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Drate Yassin Jaffar is a Social Worker. He currently works with Westnile Youth Empowerment Center as Executive Director

Yassin holds Bachelors in Development Studies in Institute of Advanced Leadership

He is Young African Regional leadership Center Nairobi Alumni Uganda Chapter and National Youth Advocacy Alliance ( YBAA ) Member and chairs the Committee For Youth in Decision Making of Youth Budget Advocacy Alliance ( YBAA ). He is a Humans Rights Defender
Yassin is a Member of National Youth Economic Panel a Panel of Youth in Uganda that discuss policies in the country,

In 2018 Yassin was Recognized by LASPNET in the LASPNET Youth Recognition Award for His
Remarkable, Outstanding contribution in the Promotion of Transparency and Accountability in the Justice, Law and Order Sector.

Yassin serves as T.O.T of SEATINI-Uganda in the Project of Financing for Development project interventions include; Training CSOs and capacity enhancement of Citizens on access to information from local to national levels.

Budget tracking and monitoring for policy influencing.

Research on key aspects of the Uganda’s fiscal systems to enhance easy access, sharing and utilization of fiscal information.

Evidence based advocacy and civic awareness campaigns, including engagement with duty bearers.

Advocating for increased pro-poor government spending on key sector/ or related specific issues within sectors such as education, health, agriculture, social protection and gender.

Members of Tax justice alliance where we advocate for tax equality and also ask citizens to pay taxes.

Yassin is Multi-Skilled, keen and highly adaptable team builder able to cope with extreme challenges. Working in an extreme, multi-cultural and highly challenging setting is of no problem to him and he is reliable, confident, innovative and of high moral regard. Specific Skills possessed include: Leadership and Advocacy; Teaching and Training; Monitoring; Communitymobilization Communication

Yassin has 6 years’ experience in youth and Gender work to his name as an experienced leader, teacher, trainer, mentor.

He is an inspirational/motivational speaker .

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