Founded Feb 2026 | Abuja, Nigeria | CAC IT No. 9371200
The Youth Legal Innovation Pilot Project is AFPLAW’s flagship initiative. Led by senior legal experts but powered by young Nigerians, this 12-month pilot will demonstrate the model: pairing trained youth fellows and community paralegals with AFPLAW’s senior legal team to document violations, litigate strategic cases, and reform policy at the intersection of climate, health, and development.
Every fellow, case, and policy brief under YIPLAA sits within one of four thematic pillars.
Securing remedies for communities harmed by climate-induced displacement and environmental damage.
Challenging gaps in healthcare access and holding public health failures to account.
Ensuring development projects don't displace, exclude, or harm the communities they claim to serve.
Protecting the digital spaces where Nigeria's youth organize, speak, and hold power to account.
Measurable outcomes AFPLAW is accountable to within the first year of YIPLAA.
Youth Fellows Trained and Deployed
Community Youth Paralegals Trained
Strategic Litigation Cases Filed
Activists Provided Emergency Defense
Open Case Law Database Built
Policy Briefs and Position Papers
Inaugural Youth Cohort — Recruitment August 2026: 6 Youth Fellows [50% women] and 10 Community Paralegals.
Nigeria’s youth are already at the frontlines of climate, health, and development advocacy — often without legal training, institutional backing, or a seat at the policy table. YIPLAA closes that gap: senior legal experts mentor a first cohort of fellows and paralegals through real casework, building a replicable model that AFPLAW can scale to more states and more young Nigerians in the years that follow.