Are you a Nigerian undergraduate passionate about driving meaningful change in your community and speaking up about key national issues? Here’s your chance!
The Nigerian Youth Futures Fund Youth Leadership Development Programme 2025 is seeking to make you an activist for social change!
The 2025 Cohort has two key thematic focus areas. To be a member of the cohort this year, you are welcome to submit a project proposal under one of the focus areas.
Facilitating Good Governance
- Transparency & Accountability in Governance
- Got a project that will support members of your community to request for accountability in governance?
- Voter Education
- As 2025 ushers in preparations for National elections in 2027, how well do your community members know about their rights as voters?
- Are members of your immediate student community aware of how elections are conducted at student representative level? What can be changed in how elections are run in your institution?
- National Policy Engagement
- Do members of your community know the provisions of the National Youth Policy?
- Are there policy reforms that you can advocate for?
- What are the policies attainable in your school community? What can you do to change them?
- Social Media Advocacy
- How would you use digital platforms to amplify governance issues and promote the inclusion of student voices in university administration decisions and policy decisions at national level?
Resolving Fundamental National Questions
- Group Conflict Resolution & Peacebuilding
- Do you have a project idea that will foster unity in your immediate community?
- What can you do about communal and inter-tribal conflicts around your choice community?
- Gender & Social Inclusion
- Do you have a project idea that will Advocate for inclusive policies on your campus or any other community of your choosing?
- Civic Rights Awareness
- Can your project idea empower your community members to know their rights?
- Can your project provide aid for students facing injustice within and outside the campus?
Benefits
- Leadership training & mentorship from top social innovators & policy experts
- Access to micro-grants for community change projects
- A chance to participate in national debates on key policy issues
- Recognition as a youth leader driving change in Nigeria
- A vibrant community of young, passionate change-makers
- Receive up to #200.000 to #2.5m in grants and other prizes.
Eligibility
- 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.
Deadline: March 14, 2025
Application
Submit your application, including your change project proposal, and join a movement of young leaders shaping Nigeria’s future.
