IPC participants from Nigeria organized the Global Youth Water Conference

The GYWC is a precursor to the main UN Water Conference, which will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York from 22 to 24 March 2023. The conference will be the equator of the implementation of the UN Decade of Action on Water Supply and Sanitation (2019-2028).

The Youth Conference was organized by Nigerian IPC participant Musa Adewale Olatunji, CEO of BeMore Global Consulting. During youth part of the conference, the speakers discussed the role of youth as key actors in implementing actions and establishing partnerships to achieve water related goals and targets. One of the speakers was the secretary of the International Project Congress Ilya Lisnyak, he spoke about three areas of action for Russian youth to achieve key goals related to water: volunteer, geological and entrepreneurial.