Willice Onyango

The Youth Cafe | Nairobi, Kenya

Willice Onyango is the Executive Director of The Youth Cafe, an award-winning pan-African youth organization based in Nairobi. He has substantive experience, including youth leadership and empowerment, collective intelligence, policy making, sustainable development strategic planning, and fundraising. Over the last two years, he has pioneered the design and implementation of the first youth-centered participatory budgeting in sub-Saharan Africa as a new form of democratic engagement. Willice has presented their youth PB work at international thought-leading conferences in Barcelona, Nairobi, New York, Ohio, Arizona among others. Willice holds a degree in international diplomacy and completed Civic Leadership Institute at Kansas State University, U.S.A, as part of the highly acclaimed Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. He is the author of the internationally appraised Kenya Youth Manifesto, and has written dozens of published columns for the Huffington Post, World Economic Forum, Open Democracy, and elsewhere. He hopes to lend this experience to ensure the effective functioning of the PB Hub and help lay foundations for building a more equitable democracy.