Empowering youth leadership, championing inclusive sanitation, and shaping regional water policy across West Africa..
Overview & Our Core Commitment
At Young Peace Builders, we recognize that access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is fundamental to peace, public health, and social stability.
Overview & Our Core Commitment Cont.
Water scarcity and weak governance disproportionately impact women, young people, and marginalized communities.
Through localized community interventions and high-level regional policy advocacy, we work to ensure that young people are not just beneficiaries of water development, but active decision-makers in governance frameworks across the Mano River Union basin and the ECOWAS region.
Key Pillars of Our WASH Strategy:
Community-Led Hygiene & Access: Mobilizing youth groups to advocate for safe sanitation infrastructure and sustainable water resource practices at the grassroots level.
Gender & Social Inclusion (GESI): Breaking down structural barriers so women, girls, and marginalized youth have an equal voice in local water management committees.
Policy Engagement & Peacebuilding: Linking local water security with regional peacebuilding, ensuring natural resources unite communities rather than divide them.
Regional Policy Engagement & Milestones:
Young Peace Builders consistently brings frontline youth perspectives to major diplomatic and strategic forums shaping the future of water security in West Africa.
ECOWAS Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Consultations.
Regional Policy Engagements & Milestones
ECOWAS Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Consultations;
Location & Year: Dakar, Senegal (2025)
Our Role: Consultative Participant
Impact: Represented youth-led peace and development priorities during regional consultations aimed at strengthening river basin management and harmonizing cross-border water policies under the ECOWAS Integrated Water Resources Management framework
1st West Africa Water Conference:
Location & Year: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (2026)
Our Role: High-Level Panelist
Impact: Our Executive Director served as a key panelist during the high-level session: “Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion in Water Governance in West Africa: What Levers for More Equitable, Participatory, and Resilient Governance?”
During this session, we highlighted concrete mechanisms for integrating youth monitoring networks into formal governance structures and urged regional policymakers to institutionalize youth-led climate and water solutions.Études offers comprehensive consulting, management, design, and research solutions. Our vision is to be at the forefront of architectural innovation, fostering a global community of architects and enthusiasts united by a passion for creating spaces. Every architectural endeavor is an opportunity to shape the future.
Call to Action / Partner With Us.
- Building resilient, equitable, and water-secure communities requires strong partnerships. We welcome collaboration with governments, regional bodies, and civil society organizations dedicated to amplifying youth leadership in resource governance.
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