The Youth Delegation is a group of young people from 24 countries around the world, carefully selected by the Youth Department out of 420 applicants, to be actively participating in the activities of "12 Months, 1 question" online Campaign and particularly in the High Level Event on the 29th of June.

The Youth Delegation is prepared and accompanied by a team of 4 trainers from the Trainer's Pool of the Youth Department to connect with the themes of the WFD Campaign and to actively participate in the online activities.

youth delegates
OKEREKE Ijeoma

Ijeoma OKEREKE

Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ)

Nigeria

My work in the past 3 years has been committed to grassroots advancement and mobilizing citizens for action, an important trait found in great reformers today. A major part of my daily task revolves around mobilizing citizens to take up the responsibility of holding their leaders to account while engaging representatives of the government at both federal and state levels to execute budgeted projects. As a communicationist, I seek to understand the relationship between the media, democracy and the environment and that is why I am particularly interested in the World Forum for Democracy, a community of young people who are standing up for their rights and the environment.

Council of Europe Youth Department Trainers’ Pool