African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC)
YVE is in charge of the general coordination of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change. The AYICC is a youth network created in 2006 in Nairobi, in Kenya, during the International Youth Conference held right before the COP12. This initiative permits to share knowledge, ideas, experiences, skills and strategies all around the continent, and to link together youth actions on mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
AYICC plans to identify the best practices of projects on climate change led by the African youth, to organise regional and sub-regional meetings in order to share experiences and contacts, and to work out the African Youth Strategy on Climate Change (AYSCC). Regional representations will present the results of these meetings, by means of documents, songs and little videos at the 15th Conference of Parties on The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The YANESD (Youth Associations Network for Sustainable Development) was set up in April 2002 with the aim to : encourage the establishment of the necessary institutional framework that will enable Togolese youth’s empowerment, employment and involvement in decision-makings at both national and international level. As an umbrella organisation, it is supposed to represent all Togolese youth organisations and as a consequence the youth population in the whole. Its objectives have been partially reached and lot is left to be done.
As the challenges at stake are getting more and more important, it is more than important that networks get formed, empowered and start relevant activities tackling these issues.
Since there is no national youth council in Togo, this network can play a big role in ensuring that all development strategies respect intra and intergenerational equity and sustainability.
CIVICUS
World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of members and partners which constitute an influential network of organisations at the local, national, regional and international levels, and span the spectrum of civil society including: civil society networks and organisations; trade unions; faith-based networks; professional associations; NGO capacity development organisations; philanthropic foundations and other funding bodies; businesses; and social responsibility programmes. CIVICUS has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world. This is premised on the belief that the health of societies exists in direct proportion to the degree of balance between the state, the private sector and civil society. CIVICUS provides a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement among these disparate sectors. It acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide. CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the burgeoning sector of civil societ y
The YANESD (Youth Associations Network for Sustainable Development) was set up in April 2002 with the aim to : encourage the establishment of the necessary institutional framework that will enable Togolese youth’s empowerment, employment and involvement in decision-makings at both national and international level. As an umbrella organisation, it is supposed to represent all Togolese youth organisations and as a consequence the youth population in the whole. Its objectives have been partially reached and lot is left to be done.
As the challenges at stake are getting more and more important, it is more than important that networks get formed, empowered and start relevant activities tackling these issues.
Since there is no national youth council in Togo, this network can play a big role in ensuring that all development strategies respect intra and intergenerational equity and sustainability.
CIVICUS
World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of members and partners which constitute an influential network of organisations at the local, national, regional and international levels, and span the spectrum of civil society including: civil society networks and organisations; trade unions; faith-based networks; professional associations; NGO capacity development organisations; philanthropic foundations and other funding bodies; businesses; and social responsibility programmes. CIVICUS has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world. This is premised on the belief that the health of societies exists in direct proportion to the degree of balance between the state, the private sector and civil society. CIVICUS provides a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement among these disparate sectors. It acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide. CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the burgeoning sector of civil society
