Nidhi Kanaujia (Study Hall Foundation), Kenneth Kwok (KidsforSDGs), Alex Lee (KidsforSDGs), Almaaz Mudaly (Youth Climate Action Plan), Sagarika Sriram (Kids4aBetterWorld), Alvin Wong (KidsforSDGs)
Policy and applied frameworks to implement youth empowerment session 1
TAGS: Youth
3. Good Health and Well-being 4. Quality Education 17. Partnerships for the Goals
1. Muhannad Al Jarrah (INJAZ), 2. Hassan Mahtat (Aflatoun International), 3. Irene Mutumba (PEDN)
In this session, the host and speakers will share AFlatoun’s experience in achieving system change by the integration of Social and Financial Education into the national curricula. The session will highlight how Aflatoun partnered with relevant local NGOs and stakeholders, and how together they advocated with the national authorities and worked towards policy and system change, thus integrating the Aflatoun programme into the national education system.
TAGS: Youth, Education Partnership
1. No Poverty 4. Quality Education 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth 17. Partnerships for the Goals
1. Carlos Álvarez Pereira (Club of Rome), 2. Olivier Bréchard (#LearningPlanet), 3. Gaëll Mainguy (#LearningPlanet)
Surpassing disciplines, the #LP Education for Sustainability Circle will explore how learners of all ages can develop the necessary knowledge and skills for collaborative problem solving and addressing SDGs.
TAGS: Youth, Education, Climate
4. Quality Education 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities 17. Partnerships for the Goals
1. C. P. Anto (Peace Channel), 2. Gugu Heralu (Peace Channel), 3. Garol Lotha (Peace Channel)
Peace Channel a model for peace building among children through peace clubs, youth through peer mediation and Community leaders through peace Forum methods. The participants will learn the method of promoting peace, develop peace skills.
TAGS: Youth, Justice, Peace
SDG STUFF
1. George Akilimali (Smartcore Enterprise), 2. Aoise Keogan-Nooshabadi (Supply Change), 3. Salma Kasonta (Coco Hedhi Ujauzito & Afya), 4. Olivier Nkunzurwanda (Refugee Innovation Centre), 5. Amina Umuhoza (Dukataze)
Youth play a critical role in catalysing community development. In the form of a panel discussion, youth from Digital Opportunity Trusts’ network will share their personal journey to becoming community leaders and young social entrepreneurs. The main takeaway from the session will be to recognise the role that young social entrepreneurs play in achieving inclusive post pandemic recovery.
TAGS: Youth
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities 17. Partnerships for the Goals
1. Ali Raza Khan (Yes Pakistan Network)
Participants will be introduced a simple, practical, scale-able and proven method to turn young people into changemakers. Participants will be able to understand the need and urgency of redefining success for young people. Participants will be introduced to a new kind of intelligence that is called Changemaking Intelligence.
TAGS: Youth
1. No Poverty 4. Quality Education 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth 10. Reduced Inequality
1. Abdullahi Alim (World Economic Forum), 2. Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar (Strive Together), 3. Tariq Al-Olaimy (3BL Associates), 4. Andres Felipe Vera Ramirez (Acumen)
Today’s youth movements enjoy mass popularity, but how effective are they? Greta Thunberg proclaimed that “pretty much nothing [had] been done” since staging school strikes to raise awareness of the climate crisis in 2018, while Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, has said that social change as we know it is dead.
Join this intergenerational discussion on how to mature youth activism for a world marked by greater examples of systemic faults and to ultimately contribute to the development of a Millennial Manifesto for the post-covid world.
TAGS: Youth