RAN

RAN - ReAct Now: Engaging youth to act for social and climate justice

The impacts of climate crisis are striking harder on youth all over the world. The poorest people, with fewer chances of educational, social and economic opportunities, are also the ones more affected by these impacts and less empowered to raise their voice.
The recent conflict in the Middle East has exacerbated the disadvantages of youth in this area and once again stressed that access to the natural resources - land, water, agriculture and farming - is relevant for the local conflicts but are also key global issues.
While young people are one of the groups most affected by these global challenges, the potential of their role and the impact of their actions are currently limited for various reasons.
RAN project aims at increasing this potential, empowering youth associations in Italy, France, Germany – in Europe – and Israel, Jordan, Palestine – in MENA region, to engage young people to ReAct for climate and social justice. The expected results are: to increase the awareness among young people and youth associations about the links between climate justice and human rights; to improve the competences of youth associations in non-formal education and in youth engagement strategies; to improve the mutual understanding among youth workers from different Countries; to increase the awareness among European youth about the situation of youth in MENA countries
24 youth leaders from the 6 involved Countries will be trained – through a training for trainers and a study visit - to engage other 120 youth activists at local level, through workshops and volunteering activities for the local communities. A toolkit with non-formal education methodologies and modules of training workshop will be created. A short documentary will be produced, analysing the thoughts and the emotions of youth activists on social and climate injustice.
Dissemination events at local level and a final international event will spread the achieved results and the outputs among 70 youth associations.

The partners:

1. LEGAMBIENTE NAZIONALE APS RETE ASSOCIATIVA ETS, Italy - Coordinator

6. THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE, France