Strategic Pillar
Strengthening civic participation, citizen monitoring of public action, and local accountability.
Direct public accountability sessions broadcast live confronting municipal executives with residents.
Commitment fulfillment rate objectively monitored through our municipal tracker.
Petition signers, civic poll voters, and town-hall delegates across 15 communes.
Structured civic petitions officially tabled during formal municipal council budget hearings.
Decentralization laws in Benin enshrine the right of every resident to participate in local affairs. However, complex budget sheets and scarce dialogue spaces often isolate citizens. YFC bridges this divide by providing accessible CivicTech and town-hall debates holding elected leaders accountable.
Through direct engagement formats (Talks Citoyens, CiviTech), we equip citizens with skills and voice to influence local decisions and drive accountability.
Promoting citizen monitoring of public budgets and open publication of municipal scorecards.
Giving equal voice to informal workers, market women, and youth in local municipal budget allocations.
A proven 4-stage framework ensuring grassroots ownership, total transparency, and long-term sustainability.
Translating dense 300-page municipal accounts into accessible visual infographics in French and local dialects.
Candid, moderated discussions between mayors and constituents broadcasted over local radio and livestream.
Online CivicTech portal where electoral promises are monitored with field proof (photos, official minutes).
Citizen delegations present concrete budget amendments directly at public city council sittings.
Perceived opacity of municipal market taxes among informal market sellers.
Joint explanatory workshops bringing treasury officers, city hall, and market vendors together.
27% increase in compliant tax collection in Lokossa coupled with participatory market shed repairs.
Low attendance of young women at public municipal council sessions.
Creating a preparatory empowerment module and travel stipends for rural female delegates.
Gender parity successfully reached across the last 4 town-hall debates in Lokossa and Bohicon.
« The Civic Town-Hall was an eye-opener. For the first time, I questioned the mayor about the unpaved road to our clinic. Three months later, graders were on site to fix it! »
Market Traders Representative • Lokossa (Mono)
Peace Education & Citizenship
Flagship peer-education program funded by the Benin Ministry of Sports (2025 Youth Oscars Grant). Spanning 3 strategic axes: road safety & first aid, positive masculinity & anti-GBV, and community peacebuilding.
10 communes (Mono, Zou, Collines, Alibori) · 2025 – 2027
Governance & Civic Action
Periodic public forums and digital town halls connecting youth, policy experts, and local leaders on civic governance and national cohesion.
National (Google Meet & Réseaux Sociaux) · 2020 – 2027
Environment & Climate
Ecological awareness on contemporary climate challenges, plastic waste management, community cleanups, and youth urban plogging.
Lokossa (Centre des Mains), Comè & Athiémé · 2019 – 2027
While participatory, our recognized impartiality and wide broadcast create strong democratic accountability that elected leaders welcome.
Corporates, donors, local councils or diaspora citizens: let’s co-build a high-impact, transparent partnership in your home municipality.
