Student Volunteer Training

In Uganda, JEEP & UCSD conducted a customised social media training for student volunteers (youth and coalition members) where they showcased sustainable energy and climate solutions and their potentials to address climate change problems and increasing energy scarcity through local action. The training workshop aimed to support the objectives of the EASE-CA project within the context of 2021 as a Covid19 post recovery year ahead of the 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, on 17-30 May 2021; and the UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow (UK) due to take place on 1 – 12 November 2021 among other global efforts to reverse loss of biodiversity and raise ambition on climate action. Specifically, the training was to introduce the Catalogue of Local Sustainable Solutions in East Africa to inspire participants to do their part to address the energy crisis, unsustainable practices and the climate emergency at their respective levels.

JEEP and UCSD believe that the Catalogue will be a key contribution to scale-up community actions as part of the needed global efforts (above). In addition, the ‘voice’ of communities, youths, activists students and other frontline actors, is key to contribute to these global efforts. In this regard, this training aimed at exploring social media platforms that can heighten community voice through use of social media for information sharing (Facebook), contributing to discussions in local, national and global sustainable development processes (twitter and Facebook) to inform and influence decisions, as well as social networking (for example through sharing action-oriented pictures and short videos to influence friends and likeminded people in use of local sustainable solutions.