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- Submitted by: MercyCorps
- Topic: Education
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- Date of completion: 2022-12-31
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Action network

- This voluntary initiative came from Partnerships for SD (CSD11/WSSD)
BE THE CHANGE! - youth-led action for sustainable development
Partner(s)
Governments:
Government of Finland
Government of Netherlands
Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - United Kingdom
Major Groups:
Peace Child International (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Peace Child Partner Group: (Ghana)
Peace Child Partner Group: (India)
Peace Child Partner Group: (Kenya)
Morocco Forum des Jeunesses (Morocco)
Peace Child Partner Group: (Peru)
Peace Child Partner Group: (Sierra Leone)
Peace Child Partner Group: (South Africa)
Education 21 Group (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
The Peace Child International Network (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
I-Earn ()
Levi Strauss Corporation ()
Schoolnet ()
Schools Parthership Worldwide ()
Science and Arts Foundation ()
The International Youth Parliament Network ()
Y-Care ()
UN System:
UNDP-The Netaid Initiative ()
Description/achievement of initiative
Main objectives:
- To empower young people to be instruments in the delivery of community development aid, not just the beneficiaries of it;
- To support and enable young people successfully to complete simple development projects with the minimum of financial resources and the maximum of peer/community support.
- To create a sustainable funding source to which young people can come to get simple community development projects funded and supported with appropriate advice and guidance.
- To enable sponsoring schools to reap the maximum educational advantage from their charity fund-raising and learn what sustainable development looks like in practice;
- To raise awareness of the outcomes of the World Summit for Sustainable Development and point out effective ways for young people to become involved in active implementation of them;
- To promote awareness of the Morocco 2003 International Congress on the role of young people in Sustainable Development and to provide solid evidence of the constructive role they can play.
