Swechha - We for change

The Climate Change Champions Programme is the first of its kind initiative to encourage the Youth in Pakistan and India to take up and execute projects on and around Climate Change.

Context

Most of us know that Plastic is choking our rivers, but do not take that small step in reducing use of such plastics; we applaud efforts taken by others to cycle their way to work and back, but would much rather just drive our cars around. We need to wake up and take full responsibility of the Air, Water, Land and Habitat that keeps us all alive, we need to Act and Participate towards a stable Environment.

The 3C Programme recognizes the limitless agency and potential that University students have in making positive changes on the critical issue of Climate Change. The Programme enables the Youth to take action, as well as target other youth in their cities to redeem some of the harm we have all caused to the environment, thereby undoing some of the immanent harm that it will causes.

Objectives

To consolidate the energies of the Youth of India and Pakistan towards creating large-scale awareness and advocacy on Climate Change through visible Actions, whilst promoting Cultural Exchange and Peace Dialogues alongside Environmental Learning.

• To create widespread awareness on the critical issue of Climate Change in Pakistan and India.

• To engage the Youth of both the nations to spread advocacy on Climate Change and its consequences.

• To elicit relevant Action Projects by the Youth to redeem the ill effects of Climate Change on our environment and habitat.

• To facilitate Cultural Exchange and greater interaction among the youth of these countries, thereby promoting Peace and Harmony between neighbours.

Activities

Approach and Strategy

• Youth Engagement

The 3C Programme gives a space and scope to students at the University level to Collaborate, Network and Ideate on issues of Climate Change. Delhi in India and Lahore (to be confirmed) in Pakistan will host a group students who voluntarily come together to work on any aspect of Climate Change and its consequences.

• Awareness on Climate Change

The spine of the entire programme is the urgent need to spread knowledge of Climate Change, and how our actions are responsible for the phenomenon. The Youth groups that are formed in both the cities will work towards spreading mass consciousness about the effects of Climate Change, in its various manifestations. The outreach and scope of the Programme thus spreads much beyond the cities of operation.

• Advocacy and Action
Creation of relevant Action Projects that address local climactic and environmental issues of the countries, created, managed and executed by the students themselves. This approach of region centric indigenous youth action will ensure the sustainability and popularity of the Programme, besides ensuring the realization of an Environmentally Stable future.

• Cultural Exchange

The Climate Change Champions, besides focusing on the issue of Climate Change, also addresses issues of Peace Building and Harmony through the Cultural Exchange that the Programme entails for the student volunteers. The programme encourages the youth of the two nations to shed the perceptual boundaries of the ‘other’ and learn of the Ecology and Sociology of the River Systems in the countries.

Programme Stages

Stage I: Conceptualizing and Strategic Planning

Stage II: Establishing Partnerships
• Identifying National Coordinating agency for Pakistan
• Finalization of Core Themes for Climate Change Action Projects in Pakistan and India

Stage III: Launch of Registration Drive
• Raising University volunteers in Delhi and Lahore
• Induction of volunteers into 3C Programme in Delhi and Lahore

Stage IV: Launch of Projects, Campaigns and Events in Delhi and Lahore (to be confirmed)

Stage V: Selection Process
• Selection of 20 Climate Change Champions for Inter-Nation River Yatra

Stage VI: River Learning
• Indus Yatra in Pakistan
• Yamuna Yatra in India

Stage VII: Evaluation and Documentation
• Programme Evaluation
• Report writing and Project Closure

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FUND Climate Change Champions. Contact us at vimlendu@gmail.com, 09811812788. REGISTER as a Climate Change Champion as part of your University. REGISTER your ongoing University-based Climate Change Project in the CCC Program.

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