natural Resources Research Initiative, which develops and coordinates programs to manage environmental sustainability and natural resources.

Daniel H. Barclay
Liberia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Daniel Barclay works as a professional accountant with over five years.

He currently serves as the Branch/ Projects Accountant for the YMCA (www.ymcaliberia.org) of Liberia where he exhibits an appreciable level of professional skill in maintaining well-organized financial control in accordance with international best practice.

Since October 2012, he continues to work to provide training for Small Business Management to vulnerable youth. He also establishes Peace Clubs in various schools in Gbarnga, training students in the area of parliamentary Procedures.

Barclay designs and implements youth friendly programs to generate income.

Edmond Karmon Tour
Liberia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Edmond Karmon Tour is a young innovative leader, entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. He believes in "Doing more and saying less" which led to the birth of a charity organization, GIVE Foundation, that impacts the lives of hundreds of less fortunate orphans across Liberia

Edmond’s motivational speeches have impacted the lives of any young people and his leadership skills earned him an award as Most Influential Youth at the United Liberia Inland Church.

His book, "Beyond the Horizon" was launched in February 2016, and he plans to release a book every year to continue to motivate young people.

Emmanuel N B Flomo
Liberia
Public Services Management

Emmanuel Flomo, Liberian, has an MBA in Finance and works for the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning as Budget Officer in Charge of Budget Forecasting.

He was the Winner of the 2015 Future Africa Award Prize in Public Service Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently the Vice President for International Affairs of the Liberia National Student Union, the umbrella organization for all students in the Country. He has, on two occasions, represented the Liberian Students in the United States of America at the Millennium Campus Network Conference.

Gayflor Z. Worzi
Liberia
Civil Society Leadership

Gayflor Z. Worzi is a team player who adopts a practical approach to positively change society.

In 2009 he worked with MOPGEL as Gender Advocator, and successfully minimized Gender Base violence in communities. After that, he started to work with the Supreme Liberia as Program Director, in 2014, to carry out series of Training in Civil and Entrepreneurship skills for sustainability and better livelihood in partnership with Government, local and international organizations.

Jackson Todd Nagbe
Liberia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Jackson Todd Nagbe is the Company Director of Phoenix Security and Training Services. He is a Protection Specialist/Firearms instructor and security trainer with distinct leadership ability. He has served as part of the protective security detail of the president of the republic of Liberia and is a founding member of Dark Forest Security, which trains National, and private security institutions. He also trained over 400 peace officers for a peaceful democratic National election in 2011 to enhance National peace building efforts.

Jackson serves his community through the Liberia Advocate Youth Initiative and his gym.

Karbeh Richardson
Liberia
Civil Society Leadership

Karbeh Richardson is a Liberian youth working at the Carter Center Mental Health Program as a Health Assistant supporting Tubman High School Clinic where she coordinates the school-base clinic and ensures students have access to free health care.

Since the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, She has worked with local Non Governmental Organizations to provide basic needs for Ebola orphans. They identify Children at risk in slum communities and bring their plight to the foundation, Feed the Future, where they are supported. She hopes to support orphans and youth through vocational education and connect children with schools for primary education.

Lucillia Sandra Merriam
Liberia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Lucillia S. Merriam is a social entrepreneur and a Biologist by profession. She has worked with young women mostly high school dropout mothers to enable them to engage into self-help initiatives that will improve their livelihood.

With her enterprise, she has developed the Mini Garden Project, which empowers 60 young women to engage into fruits farming activities.

Simeon Z. Workar
Liberia
Public Services Management

Simeon Z. Workar is an activist working to inspire causes in Peace building and education of orphans and less fortunate children.

Over the last ten years, he has started a few successful organizations for peace building and the education of Children, including the Kids for Peace Academy, which provides free care and education for orphans and less fortunate children. He also co-founded Innovation for Youth Crimes Reduction, a Youth-led organization that inspires young people to communicate the message of non-violence and equips them with necessary tools to overcome poverty.

He is currently studying Sociology in Liberia.

Ensa Kinteh
Gambia
Civil Society Leadership

Ensa Kinteh is a Gambian pursuing a law degree in the University of the Gambia. He serves as the President of the University of the Gambian Debate Association and represented the university in numerous international debate championships, including the Accra open Debate Championship In June 2015, the 8th Pan African Universities Debate Championship that took place in December 2015. He was awarded as the best country speaker in Ghana Universities Debate Championship in June 2016. These among others are what inspired him to train over 450 students who can now stand and freely express themselves in Public speaking.

Fatou Juka Darboe
Gambia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Fatou Juka Darboe is an Engineering student at the Gambian Technical Training Institute (GTTI), undergoing a Technical Diploma in Applied Mechanical and Electrical/Electronic Engineering. She is the only lady in her department and is advocating and working towards breaking the huge gender gap and stereotypes in the Science, Technology and other related fields in her country. Miss Darboe is a volunteer and gives selfless service to her community because she believes it is the greatest way to contribute to national development. Every summer since 2013, she takes peer and reproductive health classes at a community library for about 100 girls. She currently serves as the office coordinator and executive secretary of Give1 Project Gambia.

Mariama Dumbuya
Gambia
Civil Society Leadership

Mariama Dumbuya is a selfless Activist; she holds a bachelor degree in LLB law from the University of The Gambia in December 2015. She is passionate and advocating for activism and has volunteered in few organizations, where she represented them in South Korea, Daegeon in 2009 conference on the environment. In 2011, she also represented The Gambia in the Global Change Makers event in London, Buckingham. She is passionate about anti corruption; all thanks to the Anti Corruption International in Gambia.

Muhammed Danso
Gambia
Business & Entrepreneurship

Muhammed Danso is an electrical technician by profession and a start-up social entrepreneur who seeks to fight the effects of climate change and promote environmental protection with central focus on waste management, clean energy generation and green entrepreneurship.

Currently working with Alfamedia productions as a technician and has enormous zeal in community service, especially clean energy. Finding grass-root solutions to the environment and climate change problems prompted him to be the co-founder of ‘Keep Gambia Clean Foundation’ and has recently conducted sensitization program were over 50 students were sensitize on climate change, and solutions.

Omar M Ceesay
Liberia
Public Services Management

Omar Ceesay is an Engineer; he holds a Masters degree in Wireless Communication Engineering from the University Putra Malaysia (2011) and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of the Gambia in 2006. In 2005, he worked at Gambia Telecommunications Company (GAMTEL) and serves am as the Senior Manager Data Network, Project Manager Fiber to Business Project, Project Manager Cafe Project, Project Datacom Engineer TAWA Project (fixed wireless broadband) and sitting member of the national telecommunications working group under the ministry of Information and communication infrastructure. He is an adjunct lecturer at Department of Information, communication Technology and an international peer reviewer of several international journals. He was trained in telecom at Huawei University (China).

Zainab Faal
Liberia
Civil Society Leadership

Miss Zainab Faal is a Journalist with 6 years experience in the Media and with a great passion for positive change. She advocates for inclusive society where girls can pursue their full potentials. She presents a community radio program on youth empowerment with focus on girl empowerment. She is the first female journalist from her community and that means a lot to her. She graduated with an advance Diploma in Journalism in 2015, at Gambian Press Union School of Journalism. Being accepted into the YALI RLC is my greatest achievement at this moment in my life.

Alhassan Sesay
Sierra Leone
Civil Society Leadership

Mr. Alhassan Sesay has proven his reliability and dedication through service with Global Connection Partnership Network/Restore Hope, Sierra Leone, where for five years, he has served as computer instructor, project coordinator and program staff.

He received commendation for his service coordinating relief work during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. He capably coordinated volunteer community engagement efforts, contact tracing teams, and community survey teams involving more than a dozen community-based organizations. Alhassan has helped save lives, contain the outbreak in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, and lay a foundation for Global Connection Partnership Network /Restore Hope post-ebola recovery work.

James M. Keifala
Sierra Leone
Civil Society Leadership

James M. Keifala has a Bachelor of Science with honors in social work (BSc (Hons) social Work) from the Njala University in Sierra Leone. He is the executive director for a community-based organization (CBO) called ‘Community Youth Livelihood Empowerment and development Organization Sierra Leone’ (CYLEDO-SL).

He plays several leadership roles in his community where he engages young people in developmental activities and was very helpful during the outbreak of Ebola in Sierra-Leone.

Kaprie Kanu
Sierra Leone
Business & Entrepreneurship

Mr Kaprie Kanu works with grassroots communities on the capacity building of vulnerable youth in post-Ebola Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has been involved in campaigns and awareness programs involving learning institutions and communities of young colleagues for appropriate family planning. He is the Liberia Country Coordinator for the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP), which focuses on preventive measures towards family planning. He is skilled in advocacy, counseling and computer operations. He holds a Diploma in Psychosocial Counseling, Child Care and Protection, and has a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship Development.

Sorie Bangura
Sierra Leone
Civil Society Leadership

Sorie Bangura is dedicated to the reduction of suffering and poverty linked to environmental degradation of natural resources using piloting tools that create the conditions for communities to sustainably manage their forest, wetland and hillside agricultural resources. He educates his community members on climate change and natural resource management. He also forms Natural Resource Management Committees and school Green Clubs and has educated 22 teachers on basic environmental education issue. Sorie Bangura trains youths on the fabrication of eco-stove.

Dieudonne Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso
Civil Society Leadership

Mr Dieudonne Ouedraogo is a Fulbright alumnus from Burkina Faso. He has worked with rural communities and CSOs. He currently works for the counter-extremism program, Peace through Development II program (PDev II) funded by USAID in West Africa. Mr Ouedraogo has actively participated in several CVE conferences including the USAID CVE conference in December 2013, and the Youth CVE Summit in New York in September 2015. He is also a member of the State Alumni and the U.S. Government-sponsored (USG) exchange program called Alumni associations (ABPEC/US-BF). He regularly participates in the promotion of youth education through edutainment activities in the Sahel.

Inoussa Malgoubri
Burkina Faso
Civil Society Leadership

Inoussa Malgoubri is committed to boosting development within his community through educational development programs. He is a mentor at the Association for Small African Projects, (ASEP). ASEP is an association that works to get pupils in Pouytenga to go to school. Prior to ASEP projects, formal education was not given preference to in the commercial community of Pouytenga. Inoussa is an English Teacher and an active member of Burkina English Teachers’ Association, (BETA).

Sama Yelsside Panimdi Alexis
Burkina Faso
Business & Entrepreneurship

Sama Y. P. Alexis is an Agro-economist, an Innovation and Rural Development Engineer. He works as a Junior Expert in Agricultural and Climate Insurance in Burkina Faso. Since 2014, Sama has been a consultant and Resource Center Manager in the Rural Entrepreneurship (C.R.E.E.R) / PASPRU Program of the Ministry of Agriculture / House of the Companies of Burkina Faso.

Ibrahim N’Diaye
Ivory Coast
Public Services Management

The Abidjan Higher Institute of Business School (ESCA) young graduated, Ibrahim N’DIAYE has just begun his career as an internal auditor in a banking sector in Ivory Coast. His strong desire to positively impact Africa led him to be a volunteer at TEDx Abidjan and be a member of the organizing committee called ‘Francophone 3535’. Passionate by personal development, strategy and finance, Ibrahim also served as President of the Student Associations at ESCA Business School and finished 5th at the National final of the Global Management Challenge, International Tournament of Strategy and Management.

Toti Jean Marc Yale
Ivory Coast
Civil Society Leadership

Toti Jean Marc Yale is a passionate civic leader motivated by a desire to see positive change in his society. He holds a bachelors degree in English from the Felix Houphouët-Boigny University. He is the chairman of the Education and English for you (EEFY) foundation. Where he supports over 300 children from low income backgrounds to advance in their learning of the English language. In 2015, he won a grant from the U.S Embassy in Cote d’Ivoire, which he used to rehabilitate the toilets of six public schools in Bingerville that permitted more than 8000 students to learn in more hygienic conditions.

Leguide Soaguiban
Togo
Business & Entrepreneurship

Leguide Soaguiban is an account manager by profession. He is a positive change agent and an active learner who explores and develops his leadership potentials in order to positively impact his society.

Mr Soaguiban quit school to volunteer with AIESEC (www.aiesec.org ) and Junior Achievement Togo for 5 years. He was a Member Committee President of AIESEC Togo from 2013 to 2014 and was also nominated as the Youth Honorary Ambassador of Egypt in Togo. Leguide’s dream is to work on a UN community development program.