2023 Projects
Young People Urged To Choose Legal Migration Route
Concerned about the rising cases of illegal migration that many youth are embarking on, Arise Youth network put together a seminar focused on empowering young People on the Principles guiding ethical and legal migration across the global. The Seminar took place on April 6th, 2023 at the Nigerian Baptist Convention Headquarters, Oke-Bola, Awolowo way, Ibadan. This enlightenment was premised on the need to help guide intending Young People who are seeking relocation to other parts of the world. The high rate of youth migration from Nigeria to other developed climes albeit through illegal and dangerous route was the focus of a day workshop organised by Arise Youth Network for Total Impact by the NGO of the Youth and Student Ministries Department of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in conjunction with Temi Foundation for Women and Youth Development.
The meeting had in attendance concerned Youth and youth workers where they were equipped with relevant
Information contemporary Migration Route. The facilitators include Mr. Abdul Rahman Orosanya of Temi Foundation for Women and Youth Development and a Youth Advocate who handled the topic Understanding the Dimension of Contemporary Migration (Regular and Irregular). Others are Mr. Yomi Okeleye the Director of Goldenmark Consults who spoke on Migrations Routes for Young People where he emphasized Education route as the best. Barrister (Mrs) Mosunmola a legal practitioner revealed to the participants the different legal framework to safe and secure migration that young people need to be aware of. The interactive session include responses from the participants on what they will do with the lessons learnt from the workshop.
Sterling One Foundation/United Nations Nigeria 2-Day Africa Social Impact Summit
The 2-Day Africa Social Impact Summit is a gathering of critical public, private and development sector players which include civil society leaders, impact investors, and entrepreneurs aimed at building sustainable partnerships and coalitions that will accelerate impact investments into critical areas of the economy. Its overall major arching goal was to boost collective actions towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
As one of the partners of Giving.Ng, the donation arm of Sterling One Foundation and organisation of Sterling Bank, our organisation was invited to attend the conference due to our focus on contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and driving human capital development for economic growth among the youths.
The summit had in attendance an array of global and renowned speakers like the United Nations Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed who spoke to the gathering virtually urging the need for collective actions that will impact the development of the African continent and the need to drive towards gender equity.
Other dignitaries that spoke at the summit were representatives of the British, United States of America, German, Denmark, Dutch, Consul-Generals and Ambassadors to Nigeria who all harped on the need for collective actions towards addressing issues around climate change, education and networking among all actors.
We were able to attend the impact workshop for NGOs which is the category our organisations belong. Donors and professionals from Plan International, Coca-Cola Foundation, ACTS Foundations, and Microsoft Foundation listed some of the actions that NGOs need to do or put in place to attract funding from both local and international donors/funders. Some of them are building local capabilities, up your game to attract funding (Organising events on your own), be fully registered with all relevant agencies, and have a focus area among others.
Participation at the One-Day Global Action against Poverty/Nigeria Network of NNNGOs National People Assembly
The physical people’s assembly which was held on Thursday September, 14th 2023 was convened as a follow up to the virtual people’s assembly to commemorate the global week of action 2023. The event which served as a platform for CSO leaders and the media to contribute inputs on the current situation in light of the SDG Mid-Point with the theme “Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Achievement of the SDGs in Nigeria” had 20 physical participants in attendance.
During the event, recommendations and practical experiences on how to mitigate the challenges to implementation of the SDGs in Nigeria in various organizations were discussed. As one of the Participants I was able to share the programmes of Arise Youth Network for Total Impact in the areas of Youth leadership trainings, our various empowerment programmes, partnership drive with other organizations and Conferences as ways in which we are driving to meet up with the SDG goals.
Part of the key issues that emerged at the event was the lack of trust citizens have in the government, weak implementation of policies and the lack of local government autonomy.
Listing their demands, participants called on the Nigeria Government to “Focus on quality education (Provision of adequate infrastructure, subsidy for schools, upgrading technical school) with entrepreneurship practices to advance youth employment, Upgrade the PHC facilities and employment of qualified health personnel at all primary health care centres across the country”, they also encouraged CSOs to synergize with the media to consistently raise awareness on the need to accelerate action on attainment of the SDGs and use each of the SDGs to draw out a national and sub-national action plans for achieving the goals.
The Unite to Act stunt was also organized in front of an iconic second gate of University College Hospital, Ibadan where participants convened for us to create a high visibility and awareness about the SDGs.
The event was organised by the Global Call to Action against Poverty in partnership with the Nigeria Network of NGOs which Arise Youth Network for Total Impact is a member.
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Correcting Misinformation Campaign and Outreach
In February, the organisation received a grant of N200,000 from FactCheck Africa/Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative for conduct information and orientation programme for [people living in Grassroots communities. Our focus was on sharing the right information about climate change and it impact on the lives of local people. It was carried out between February 19th to February 23rd, 2024 at three communities in Ido Local Government – Akufo, Idi-Amu and Akerele communities.
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