Building a Climate Smart Future
CCC has successfully secured funding from The Baring Foundation to implement a unique and timely project: Building a Climate Smart Future. This project aims to make children and youth organisations working in England ‘climate smart' - enabling them to effectively manage the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. Two CCC partners, IDS and NCB will lead this project.
This project is one of four funded by the Barings Foundation under their "Climate Change and the Third Sector" grant scheme. Other projects will look at climate change and refugee organisations and community organisations.
Several UK-based children and youth organizations from across the spectrum of service provider, policy and umbrella organisations, and child protection agencies will participate in the Building a Climate Smart Future project.
The project is due to start in January 2009 and will run for 18 months. Through a series of workshops, CCC will assist the participating organisations to identify the organisational change and learning challenges that climate change brings to that organisation and identify strategies for addressing them. CCC will develop tailored action plans for each organisation that maps out the tools and processes needed for an organisational response to climate change.
By the end of the 18 month process, CCC will have gathered some valuable lessons developed a number of products based on this learning:
A background briefing on why climate change matters to children and youth organisations in the UK
A ‘climate smart' children and youth organisations toolkit that makes recommendations for a series of processes that organisations could consider implementing in order to best respond to climate change.
A knowledge sharing event with all the participating organisations, other children's voluntary organisations, Government departments and other key stakeholders.
A policy brief outlining the child-centred policy implications arising from the workshops with a set of recommendations.
In line with CCC's mandate to work with children as protagonists and support their voice in climate change debates at all levels, every participating organisation will ensure that children and young people are involved in developing and implementing their action plans.
For more information, please contact Katy Oswald, IDS or Jo Butcher, NCB
