GAYO co-creates and implements climate solutions across Africa. Working across themes such as just transition, adaptation and resilience, zero-waste cities, and green jobs, we bridge communities, institutions, and policy to deliver locally owned and durable change.
Our work is grounded in enabling young people to live, work, and lead within the systems we help transform.
To co-create solutions to the most pressing environmental issues in Africa. Through policy influencing, resourcing peer organizations, and deep collaboration with local governments and communities, we ensure and champion local ownership and durable change.
A climate-resilient Africa powered by youth leadership and locally driven solutions.
GAYO co-creates, implements, influences, and empowers across four interconnected climate themes
Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator – Ghana
Zero Waste Central Regional Coordinator – Ghana
Operations and Programs Director
National Director
Botswana
Communications
Officer – Ghana
Climate Lead – Uganda
Research Officer – Uganda
Program Coordinator,
Eco-Clubs
– Ghana
Material Recovery
Facility Officer – Ghana
Zero Waste Project
Coordinator – Ghana
YCCGA Africa Coordinator
– Sierra Leone
Zero Waste Eastern Regional Coordinator – Ghana
Administrative
Officer – Uganda
Programs Manager
– Botswana
Country Director
– Uganda
Zero Waste Program Director
– Ghana
Youth Climate Council Coordinator – Uganda
Energy & Just Transition
Assistant – Ghana
Eco-Clubs Coordinator
– Uganda
Communications Officer
– Botswana
Administrative Officer
– Botswana
Project Officer – Adaptation and Resilience, Ghana
HR Officer –
Ghana
Project Coordinator – Zero Waste, Ghana
Global Coordinator –
YCCGA, Ghana
Programs Assistant –
Ghana
Urban Farming
Officer – Ghana
Communications
Manager – Ghana
Chief of Staff
Program Officer,
Eco-Clubs – Ghana
Finance Assistant
– Ghana
Zero Waste Project
Coordinator – Uganda
Executive
Director
Communications
Officer – Uganda
Zero Waste Ashanti Regional Coordinator – Ghana
Operations Manager
– Ghana
Education & Eco-Club
Coordinator – Botswana
Communications
Director – Ghana
Program Officer
– Botswana
Bobby Peek is a longtime, committed environmental justice activist and co-founder and Executive Director of groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa, established in 1999. He grew up on the fenceline of South Durban’s Engen oil refinery and co-founded the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) in 1995. In 1998, in the role of National Campaigns Coordinator for the Environmental Justice Networking Forum, he was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa. He served on South Africa’s first National Environmental Advisory Committee to the Minister of the Environment and on the Executive Committee of Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest federation of grassroots organisations fighting for environmental and social justice. He currently co-Chairs the International Board for the Global Greengrants Fund and is a founding board member of the Environmental Justice Fund in South Africa. He advises on various national and international environmental justice strategies, whether by engaging with funders or working with local fenceline activists. He was conferred an honorary PhD by the Durban University of Technology and appointed a Commissioner on the inaugural Presidential Climate Commission in December 2020. Since 2024, he led the establishment of the Community Just Transition Fund.
Dr. Omnia El Omrani is the Vice-Chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and an Egyptian medical doctor. She is a Commissioner at the WHO Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health. She serves as the co-lead of the Equity Group of the Lancet Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover. She also serves on three other Lancet Commissions on Sustainable Healthcare, Global Governance on Health, and Post-COVID Population Health. She was the first official Youth Envoy to the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP27 President, and was later appointed the COP28 Health Envoy. She completed a Master of Public Policy at the University of Oxford. She was selected as one of Apolitical’s 50 Gender Equality Gamechangers in 2024, and Fast Company ME recognised her as one of the 35 Most Creative People in Business in 2023. She was awarded the 2023 Women of the Future, 50 Rising Stars in ESG, through her work as a Climate and Mental Health Policy Fellow at Imperial College London. She also serves as a board member of Health in Harmony, the TED Countdown Vision Council, the Collective Minds Council by Foundation S, and the Africa Europe Foundation. She has more than 9 years of experience in climate change and health, 36 peer-reviewed publications, and has delivered over 120 hours of climate and health capacity-building sessions in 21 countries.
Nana Dr. Antwi-Boasiako Amoah has over twenty (20) years of professional experience in environmental and climate risk management and currently serves as the Director in charge of Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation at Ghana’s Climate Change Department, EPA. He holds a PhD from the University of Ghana, with his thesis focusing on the climate and health implications of air pollution from biomass burning by fish smokers. He plays a key role in coordinating Ghana’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) project, leading G77 and China in NAP negotiations within the UNFCCC process, and actively engaging in Ghana’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation, National Communications (NCs), and Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs).
Dr. Amoah is a leading authority on climate policy and governance, with extensive experience in international climate negotiations, policy development, and national climate resilience planning. He has played a pivotal role in shaping Ghana’s climate change strategy and representing the country at major global platforms, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and currently serves on the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board. He is also a part-time lecturer at the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies at the University of Ghana, where he has been teaching and supervising graduate students’ research work since 2019.
Since January 1, 2026, Dr. Amoah has assumed the chairmanship of the African Group of Climate Negotiators (AGN) and will lead Africa’s climate change diplomacy and multilateral processes for 2026 and 2027.
Dorcas Naishorua is a Kenyan climate leader, youth advocate, and community organizer who is driving people-centered, nature-based climate solutions. She is the Inaugural Miss Climate Kenya (2023–2025), World Vision FMNR Ambassador, Commonwealth Sustainable Energy Transition Youth membership lead, and a Climate Ambassador in Kenya promoting ecosystem restoration, regenerative practices, and community resilience. Dorcas is the Founder of the Isilan Community-Based Organization (Isilan CBO), where she leads youth-focused climate action, tree-planting initiatives, and community programs aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. A TED Countdown Host, TED Speaker, and BIOCON Speaker, among others. Dorcas leverages global platforms to amplify the voices of African youth, indigenous knowledge, and locally led climate solutions. Her work bridges global climate discourse with practical, community driven Action. She brings strong experience in youth leadership development, climate advocacy, partnership building, and community-based programming, with a passion for empowering young people to lead inclusive, scalable solutions for a climate-resilient Africa.
