Are you deeply passionate about social change? Do you desire to lend your voice as a useful tool to bring about lasting change?
Do you have a solid team from your campus as passionate as you are and willing to lend their voices as well? Apply NOW for the Nigerian Youth Futures Fund Youth Leadership Development Programme! Let your voice be heard!
About Nigerian Youth Futures Fund Youth Leadership Development Programme
Opportunity Details
Nigerian youths are pressed for action and eager to lead and create change. However, there are questions about whether they have all the knowledge and skills required to succeed in such positions. Do they have the right models to follow? Do they fully understand what it means to lead themselves first and then others?
To bridge this gap, LEAP Africa designed the Youth Leadership Development Programme to equip undergraduates in tertiary institutions with the skills, knowledge and resources needed to play active roles in nation-building, community development and policy advocacy.
Participants of the YLDP go through self-paced courses developed on the programme’s three pillars: leadership, active citizenship and community/sustainable development group mentorship sessions with expert social innovators and change makers who will guide them as they implement impactful change projects, inter-school debates on national issues, funded community change projects, and virtual learning sessions to develop their mindsets and equip them to be the change agents the country needs.
The Programme’s Central Courses
- Self Leadership
- Transformative Leadership
- Ethics & Values
- Diversity, Tolerance, & Inclusion
- Problem-Solving
- Civic Education 101
- Advocacy 102: Enabling Youth Voices - From Hype to Action
- Community Organizing
- Sustainable Development Goals: The Goals, The Targets, and Your Role
- Public Policy
Focus Areas of the YLDP
- Facilitating good governance
- Resolving fundamental national questions
Benefits of Nigerian Youth Futures Fund Youth Leadership Development Programme
- The Youth Leadership Development Programme will help young people become contributing members of society and empower young people to actively engage in addressing issues of national concern while fostering peer-to-peer learning and community building.
Nigerian Youth Futures Fund Youth Leadership Development Programme Requirements
- Participants must be between 18-35 years of age
- Participants must be undergraduate students at any tertiary institution in Nigeria
- Participants must be available to participate in the programme for the 5-month period
- Participants must commit to at least 85% total participation in the programme
- Participants must have a working mobile phone/personal computer and access to stable internet at all times during the programme
- Participants must show proof of studentship at the claimed tertiary institution (course form for the current session/ID Card)
- Participants must be open to travel at any stage of the programme (careful considerations are made so that participants do not miss out significantly from academic activities)
- All participants admitted into the programme after completing the applications must undergo the 10 compulsory virtual courses before proceeding to the track divisions of their choice.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
14 March, 2025
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