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Using Arts to Promote SDGs
Description/achievement of initiative

The Youth Art Empowerment Project will be holding workshops on SDGs in our community and neighbouring communities to Sensitize, campaign and raise awareness about Climate change, Gender equality and artistic Empowerment Programs to alleviate poverty. The awareness will be taken to schools, markets, youth groups and community groups, even town hall meetings in Ayobo, ipaja and neighbouring environs like Amule, Ishefun, Orisumbare, kaunde suburbs in Lagos State Nigeria and Ayetoro, Lafenwa and ojuore in Ogun State Nigeria.

Implementation methodologies

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Partner(s)

Isabellaivvy Ventures and Youth Art Empowerment Project
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.5 - By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.a - Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
Goal 5
5.1 - End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.2 - Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
5.3 - Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
5.4 - Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.b - Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
Goal 13
13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
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

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
November 2016
Awareness and Campaign
October 2016
Awareness and Campaign
September 2016
Workshop on Sensitization of SDGs
Staff / Technical expertise
Human Resources(youths) dedicated to advocate for SDGs in my locality
Other, please specify
Skills acquisition for Empowerment to combat poverty

Basic information
Time-frame: September 2016 - November 2016
Website
Partners
Isabellaivvy Ventures and Youth Art Empowerment Project
Countries
Contact information
Ivvy Isabella Anito, Ms., isabellaivvy15@gmail.com
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