Young African
Landscape Leadership Program
With a median age of just 19.7 years, Africa’s diverse population is by far the youngest of any other continent in the world. These unique demographics offer a significant advantage in the drive to revive ecosystems and safeguard livelihoods. Africa’s youth have immense potential to forge a new development model and vision for the continent as they are already champions for landscape action and community-based solutions.
The GLF, in partnership with the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, is launching the first ever Young African Landscape Leadership Program (YALLP), an eight-month annual program filled with networking meetings, regional dialogues, workshops and much more.
The deadline to apply has passed the program is now in session
The 2022 Young African Landscape Leadership Program was designed in collaboration with the Youth in Landscapes Initiative and the 2022 GLF Youth Africa Project Team to connect 100 promising young innovators, practitioners, scientists and activists across Africa, build their skills, spark conversations for action and integrate young leaders from Africa into all GLF events of the year.
From a regional dialogue on human rights and nature conservation to a 4-week Landscape Leadership Digital Workshop, a network of young landscape leaders was created. Let’s celebrate the participants’ achievements together.
The program was very informative. Coming from a background in agriculture and aquaculture I got a better insight about landscape, challenges, landscape leadership, approaches and other opportunities etc. It was great. thank you. I have learned a lot.
The program was an insightful one it's really relevant to my studies, especially listening to speakers shared their practical experience on how they were able to get stakeholders involved in their project.
OPEN LETTER STREAMED AT GLF CLIMATE 2022
An open letter presented at the 2022 GLF Climate Hybrid Conference by Nadia Ntaconayigize and Kyra Lunderstedt, participants in the 2022 “Young African Landscape Leadership Program,” calls for youth participation and inclusion in decision-making and negotiation processes.
YIL DELEGATION AT UNFCCC COP 27
This session features Inusa Ibrahim, Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye, and Elivis Omoit, our delegates at COP 27, who shared their experiences and lessons learned during their participation at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in an interactive interview with the 2022 Young African Landscape Leadership Program participants.
DIGITAL REGIONAL DIALOGUE
The digital regional dialogue ‘A human rights approach to conservation and restoration across Africa’, was held as collaboration among the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, Youth4Nature Afrika, the African chapters of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, and the Youth Initiative for Land in Africa. Listen to the main messages by Winnie Sengwer, Advocacy Officer at the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Coalition Kenya.
LANDSCAPE LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP
A 4-week long workshop in collaboration with experts from different fields provided the participants with the tools to build activities and projects that can bring a transformative change towards justice for people and resilience for landscapes across Africa.
What is Landscape Leadership? A presentation from Cora, and an interview with Oluwaseun Adekugbe and Joshua Aiita
Facilitating Change: In Interview with Makandi Eva and Daniel Kwame Debra
Identifying Solutions: Interview with Amos Amanubo and Adrian Leitoro
Amplifying your message - reaching beyond: Interview with Yusuph Abdulazzez and Susan Onyango
To meet the GLF Youth Africa Project team shaping the program.
The Program
Meetings, dialogues and workshop
Participants will also:
Volunteer
Meetings, dialogues and workshop
Participants will also:
Volunteer
Meetings, dialogues and workshop
The Young African Landscape Leadership Program is designed to connect promising young innovators, practitioners, scientists and activists from across Africa. It will support capacity development, spark conversations for action and integrate young African leaders into GLF events throughout the year.
The program will include youth-led regional dialogues, networking meetings, a monthly email with regional job opportunities, participation in the GLF Africa 2022 digital conference, a Landscape Leadership Workshop, and many other opportunities.
Calendar
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Our journey has finally begun! During this first meeting, participants had the chance to learn more about the program, provided suggestions on topics, and got to know each other through facilitated networking activities. We also provided a short introduction to the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), Youth in Landscapes (YIL), and our main partners.
During May’s meeting, we will create a space for selected participants to share more about their work. This will be combined with a networking meeting.
In August, we will have our first regional dialogue, a two-hour session to discuss an important topic of utilizing a human-rights approach in conservation and restoration across Africa.
The Landscape Leadership Workshop will provide students and young professionals with the tools to build activities and projects that can bring transformative change towards sustainability across landscapes in Africa.
As the year closes, we will meet one last time in December to wrap up the program and share ideas and suggestions for next year.
Participants will also:
- Receive regular emails with regional job vacancies.
- Receive regular updates and reminders about Africa-based GLF activities (e.g. interviews with experts, Landscape News articles, Landscape TV episodes).
- Receive a free voucher to the Landscape Leadership massive open online course after successfully joining the Landscape Leadership Workshop
Volunteer
We’re looking for volunteers for the GLF Africa digital conference in September.
Learn more about the event and submit your application here. Make sure to select GLF Africa in the options!