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	Francis Anyaegbu


Title and Organization:		Executive Director/Founder, Youth In Transit Organisation -Nigeria
Gender and Age:		Male, 24
Location:		Lagos, Lagos
Country of Residence:		Nigeria
Country of Birth:		Nigeria
Nationalities:		Nigerian
Citizenships:		Nigeria
Languages:		English



Website:		http://www.francisanyaegbu.com
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About Me

Francis Anyaegbu is a youth development trainer and consultant with extensive experience in creating, facilitating and managing youth led projects. He has been privileged to have represented Nigeria actively in over 10 international meetings in four continents as well as a previous role of Senate Chief Whip with the Nigerian National children Parliament, Abuja. He is the Executive Director of a youth led organization, Youth In Transit Organization, Programme Coordinator for the Formysake.org global warming initiative (www.formysake.org), head of innovations, Youth Bank (A micro-business incubator project for street youths) and also seats on the board of some youth organization and projects within and outside Nigeria. He is a core campaigner for Action Aid International -ACTIVISTA Youth project in Nigeria. He was until recently a consultant to the British Council Nigeria on the Debate to Action Programme, a joint development project between the British Council and the World Bank Institute. Francis also volunteers his expertise as a Virtual Volunteer Resource Editor for TIG. He was also the Programme Coordinator for the Nigerian Hub for Global Premiere of the International Film documentary on Climate Change ‘Age of Stupid’ screening in Nigeria.

With an academic background in Science Laboratory Technology, and couple of professional certification in development work, Francis is a development trainer with vast facilitation competencies. He has been privileged to work with various policy makers, non-profits organizations and other relevant stakeholders on developmental issues in Nigeria. He has also been a core planning team member/facilitator of various international youth events and has also been interviewed and profiled on major print and broadcast media in Nigeria.

Francis Anyaegbu has been nominated for various Youth Awards; he made the coveted shortlist for the Youth Advocacy Category at The Future Nigeria 2007 Awards. He participated in a British Council sponsored Youth Exchange programme "Belongings" in August 2007 in London, UK and was selected as one of the 101 Young African Leaders at the African Business Forum in Ghana. The Ray of Hope/UNESCO Project also nominated him into a group of 12 for a photo shoot session on the Inspiring Nigerians project in London, United Kingdom. Francis also attended the Global Engagement Summit 2008 at the Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA in April 2008 as one of twelve international youth leaders selected from around the world and was also invited as a dialogue session speaker by UN HABITAT to attend the World Urban Youth Forum IV in Nanjing, China in November, 2008. In March 2009, Francis participated in Peace building and conflict resolution certification programme by the Generations for peace Project in Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates (U.A.E). More recently, he was selected into the British Council Global Changemakers Network, and participated actively in the African Youth Forum in June 2009 at Capetown South Africa.

In conclusion, he is a visionary person who is passionate about sharing ideas, gaining new skills that will further boost his youth advocacy and above all a citizen of the world who thinks beyond ethnicity and religion with the aims of building a world fit for living.