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Scaling up of climate solutions to tackle climate change through youth volunteerism and women empowerment by partnering with expert organizations in permaculture

Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) (
Non-governmental organization (NGO)
)
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    Description
    Description

    Covid-19 has exacerbated poor climate practices for people living in poor and vulnerable settings. Communities have doubled exploitation of natural resources because their livelihoods depend on it. As a solution, raising awareness and or knowledge sharing is not enough. We recognize the need to go beyond awareness, to impact the social life of the people in the communities, increase their practical capacity for tangible climate practices towards natural resource restoration, conservation and sustenance. Partner Roles: VSO provides financial and human resource through volunteers. Open spaces provides technical climate skill for practical climatic solutions. Monitoring will be carried out jointly with the support of the ministry of natural resources, energy and mining in Malawi.

    Expected Impact

    the formation of and continuation of existing strategic partnerships between the Government of Malawi, NGO's and CSOs is a step towards accelerating the SDG agenda for the next 10 years but pooling into the 2060 agenda. The proposed approach will strengthen Malawi’s response to tackle the pandemic and its adverse socio-economic effects by ensuring that vulnerable groups such as youth, women and girls are not left behind in the response.

    Partners

    Open Spaces, CISONEC, Ministry of Natural Resources, National Planning Commission

    Additional information

    Will be available in April 2022. An update to this registration will be done.

    Goal 13

    Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

    Goal 13

    13.1

    Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

    13.1.1

    Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

    13.1.2

    Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

    13.1.3

    Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

    13.2

    Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

    13.2.1

    Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    13.2.2

    Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

    13.3

    Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

    13.3.1

    Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

    13.a

    Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

    13.a.1

    Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

    13.b

    Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities


     

    13.b.1

    Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    Name Description

    Reach 2,000 youths (55% female) with climate education coupled with hands-on climatic actions

    Raise the voice of community volunteers on the support need from the government and establish working relations for government support to target project areas

    Advocate the government for dissemination of climate change policy, its review, update and commitments to the grassroots in target project locations

    Carry out environmental conservation practices with youth and women in rural areas

    Financing (in USD)
    12,000
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Research (Baseline and Endline studies)
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    SDG Acceleration Actions
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    Timeline
    01 April 2022 (start date)
    31 March 2023 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO)
    SDGs
    Region
    1. Africa
    Other beneficiaries

    Youth, Women and youths with disabilities

    Website/More information
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    Countries
    Malawi
    Malawi
    Contact Information

    Wezzie, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager