PRESS STATEMENT – CITIZEN COMMONS INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES THE NIGERIAN YOUTH VOICE SURVEY

On the 29th of September 2022, Citizen Commons organized a press conference to raise awareness on the public launch of the data collection for the Nigerian Youth Voice Survey, a special effort dedicated to capturing the experiences, opinions, ideas, and thoughts of young Nigerians about the future of Nigeria and our roles in it. This survey is part of our Youth Conversation for New Nigeria, a national consultation convened as a series of youth-led, youth-focused consultations, community town hall sessions, and focus group discussions designed to engage Nigerian youths, create awareness, and highlight policy issues of importance from communities to campuses.

The survey seeks to capture the voices of young Nigerians on a number of topical issues of importance to us as youths and as a country. As we explore our picture in Nigeria’s future, we are asking our peers to share their experiences on what it means to be Nigerian, our voices as the new voices in policy-making across all levels of government. We ask about deepening our democracy, political participation, inclusion and active citizenship. 

As young people, we recognize the future of Nigeria is in our hands and we must be intentional about the policy, politics as well as principles and practices that shape our national development and government priorities – hence the use of evidence-based resources to engage our leaders and stakeholders on our hopes, aspirations for the future. As such, the conversation explores a unique opportunity to capture the best of youth voice in topical areas; from insecurity to political participation, our Nigerian identity, and deepening democracy, leadership, education, health as socio-political and economic realities. It offers a new way to amplify our voice and share with our peers what we think our leaders should be doing to birth the New Nigeria we desire and our role in it.  

The survey is about young Nigerians taking charge of our future by informing our leaders of our priorities with evidence, and we call on our peers to stand out and complete the survey en masse so we can build the Nigeria we desire. We are reaching out to youth leaders, student leaders, activists, civic leaders, community leaders and media houses, and online and traditional media outlets to help spread the word and mobilize young people aged 18 to 35 to complete this public survey


Care for a New Nigeria?  Aged 18-35, Fill out the survey here
www.bit.ly/NigeriaYouthVoiceSurvey

Read the full press statement here

https://www.citizencommons.org/press-statement-citizen-commons-international-launches-the-nigerian-youth-voice-survey/