Community Advocacy Network for Women, Youth and Farmers
The Community Advocacy Network for Women, Youth and Farmers is a CAC Incorporated Trustee in Nigeria empowering women, youth, and farmers across Africa through initiatives that promote sustainable agriculture, gender equality, and youth development.
CANWYF is a CAC-registered Incorporated Trustee headquartered in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, working to empower women, youth, and farmers across Africa by driving initiatives that promote sustainable agriculture, gender equality, and youth development.
Our vision is an Africa where women, youth, and farmers are empowered to lead and play a central role in shaping the future of their communities and the continent. We pursue that vision through advocacy, practical programmes, training, mentorship, entrepreneurship support, and community partnerships that create real pathways for participation and growth.
At CANWYF, women, youth, and farmers are at the center of our work. Every initiative is designed to expand knowledge, opportunity, leadership, and resilience through inclusive development that starts at the grassroots and grows outward.
CANWYF governance combines formal CAC trustee structures with inclusive community participation - ensuring legitimacy, accountability, and shared ownership at every level.
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CANWYF works from the understanding that sustainable change is strongest when it grows from the community outward. Farmers, women, and youth already hold knowledge, networks, and lived experience that can shape meaningful development when properly supported.
Through awareness campaigns, training programmes, mentorship, advocacy, and shared learning opportunities, we help communities move from participation to leadership in sustainable agriculture, gender equality, and youth development.
We also facilitate networking and collaboration through exchanges and connections between participants from different communities, within Africa and internationally, so that ideas, partnerships, and practical solutions can travel farther.
Whether you are a farmer, woman, young leader, supporter, or institutional partner - there is a place for you in the CANWYF mission.