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
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.
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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’.