2008 Stand Up Against Poverty Event -IYDC Partnering TUCCAN Foundation

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is the world’s largest anti-poverty civil society alliance of social movements, International NGOs, trade unions, community groups, women’s organizations, faith and youth groups, local associations and campaigners working together across more than 100 national coalitions. It uses various strategies such as popular mobilization, lobby and media, by highlighting and strengthening local anti-poverty campaigns and struggles toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals in 2015

In the year 2008, IYDC Youth Forum in partnership with TUCCAN Foundation, conducted in-school & Community Rally to stand up against Poverty from the 17th & 19th October 2008. The event draw the attention of the Kano State government, Private Sector, Community and Religious leaders, Schools Administrators. About 500 Almajiri children joined the community rally to speak and stand against Poverty.

IYDC End of the 2006 - 2007 Parties

The 2006 and 2007 IYDC End of the Year Parties were put together by Communication Support Centre {C-Support}. The 2006 EOYP programme was done at the Kano State Tiga Dam in line with the 2006 World AIDS Day event with about 40 young people in attendance- The young people in attendance discussed the "Role of Youth in HIV Prevention", thereafter was the Networking session, Boat Ride, Music and Dance, Dance, Dance.

The 2007 EOYP was done at Communication Support Centre Youth Ground with about 60 young people in attendance; the year theme was: "Youth & Climate Change Mitigation"- The topic was facilitated by Mr. Sufi Abdullahi from Federation of Nigeria Youth Greens Network; thereafter was facilitation on "Youth Participation" by Miss Akeju Olukemi Abimbola from TUCCAN Foundation. There was opportunity for youth deliberation on the two topics. Thereafter was the award ceremony to honor the some IYDC Youth Forum Members, Christian Jeremiah bagged the 2008 Best IYDC Youth, while Idris Olabisi, Tahir Abdulkadir, Solomon Isah, and Fasuyi Peter bagged Forum Membership Awards. The Event End ended with a Networking Session & Youth Get together Party.

IYDC Youth Forum Members at Democratic Series Participatory Learning & Action Youth Programme in Jos Nigeria

DESPLAY is an initiative of Youngstars Foundation on youths and
democratization, funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Washington DC USA. DESPLAY is a mind changing, knowledge based and action-oriented project for
youth organization and young people in Nigeria. DESPLAY seeks to foster active
youth involvement in democratization, political process and human rights in
Nigeria towards sustainable democracy and good governance in Nigeria
and Africa at large.

Participants are drawn from the six geopolitical zones of the country are currently working together on different aspects of democracy and good governance in Nigeria. Topics discussed related to the concept of democracy, the history of Democracy in Nigeria, structures of democracy and governance in general. There was a Reading exercise was on The Quality of Democracy, a text from The Journal of Democracy published periodically by NED. A debate on the State of the Nation and the state of the youths generated good intellectual exchange and also promoted better dialogue skills predicated on respect for the human person in spite of differing views and disagreements in ideologies.
Participants also took time out to interact with cross sections of the
community on their perception about democracy and governance in
Youth Internship at the National Assembly, Abuja. As a basic learning
component, placements were secured for 5 DESPLAY participants who interned for 3 weeks at the National Assembly.