NIYEEDEP: Empowering Nigeria’s Youth for a Brighter Tomorrow
We believe that Nigeria’s future lies in the hands of its youth. We are a pro-youth socio-economic empowerment initiative focused on tackling the nation’s critical challenges of youth unemployment, poverty, and economic marginalization.
Projects
Food 4 All Initiative
A timely intervention designed to address food insecurity and acute hunger in Nigeria, preventing potential unrest caused by economic hardship. It also aims to curb youth restiveness, safeguarding the country’s political stability and security.
Cooperative Youth Farmers & Allied Entrepreneurs
✅Create opportunities in the agric sector
✅ Contribute to 6 million direct jobs by 2025
✅ Support household poverty alleviation
About Us
The “Nigerian Youth Economic Engagement and De-Radicalization Programme (NIYEEDEP)” is a pro-youth economic self-emancipation empowerment initiative whose aim is to facilitate and provide adequate economic engagement of youths for active economic participation, nation-building, economic development, de-radicalization and national security.
Mission.
Our mission is to mitigate youth unemployment, grow Nigeria’s economy and alleviate household poverty by helping youths to access the business financing, enterprise development services and other basic economic incentives and empowerment platforms needed to transform themselves into entrepreneurs, job creators, income earners and builders of wealth, using MSMEs as channels, while becoming the change agents and catalysts for crime reduction, economic development, national security and household poverty alleviation.
Our Partners
Why NIYEEDEP was formed
The “Nigerian Economic Engagement and De-Radicalization Programme (NIYEEDEP)” was formed out of the existing need to squarely address Nigeria’s overwhelming problems of high youth unemployment, youth economic underutilization, youth poverty and their consequences of low economic development, household poverty, radicalization and insecurity.
Initiatives for Youth Economic Empowerment
Our mission is simple yet impactful: to equip Nigerian youths with the tools, opportunities, and platforms they need to become active participants in the economy, transform themselves into entrepreneurs and job creators, and drive national development, security, and stability.
