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| Gambian Journalist, Mamadou Edrisa Njie |
The
Youth Innovation Workshop Fair is organized to honor and celebrate
young entrepreneurs’ achievements.
The specific objectives of this event
are: To bring together youths to share their perspectives and ideas in
relation to their business models, to work toward solutions to common
problems, and to enable the participants to showcase their products and
services and share best practices.
Phelps
Stokes and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),
in collaboration with the Government of Benin, Activos Culturales Afro
(ACUA), Palmares Fundacao, and Give1Project organized the even and
cordially invited Gambian social justice activists cum journalist to
attend as a participant and a facilitator.
He will be presenting a paper on “How Irresponsible Use of Water Can Affect Communities (Rural and Urban).
The
proposed workshop, dubbed “Youth Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change,”
will bring together young entrepreneurs, representatives of agribusiness
companies, business associations, civil society, as well as
representatives from national, regional, and international development
agencies to share their experiences on the promotion of agribusiness
development and innovation in Western and Central Africa.
For
the workshop fair, participants are invited primarily from Western and
Central African regions. UN agencies, youth organization and
entrepreneurs’ organizations in the region are invited to share with
participant’s information on programs to support youths in agribusiness.
In order to ensure political support and effective follow-up on
decisions from the workshop, the project will engage with the relevant
entrepreneurs for their participation and contributions at the workshop.
Information
and decisions reached at the workshop will be contained in a workshop
report that will be prepared at the end of the event and posted on the
workshop web site.
The program will include plenary sessions, workshops, business meetings, a fair, and an interactive online segment.
The
benefits of the workshop don’t end here, though. There will be several
other long-lasting outputs of the event which includes Global Youth
Virtual Platform, Communication and Advocacy and Data Collection and
Analysis.
Mamadou
Edrisa Njie is the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of both Youth
Responsible Tourism Association (YORTA), and Jarumeh Koto Youth
Development Association, Second Vice President Young Journalists
Association of The Gambia (YJAG) and a member Global Unification The
Gambia (GU). At the Gambia News and Report Weekly Magazine, he holds the
position of Ag. Editorial Assistant and Newsroom Coordinator.
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