Green Youth Climate Fund Institution
OUR FOCUS
CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING - We focus on capacity building and training of young people at local levels on climate and carbon finance mechanisms at global, regional, national and sub-national level. This is done via webinars, insession workshop and via youth barazas. The content of training focus on negotiations and access to rthe climate funds.
ACCESS TO THE CLIMATE FUNDS - We strive to bridge the gap between youth and the existing climate funds; the GCF, GEF, AF, SCF with the aim of exploring possible avenues of unlocking bulk co-financing for multiple youth projects.
ADAPTATION FOR GREEN JOBS PROGRAMME - We seek to solve the challenge of unemployment and climate action/ climate adaptation simultaneously. We implement adaptation focused project that have an income generation component with anticipation of revenue generation to help alleviate poverty and reduce joblessness among young people.
YOUTH AND GREEN GROWTH - This programme focused on mainstreaming youth voices within existing national green growth strategies and policies at national levels. Where there are no existing national green growth strategies and policies, the programme develops youth and green growth policies in consultation with the relevant authorities.
YOUTH AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE - The programme focuses on strengthening youth governance at national and regional level with the aim of enhancing transparency and accountability of youth and youth interventions and youth financing for climate action.
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Tales from the 1997/8 El Nino
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My family survived the 1997 El Nino thanks to my dad’s amateur forecasting skills.
I must have been extremely young to comprehend weather patterns when, one evening it suddenly started raining cats ...
