Tag: Youth
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Youth for Change | Unlocking potential of future generation : ICCCAD’s Youth Capacity Development Initiative for Climate Resilience
Addressing the issues of climate change in this era of ‘global boiling’ has become paramount in shaping a sustainable future and here – youth’s involvement is very crucial. The younger generation possesses a unique perspective to mitigate the challenges they will face in the next few years due to climate change. The ever-growing problems may…
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE | Unleashing Youth – Power for Climate Resilience
ICCCAD’s Youth Fellowship Journey of 2023
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu” We never thought applying to be an ICCCAD Youth Fellow could lead us to a journey of exploration and making lifetime memories. Our fellowship journey kicked off with a residential program at BRAC CDM in Gazipur, Dhaka. We started our first…
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Mobilizing youth for better tomorrow
Incorporating young people in the fight against climate change can have a profound impact
Youth can be recognized as resources and competent citizens in their own right, rather than as problematic or passive recipients of services. In adult-dominated processes, tokenistic treatment of a few youth members fails to recognize youth as assets with meaningful contributions to offer. Providing young people with significant opportunities to engage in decision-making processes,…
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Zero Hunger, Zero Emissions University Student Workshop
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Imagining alternative futures
Programme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to assume that the future will follow much the same trajectory as the past. Imagining alternative futures can be dismissed as dreaming, or science fiction. And…