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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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'Senator' Francis Anyaegbu is a visionary young leader with extensive experience in creating, and facilitating youth led projects. He demonstrated leadership abilities among Youth locally and internationally (even as one of his country's Delegate to the Commonwealth Youth Forum CYF-4 in 2003). A child right advocate and Youth Activist, a former Senate Minority Leader of the Nigerian National children Parliament, Abuja which was instrumental in the passage of the Nigerian Child Rights Act 2003, a law which ensures the protection, survival, participation and development rights of all children in Nigeria. He is the Executive Director of a youth led organization, Youth In Transit Organization and also seats on the board of some youth organization and projects in Nigeria and a member of various International Youth Networks. He is a core volunteer campaigner for Action Aid International -ACTIVISTA Youth project in Nigeria. The focus of the group is to campaign for the right to Food, on the platform of Action Aid’s Hunger FREE program running in ten countries. He currently works as 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.

He is a Youth development trainer with vast experience on Rights based advocacy, the Millennium development goals (MDGs), youth leadership, life skills training and environmental issues. He has also been privileged to work with various policy makers, non-profits organizations and other relevant stakeholders on youth issues in Nigeria. He has been a core planning team member and facilitator of various international youth events and also one of the contributors to 'Water Rights and Wrongs Booklet' a young people summary of the 2006 UNDP Human Development report, which focuses on water titled Beyond Scarcity; Power, Poverty and Global crises of water, facilitated by Peace Child International UK and the UNDP. He was also a member of the group that reviewed the Nigerian National Youth policy.

More so, He is very passionate about impacting positively into others through organizing periodic skills based trainings for young people at risk from disadvantaged communities in Lagos on topical issues affecting them. Part of these initiative has giving rise to an annual Youth Leadership Summit tagged 'Budding Leaders Summit" which adjudged as the largest youth gathering for in-school and out of school young people from communities in Lagos. He has also been interviewed and profiled on major print and broadcast media in Nigeria and he is also a seasoned speaker in the fore front of advocating for Children and Youth inclusion into social spaces in Nigeria. He is a prolific writer and contributor to various journals and a regular feature on various youth programmes.

Francis Anyaegbu has been nominated for various Youth Awards, but more recently, he made the 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 recently attended the Global Engagement Summit 2008 at the Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA in April 2008 as one of few international participants selected from around the world and was recently selected by UNHABITAT to attend the World Urban Youth Forum IV in Nanjing, China as a dialogue session speaker in November, 2008.

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