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Ibraheem Sanusi is the Citizen’s Engagement Lead and a Governance Expert at the African Governance Architecture (AGA) Secretariat based at the African Union Commission’s Department of Political Affairs.
Through his leadership of the citizens’ engagement work of the AGA, the AU launched the ‘#DGTrends’ – Democratic Governance Trends as a trend monitoring tool aimed at broadening African citizen’s engagement and interaction with the AU Organs and Institutions with democratic governance mandates. Since 2013 till date, the DGtrends campaign has focused on galvanising citizen’s support for the AU Agenda 2063 and particularly its aspirations for democracy, peace and prosperity. Through the online and physical consultations, several programmes and initiatives including cross-regional collaborations have been recorded.
Ibraheem is also instrumental to the development of the AGA - Youth Engagement Strategy (AGA-YES) developed as a strategic framework for the engagement of young people in democratic governance processes at the Regional Economic Communities and the African Union. Through the implementation of the strategy, an annual youth consultation has been institutionalized as a deliberate platform for engaging young people in AU’s democratic governance policy initiatives. Ibraheem is also a 2015 Alumni of the International Visitors Leadership Programme, a 2017 Inductee (Delegate) of the Academy of Achievement and a 2018 Fellow of the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), United States.
