PAYNCoP
The Pan-African Youth Network for a Culture of Peace (PAYNCoP) is an international, non-political, non-profit platform for collaboration and synergy between African youth and diaspora organisations, constituted in national and sub-regional coordinations, working to promote a culture of peace and non-violence in Africa.
PAYNCoP's main objective is to promote the culture of peace through multiple and varied initiatives!
Created since 2014, following the Pan-African Forum "African Youth and the Challenge of Promoting a Culture of Peace", at the joint initiative of the Omar Bongo Ondimba Foundation for Peace, Science, Culture and the Environment and the Gabonese National Commission for UNESCO, with the support and participation of UNESCO and the African Union (AU), PAYNCoP's headquarters are located in Libreville, Gabon. However, the network is present in nearly thirty African countries and in the Diaspora, through its national coordinations.
The PAYNCoP is managed by two entities:
- The General Assembly: made up of the national coordinations: more than thirty to date.
- The Board of Directors: composed of 13 members including the President, the Vice-President, the Permanent Secretary and the regional coordinators as well as those from the Diaspora.
Launched on July 2016 in Libreville (Gabon), this campaign is an initiative of the Pan-African Youth Network for the Culture of Peace (PAYNCOP) in which the United Nations Network of African Youth Leaders/Gabon Chapter (ROJALNU/Gabon) and the National Youth Council of Gabon (CNJG) are associated. Starting in Gabon, it is intended to extend to the countries of the sub-region.
Financed by the United Nations Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), this project aims to create a network of 1,800 Young Weavers of Peace, to make them actors in the consolidation of peace in the cross-border regions of three countries (Cameroon, Gabon, Chad) and the prevention of instability linked, in particular, to illegal trafficking, on the one hand, and the training of 160 young people with social enterprise projects, on the other.
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