Ismail Bello has over six years of experience in community development, youth development, and civic leadership in the nonprofit sector. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Al – Qalam University, Katsina State, Nigeria and a Master’s degree in Information Technology from National Open University of Nigeria. He specializes in creating intervention training programs and policy discussion projects that promote good governance, civic engagement, and political leadership. He has worked for six years as a youth mobilizer and youth development strategist in various capacities along projects sponsored by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through Yiaga Africa, United States Embassy in Nigeria, and European Union (EU). He has created innovative engagement models and development strategies for promoting access to good governance and political leadership among young people in Nigeria. While working with Yiaga Africa through a UNDP funded project, Ismail advocated for amendment of Nigeria’s constitution to reduce the age qualification for getting into various elective positions in Nigeria to allow for participatory opportunities in civic leadership through engagement in public offices. This gave him an opportunity to work with Nigeria’s law makers where they designed and implemented the right engagement approach that promoted youth inclusion in governance and participation in politics.
Ismail is currently a Youth Advisor in the EU Youth Sounding Board where he is working alongside the EU project implementing partners helping to design and implement youth development programming that had empowered young leaders to ignite transformative leadership change for youth political participation in communities and cities across Nigeria. In 2021, the impact he has created was shortlisted for a nomination by the United States Embassy in Nigeria at the prestigious International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) on Human Rights and Civic Engagements for Youths in Washington D.C., United States.
Previously, Ismail innovated Youth Entrepreneurship Support Hub (YES - Hub) Initiative in which he serves as a business coach for many organizations including Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and collaborated and partners with many organization to provide young entrepreneurs with sufficient training in business development skills and essential entrepreneurial leadership training through a quarterly boot camp program, while also giving them an opportunity to pitch their ideas that has a business model into it to access funding opportunities that has helped them to start, grow, and scale their businesses into profitability.
Ismail Bello
Organization:Youth Entrepreneurship Support Hub (YES - Hub)
MSc. Information Technology
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MY MOTTO
I am an inquisitive optimist who wants to use technology and artificial intelligence to cause a significant disruption in this new era.
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AL QALAM UNIVERSITY KATSINA
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, KATSINA STUDY CENTER
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, KATSINA STUDY CENTER
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| Reply to Message | Good day my leader, I got to reach out to you via the forbesblk forum and I’ve noticed the superb exploits you’re making sir
id really love to be a mentee under your tutelage sir. I’m an active climate enthusiast with interests in politics, legal and socioeconomic matters. I currently serve as the sa to yourh and student matters for an mha in ondo state. I believe I can become a lot more under you sir. I’m also available to use my time and resources to help scale your goals in any magnitude sir |
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| Reply to Message | Dear Ismail,
I hope this email finds you well. My name is Cecilia Polizzi, and I am the Founder, President and Chief Executive of an international organization working to protect young people from terrorist violence. Congratulations on your dedication towards empowering the young generation in Katsina. I read about your work and found it an excellent initiative. It would be my honor to contribute my skills as a leader and entrepreneur. Perhaps we can exchange a few words in the coming days? I would be delighted to learn more and see how I can be of help. My contact details are: WhatsApp +1 3474633268 - Email: polizzi@crtgroup.org. I look forward to hearing from you. Warmest wishes, Cecilia |
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| Reply to Message | Greetings Young Leaders ! Young SEA is a team of young hopeful changemakers from Philippines, Indonesia & Malaysia on a mission to create a better place for everyone to live in. The project focuses on SDG 13 Climate Action specifically about tackling the environmental threat of untreated disposable mask waste caused by Covid-19. We have seen that the pandemic caused everyone to use disposable facemasks to protect ourselves but the action to limit its environmental impact has not yet been properly taken action upon, both in developed and developing countries. With this in mind, we opted to organize a series of webinars about tackling this problem and also to empower young people about the many ways we can create a better world in this post-pandemic era. We always stand by the quote, “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way” by Napoleon Hill and we hope that through this slogan we will always be reminded of the simple ways we can do to achieve our goal— a place where no one is left behind. Right now, we are participating in a #WatchOurImpact challenge by Youth Lead that you are part of and we would like people to discover our project and vote for us! Could you help us by voting for us? Kindly login to https://www.youthlead.org/ and click the vote button. If you vote, the number near the heart will change. If you need help you can always message us at our email youngsoutheastasia@gmail.com ! You only have to log in and press on the heart. I hope you will do that and Thank you so much for the vote! <3 |
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