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BE THE CHANGE! - youth-led action for sustainable development
[last updated January 3, 2004 11:45 PM]
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General Information
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Expected TimeframeOctober 2002 - Open Ended |
Partners
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Thematic Focus
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Geographic Coverage
Geographic Scope: Global
Country(ies) where the partnership is being implemented: Ghana, India, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
National Focal Points
At present, no information is available as to whether the partnership has made contact with the national focal points for sustainable development in the relevant countries.
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Goals and Objectives
Summary of the partnership's goals and objectives
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.
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.
Targets and Progress
Partnership targetsThe deliverables for this project are as follows:
Maintain five BTC! field offices and open new one in South Africa; Deliver sixty full project reports with the project manager's statement, the evaluator's report, detailed accounts and the field officer's review; Complete academic review of the projects delivered as part of the outcome of the BTC Congress in Morocco; To start self-financing initiatives in at least 3 field offices. |
Progress against targetsNone reported as of 12/03
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Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
- Human resources development/training
- Education/building awareness
A central goal of this initiative is to provide training in project planning, budgetting, project implementation and monitoring + basic IT training for our Field Office partners. They in turn will pass on this training to others and, where possible, earn fees from their trainings.
Each Field Office is set up with computers, digital cameras and internet connections for the easy transfer of proposals and photographs of projects on to the internet.
Relationship to International Agreements on Sustainable Development
How the partnership contributes to the implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
It will raise awareness of the outcomes and targets of WSSD, especially amongst young people.
In one year, it will deliver between 60 and 120 concrete and sustainable improvements to communities in six countries around the world - directly linked to the outcomes and goals of the WSSD;
By their research work in poorer communities and in schools throughout their countries, the five Field Officers will educate whole communities in the principles of sustainable development;
By their presentations, the MDG Ambassadors will educate thousands of young people about the MDGs and the outcomes of WSSD - as well as giving them a broader understanding of sustainable development;
This project will set in place a structure to promote, educate about and achieve concrete advances in sustainable development that can be sustained and replicated in each of the world's 47 Least Developed Countries - and start a process that will result in the long-term mobilisation of that half of the world's population that is under-25 in pursuit of the MDGs and the wider Agenda 21 and WSSD goals.
In one year, it will deliver between 60 and 120 concrete and sustainable improvements to communities in six countries around the world - directly linked to the outcomes and goals of the WSSD;
By their research work in poorer communities and in schools throughout their countries, the five Field Officers will educate whole communities in the principles of sustainable development;
By their presentations, the MDG Ambassadors will educate thousands of young people about the MDGs and the outcomes of WSSD - as well as giving them a broader understanding of sustainable development;
This project will set in place a structure to promote, educate about and achieve concrete advances in sustainable development that can be sustained and replicated in each of the world's 47 Least Developed Countries - and start a process that will result in the long-term mobilisation of that half of the world's population that is under-25 in pursuit of the MDGs and the wider Agenda 21 and WSSD goals.
Coordination and Implementation
Coordination Mechanism of the PartnershipPeace Child International will provide the coordination through its Headquarters in the UK, and its Field Offices in Ghana, Kenya, India, Peru, Sierra Leone and South Africa.
Field Offices will provide head office with montly progress reports on each project underway - which will be circulated to all Field Offices and partners; they will also be posted on the web so that the public can observe progress with this initiative; Final Reports will be prepared by the young project manager, an independent evaluator and the field officer. These will be reviewed thoroughly at the Morocco Be the Change! Congress, 2003. Supporting all reports will be digital photographs of progress made; We are working with the coordinating mechanisms of aid deliverers at the country level through our relationship with UNDP and the aid officials of our partner governments. It is hoped that our field offices will become implementing agencies for other aid projects of other agencies that involve the participation of young people. |
Implementation Mechanism of the PartnershipImplementation Timeframe:
Stage One(October -December 2002): Project Director will do evaluations, train new teams at each Field Office and start research with young people to identify new projects for Year Two. He will explain the outcomes of WSSD and explore how they can best educate their young associates, and the public at large, about what has been agreed, and how youth projects can be developed to implement the decisions. MDG Ambassador trainings in the UK and in USA and Canada; Stage Two(January - June 2003): Field Office teams will select and implement at least ten new projects over this time using the central pot funds + funds raised from schools. In this way, we hope to complete 60 projects over this six month period. Stage Three(July-September 2003): All field offices will prepare two year reports on their activities with rigorous evaluation, carefully structured photofiles and reports sent back to Peace Child Headquarters where the reports will be edited and laid out for poster displays and booklets at the Morocco Be the Change! congress in August 2003. All five Field Officers will attend the Congress - and meet with other partners to evaluate how to improve this programme. |
Resources
Funding Currently AvailableAmount in US$: 210000
Source(s): Government - Private sector
Core funding($150,000) for this initiative has come from two donor governments - those of Finland and the Netherlands + the private sector, Levi Strauss Corporation - whose mission is to empower young people; The British government has provided additional funding($60,000) for the MDG Ambassador initiative which will, we hope, raise considerable amounts of additional funding from schools and service groups across the world |
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Funding SoughtRequired Amount in US$: 0
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Additional Information
Additional Relevant Information
Tasks to be undertaken:
ACTIVITY ONE: Field Office evaluation and training: The Field Offices have been operational for one year - their activities must be rigorously evaluated by all partners to determine ways of achieving more effective operation.
ACTIVITY TWO: Field Office - project recruitment, monitoring and evaluation: The on-going work of the Field Offices in Ghana, India, Kenya, Peru, Sierra Leone and South Africa is:
working with young people in disadvantaged areas to identify most urgent needs;
brainstorming project ideas with them and coming up with one or two plans;
working with them to flesh out those ideas into full project proposals;
selecting and taking photographs of those projects which they feel are most useful and which will make the most significant contribution to the whole community;
writing up the proposals and submitting them to Head Office via the Internet;
receiving and disbursing funds in agreed tranches;
working with the project teams to write up, photograph and submit monthly reports + accounts to Head Office via the Internet on progress with each project;
preparing final reports and evaluations on each project with final accounts;
ACTIVITY THREE: MDG Ambassador Programme: The first MDG Ambassador Training will take place in early October at the Peace Child Headquarters in the UK. 20 young people will spend a 4-day week-end learning how to make a presentation to a school assembly, service group or any other group - how to deal with difficult questions etc. The young ambassadors will be trained to communicate their enthusiasm for the MDGs and the outcomes of the WSSD. Only at the end of the presentation will they talk about Be the Change! projects - and try to get the school audiences to agree to raise funds for one of them. Because the whole programme is internet-based, UK school-children are able to get into a relationship with their peers in the world's most disadvantaged countries is a key element of the project. Not only will they learn what their lives are like - but also how sustainable development and the WSSD goals can transform their lives. Other trainings will take place in the USA, Canada and across Europe. In this way, funds will be raised to pay for projects.
ACTIVITY FOUR: Central pot funding: Governments and corporations provide challenge funding to enable funds raised by young people to be matched, dollar for dollar.
ACTIVITY FIVE: Enhance Head office administration: To keep overheads low and empower young people to have ownership of the Be the change! programme, all headquarters staff, apart from the director, are young volunteers. A priority for year two is to improve all the head office systems so that they work smoothly and the desk officers are all working harmoniously with the field officers. More effort will be put into training and regular monitoring of desk officers' work. The youth project directors will be ultimately responsible for all the work of the desk officers and they will report daily to the project director on progress with each field office.
The timing of the Morocco Be the Change! congress in August 2003 requires that all the systems and procedures for project management at head office are working flawlessly. With our new training manuals and Field Officer handbooks, we are confident that this can be achieved.
ACTIVITY ONE: Field Office evaluation and training: The Field Offices have been operational for one year - their activities must be rigorously evaluated by all partners to determine ways of achieving more effective operation.
ACTIVITY TWO: Field Office - project recruitment, monitoring and evaluation: The on-going work of the Field Offices in Ghana, India, Kenya, Peru, Sierra Leone and South Africa is:
working with young people in disadvantaged areas to identify most urgent needs;
brainstorming project ideas with them and coming up with one or two plans;
working with them to flesh out those ideas into full project proposals;
selecting and taking photographs of those projects which they feel are most useful and which will make the most significant contribution to the whole community;
writing up the proposals and submitting them to Head Office via the Internet;
receiving and disbursing funds in agreed tranches;
working with the project teams to write up, photograph and submit monthly reports + accounts to Head Office via the Internet on progress with each project;
preparing final reports and evaluations on each project with final accounts;
ACTIVITY THREE: MDG Ambassador Programme: The first MDG Ambassador Training will take place in early October at the Peace Child Headquarters in the UK. 20 young people will spend a 4-day week-end learning how to make a presentation to a school assembly, service group or any other group - how to deal with difficult questions etc. The young ambassadors will be trained to communicate their enthusiasm for the MDGs and the outcomes of the WSSD. Only at the end of the presentation will they talk about Be the Change! projects - and try to get the school audiences to agree to raise funds for one of them. Because the whole programme is internet-based, UK school-children are able to get into a relationship with their peers in the world's most disadvantaged countries is a key element of the project. Not only will they learn what their lives are like - but also how sustainable development and the WSSD goals can transform their lives. Other trainings will take place in the USA, Canada and across Europe. In this way, funds will be raised to pay for projects.
ACTIVITY FOUR: Central pot funding: Governments and corporations provide challenge funding to enable funds raised by young people to be matched, dollar for dollar.
ACTIVITY FIVE: Enhance Head office administration: To keep overheads low and empower young people to have ownership of the Be the change! programme, all headquarters staff, apart from the director, are young volunteers. A priority for year two is to improve all the head office systems so that they work smoothly and the desk officers are all working harmoniously with the field officers. More effort will be put into training and regular monitoring of desk officers' work. The youth project directors will be ultimately responsible for all the work of the desk officers and they will report daily to the project director on progress with each field office.
The timing of the Morocco Be the Change! congress in August 2003 requires that all the systems and procedures for project management at head office are working flawlessly. With our new training manuals and Field Officer handbooks, we are confident that this can be achieved.