Zimbabwe Youth Biodiversity Workshop 2020

The Zimbabwe Youth Biodiversity Network (ZYBN) is proud to partner with the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF). AWF has been working with the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) since 2018 to build a constituency of youth advocating for biodiversity conservation on the African continent. This project provides an incredible opportunity to promote environmental sustainability by demonstrating how conservation can secure Africa’s future and give youth a forum to convey their positions regarding conservation efforts to a global audience at the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). 

AWF is drawing on the capacity of ZYBN, a youth organization working on biodiversity in Zimbabwe to implement the Zimbabwe Youth Biodiversity Workshop. This workshop seeks to bring together youths, to contribute to the ongoing preparatory process for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that is expected to be adopted at the UN COP15 in October 2020, in Kunming, China. One of expected outcomes of this workshop is a youth position and action plan.

Applicants/ Nominees should:

• Be between 18 and 35 years of age and an active voice in their community on issues related to biodiversity.
• Be willing to actively share experience and knowledge gained within their communities and;
• Commit to share knowledge and implement outcomes gained from the workshop.

Support: support for travel and limited basic accommodation will be provided. Out of town participants will be expected to arrive on the 24th and leave on the 28th.

Organizations/ Institutions working on biodiversity issues can nominate a youth representative. Please give your nominee a nomination letter on a letterhead, to attach along with their application.

Follow this link to apply bit.ly/ZYBN2020Workshop

Deadline: 3 March 2020

Only successful candidates will be notified.