{"id":6049,"date":"2024-02-08T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=6049"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:31:54","slug":"youth-champions-for-climate-resilience-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/projects\/youth-champions-for-climate-resilience-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Champions for Climate Resilience in West Africa (YCC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-2-xl-font-size\">The Youth Champions for Climate Resilience in West Africa (YCC) project is funded by Fondation CHANEL and implemented by Pathfinder in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Cote d\u2019Ivoire. The project aims to catalyze West Africa youth as leaders and innovators at the intersection of climate and reproductive health by working with youth champions to reach over 100,000 young people over three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change poses a range of risks to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including increased HIV\/AIDS and STI risks, maternal and child health challenges, gender-based violence, and limited access to reproductive health resources. Youth, are particularly vulnerable, especially young women and girls, and are often underrepresented in conversations around creating climate solutions and increasing access to resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The YCC project will work with Youth Champions in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Cote d\u2019Ivoire to strengthen their advocacy and leadership skills to lead community-based dialogues, foster common understanding of climate and health risks affecting their communities, and mobilize community resources to support climate change resilience activities and reproductive health care delivery. The project takes a youth-led and community-led approach, wherein Youth Champions and their communities collectively determine the most relevant approaches for addressing these risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Project Activities<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignfull has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Year 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Activity 1: <\/strong>Integrate climate change risks into existing Youth Champions\u2019 work through Amplify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activity 2: <\/strong>Develop an innovative youth-focused curriculum for climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activity 3: <\/strong>Pilot the innovative youth-focused curriculum for climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Year 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Activity 4: <\/strong>Youth Champions lead peer cohorts for climate and reproductive health learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activity 5: <\/strong>Youth-led Peer Cohorts Implement Local Climate Solutions <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activity 6: <\/strong>Amplification of Youth Climate Solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Year 3<\/strong>: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Activity 7: <\/strong>Repeat Activities 4-6 with a new peer cohort, adjusting to apply best practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8180,"template":"","class_list":["post-6049","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/6049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathfinder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}