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Concept Note: Youth Engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa

This document provides information on two online forums being held to discuss youth engagement in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. The forums aim to identify challenges and opportunities for youth participation in DRR policy development on the continent. Participants will include African youth groups, DRR experts, and stakeholders. The agendas include panels on good practices and lessons learned. The expected outcomes are to inform DRR strategy and policy, document best practices, and provide input to UNESCO's guidelines on meaningful youth engagement in DRR in Africa. The first English forum will be held on July 22nd via Zoom.

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Concept Note: Youth Engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa

This document provides information on two online forums being held to discuss youth engagement in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. The forums aim to identify challenges and opportunities for youth participation in DRR policy development on the continent. Participants will include African youth groups, DRR experts, and stakeholders. The agendas include panels on good practices and lessons learned. The expected outcomes are to inform DRR strategy and policy, document best practices, and provide input to UNESCO's guidelines on meaningful youth engagement in DRR in Africa. The first English forum will be held on July 22nd via Zoom.

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Concept Note

Youth Engagement in Disaster


Risk Reduction in Africa
Forum 1
Thursday, 22 JULY 2021,
12:00 pm GMT,
ONLINE

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I. Background

The provisions of the Africa Programme of Action (PoA) adopted by the African Union Heads
of State and Government for the implementation of the Sendai Framework recognize the need
for the establishment of youth platforms for meaningful youth engagement in disaster risk
reduction (DRR) policy development, implementation, follow up and review.

At present, it is unclear to what extent these youth platforms have been established in African
Member States and their participation in DRR policy development processes. To this end, the
UNESCO Regional office for Eastern Africa in collaboration with the Africa Youth Advisory
Board on Disaster Risk Reduction (AYAB DRR) aims to address knowledge gaps and provide
guidelines for meaningful youth engagement in DRR policy development processes.

In this regard, two fora (French and English) are planned to collect relevant information on
challenges and opportunities and how the youth considerations could be mainstreamed into DRR
policy development processes.

The first forum (English) is scheduled for 22 July, 2021 at 03:00 pm (Nairobi time) and the
second on 23 July 2021 (French) at 01:00 pm GMT (Nairobi time) via Zoom.
II. Objective

The overall objective of the forum is to enable the sharing of good practices and lessons learnt,
identify gaps with a view to enhancing coordination, increasing awareness, mobilizing
commitments to disaster risk reduction and making recommendations to further develop the
guidelines for meaningful youth engagement in DRR policy development processes in Africa.

III. Expected Outcomes

The fora are expected to contribute to:

- Informing strategy and policy decisions on youth engagement in DRR through improved
understanding of the gaps, challenges and opportunities for youth participating in DRR in
Africa;
- Documenting best practices on youth engagements in DRR for dissemination and
possible scale up;
- Getting the inputs and experiences of youths and relevant stakeholders into UNESCO’s
guidelines on meaningful youth engagement in DRR;
- Documenting experiential knowledge and best practices in advancing DRR in the context
of the Sendai Framework.

III. Participants

Expected participants include African youth groups/networks involved in DRR, DRR experts,
professionals, academics, key stakeholders, AYAB DRR, UNESCO, AUC, AfSTAG, League of
Arab States, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders in DRR.
IV. Agenda

TIMEFRAME ACTION ITEMS ORGANIZATION &


(GMT) REPRESENTATIVE

12:00-12:30 Opening ceremony & Moderator: UNESCO/AYAB DRR


Opening remarks 1. Prof. Hubert Gijzen, Regional Director,
UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern
Africa
2. Representative of the African Union
Commission

12:30-12:35 Introduction of panelists Moderator: AYAB DRR

12:35-13:05 First part of the discussion panel 1. Ms.Dibuseng Chabana (SAYCDRR)


2. Ambassador Shahira Hassan Ahmed
WAHBI (LAS)
3. Dr. Thabo Ndlovu (AfStag)
13:05-13:20 Open floor Moderator: AYAB DRR

13:20-13:45 Second part of the discussion 5.Mr. Walekhwa Abel Wilson (AYAB
panel DRR)
6.Ms. Grace Commey (Global Network of
Civil Society Organizations For DRR)
7. Guest: Dr. Zaheer Allam (NYEC)
13:45-14:00 Open floor Moderator: AYAB DRR

14:00-14:10 Closing remarks UNESCO – Jaya/Samuel


AYAB representative
V. Moderation and rapporteur

Mr. Adama Bamba, Consultant and representative of AYAB


Ms. Soumaya Zaddem, Consultant and representative of AYAB
Ms. Maryanne Muriuki,Consultant and representative of AYAB
Ms. Xinhong Li, Sponsored Trainee, UNESCO, Nairobi

VI. Meeting Link


Join Zoom Meeting:
REGISTRATION LINK:
➢ DAY 1, English session, (22 July 2021):https://tinyurl.com/6aaydrpz
➢ DAY 2, French session, (23 July 2021):https://tinyurl.com/wb8dm

If you have any question you can contact:


[email protected](Northern African Region)
[email protected](Western and Central African Region)
[email protected](Eastern and Southern African Region)

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