About Jaye Gaskia
Analyst, advocate & movement builder.
A public affairs and political analyst and development specialist — with skills in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, participatory governance and development, and over two and a half decades at the highest levels of national and international development.
Jaye Gaskia is a public affairs and political commentator and analyst, as well as a development specialist with skills spanning conflict transformation, peacebuilding, participatory governance, community mobilizing, youth empowerment, gender equality, advocacy, campaigning, capacity building, coalition building and mass organizing.
He is also an activist and active citizen. He has worked at the most senior management and technical positions in at least three international development agencies in Nigeria, and currently chairs or co-chairs top-notch civil society and multi-stakeholder networks and platforms. Jaye Gaskia was a Presidential Aspirant for the 2019 general election under the Sustainable National Party (SNP) platform.
Professional Summary
Two and a half decades at the highest levels
Jaye Gaskia is a development-sector professional with over two and a half decades of experience working with national and international development agencies. He was the first Global Conflict Advisor with ActionAid International, part of the International Emergencies and Conflict Team, technically supporting 45 country programmes. He served as the first Conflict Advisor with ActionAid Nigeria, and subsequently Regional Human Security Advisor for West Africa.
He has also been Deputy Country Director / Campaign Manager and later Interim Country Director at Oxfam GB in Nigeria, as well as Head of Programmes with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in Nigeria. Prior to the international agencies, he was Programme Officer, Community Outreach and later Programme Manager, Democracy Outreach with Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN).
Throughout his adult life, Jaye has been an activist and social crusader for social justice, human-rights protection and social transformation — becoming a leader in civil society and in the mass social movements of the citizens.