Change happens when young people stand up for what’s right
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Innovators Magazine in 2025, every month this year we will publish some of our milestone moments: the stories, podcasts, new initiatives and projects that have shaped of our journey so far. Here’s one of the first Inside Ideas podcast episodes from Marc Buckley (first published in 2020):
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is one of the most influential advocates of the UN Global Goals and was one of my first guests on Inside Ideas.
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is my guest on Inside Ideas. An environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community, Hindou began advocating for Indigenous rights and environmental protection at age 16, founding the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) to introduce new income revenue activities for women and collaborative tools such as 3D participatory mapping to build sustainable ecosystems management and reduction of nature-based resource conflicts. Her vision is to grow support for both traditional knowledge and science to improve resilience to climate change especially for rural communities.
She is a member of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and served as co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change during the historic UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. She is dedicated to the protection of all Indigenous peoples, from the Congo to the Arctic, and the value of their knowledge in the fight against climate change. She advances environmental protection for Indigenous peoples by participating in international policy dialogues held around the three Rio Conventions; Climate Change (UNFCCC), Biodiversity (CBD), and Desertification (UNCCD) pressuring governments to recognize land rights of Indigenous peoples and advance their solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation.
Ibrahim’s work with indigenous communities at the local and global level has achieved broad recognition and support including, the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, the Daniel Mitterrand Prize, appointment as a UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate, Conservation International board member and Lui-Walton Senior Fellow, EAT advisory board member and National Geographic Explorer. She was recognized by BBC as a top 100 women leader and by TIME’s Women Leaders in Climate Change.
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2025: Watch Hindou in these livestreamed Davos sessions this week. And you can also join me on another livestream session from Davos tomorrow.
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Coming up…
The main picture, taken in Songdo, South Korea, shows Hindou talking with Holly, the youngest member of our team. Holly is now busy working on some new podcast shows herself. First up, she is speaking with Heidi Posnien, the 10-year old heroine – now a grandmother – of the book: ‘A Child Berlin Girl In Berlin‘ the gripping real-life story penned by author Rhonda Lauritzen which takes us into Heidi’s World War Two experience, surviving alone in a Berlin apartment
Holly’s first show will appear on Inside Ideas in the playlist: ‘Holly’s Book Club’ with the first episode dropping on 31 January. Sign up for our newsletter to get this episode sent straight to your inbox.
