2018 WESSA Annual Review

YOUTH

Eco-Campus Late 2018 saw the 5th Foundation for Environment Education (FEE) pro- gramme coming to South Africa and being implemented by WESSA. The Eco-Campus programme is an interna- tional programme for Higher Education Institution’s under the FEE banner. This programme offers defined, controlla- ble ways for educational campuses to take environmental issues, innovation and research from academic depart- ments, and apply them to the day-to- day management of the campus. The programme can be successfully used for all tertiary level institutions (not just universities), and WESSA aims to work with and encourage participation of all 487 Higher Education Institutions in South Africa. Eco-Campus provides WESSA with strengthened, longer term influence on youth moving from our schools’ programmes to our tertiary institutions. There has been excellent responses to our introduction of the Eco-Campus programme, with plans for us to sign up pilot universities before the end of 2018. Eco-campus is struc- tured around seven steps and requires commitment from students and man- agement structures to review the cam- pus’ environment, plan future actions for a more sustainable campus, monitor and evaluate progress, link the process to wider learning and create awareness across the student and management population. The programme aims for the development of a campus green charter for a more sustainable learning institution.

African German Youth Initiative (AGYI) Commissioned by the African Union Com- mission, and in the spirit of the African Youth Charter and Agenda 2063, the AGYI is working to improve the quality of youth ex- change and volunteering, and increase the number of youth who can access these op- portunities. With funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, this programme aims to make exchange and volunteering more meaningful, relevant and enabling for the youth sector. Our role is to implement the initiative at lo- cal level and carry our work into the SADC region over the pilot phase, which ends in September 2020. We work in close part- nership with the two other pilot countries, Tanzania and Benin, to ensure the initiative is evolving towards the desired continental impact. #WESSAOneMillionYouth Mobilised youth is one of our most powerful forces of change. #WessaOneMillionYouth is our umbrella initiative that will mobilise a campaign that aims to actively engage with and provide real opportunities for targeted youth. The campaign with use various mar- keting and communications platforms to engage. #WESSAOneMillionYouth is a WES- SA Youth Outreach Programme we have de- veloped to enable us to attract, build and communicate effectively with a ground- swell of young WESSA supporters and am- bassadors. The campaigns will be sponta- neous, and WESSA will provide support for the initiation of change-action-projects at grass root levels.

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