LEAP Africa Youth Leadership Programme (YLP) 2023

The Youth Leadership Development Programme is intended to empower, equip, and support young change leaders who are Nigerian undergraduates under the age of 30, by providing them with the knowledge, abilities, and supportive environment required to become self-leaders who bring long-term change to their communities.

As Nigeria approaches an election year, the Youth Leadership Programme has never been more relevant to the current concerns being encountered in Africa today, particularly those bordering on leadership, active citizenship, and sustainable development.

The Youth Leadership Development Programme consists of 22 modules organised around the program’s three pillars: leadership, active citizenship, and sustainable/community development. The modules have been meticulously planned and adjusted to match the contemporary circumstances of Nigerian youth in order to close gaps in leadership, active citizenship, and sustainable/community development. The modules will assist learners in developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to become true change agents who lead community transformation and influence policy change.

LEAP Africa Youth Leadership Programme Pathways

The Youth Leadership Development Programme will take on two pathways this year; the Sustainability pathway and the Advocacy pathway.

The Youth Leadership Programme (Sustainability Pathway) addresses the need to educate, strengthen, support, and enable young people in Nigeria for leadership, activism, and social change through outcome-driven policy engagements and inclusive resourcing that will support youth in shaping and supporting medium and long-term national development.
Intercampus Leadership Debates (Advocacy Pathway) provides an avenue to reawaken student activism in Nigeria, demystify what leadership means, inspire active citizenship, and support them in collectively articulating their visions of the future while catalyzing pathways for them to decisively participate in that future themselves. This will be done through nationwide leadership debates.

LEAP Africa Youth Leadership Programme Eligibility

To successfully apply for the YLDP, an applicant should possess the following qualities:

A Male or Female Undergraduate in a Tertiary/Vocational Institution in Nigeria.
Aged 18 – 30 years.
Passionate about advocacy, activism and community development.
Interested in inclusion, diversity and civic responsibility and eager to exercise these interests.
Eager to champion change projects geared towards community development & the SDGs.
Eager to engage with government institutions and influence policy.
Committed to attending the Online Training, Debates and is available for mentoring.