Mr. Divine Ntiokam, is a seasoned youth development and capacity-building expert. In 2009, he was appointed National Focal person for UNICEF Rural Voices of Youth (RVOY) in Cameroon by the UNICEF Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) Division at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, U.S.A. In 2012-2014, he joined efforts with the United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC), now known as the UN SDG Action Campaign, based in Bonn, Germany, where he served as the Global Youth Digital Advocate for the Post-2015 Development Agenda and MY World 2015 Global Survey. It should be noted that it is this process that gave birth to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He was equally the initiator of the 17 SDGs translations into sixty (60) local dialects before adoption on September 25, 2015, at the UNHQ by the 193 Member States and Heads of Governments. The experiences above led to the establishment of the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network Global (GCSAYN) in 2014. As the Founder and Executive Director of GCSAYN, he recognizes the critical importance of young people in building a resilient, sustainable, and prosperous agricultural sector in Africa and around the world.

Teams in over 196 countries Teams in over 196 countries work to raise awareness about Climate Smart Agriculture among young men and women, educating them on the benefits of sustainable practices in increasing agricultural yields and resilience.

The implementation of network’s activities are being spearheaded by over 94 GCSAYN approved Centers of Learning & Innovation Excellence, based in Primary and Secondary Schools, Universities, and TVETs globally.

Alongside his role at GCSAYN, Mr. Divine was elected as the Continental Vice President for the African Youth in the Livestock, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Incubation Network (AYL-FAIN) in July 2018. He was also nominated as one of the Food and Land Use (FOLU) Coalition International Ambassadors in 2018.

In addition to this, Divine is a Core Member of the Strategy Group on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at the Africa Europe Foundation. In 2021, he moderated one of the World Food Prize Foundation’s Global Youth Institute Roundtables.

Divine is currently supporting the World Food Prize Foundation in the recruitment of High school students or youth aged 13-18 years from across the globe for the Virtual Youth Institute (VYI). This has led him to become one of the expert at World Food Prize Foundation Global Youth Institute Roundtable. At the most recently concluded World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, he served as a panelist and hosted a successful Workshop titled “Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture” with 35 Borlaug Fellows in Des Moines, Iowa.

More so, due to his active participation in rolling out Centers of Excellence across the United States, he was engaged with the GLOBE Program, where he supported the 24- hour relay in June 2025.

Furthermore, he is an active member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), Climate Crisis Commission (CCC), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), Member for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social issues (SPSSI) and Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He has served as a Judge for the Ohio Academy of Science in supporting the Science Fair 2025 for the City of Columbus and the State of Ohio. He is also a member
of the Environmental Education Council of Ohio (EECO).

Mr. Divine’s entrepreneurial spirit and advocacy for greater inclusivity are well-established. His background includes extensive experience in youth mainstreaming, notably coordinating and facilitating the translation of the Sustainable Development Goals into over sixty local languages across Africa and Asia to ensure that “No One Is Left Behind”. Furthermore, in 2020, the UN Special Envoy to the Food Systems Summit 2021 appointed Divine as one of the Champions to help implement the UN Secretary General’s vision for the “Decade of Action.”

Through business incubation and strong networks of support, the Network aims to build an Africa where youth-owned enterprises in animal resources contribute to poverty reduction and food security. 

In 2025, Divine was recognized by 8 different organizations for his work with the youth, climate-smart agriculture, scientific awareness, and helping develop a scientific temper among the youth.

In January 2026, Mr. Divine was invited to serve as a Judge for the Future City Ohio Competition, where he evaluated essays from 5 teams and City model essays from 4 teams. He recently joined the Next Generation Global Collaboratory as an Advisory Board Member and the Grow Further as a Youth Engagement & Philanthropic Advocacy Advisor, both U.S. based non-profits.

To sum up, he was confirmed and accepted into the Pan-African Network for Economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP), hosted at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) held in Accra, Ghana, and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) on 5th March 2026 and 20th March 2026, respectively. He has also been an Earth Day Event Planner since 2019 and served as the Earth Charter Youth Group (ECYG) Partnership Working Group Lead since 2010.