Youth and Adolescent Development Specialist | Mali
Daniel Ouedraogo is a Youth and Adolescent Development Specialist with UNICEF in Mali. He has more than ten years of experience in youth engagement, communication, peacebuilding, advocacy, and programme management, including work in Côte d’Ivoire, Afghanistan, and Mali.
In Mali, his work centres on young people’s participation in policies and decisions that affect their lives. It includes peacebuilding, social cohesion, adolescent girls’ empowerment, climate action, innovation and digital engagement. UNICEF Mali’s 2023–2025 adolescent and youth programme lists Daniel among the team leading this work.
Earlier in his career, Daniel helped develop youth-engagement work in Côte d’Ivoire, including through U-Report. In a UNICEF interview from that period, he said employment was one of the issues young people raised most often, and that they needed to build skills more closely connected to work.
Daniel holds a Global Executive MBA in Management from IFG Executive Education and IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School.
His place in the first cohort links work and peace very directly. Much of his professional life has been spent asking how young people can have a real voice in the decisions that shape their future.
