1. Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and Advocacy Training for Civil Society Actors,
and Media Components for the Peace and Security Cluster (PSC) of West
African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF)
APPLICATION FORM
Date: May 12-16, 2014
Venue: WACSI, Accra, Ghana
Application Deadline: 2 March, 2014.
Personal Details
1. Surname Akin-Williams
2. Other Names David Akinbowale
3. Nationality Nigerian
4. Email address davakinwilliams@gmail.com
5. Telephone (Mobile) 08060813566
Candidate Profile
6. Name of Organisation (and
Name of Executive
Director)
Global Youth Efficiency Foundation
Mary Omotayo Egbe
Organisations’ mission and
Vision To uplift the level and standard of community life for all of the
community's children, including the most vulnerable.
2. Healthy living education focusing on HIV/AIDS, sanitation,
nutrition, reproductive health and family planning, diseases
prevention.
3. To combat illiteracy by providing ethnic minorities,
particularly girls and women, with literacy skills training and
continuing education opportunities; promotion of gender
equity (including women's empowerment)
4. To unite the community in local and global social action for
sustainable development through household management
capacity building and sensitization on local and global
community issues.
5. To engage in such other activities, not prohibited by law, as
the executive committee may from time to time determine.
6. Enhance the levels of functional literacy among
marginalised and vulnerable individuals and social
groups/communities.
7. To use literacy skills development as an instrument of
poverty alleviation, sustainable community development and
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2. environmental protection.
8. Lobbying and advocacy for the enhanced provision of
community-based adult learning programmes.
9. Promote community capacity building (empowerment) and
development through functional literacy skills training.
10. Promote poverty alleviation through community
development.
7. Current position (and for
how long?)
Director of Programmes
8. Organisation Email and
Website
gyef.ngo@gmail.com
9. Country Nigeria
10. Please list your organisation’s 3 main areas of activity
1. Training
2. Activism
3. Socialising
11. State reason(s) why you should
be considered to attend this
training?
We are a youth led organisation that is
committed to change and rights of the Youth
12. Have you attended any other
training (local or international)
on RtoP, Conflict prevention,
mass atrocities prevention etc.?
Yes
13. Is there any situation (on-going
or impending) that may require
RtoP application to your
context? If yes, please share
briefly.
Yes. The issue of Boko-Haram attack on the
innocent young ones in Nigeria is really a
menace. Innocent children were killed for no
just cause.
14 Have you ever been actively or
directly involved in any
advocacy campaign/ agenda? If
yes, please share briefly.
In 2012, we were in Abuja to support a
corrupt free regime of government under the
Anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria
15. What do you expect to gain
from this training? List all
Protection methods
Preventive measures
Conflict Management
R to P agency in my country
Leadership
16 Is there any special addition(s)
that you intend to bring on
board at this training?
17 How do you intend to apply
(utilise) the skills, knowledge
and information to be acquired
from this training in your
current position?
Develop others on RtoP
The need to Protect
Advocate good governance
Develop a more agency of change in crisis
situations
18 Are you familiar with challenges
associated with any of these
themes in West Africa:
elections, ethnic cleansing, war
crimes, crimes against
humanity, humanitarian
intervention, or terrorism? If
yes, please share briefly
Election Period in Nigeria comes with
various ethnic challenges and conflicts. The
problem has always spurned out from poor
leaderships in most of the regions. Rigging,
stealing of ballot boxes, unexpected
cancelation of polling booths and other
politically motivated problems have overtime
hindered successful elections in the past and
now.
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3. The credo to serve with all intents of goodwill
has been lost even in the present democratic
government.
19. Provide any other relevant
information to support your
application.
I have my ECOWAS passport if am called for
the meeting.
Please send the completed Application Form by 2 March, 2014. Successful participants will
be notified and submitted to a Learning need assessment.
Completed forms should be emailed to: policyadvocacy@wacsi.org Cc:
bsome@wacsi.org
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