Project Brief: The youth-led climate change project has been designed to engage the younger generations in climate change discussions, planning, and actions to better understand and address climate change issues. It aims to develop their knowledge and build their capacity so that the youth can further engage the community along with the local level duty bearers for reducing the climate change impact for a greener community. Moreover, the initiative enhances the capability and confidence of the youth for them to become more effective stakeholders and be able to express their unique concerns to their community, peers, and responsive authorities. To achieve the intended changes, A&Y will be firstly educated on climate change and the environment, subsequently, with this awareness, they will assess the environmental risks in their communities and develop an action plan to mitigate the risks within it while engaging the local government within the process. For sensitizing the community on the environment, an eco-model village will be developed by the members of the community with the support of the local government and the project demonstrates eco-friendly model activities, which will be replicated in other communities.
To capture the existing bad and good practices and alternative livelihood options within the community towards the environment, research will be conducted by an individual who has recently completed his/her master’s degree in environmental science or climate change.
This adolescent and youth-led project is being considered as a model and is expected to be replicated in the future for environmental reservation. Considering this aspect, the whole project will be documented by an external.
Location: Shariatpur, Barguna and Satkhira districts in Bangladesh
Beneficiaries: Direct: 100 A&Ys at 03 communities in 03 districts will be directly oriented on climate change and environment. Through the peer learning process, 1100 A&Y living in the targeted location will gain knowledge on climate change and environmental issues. The project will orient a total of 60/65 farmers in each location, totaling to 200 farmers.
Indirect: Through this initiative of an eco-friendly model village, demo plot, and knowledge sharing at least 200 members of each community and a total of 600 community members will be benefited.
Major activities and Intervention areas:
• Formation/reformation of A&Y groups and orient them on climate change and DRR
• Conduct A&Y-led environmental audit and prepare risk reduction action plan engaging the community and relevant stakeholders
• Awareness raising on climate change and environment through A&Y-led campaigns and meetings at the local level and social media platforms
• Meeting for linkage of A&Y groups with other youth activists and government line departments
• A&Y-led campaigns at schools and colleges to mobilize other A&Ys
• Youth conference on climate/environmental issues and possible solutions
• Form/reform farmers’ groups and orient them on climate-adaptive viable technology
• Demonstration of viable technology for replication
• Develop Eco-friendly model community (plantation/waste-management etc.)
• Conduct A&Y-led social research.
• Process Documentation (Video)
Implementing partners: NSS, SDS and Uttaran
SDG contributing to: SDG13.1, SDG13.3
Duration: 01 May 2022 – 31 December 2022
Budget: 6,832,578.00
