YUNGA Seeking Youth Advisory Council Members for World Oceans Day

YUNGA is seeking ten young leaders (ages 16-21) from around the world to serve on a new Advisory Council to help expand the reach and impact of World Oceans Day. Held annually on June 8th, World Oceans Day provides a unique opportunity to unite the world to protect and conserve our shared ocean. The Ocean Project has led global efforts to promote and coordinate World Oceans Day since 2002, as a way to raise the profile of the ocean in June, and continue to provide ways for people to become more engaged – no matter where they live – in protecting and conserving our shared ocean throughout the year. YUNGA works with a wide range of partners, from all sectors. For the last decade YUNGA has worked closely with World Ocean Network,WAZA, and AZA, among many others. In late 2008, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution officially recognizing June 8th as World Oceans Day and the worldwide celebration has been growing quickly ever since.

Advisory Council members will be instrumental in helping shape the development of World Oceans Day. YUNGA is seeking new and unique perspectives, ideas, and recommendations on developing this global event. Together, the Advisory Council and our network of partners, will work to expand opportunities for ocean conservation throughout the year. For more information go to: http://www.worldoceansday.org/world-oceans-day-youth-advisory-council-call-for-applications/

What is YUNGA?

Formed in 2009, the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) is a partnership between United Nations agencies, civil society organizations and other entities that work with children and young people. YUNGA acts as a gateway for children and youth from around the world to participate in the activities and initiatives of the United Nations. YUNGA seeks to empower children and young people to have a greater role in society, raise awareness and become active agents of change. YUNGA aims to engage young people in activities of key environmental and social concern at both national and international levels.

YUNGA Climate Change Badge in Now Available

The Climate Change Challenge Badge is designed to help children and young people understand the vital role our climate plays in supporting life on Earth and how our daily lives impact the Earth’s climate.

Most of all the Challenge Badge will help you better understand why climate change matters and motivate you to take action and become positive drivers of change in your communities and within international arenas.

What are you waiting for? It is time to start acting for climate! Find it online at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5216e.pdf

Other languages will soon become available (including Spanish, Russian and Hungarian and others will follow shortly).

What is YUNGA?

Formed in 2009, the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) is a partnership between United Nations agencies, civil society organizations and other entities that work with children and young people. YUNGA acts as a gateway for children and youth from around the world to participate in the activities and initiatives of the United Nations. YUNGA seeks to empower children and young people to have a greater role in society, raise awareness and become active agents of change. YUNGA aims to engage young people in activities of key environmental and social concern at both national and international levels.

More about YUNGA here: http://www.fao.org/yunga

What are the Challenge Badges?

Developed in collaboration with United Nations agencies, civil society and other organizations, YUNGA Challenge Badges aim to raise your awareness, educate and motivate you to change your behaviour and become an active agent of change in your local community. The series can be used by teachers in school classes as well as by youth leaders, especially Guide or Scout groups. Challenge Badge activities are both educational – and fun! More info about Challenge Badges here: http://www.fao.org/yunga/resources/challenge-badges/en/

FAO/YUNGA Internship Opportunity in Rome

The Youth & United Nations Global Alliance is looking for an intern for this fall! The internship does provide a stipend of  $700 per month and they are looking for someone with the following criteria:

1. Educational, environment or science education.
2. Has been working for at least 2 years in non-formal educational environments (for example a Scout or Guide leader).
3. Experience in developing educational materials and resources in English and other languages.
4. Has undertaken community work.

 If you are interested please send your CV and a one paragraph e-mail on why you would be interested for working for YUNGA to yunga@fao.org with Reuben.Sessa@fao.org in copy by September 15, 2014.

Check out the original posting here.

What is YUNGA?

The Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) was created to generate collaborative initiatives between United Nations agencies and other organizations and civil society organizations working with children and young people. YUNGA is a gateway to assist the engagement of youths in activities of key environmental and social concern at the national and international level.

YUNGA seeks to empower children and young people to have a greater role in society, support UN related activities, raise awareness and be active agents of change.

YUNGA and its numerous partners are working on a number of thematic areas including: agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, energy, forests, food security, hunger, nutrition, oceans, water, and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Activities range from educational policy, capacity building programmes, didactic materials, resource packs, international competitions, challenge badges and different programmes intended to inspire active participation.

What is FAO?

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts – to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.

FAO's three main goals are: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, including land, water, air, climate and genetic resources for the benefit of present and future generations.

FAO: YUNGA Badges

YUNGA develops challenge badges around various themes relating to the UN and global issues. Check out the full list of badges here: http://yunga-youth.weebly.com/themes.html

YUNGA CLOTH BADGES AVAILABLE!

From a recent press release from YUNGA, the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance, and WAGGGS on the release of their line of Challenge Badges:

YUNGA CLOTH BADGES AVAILABLE!

Recent developments from FAO: YUNGA, 16^th May 2014

  

We are delighted to announce that the cloth badges for all of our current Challenge Badges are now available for purchase on the WAGGGS website! Click on the following links for each badge:

Biodiversity: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges/biodiversity-challenge-badge-pack-of-10

Ending Hunger: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges/hunger-un-challenge-badge-pack-of-10

Forests: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges/forests-un-challenge-badge-pack-of-10

Food Security and Climate Change: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges/fao-climate-challenge-badge-pack-of-10

The Ocean: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges/ocean-un-challenge-badge-pack-of-10

Water: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges/water-un-challenge-badge-pack-of-10

For the PDFs of all the Challenge Badges booklets that we currently have available, take a look at: http://yunga-youth.weebly.com/themes.html

YUNGA's Junior Farmer Field & Life School for Vulnerable Youth

In an email from YUNGA, we received the following announcement:

JUNIOR FARMER FIELD AND LIFE SCHOOL MODULES AVAILABLE

Recent developments from FAO: YUNGA, 7^th March 2014

Over half of the world’s 1.8 million youth live in rural areas; with half of this number working in the agriculture sector. YUNGA has partnered with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO) to produce the Junior Farmer Field and Life School (JFFLS). JFFLS aims to empower vulnerable youth, and provide them with the livelihood options and gender-sensitive skills needed for long-term food security while reducing their vulnerability to destitution and risk coping strategies. One of the other major objectives of the JFFLS is to promote the creation of gender-equal attitudes, by enabling youth to exercise the same roles and responsibilities and developing their capacities to assess relationships and understand the risks and resources present within their community. The strength of the JFFLS is its unique learning methodology and curriculum, which combines agricultural, life and entrepreneurship skills in an experiential and participatory learning approach uniquely suited to rural communities and low literacy levels.

Check out the following modules that YUNGA have developed:

Climate Change: www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/fao_ilo/pdf/Other_docs/FAO/Climate_Change.pdf

Community Seed Banks: www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/fao_ilo/pdf/Other_docs/FAO/Community_Seed_Banks.pdf

Aquaculture: www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/fao_ilo/pdf/Other_docs/FAO/Aquaculture.pdf

You can see all the available modules and facilitator guides on the right hand side of the FAO-ILO JFFLS page: www.fao-ilo.org/fao-ilo-youth/fao-ilo-jffls/en