FAO Event at the Economic and Social Council Youth Forum

“A Climathon for students to tackle climate change challenges in secondary cities: feedback of 3 experiences in Burkina-Faso, Niger and Senegal”

This Climathon delivers progress on Sustainable Devloment Goal 11 “sustainable cities and communities” by enhancing youth initiatives on the ground to make cities more resilient to climate change and crises such as the COVID-19 crisis. Youth worked in team and relied on a wide range of stakeholders and institutions such as university, municipality, associations, and FAO in order to build strong communities.

By gathering experts and students, this side event aims to present and discuss ground activities promoting the implication of students in climate debates and concrete actions at city level:

• Highlighting how agronomy students discovered their urban realities through practical exercises,
• Sharing the reason why the Climathon emerged as good tool for involving youth with a municipality,
• Sharing lessons learnt from this experience,
• Sharing the innovation projects that emerged during the Climathon; and
• Opening discussion on youth involvement from developing countries, getting feedbacks and ideas of the audience for next steps of solutions building.

Organised by:

Programme and speakers

Moderation

• Eva Radek, Events and Coalitions Coordinator, Climate Chance

• Chloé Quinonero, Events and Coalitions Officer, Climate Chance

Why a Climathon and what is the FAO Green Cities Initiative? – 19:00 – 19:15

• Hervé Levite, Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Expert, Green Cities Initiative, FAO
• Pauline Regnier, Intern, FAO

Feedback from youth and main stakeholders on the activities done; What has been done to prepare the Climathon? – 19:00 – 19:45

• Amélie Parenteau, Student at Laval University, Québec Canada
• Moussa Yarbanga, Student at ENAFA, Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina-Faso
• Aïssatou Ba, Student at USSEIN, Kaffrine Senegal
• Abdoulaye Guire,Professor at ENAFA, Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina-Faso

How to boost youth entrepreneurship in Africa? – 19:15 -20:05

• Diegane Diouf, Professor at USSEIN, Kaffrine Senegal
• Rekia Foudel, Managing Director of Barka Fund

Questions & Answers – 20:05 – 20:30

Practical information:

📆 Tuesday 25 April

⏰ 07:00 pm (CEST)