Gergino Chounna Y.

  • 2026: UNESCO International Symposium on “Coastal Aquifers, Sustainable Futures”

 Young water professionals. Shared insights on youth involvement in coastal aquifer management.

  • 2026: The Palaver Institute:

Young African researchers. Shared insights on the theme: How missing African research leads to bad policies and poor solutions.

  • 2026: NUESA Innovate SDG Orientation Session:

Young African Leaders. Shared insights on the theme: Engineering the SDGs: From Problem Identification to Scalable Solutions. Transforming Global Challenges into Engineering Opportunities for Sustainable Impact.

  • 2026: The Palaver Institute:

Young African researchers. Shared insights on the theme: Who Gets to Publish the Future? Reclaiming Africa’s Voice in Global Knowledge Production.

  • 2026: Africa Dialogue Series (ADS) 2026 :

Young Water expert representative at the ADS 2026. As the Chair of the Communication Committee of the UNESCO Groundwater Youth Network (GWYN), I share the voice of youths at the ADS 2026, which focuses on water and sanitation, both critical to Africa’s survival and development. The event was a virtual Youth Stage under Sub-theme 1, “A Strategic Asset Management Approach to Africa’s Water Resources.”

  • 2023 – Young Water expert representative at the Skat Foundation 20th Anniversary, St Gallen, Switzerland.
  • 2022 – UN Groundwater Summit 2022. UNESCO, Paris. As a young groundwater expert, I served as a moderator for a side-event on water supply in rural areas organised by the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN). I also served as a junior rapporteur for a session on Groundwater Management in Africa.
  • 2022 – World Youth Forum 2021 Fellow: Participated as an attendee at the World Youth Forum 2021 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, held from the 10th to 13th of January 2021. Participated as Group Leader of the Corridor countries during workshop discussions under the theme “Towards Rational Water Policies for Humanity”.
  • 2022 – Environmental Engineering: Context, challenges, opportunities, and professional breakthroughs. Environmental Engineering club-ENSTP-Yaoundé.
  • 2022 – Plastic-Wastes-Water pollution Nexus in the context of Sustainable Development Goals: Case of Cameroon. World Earth Day 2022. Conference by the Global Forum for Sustainable Rural Development.
  • 2019 – Environmental Engineering and water crisis in urbanising world: Challenges and opportunities, Environmental Engineering club-ENSTP-Yaoundé.