Youth

As a member of CIVICUS Youth Working Group since October 2018, I strengthen the networks and the power of young people to organize, mobilize and act by pressing for a diversified representation of youth movements and young people within organizations and decision-making processes while strengthening solidarity across borders, ages, languages, religions and gender, to maximize impact. I was Advisor on SPEAK! Campaign 2019 in Benin with CASEC | ACSAC – CIVICUS – Social Watch and organizer for SPEAK!2018 Campaign.

As Legal Advisor of African Youth and Adolescent Network on Population and Development – AfriYAN Benin since December 2019, I promote the development of civic knowledge, skills and disposition to increase the involvement and participation of young people in decision-making processes at all levels; political, social and economic; and strengthen their capacity to protect their rights. I worked on #NotMe Campaign for the involvement of religious leaders and young people in the fight against Gender-Based Violence with ENAFA NGO and UNICEF.

In August 2018 I set up the project set “Young student, Heart of sustainable development”. This project aims to inform young people about the SDGs, to enlighten them on the evolution of their implementation in Benin and finally to commit them to action in their respective communities. The target of the project is the youth, but especially the young students and doctoral students of the universities of Benin. Our goal is to encourage Benin’s students and doctoral students to carry out scientific research, actions and studies on the SDGs and innovations that will enable Benin to achieve them by 2030.

This project was marked by the Forum on Action for Sustainable Development and the Role of Youth on September 25, 2018. From this project, three initiatives were born. This is the Youth Talks which presents the actions of the Youth through a webcast, the Digital Library on the SDGs for students and PhD students and the School of SDGs in Benin.

With the Forum on Action for Sustainable Development and the role of youth I was able to reach more than 50,000 people. First of all, more than 300 young people registered for this first forum even if we could not all retain them to attend. However, the project enabled all participating youth to make a commitment to work towards the SDGs by sharing forum discussions with other youth in their university and community and sharing them on social media.

The National Television of Benin (ORTB) also sent a team to carry out a report on the forum, this report was broadcast during the newscast for several days. This has reached more than 50,000 viewers in Benin. But the real impact of this project will be the implementation of the three initiatives resulting from the forum. They will reach more than 30,000 young people in Benin by December 2020. (https://sdgactionawards.org/initiative/1388).

In 2019, I lead the Youth Unit CASEC, which has grown worked in collaboration with some young from Social Watch and the Network of organization of Africans Young Leader of the United Nations for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as many young volunteers from Benin, Ghana, and Ivory Coast, organized the Youth and Sustainable Development Forum 2019 at Cotonou in Benin. This forum gathered more than two hundred young people from Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, United State of America, France and Bolivia. Through this forum, we were able to write a Declaration of our common visions, commitments and recommendations which is the result of collaboration with 964 young people from 101 countries.

Since January 2021, I joined the Youth program as UNESCO Researchers and I actively participate as a researcher in the global team in charge of the evaluation of the entire program which has more than 34 teams of researchers. research (7 global teams, 6 regional teams, 15 sub-regional teams and more than 6 national teams).