Understanding the role of Youth in Achieving Africa’s Climate Actions.
This survey is distributed as part of a project by The Resilient40 (R40), whose focus is to develop a youth-friendly NDC checklist for policymakers while also providing valuable insights into how meaningful youth engagement in nationally determined contributions (NDC) processes should occur – from formulation to implementation. It also aims to understand the youth’s contributions towards Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and their awareness of the NDCs’ objectives.
What are NDCs:
NDCs are commitments made by a country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to climate change, and promote sustainable development.
The results of this survey will highlight successful cases of engaging young people in formulating NDCs as well as executing them at both national and international levels. It will also provide tools and techniques on how best to incorporate youth voices throughout the process, so that their contributions are fully taken into account when deciding on policies or measures related to climate change.
For the scope of this survey, we consider young people individuals between 15 to 35 years old.
In case you want to provide more information than what you would like to share in the form, feel free to contact The Resilient40 secretariat at info@resilient40.org.
All collected data is kept anonymised and according to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union) privacy standards.
Thank you for participating in this survey. Your feedback is valuable in helping us understand the youth’s contributions towards Africa’s NDCs and identifying ways to improve youth involvement in climate action initiatives.
UPCOMING WEBINARS AND EVENTS
Launch of Regional Climate hubs, the Africa Youth COP30 Declaration 2025 and Petition for an Advisory Opinion at the African Court on Climate Justice – Resilient40
Room Y, 7th November, 2025 (11AM – 12.30PM)
Resilient40 is proud to officially announce our participation in the 20th UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY20) in Brazil, where we will host a side event focused on amplifying African youth leadership in the global climate agenda.
As a regional network of young climate leaders from across Africa, Resilient40 continues to champion inclusion, equity and climate justice – ensuring that voices from the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions are heard and valued in decision-making spaces.
Our COY20 side event will bring together youth advocates, innovators and policymakers to share experiences, strategies and collaborative pathways that bridge continents and foster intergenerational climate solutions.
We invite all delegates, partners and youth networks to join us in shaping a just, inclusive and resilient future.
#COY20 #Resilient40 #YouthClimateAction #ClimateJustice #AfricaAtCOY20
Non-Violent Climate Action in Africa
Young people in Uganda & DRC are facing land grabs, arrests and intimidation for peacefully defending forests, wetlands and peatlands. Despite this, they keep engaging the local communities and organizing climate marches.
This December, trainers from experienced African and international non-violence networks will equip 30+ youth activists with skills in non-violent direct action, peace-building, resilience and media advocacy so they can stay safe, strategic and effective.
East Africa Regional Tribunal
What will tomorrow ask of us Today?
Mombasa Kenya, 28TH October – 1st November, 2025
Resilient40 Post-ACS2 / Pre-COP30 Youth Event
Theme: Centering Youth Voices for Climate Justice and Resilience in Africa
📅 Date: 30th October 2025
📍 Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Resilient40 proudly announces its Post-Africa Climate Summit 2 (ACS2) and Pre-COP30 Youth Event, a pivotal gathering uniting young African leaders, climate activists, innovators, and policymakers to shape a collective youth agenda and Declaration ahead of COP30 in Brazil.
This event will serve as a continental platform to amplify youth-driven climate justice narratives, promote community-centered resilience solutions, and strengthen advocacy for equitable climate finance that truly reaches African communities. Through intergenerational dialogues, strategy sessions, and cross-network collaboration, we aim to ensure that African youth voices are not only heard but influence global climate decisions.
Join us in Nairobi as we build momentum toward a decolonized, inclusive, and just climate future led by Africa’s resilient generation.
hashtag#Resilient40 hashtag#AfricanYouthVoices hashtag#ClimateJustice hashtag#COP30 hashtag#ACS2 hashtag#YouthForResilience
Powering People’s Voices for ClimateJoin the Africa People’s Assembly 2025 tomorrow!
Theme: Reclaiming Africa’s Power for Climate and Economic Justice & Economic Justice!
📅Date: 17 October 2025 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
🕒Time: 14:00–16:00 EAT / 11:00–13:00 GMT
🌐Virtual
🔗Register here: t.ly/-U5s0
hashtag#EconomicJustice hashtag#ClimateJustice
Powering People’s Voices for Climate & Economic Justice!
📅 Oct 7, 2025 | 🕑 14:00–17:00 EAT
🌐 Virtual | English & French
To launch the Climate & Economic Justice Campaign Framework.
Resilient40 High-level Youth Event: Roots and Routes: Past, Present & Future of Africa — Powered by Africans, Driven by Sustainability (H.E. Muferiat Kamil Ahmed – Minister of Labour and Skills, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia & H.E First Lady Samira R. Bawumia, our Keynote Speakers)
The future is ours to shape. 💡🌱
Be part of the NextGen Forum – Youth Dialogue at hashtag#ACS2 and let’s reimagine Africa’s past, present, and future through sustainability and youth leadership.
📍 Addis Ababa | 🗓 September 10, 2025
@Resilient_40 @ACS2ET
TITLE: MAINSTREAMING DEBT CANCELLATION AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE DURING ACSII IN THE LEAD-UP TO COP30 AND G20
EVENT DATE: 20TH AUGUST 2025
Event Overview
As Africa faces escalating climate impacts alongside a deepening debt crisis, countries continue to service unsustainable loans at the expense of climate resilience, health and social protection.
Despite contributing the least to global emissions, African states allocate up to 171% of their public social spending to debt servicing, suffocating their capacity to invest in adaptation, loss & damage response, and equitable development.
To reframe Africa’s economic and climate diplomacy narrative ahead of the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS-II), COP30 and the G20, Resilient40 in collaboration with PACJA, NANHRI, ACJ, CESR, GCAP and AACJ, are convening a strategic pre-ACS-II webinar titled “Mainstreaming Debt Cancellation and Economic Justice During ACS-II in the Lead-up to COP30 and G20”.
Meeting Link-Zoom: Wednesday 20th August, 1400hrs EAT.
Resilient40 Workshop on Climate and Media
On 2 May 2025, African lawyers and civil society groups filed a petition with the @court_afchpr.
Led by the @LawyersofAfrica with support from the African Climate Platform, @Resilient_40, @naturaljustice and the Environmental Lawyers Collective for Africa, the petition asks the Court to clarify what African states are required to do under #HumanRights #law when facing #ClimateChange.
It seeks guidance on state duties to reduce emissions, prepare for climate impacts, provide #reparations for loss and damage, ensure a fair energy transition and hold corporations accountable.
Here’s the full petition: climatecasechart.com/non-us-case/re…
Read it before the webinar and bring your questions. On 25 August, we will discuss what this case means for #climate law in Africa and how it could shape future decisions on responsibility and reparations.
#FromCourtsToCOP #OceansAndClimate #ClimateLaw #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #COP30
Resilient40 Workshop on Climate and Media
We’re excited to announce the Resilient40 Workshop on Climate and Media, happening on 14th August 2025!
This one-day workshop brings together young African climate leaders, journalists, content creators, and media professionals to explore how storytelling, digital media, and journalism can drive climate action and resilience across the continent.
Mainstreaming Debt Cancellation and Economic Justice during ACS II in the Lead-Up to COP30 and G20
Host: Resilient40
Moderator: Luaya Cardoso
Mon, Aug 18
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM GMT+2
Online event
Speakers
1. Musa Mussa Wawuyo: NGO Representative to UNEP’s Major Group Facilitators Committee (MGFC)
2. Alimi Salifou: Co-Chair ImPACT Coalition for Future Generations
3. Clinton Dandison: Executive Director, Aspire Climate Vanguard
POST COP29 – on the road to COP30. Youth United: The Youth-Led Climate Action
Summit
A Virtual Gathering Igniting Youth-Led Solutions and local actions for Our Sustainable
Future
On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, young minds from across the world will converge online
for “Youth United.” Young people are leading the charge for climate action, and our
voices are more important than ever. The future is in our hands.
COP29 Baku, Azerbaijan
November 11-22, 2024
Youth Voice: Advancing the Youth Development Agenda (Online)
November 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm GMT
Strengthening Cimate Resilience and Food Security in Africa Through Agroecology and Youth-Led Initiatives
Date: Oct 29- Nov 1, 2024
Venue: Rainbow Towers Hot Harare, Zimbabwe
Time: 0800-1600
Theme: “Two Decades
Youth perspectives on Climate Justice and the
Right to the City
Joint event for the World Day of the right to the City – Global Platform for the
Right to the City, Resilient 40 Africa and Streetnet International
Thursday, October 24th 2024.
EQUITY AND JUSTICE FRAMEWORK:
21 st October 2024
3 pm (Nairobi ) 5.30 pm (India ) 8 pm (Philippines ) 7 am Peru
Virtual Youth Consultation on Equitable Financing of Digital Health for Climate Resilience: Run-of-Show
Date: October 3, 2024
Duration: 1 Hour
Objective: To facilitate an interactive and engaging session that empowers youth to contribute to the conversation on equitable financing of digital health solutions that support climate resilience.
What’s next: Feeding the Future Generations
Movement in upcoming Global Moments
Feeding the Future Generations
Movement in upcoming Global Moments
13th September 2024
Time: 16:00 -16:45 EDT
ICFG Kick Off call – Summit of the Future
September – 3rd
Online (Zoom)
UNEP and UNCCD major groups and stakeholders consultations and the 10th African ministerial conference on environment (AMCEN)
September 1st – 6th
Abidjan, Cote Divore
Africa Group of Negotiators on climate change (AGN) Pre-Cop meeting
August 12th – 16th
Nairobi, Kenya (AGN report)
BUILDING A RESILIENT FUTURE
Young voices on elections in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Europe
🌍🔊 Join us for an evening of dynamic dialogue and empowered voices shaping the future this super-electoral year across continents and unions! JEF Europe is teaming up for this webinar with Resilient 40, a pan-African youth organisation working for a resilient continent.
📅 Date: April 16th 2024
🕡 Time: 18:30-20:30 CET
CO-CREATING ACTION-ORIENTED ADAPTATION RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE-BASED ACTION
Date: 4th March 2024
Time: 17.00-18.30
SAST via ZoomThe ARA will host a session at the Gobeshona Global Conference examining our four co-creation processes and opportunities for collaboration.
Adaptation Research Alliance
AFRICA’S PROTECTED AREAS DIRECTORS (APAD)’S CONFERENCE
Will take place in Victoria Falls; from the 5 – 8th March, 2024, and be hosted by ZimParks; with the support of AWF and the German Cooperation. This conference aims at agreeing on actions that contribute to the achievement of the GBF and IPLC priorities; in line with the Kigali APAC Call to Action and the IPLC Kigali Declaration.
We also need the voices of the youth to be reflected as much as possible.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s annual event, the Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW)
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s annual event, the Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW), held in Lagos, Nigeria from 26-28 April 2024.
The IGW presents a key moment of exchange and discussion among key global and African stakeholders on a topic of priority for leadership and governance in Africa.
CARP-RESILIENT40 Webinar
Date: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 EAT / 6:00 – 7:30 MST (Arizona)
- What Resilient40 does & how they work.
- What the policy advocacy process looks like
- Who’s at the table right now in policy discussions and the importance of engaging researchers.
- What opportunities are on the horizon for CARP scholars to engage in policy dialogues?
- How can CARP researchers get involved?
Registration link
Link to the watch the webinar
AEF OCEAN CITIZEN DEBATE 2024
TOPIC: How can Africa and Europe work together to strengthen existing MPAs, and LMMAs,
and expand their geographical scope and effectiveness towards 2030?
ONLINE RECORDING: 12 January 2024 at 1pm CET
BROADCAST: – TB
PAST WEBINARS AND EVENTS
AFRICA YOUTH CLIMATE DIALOGUE
Theme: Achieving Climate Justice through Meaningful and inclusive Youth Engagement;
VENUE: Safari Park Hotel
TENTATIVE DATES: 2nd – 3rd September, 2023
THE 2023 AFRICAN YOUTH POST COP27 MEETING
DATE: MARCH 29, 2023, 2-5 pm, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
THEME: Youth-Led Climate Action: Charting a Sustainable Future for Africa
Towards a Climate Resilient Planet: Harnessing the Power of African
21 January – Resilient 40: Reconnecting post COP26, and building momentum to COP27
Two years on since the Resilient40 last met in person in Addis Ababa the group will reconvene, virtually to build on their successes as a network. It will be an opportunity to discuss the outcome of COP26, and take the next steps to build the network and its activities in the run up to COP27 in Egypt
16-23 September 2020 – Resilient40 virtual summit: Tunakutana for climate resilience
Talking about food: security, solutions and systems (22 September 2020)
The Resilient40 are pleased to host their second virtual summit: Tunakutana for Climate Resilience, 16-23 September 2020. Climate changemakers hosted public virtual discussions focusing on an array of topics, from climate finance and just recovery, to building resilience to disasters and climate change. For more information, visit the Resilient40 website.
Wilton Park are delighted to be supporting the R40 summit, along with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
May 2020 – Climate change in Africa: opportunities & challenges
The first R40 virtual summit was delivered by them, with support from Wilton Park, and hosted a variety of expert speakers, focusing on just transition & energy, disaster risks management (COVID19) and climate change governance.
Resilient 40 article on Covid19, Climate Change and Africa’s Multifaceted Vulnerability
January 2020 – Climate change in Africa: opportunities & challenges
The second time the Resilient40 met was in January 2020, at the beautiful Kuriftu Resort in Bishoftu, Ethiopia 62 participants representing 29 African countries plus individuals from UK met to identify practical ways they can build climate resilience across Africa.
This meeting was intended to strengthen and nourish the network established in March 2019. Collaboration with the British Embassy in Addis Ababa resulted in the group creating crucial links with the African Union and the African Union Youth Envoy.
Wilton Park worked with the United Kingdom’s (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development (DFID). With the UK hosting COP26, FCO and DFID stay dedicated to lifting #R40 voices on the international stage and we hope to continue supporting the group on their journey.
DOWNLOAD PROGRAMME (PDF)DOWNLOAD REPORT (PDF)
March 2019 – The Alternative Africa Climate Week: 40 under 40 to build resilience
The group met for the first time in March 2019 in South Africa. Convened by Wilton Park, The Alternative Africa Climate Week: 40 under 40 to build resilience brought together young leaders from 11 African countries to discuss how to build greater resilience in Africa to cope with climate change.
The aim of this first dialogue was to provide a platform for the emerging generation of leaders to discuss how individuals, societies, and governments can become more resilient in their responses to climate change.
The group were joined by some British experts to build connections between the UK and Africa on climate and help strengthen the case for collaborative international action. Sharing expertise and setting out their agenda for resilience the group of changemakers named themselves Resilient40. Wilton Park convened this group in partnership with the Africa Climate Reality Project and the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Blog – What is Britain’s place in the world? Climate resilience and soft power – by participant Dustin Benton was featured in the Green Alliance’s ‘Inside Track’.