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Godswill Uchenna Agbagwa

Founder/Executive Director, CSAAE

Fr. Godswill Uchenna Agbagwa is an accomplished Catholic priest, ethicist and development professional. His triple career was inspired by his teenage experience of poverty in Nigeria following the death of his father. As a teenager, the fatherless Godswill dreamt daily of better societies where every person can thrive with dignity, a dream shaped by his daily experience of poverty in the Nigerian society. To achieve this dream, Godswill decided to become: 

  • a priest so he can bring good news to the poor (Lk.14:18)  
  • an ethicist so he can get people to live by the ethical values that build better societies 
  • a development practitioner so he can empower people to prosper and help build better societies   

In 2003, Godswill became a Catholic priest. In 2010, he began advanced studies in ethics and earned a doctorate in 2016. In 2013, while studying ethics, he founded CSAAE to pursue his dream of building better societies where all can thrive with dignity. Today, CSAAE empowers people with the skills, resources, and ethical values to prosper and help build better societies.

With a master’s degree in legal and ethical studies from the University of Baltimore, a licentiate in theology from Sacred Heart Detroit, and a doctorate in moral theology and ethics from the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C, Godswill combines academic work and ministry with hands-on development work.  

Under Fr. Godswill Agbagwa’s Leadership, CSAAE has achieved remarkable milestones 

Fund Raising: 

Secured Over $1 Million in Grants 

  • Funding transformative programs and initiatives across Africa.
  • 1million+ school children and 1,300+ primary schools reached through education development initiatives
  • 351,673+ people and 800+ primary healthcarecentres reached through healthcare access programs 
  • 243,965+ youths trained in technical and vocational skills
  • 151,301+benefitted from our enterprise development services 
  • 115,839+ job seekers accessed our job placement and internship services
  • 129,345+ youths trained in professional, business and leadership ethics
  • 712,736+ citizensimpacted by our civil society advocacy programs 

A key part of his development work is in IT, digital skilling and connecting the unconnected in underserved communities. Recently, Godswill and his team at CSAAE trained over 130,000 young people in underserved African communities in over 21 core digital skills, linked many of them to global digital jobs gave them access to laptops and connected them to the internet, thanks to generous funding from the Coca Cola Foundation. Dr. Agbagwa and his team at CSAAE are also pursuing ambitious SMART Primary Healthcare and Education projects aimed at connecting primary healthcare centers and schools in underserved communities to the internet for quality primary education and healthcare delivery, a mission they launched after a two-year study of the quality of primary education and healthcare delivery in Nigeria funded by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) 

His integral development work has earned him and his organization international recognition including serving as the representative of African CSOs at the World Bank and IMF Civil Society Working Group, speaking engagements at Harvard University’s African Development Conference, special consultative status at the United Nation’s ECOSOC and board membership of international development organizations including the Catholic Charities of Southern Mississippi. 

  • Attained Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC
  • Represented African CSOs at the World Bank & IMF Civil Societies Working Group
  • Registered in the United States as a 501c nonprofit