OBODOEKWE Styvn  is a human rights defender, community mobilizer, environmentalist and activist. He holds a Degree in Economics, together with several trainings within the development sector that has spanned around two decades. Over the years, he has engaged the human rights sector through organizations, such as, Civil Liberties Organization, United Action for Democracy, Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, Rivers Movement, Transition Monitoring Group, among others, which primarily interlocked the grassroots on issues of socio- economic rights, environment and anti-corruption. Through these, he developed a synergic mutuality with our organization and participatorily engaged in our organization’s activities at a strategic level since 2012, which culminated to his honorary appointment in 2016 as Community Mobilization Advisor.

As Community Mobilization Advisor, he liaises with communities on socio-economic matters, fiscal governance, capacity building and basic economic literacy, which engenders democratic sustainability, transparency, accountability and responsive fiscal governance. He also advises management on community mobilization matters as occasions may arise from time to time.