The 3 months-long project aims to mobilize young Nigerians for digital training and capacity building on youth leadership engagement and also provide platforms for young people – political leaders dialogues that will inform on need-based policy formulations that protect natural habitats, stop environmental degradation and conserve national biodiversity richness in the Nigeria environment. The project will deliver the following objectives: provide a platform and facilitate virtual exchange between decision and policymaker and political leaders and the local communities; bring into the political mainstream the voices of Nigerian youths on national environmental management issues; build the capacity of young Nigerians on digital activism and contemporary environmental challenges; increase youth participation in government environmental restoration projects and decision-making process and integrate Nigerian youth voices in preventing biodiversity loss and conservation of natural habitats.
