Introduction
The CARE Climate Justice Center, the Global Center on Adaptation, and CARE Country Offices across 10 African Countries are partnering to develop a youth toolkit, handbook and 10-week online ‘train the trainers’ course on leadership and climate adaptation. The toolkit aims to empower youth (15-35) to engage in climate change adaptation policy-making and action. The handbook and online ‘train the trainers’ course will cover the toolkit modules in-depth and provide capacity-strengthening to Youth Organizations and NGOs working with youth to train their peers. From May 2023, the Youth Organizations will train 10,000 youth on climate adaptation policy and action.
Fifty Youth Organizations from 10 African countries have been selected to participate in the project. Each of these organizations will select two youth (1 man, and 1 woman) who are committed to:
- Review the (to be developed) toolkit, handbook, and TOT (15 September 2022 – 1 December 2022) – level of effort: approx. 1 day per person
- Participate in the online training of trainers (15 February 2023 – 30 April 2023) – level of effort: approx. 9 days per person
- Select participants for in-country training as per agreed criteria (1 May 2023 – 31 May 2023) – level of effort: approx. 2 days per person
- Organizing and leading the training of 200 other youth (1 May 2023 – 31 October 2023) – level of effort: approx. 12 days per person
- Participate in end-of-project learning exchange workshop (1 December 2023 – 9 December 2023 – level of effort: approx. 0.5 days per person
The youth (1 man, 1 woman) to be selected by each Youth Organization should meet the following criteria:
Essential criteria
- Is aged 20-35
- Has a Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Has an advanced understanding of and is able to communicate proficiently in English
- Has access to reliable enough internet (for the review and the online TOT)
- Has the time from 15 September 2022 to 9 December 2023 to engage in the project
- Is passionate about climate action and has basic knowledge of climate change and climate change adaptation
- Has demonstrated leadership in their personal or professional life
- Has experience in organizing and delivering training to other youth including PowerPoint presentations
- Has a demonstrated interest to work in climate change and/or environmental issues
- Has a demonstrated interest to develop youth’s leadership skills for advocacy, policy, and decision making
Desirable criteria:
- Has witnessed or experienced firsthand the impacts that different climate shocks and stresses have on communities
- Has to experience in reporting learnings and success stories
- Is planning to use the learnings and skills learned after the end of the project
Deadline: 31st August 2022
No conditions regarding sex, financial or religious background. If you feel that you are qualified, send your current CV and motivation letter to. application@tzyc.org