I could not endorse this more - meaningful engagement of young people, who know their realities better than anyone else. There is profound influence of youth voices in shaping impactful narratives for global initiatives.
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Q2. Opportunity to expand partnerships particularly with limited resources allocated to DV. An example of partnerships is the creation of the first global DV directory by NO MORE in collaboration with the World Bank Group and the UN. For more information, www.nomore.org.
Keeva - in response to your not about childrenās mental health and climate anxiety, we at Ashoka see that taking action - climate agency - can inoculate you from narratives of climate doom. Will share with you the playbook we are developing with Ashoka Fellows from around the world when we launch it later this year
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@ Rudo_Makoni Love this! Check out Naāamalās work (www.naamal.org)
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A2. Also see great opportunities and value in the role networks can play; partners, collaborators, businesses etc. Brilliant at individual a well as group levels, from confidence to driving policy change. Can be in person and digital too.
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Sounds really interesting Alison. Would love to hear more. 
Very interesting to hear. We are following the adaptations to new EU regulations closely and working with our clients to understand how to best support their transition so they arenāt left out. Is the government in Uganda rolling out specific tools or providing technical extension support leveraging existing tools? Have you come across this in any other countries so far?
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Will be watching the GFF Replenishment and the Gavi Replenishment throughout the year for signals on support for keeping focus on health in face of precarious challenges. Speaking about health as the human face of climate change is a way to bring the narrative to human, personal scale.
This second point is so true Irving. The challenges are huge but the level of understanding is also increasing every year and we have so much knowledge. As Peg said above, we know so many things that work. finding ways to scale is key.
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I have addressed this partly in my recent book The ART of Hope where I suggest that the restoration of trust is the foundation of abundance which includes within businesses / organizations. https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Hope-Healing-Wounded-City-ebook/dp/B09ZSRR7J2 Also, Stephen Coveyās book The Speed of Trust is insightful.
Perhaps of interest to study also will be a collaborative effort underway with GAIN, Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI) recently having presented the beginnings of a thought process for āESG and nutritionā by way of the India Index 2023 launched recently. This Index assesses the performance of 20 of the largest Indian food & beverage manufacturers which together comprise an estimated 36% of total sales of packaged foods & beverages in the country. The India Index is here - India Index 2023 ā Access to Nutrition
Hi Justin! I am happy to connect with you on climate! Keeva Duffey | LinkedIn
A2:
Despite the challenges as outlined so eloquently by many in the group, I believe we are at a potential turning point for development. There is growing understanding and recognition of the interconnectedness of the challenges, the actors and the solutions - take the gender-health-climate nexus for example - and therefore the need for any impact to be driven by collective action and responsibility. In SHFās scope of work, this shift is particularly welcome because sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health underpin health, education, gender, economic growth, sustainability and also because any private sector-driven solutions, enterprises or financing to build these markets must be supported through the creation of the relevant enabling environment with the public sector. We see this as an exciting opportunity to radically change how sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health have been viewed and funded so far and work with the public and private worlds to shape them into investment-viable sectors thereby helping drive supply, financing, and access along the entire value chain, delivering direct and indirect returns on peopleāsā lives, economic growth, social and climate resilience.
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A2: There is an opportunity for advancing and mainstreaming sustainability in EU companies and corporations (along with their global supply chains), through a set of new EU regulations and directives (namely: EUDR - Regulation on Deforestation-free Products, CSRD - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive). At Inclusive Business Partners (https://inclusivebusiness.se/) we are highly interested in making sure that we use this opportunity for mainstreaming sustianability and also making sure that lower-income people that participate in global supply chains (going to the EU) are benefited (and not affected) by these new directives and regulations. We will be specially working with the coffee supply chains in Colombia and (hopefully) also with the natural rubber supply chains in Thailand.
A2: Another great opportunity for us at Poverty Stoplight is leveraging AI to further analyse the data our tool has generated about the challenges families face, to support them in finding solutions in a much faster way.
We are doing a lot of work in HRDD across the board, with global downstream companies in the food and ag supply chainā¦ Gender is a core part across our work, so would be great to connect, @janepillinger
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On A2: Ai was given prominence at COP28 - Challenge Launched at COP28 to Harness Artificial Intelligence for Climate Action in Developing Countries | UNFCCC - very much from the perspective of driving positive change.
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Hi Rob - we are following this closely as well - happy to exchange ānotesā and ideas!
A2: continued
Another opportunity for us is to enhance partnerships with businesses and organizations across sectors tackling climate change. to ensure all children and youth fulfill their rights, specifically their right to a clean and healthy environment (General Comment No 26). Such partnerships can lead to an increase in climate-smart technology that can reach the most vulnerable communities, scaling up these solutions to impact.
ChildFund seeks Partners that can support multi-benefit solutions that can contribute to both mitigation and adaptation outcomes, Biodiversity and eco-system protection sustainable economic development, and energy solutions for vulnerable communities.
Lastly, we will continue to lift the opportunities in the potential of our youth and children to lead transformative climate action. We need a new narrative about children and youth and their potential contributions toward our collective well-being and security. We need their ideas, their visions and expressions of what the world could be, and we need their energy. Sometimes we call young people āthe future,ā and we feel good about offering them āa seat at the table.ā But the 15- to 24-year-olds that account for one-quarter of the global population are here, now. And this generation will challenge the status quo more than any other.
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It would be great to discuss this with you. Iāve drawn up a prevention of GBVH HRDD tool which we tested out with workers in Indonesia recently. Iām really interested to hear how companies are approaching this. Maybe Business Fights Poverty could convene a meeting/webin on this issue!
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