Empowering And Nurturing Leadership Skills of Youth Through Climate Action Education in Uzbekistan
Project Status
The proposed project is aimed to build the capacity of 1,332,849 youth through climate education and green skills, thereby empowering them to contribute to greener, more resilient, and more sustainable future of Uzbekistan.
The project will invest into ensuring access to climate education for all upper secondary school students (15-18 years old) of Uzbekistan. The awareness and understanding of drivers behind climate change, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, and adaptation options will be improved as result of the project interventions among girls and boys and young people (15-18 years old) living in rural communities in 4 pilot regions.
The project will assist in bridging scientific knowledge with the existing school curriculum along with extracurricular activities and community-level knowledge and awareness. Schoolkids and young people will become climate action champions and bring new energy to the climate agenda through participation in the project facilitated trainings, contests, conferences, practical actions, and summer schools.
The project will engage with the formal education system of Uzbekistan and mainstream climate education in school curricula in a way to reach schoolchildren and youth at large. In partnership with a key Implementing Partner, the Ministry of Preschool and School Education, the project will promote new education standards, teacher training, better climate curricula, and extracurricular engagement.
In addition, the project aims to build the resilience of the rural communities with 800 youth by greening the communities and acquiring 2 new green skills to promote green development agenda in the country.
The project will leverage UNDP’s extensive knowledge, expertise, and experience in the green development agenda in Uzbekistan and capitalizing on extensive project implementation with various national partners in Uzbekistan aims to build climate-resilient rural communities and enhance the green skills of the rural youth by institutionalizing new skills at the Monocentres (Vocational Training Center).
At the community level, the project will deploy a bottom-up approach by mobilising rural youth to build their green skills through a tailored ROTA Youth Challenge Toolkit and by introducing the Young Green Ambassadors concept. In addition to it, the project will work with Monocentres to bring new knowledge and expertise and institutionalize it.
The combination of the interventions will build necessary skills and knowledge of the rural youth to gear Uzbekistan’s green development agenda and combat climate change in the vulnerable regions.
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