This project seeks to provide young people with an opportunity to overcome barriers to their effective participation in society, by creating the conditions where youth in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States (BAY States) have greater access to policy-making at local and national levels and where they are strengthened to better demand accountability for conflict-related human rights violations, such as CRSV, and to participate meaningfully in local and national peace and reconciliation processes, such as platforms to advance the Women Peace and Security, or the Youth Peace and Security, agendas. The Project will give young people aged 18 to 29 from the BAY States the opportunity to organize themselves into clubs from which they can initiate and partake in meaningful advocacy and civic action.

The overall aim of the Project is to ensure that Nigerian youth, and in particular survivors of the conflict in Northeastern Nigeria, participate in a meaningful and structured way, at local and national levels, in conflict prevention, the protection of civilians, peacebuilding, mediation & conflict resolution efforts, actively promoting the rights of the most vulnerable in society, therefore supporting the attainment of SDG 16 on promoting just, peaceful and inclusive societies.