 Great. So thanks everyone. I'm going to put my video on so you can put a face to the name. My name is Joshua and I'll be introducing the session today and very nice to have all of you here. I'm going to give myself a very green background for the purpose of CVA and really happy to have everyone here. Please, as I said before, take advantage of the chat box and introduce yourself where you are, which country you're dialing in from. So we can get a good understanding of the audience in the room. So really great to have everyone. And I will be just giving an overview of what we'll be doing here today as well as how the flow of the day will go and going to later on pass it over to my colleagues. So this session is focusing on pathways to youth inclusion in local governance. As you would know, majority of young people today would live with the consequences of climate change. At the same time, we ask ourselves how can young people be part of the engagement in terms of decision making when it comes to climate action, particularly adaptation because we need to adapt now and adaptation cannot wait. And for that reason, at CBA 14 we already had some conversations around finance in adaptation, we have conversations around what young people can do to advance adaptation. And today we really want to focus on how can we really get access to decision making and make sure that we are properly included in decision making. From the perspective of the co-host of the events today's session, Green Africa Youth Organization and YONGO, the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC and the youth adaptation network of the Global Sentinel Adaptation. We believe that true inclusion means that young people are not tokenized, their voices are rightfully included, at the same time making sure that their inclusion is supported significantly, being at capacity, understanding knowledge or whatever. But to do that, we want to take advantage of this event to really hear some of the good practices as preferences, lessons, and also make sure that we are promoting cooperative action between different sectors and entities when it comes to local governance level. Because while adaptation decisions are taking at the international level in terms of policies and frameworks, we know that adaptation action itself happens locally. And today, together with you and our panelists, we will be working together to define what this could look like. So few housekeeping for us. So if you are not talking us on every virtual meeting now over the past two years when COVID visited us, you know that it's very great if everyone stays muted until you are talking. That is very, very helpful for us. Additionally, please, when you have a question that comes to your mind, please feel free to drop the question right in the chat box and we will take care of it and make sure that the speakers can address it in due time. So instead of holding your questions back for us to open a Q&A, which might sometimes happen that people forget, just drop your questions, your comments, all in the chat box. And once speakers are done talking, we will provide the opportunity for you to get answers to your questions. So that is how it's going to go be in some few minutes or few seconds. I'm going to open an interactive session where we also hear some feedback from you. I will mention that we want the session to be as interactive as possible, which means you want to hear from you. So please take advantage when the opportunity comes up that you share your thoughts with us. Later on there will be a breakout room and the technical side of it for if you've not engaged in a breakout room before is that I'm going to assign you to the rooms and afterwards the room will close down and you all come back to this main session with all of us. Please don't leave the meeting or the session when you are done with your breakout rooms. The session will not be over yet. You come back to the main room and we'll continue again. So with that, thanks. And I mean, as it was for you, please, if you can put your video on, please feel free to do that. If you turn it off and it's better for you, please do that. I'm going to keep it as comfortable and as feasible knowing the Internet connection and challenges with everyone. So let's bear with each other and I hope you're going to have a very great event together today. So I'm going to open our interactive session and for that I would need all of you for those who have not used Mentimeter before. I'm going to briefly explain it but for now I'm just going to drop the codes in the chat so that everyone has this. Great. So this is the code and I'm going to share my screen in a bit so you all have access to the Mentimeter so that you know how we will be doing it. Great. Okay, so here also you get a direct link which you can use to vote and for now I will share my screen. So the first question is if you can see my screen. The first question is if you can give one word that summarizes your experience working with local government. So please you go to menti.com type in the code 87158998 and put your answer and we're going to see it on the screen. So if you've had a chance working with local government before which means municipalities or districts, it could even be really like very small community and working with the representative there, what is your experience working with them and we can already see some of the responses coming through. So knowledgeable, which is really great. Challenging, frustrating. So challenging seems to be the big word. And tedious. And lengthy. Okay. A lot of conversations before you get to your point, I guess my interpretation of lengthy. Okay, please keep the answers coming. Challenging seems to be the main word is very big bureaucracy. Great. Oh, not existing so in some cases is not even practical to work with local government interesting. All right, there are some positive ones. I see connected the knowledgeable capacity building learning from them. I also see quite some difficult ones including time consuming. And tedious. Great. I'm just going to keep this going. So please keep coming in with your answers. Yeah, so if you're wondering how to join and just go to mental.com and put the code 8715898 or use the link in the chat to make your input. One way that summarizes your experience working with local government. I don't see any new responses coming in. So I will move to the next question. And really thanks for your responses to this because we're going to use this to guide some of the conversation in the breakout rooms as well in terms of how challenging frustrating tedious time consuming it is working together with local government and how to understand that. Okay, so the next question is this is an open ended question and what we're trying to understand is if you can describe a little bit of your inclusion in adaptation at the local governance level. And it seems the question is not showing on the screen. I'm just going to stop sharing and Richard again just to make sure you can see the question. So if you have if you already went to mentee and you have the code and you can already answer to the next question. And that question will be what have been your experience. Great. So I already see some answers coming through. I'm going to share my screen. So we can all see what the experiences have been. So participatory planning that is very positive. Okay, so someone has experience of as a consultant with local government, but the person have not been consulted which is very interesting. So the possibility of bringing you on board to work with them but not really seeking what your ideas and your inputs when it comes to adaptation at the local level. It would be great to get more answers coming in. So here we have working with international NGO, not directly but with local government. That is also great to see that some people here have already worked with local government when it comes to youth and inclusion in adaptation planning locally. So great. So we have someone even working on the youth strategy in Ghana. Then we have issues like changing minds in terms of adaptation including inclusion in different fields. So that is a very thorough one, which we can also look at later on. Then I really like this because this is also part of my personal experience that local government tend to prioritize their own agenda rather than participatory adaptation process, which is something that as we talk about increasing the space for youth inclusion to know how do we change this narrative of local government prioritizing themselves. Then gender and local adaptation also being part of the inclusion process. Great. So really rich inputs and thanks everyone. And here also last one I would read this before we move on. Minimum programming on leadership development for chief executives. This is also very practical as I know some couple of experiences in Southern Africa where the leadership of the local government office do not always have the full understanding of climate and environmental issues which makes it very difficult to engage and work with them. Thanks a lot. I'm going to stop sharing my screen now. And we would get into sort of getting our speakers to start sharing with us the experiences. So thanks a lot for everyone who participated in this. At the end of the day, we're going to have another mentee questions which we will look at after we sort of going into breakout rooms and discuss. So I'll stop sharing my screen now. And thanks everyone again. And for now, I will introduce our moderator who will take the event forward in the person of Emily vernell. And Emily is currently in the UK, and is part of the youth adaptation network, and also part of the UNFPA joint working group, looking at an exhaust of climate adaptation and the work around gender reproductive health. And she has been vibrant in other many other spaces like the United Nations, a major group of children and youth. So Emily, I'll pass it over to you to take us forward with today's event and thank you everyone. Thank you very much, Josh for the introduction and for the introduction to the session. And it's my pleasure to support this vitally important workshop today at CBA 15 on youth inclusion pathways and local governance and I'm pleased to be a moderator for this session. So I just like to say welcome again to everyone who's joined today. And from the mentee, we can see it's great that we've brought together people with a wide ranging experiences of working with local governments with different successes, barriers, and access points for young people. And I look forward to the rich inputs and dialogues we have in this session and the on suing breakout sessions in a bit. So it's clear that the world has seen powerful youth led climate and environmental action campaigns spring up all over the world in the last few years, from the grassroots and hyper local to the cross order and cross cultural international movements. But they're all united by the fact that they're shared commonalities that they're often driven and sustained by the voices and energy of young people, the generation that would be most affected by the action or indeed the inaction of decision makers, stakeholders and the primary emitters. Young people, however, face many barriers to meaningful youth inclusion in climate governance spaces. Today's session we're focused on youth inclusion tracks in local governance and discuss the entry points for youth, the opportunities and barriers for engagement and decision making planning and the implementation of community based and local action on climate change. As Josh mentioned today's session is about hearing and raising the profile of everyone's voices, youth led action and the best practices that we can all aspire towards. So before I introduce our panelists and speakers for today's session. I would like to briefly introduce the workshops guiding questions which will lead and direct our conversations today, both between the speakers and when we go into breakout rooms and we can dive deeper into our personal stories best practices and experiences. So firstly, we're going to look at what are the key focal areas for youth inclusion and community adaptation processes at the local government level. Secondly, we're going to look at what barriers and enabling factors exist for meaningful youth inclusion, considering the various policies and institutional provisions available. Thirdly, how can young people be supported to gain greater access to decision making spaces, looking at the inclusivity of youth led opportunities. And how do we ensure effective youth inclusion in local adaptation planning and implementation. So, I'm now going to introduce our first speaker. We are joined by Aldad Akom of the Green Africa Youth Organization. Aldad is a project coordinator at Green Africa Youth Organization, which is an organization which works towards youth led gender balance advocacy and focuses largely on the environmental sustainability and community development. GAO's mission is to interact directly with local communities to reduce the vulnerability of groups that are at risk to climate impacts such as children, youth and women who have comparatively less adaptive adaptive capacity due to social and societal inequalities. So, Aldad, what are the key focal areas for youth inclusion and community adaptation processes at local government level. We'd like to hand the floor over to you to speak first. Thank you. Thank you very much and welcome everyone. Generally, as you mentioned, GAO has a lot of work doing within communities and then before you reach some of these communities, you need to work through the local authority. And then basically in working through these local authorities, we have two main approach. We work through the local authorities to help develop policy instruments that will also contribute to reducing the vulnerability of groups. And also we work through the local authority to create green jobs. And then in Ghana, for instance, we are working within the Cape Coast, Echimangabuja, Laddadukotopon in Accra, and then also in Uadubiasi. And then one of the ways that youth inclusion can be seen in some of these engagements is how our projects influence lookout bylaws on waste management in particular. And then how through our engagements we are able to, because when you look at the informal waste sector, for instance, we are predominantly young people and women. So what we do also is to work together with the local communities to formalize and then coordinate the informal waste sector. So, I hope I've answered. Yeah, hello. Hello. Thank you very much, Aldad. Perhaps you could share some experiences of the opportunities or perhaps barriers that you've noticed people have faced at GEO in terms of trying to involve with local community actors and with local governance. Okay, thank you very much. Generally, some of the experiences includes the bureaucracy within the system. Generally getting involved with the local government comes with a whole lot of barriers. So first of all, getting accepted. You realize that the local government have strategic plans with which they run the activities. And what we realize is that their plans are not flexible to accommodate youth led adaptation action. So it becomes very difficult to, to, to first get the attention. The general idea is that we want young people to be involved. But when you get on the ground, you realize that some of these plans are not flexible to accommodate youth led action. And then also when, when, when you're able to get through to their top hierarchy approval. Are you still with us? Okay, I think we may have lost Eldad for a second. Hopefully he can reconnect. In the meantime, perhaps we could ask the audience if we can start collecting any questions that we may have from you at this point that we can redirect towards Eldad when he joined. So feel free to type any questions into the chat as the speakers are doing their presentations and sharing their best practices or raise your hand if you have a question that you would like to share in person. And we will give Eldad a second to rejoin, unless I am directed to move on to the next panelist. Okay, I think we'll have to come back to Eldad if he can rejoin. So I will now introduce our next speaker. So second to share their experiences of involvement with local governance structures and youth involvement in community and local governance projects is Marie Claire Graf, who is from Youngo. Marie Claire is an ambitious climate action and sustainable development activist and a co-founder of several local, national and international initiatives and associations that all focus around empowering children and youth to catalyze positive, meaningful and impactful change. So as Youngo's focal point at the UNFCCC, she is working to empower youth to formally bring our voices to the UNFCCC and demand urgent and unprecedented ambitious climate action. And she will be able to provide a wealth of experience on youth access to decision-making processes from the local to the international. So Marie Claire, please could you join us on the floor now to share with us your thoughts and experiences on youth access and entry points to decision-making processes and how young people can be better supported to gain greater access to decision-making spaces. Thank you. Thank you so much Emily for giving me the floor and thank you so much for hosting this conference very important to really have a dedicated session for young people where we also feel welcome and also very important that we actually talk about decision-making. Because we see young people all around the globe on this tree to see young people leading on implementation, but where we do not see young people so often is in decision-making. And it's so important that young people are in decision-making because we have to ensure that the frameworks, the political decisions are made in a way that actually they're supporting our efforts. And unfortunately, especially on the international level, but also on the national and the local level. Well, we mostly see people from another generation and it's on top of all of this very, very unattractive for young people to get in. As mentioned in my introduction, I am engaged in the United Nations climate change process, but also the national level with the government on the environment kind of trying to implement this international agenda, and then also on the very local level. And wherever I work with policy, you kind of see like the same type of people very often it's like this, yeah, older guy who is there right talking and abbreviations, most young people do not understand it's very, it's very distance and not really. Kind of engaging and what I am working on as you mentioned, I work for a youth network called Young Go, it's a combination of youth engineers to try to ensure that young people have a safe space where they can express themselves, they feel comfortable to ask the questions where they are comfortable to build networks to then build also the capacity to actually go into this negotiations going to decision-making structures and raise their voices. And then we have been doing this very successfully on an international level now since I mean since 30 years young people are involved officially formally we are engaged since 10 years. But now as we have like an international agreement and we have to move to action right it's more and more coming down to the national and local level. So what we again see there that very often the structure decision-making structures are kind of very exclusive. But what we now can build on is this international network where of course young people from over 180 countries are part of that they are building also national structures of young people and building this intersection with the national policy makers because we have been already engaging with them right. And now that we are for example in the national implementation it's around the national determined contribution when it comes to the to adaptation it's about the national adaptation plans and apps. These are all international process but now we have to localize them and we have already been they have already been young people engaging with them. And now I think it's important that this young people are getting more young people around that we actually can build a network of young practitioners who have an understanding of the policy space and of the policy in the decision-making that they can support young people to get into this and I really hope that we can also advance on the national climate action plans they are now getting implemented they are now getting worked on that we can have even more youth consultation so young people are not only the ones who are executing the plans but actually in the looping in the whole policy cycle and bringing their very valuable experience from the ground from the fields from the forest or wherever they are working on an adaptation so that we can ensure that the frameworks the political frameworks are done in a way that it's actually really truly benefiting the young people and also take the funding coming along I think it's very very crucial that young people have access sufficient access to funding for implementing their projects. Thank you very much Marie Claire that was honestly some fantastic insights into your experience and also the barriers and opportunities that young people are facing all over the world through that you've seen through your networks. We're now going to open the floor to some questions for yourself, I would like to start with a question picking up on an important point that you just said about how it's been very clear in the last few years that young people are energized and they're leading in these youth led movements yet there still seems to be this barrier moving from youth led movements and youth led NGOs into meaningful intergenerational decision making positions where the youth have a voice which is both engaging and not tokenistic and I wondered if you could share any best practices or what you believe needs to be in place for youth to move from these youth led organizations to youth in local decision making positions. Yeah absolutely very very relevant question and what we can do is that we are reaching out to the governments because very often they it doesn't occur to them that actually they could reach out to us. Very often they do not think about having for example someone young in the team they do not think that having maybe a youth advisory board or giving at least one seat to a young person. So I think it really needs to start with us because we do not have the time until maybe in five years they maybe it occurs to them that maybe they could have a young person on board. So I think it really needs to come from our side that we are reaching out that we are also a credible source so of course like we have to try to understand the spaces and where we can come in and it's also like very young young people are very happy to help as a network of extensive experience. But also where you find young people who have been doing this on the ground so I think it's very important to be proactive and reaching out I know it is not easy for many young people in many countries around the world or maybe it's like a very traditional old fashioned system Yes I would really love to encourage young people to feel empowered to do so and also like ask for support from young people because this is I think the quickest way how we can ensure that we have youth voices represented. But also to work on on on like local projects but try to bring them or like for example in the adaptation project try to ensure that the project is not only done in a way like okay this is the youth project somewhere out there but if there is a national big project they have a youth voice like directly included so that you can maybe like either link your work to a bigger national project or to kind of ensure when a bigger project is implemented that we can bring in young people into this. So I think it's important that we are proactive because we have I think that we have kind of we are told like okay young people you have to wait. You are not the ones who are leading on a discussion and I think we have to get out of this sometimes a little bit reactive position into a proactive position when it comes to decision making. And also like be clear we do not know everything this is fine because also the older generation they do not know everything but really point out the value what young people can bring to the table we are like very often the ones who are very well advocated because we're just coming from university to access to the best available science. Very often we are like digitally like digital natives are like very close to digital tools, you have access to innovation we have we have a lot of access also to global network of young people for example through we should make use of them because actually like very often this is what is lacking in the older generations. And that they really pointing out the strengths and hopefully this will convince them and also please do not give up it's very hard I have been myself in this spaces for a very long time it's very easy to get frustrated and drop out, but please stay in. And there will be like after this, this value of death or whatever we want to call it a frustration, it will go up and if you understand the space if you have your network I can. I really believe it's a very, very important and valuable space to be in, but it's frustrating it's, it takes a long time it's, it's not the most attractive was when he told your friends, like you're in some decision making structure they are probably not going to be like so. Oh, my God, this is awesome. But it's truly important so please stick around, even if it's maybe not the easiest task. Sorry, I'll meet that. Thank you very much. I'm just looking at the questions we're getting in the chat. There's quite a lot of questions that are on more vulnerable communities or inclusion based on perhaps gender or ethnicity and how perhaps can we encourage you from the front lines of climate or in more marginalized communities to get involved where perhaps access to these structures or these networks isn't as readily available, and whether or not young go have any best practices they can share in terms of inclusion and diversity. Absolutely very important question like maybe I something I didn't yet say is that young people we are half of the votes population so we are not like a one homogeneous group and all the young people want the same. Many of us were fighting for against the climate crisis want to have ambitious action but even like how this ambition action looks like is very different from from the different backgrounds and country so it's very important to younger that we have a truly inclusive network. As mentioned we have young people from over 180 country but even then I mean just having people from different country doesn't make it inclusive and yes we have to get better we have to reach out in local languages to even more young people the UN is very often in English. That's why we also for example adapted our global conference of youth into local conference of use. So everyone can kind of take the concept and organize a local conference of youth in the language they desire so it can be Spanish French Italian Russian Chinese but it can also be a local language only spoken by, let's say an indigenous tribe, and they can then submit their outcome document which ended of course be translated into one of the UN languages, and then we can integrate this in the global, in the global declaration or in the global, the global report so we can hopefully try to ensure to reach these people even better. On the other hand, I think it's very important for us to be mindful when we have the opportunity to speak on this high level panel that we are representing so many different voices and also clearly point out the struggles of the people who are living on the front line for many of them it's already now, or it was already in the past about life and death and there are so many young people who already have been seriously affected by the climate crisis is not something we are like in the future at one point it's going it's coming right. And I think this is very important we do have for example gender working group within young we have an indigenous working group within young we work very closely together with other groups who are working on this, and we're also truly interested to becoming better right I mean, we are not yet perfect and if you have any ideas on how we can even be more inclusive and transparent. Yeah, we would love to learn from you and also engage with you further. Thank you very much I think that's such an important point the youth are not a monolithic or homogenous group and we must recognize that when, when there are youth inclusion tracks and inclusion pathways at any local governments or international government structure and process that we must remember that this is representing multiple and perhaps diverse and differing opinions viewpoints and experiences on climate change and climate change adaptation. And we will have a chance to dive into greater questions with Mary Claire when we go into our breakout room so she will be in one of the breakout rooms and we can continue to share questions and best practices and hear from the audience but first. We are going to hear from a speaker at VSO and so sure sure I say if you're there and would you like to take the floor and share on your experiences of youth inclusion in local governance, thank you very much. Namaste everyone. I'm Tracy Chetri from VSO. I'm a media and communication national volunteer there. So in VSO we have been we have been we have been conducting a project for us which is promoting inclusive resilience and accountability through youth association strengthening. And it works with it works by promoting inclusive resilience inclusive resilience and it aims to strengthen the role of youth led CSOs to effectively engage youth and other marginalized group in local climate and disaster resilience processes in Nepal's federal context. Right now we have been working with 15 youth led organizations from youth led organizations from two districts in Nepal. And our aim is to empower at least 10 at least 1000 youths to promote your participation in local CDR process through CDR capacity development advocacy and social accountability approaches. We have been the youth over there, the youth over there have been capacitated engaging them in community scorecard to review the youth responsiveness in their civil society organization, the organization that they have been working in. And basically civil society civil society organization the exercise the community scorecard which is an accountability approach where the quality of provided services are scored. They engage the local community people at least on the local community people and scored the services provided by their community civil civil society organization discussed individual indicators to assess their current status on youth responsiveness and internal good governance. They developed an action plan and are in the state of implementing those plans. Some of the while some of the civil society organizations have also are also in the process of revising the organizational policies according to the according to the results from the community from the community scorecard. The youth in the district the youth in the target districts have also been engaging local experts local community and local government for risk assessment and resilience. Another vital role that they have played is making a rapport between the youth of the community and and the vulnerable segment of the community with the government and making them aware about the government plans and policies for the implementation of resilience action plan. They have also been advocating about allocating more fund for to build the community resilient community resilience as a resilience in the local government budget. So one of the major major areas that have been focused by press from the SO is partnership of the youth with the local government social accountability activities to sensitize the duty bearers the local government have also been conducted and so that the duty bearers become more accountable for inclusive and responsive approaches. This has resulted in commitment from the local government for public hearing and one of the district has also come has already conducted a public hearing because of this because of the activities that have been conducted by the local youth. So the local youth and the government have also been participating and engaging in vulnerability capacity assessment in preparation of youth friendly resilience action plan and meeting those in the early budget of the local local government advocacy to implement government plans and policy through dialogues and meetings and works workshops with the engagement of the local youth has also been encouraged here. So the youth community and school and vulnerable segment of the society have been made aware of all these government plans that they have been trying to implement in the resilience resilience action about resilience action plan. Yeah, so these are the things that have been done and as a result, there is a local disaster and climate challenge resilience action plan that has been in preparation on the preparation is ongoing and 15 youth led civil society organization have been trained in governance and local disaster and climate resilience processes. So, yeah, yeah, the provincial and municipal line agency officials have also been trained in youth responsive climate and disaster resilience processes. And they have been on the and the youth have been youth representatives of the youth led civil society organizations have been oriented in social audit to for the local representation to promote good governance and social accountability. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you very much. Yeah, that was a really interesting outline of particularly the best practices and the successes you've had of youth inclusion in local governance processes. It was really interesting to hear the way that you were involved in the accountability and evaluation process. The way that a lot of the resilience action plans have been made youth centric and specifically include inclusory of the youth led civil society organizations and also the way that youth have been included in the training capacity building on resilience and disaster measures. So that was really, really insightful. Thank you very much for sharing. We would like to just ask all of the audience again if you have any final questions to put towards either Shiasi or Aldaad who I believe has been able to rejoin the conversation before we go into our breakout room. So feel free to post your questions in the chat or use the raise hand function if you would like to to share any further questions before we go to our breakout rooms. Well, as it looks like we we do not have any further questions. I will hand over to Josh again and I believe he will be putting us into our breakout rooms where we'll be able to dive deeper into these questions and all have the opportunity to share our best practices and our experience of youth inclusion in local governance structures. So over to you Josh. Thank you very much. Hi everyone. So I'm just going to share my screen. So we're going to get into breakout rooms and thanks to all the speakers for the insights. Yeah, that's experience on facing the bureaucracy at the local government level and on willingness to listen to young people particularly plus what he shared about the the local government on this is really ready to accept the use of young people or even work together with young people because of how they are structured. And to Marie Claire's taking it from the global perspective in terms of decision making and bringing it down to what her experiences working with youth and sort of the heterogeneous nature of youth, sort of youth not being one big group but also groups of different needs and demands that is very essential and also with the experience and accountability in Nepal. So we will get into breakout rooms and in the breakout from what we would try to do is still explore these questions further and pick up on what the speakers said and also really give the chance for and I was looking at the chat and also realizing that the audience have their own experiences as participants of this event have your own experiences around these topics and to really bring you experiences to what the speakers have said so that we can really map out what will be the best way to become some of these challenges and how to answer these questions with the session ultimately wants to answer at the end of the day. So you your screen is going to pop up you're going to be assigning to a room and as I said before please after the after you're done with the breakout room. Do not leave the meeting completely come back to the main plenary and so that we can wrap up before you leave the event so we hope to have all of you back at the end of the day. So in a click you should your screen should open and you have facilitators for the breakout room so laser who is from Kenya and also part of the youth adaptation network and young will be moderating the room with Marie Claire and Emily together without that would also moderate a second room which would also get there as to hear from all of you and particularly another case study from Burundi in that room from Louis second location. So I'm going to open the rooms now and see you all back in the plenary soon so please accept to join the room and see you in a bit. Thanks. Thank you very much. So now the moderators of each group are going to share a summary of what was discussed and we'll be able to look at the commonalities and the synergies between between the best practices and barriers and opportunities that were discussed and and kind of draw some conclusions on youth inclusion pathways in local governance. We had a few internet issues in in my breakout room actually no I was break at room two so we go first to breakout room one. And I believe Lisa was moderating this Lisa can you hear me and confirm if that was the case. Yes. Yes, I was there. Please feel free to share your summary of the group. Okay, sure. So, basically, we have Marie Claire highlighted the bit of youth being strategic, and we need to encourage each other because it's not an easy space to be mostly when we need to be included in the decision making processes, but we shouldn't give up and we should support each other. And there was a question. There was a story, a capacity, a successful story regarding youth involvement with the government from Rohit, from Nepal, where he shared how how they are training their youths, but to make their training that used to be aggressive and empowering them and giving them the necessary skills that they need to work with the government and their story is successful because they are they are holding even training schedules with the government to keep them accountable of what they have said they need to deliver. So I consider that that is an encouragement story for the rest of us because, and the bits that we need to work together and support each other and have one voice as we approach this government institutions and representatives. And also, they even build dialogues and assessment progresses with the government institutes, institutions, basically, it's a successful story. It has shown us that it is possible for us to have a space whereby we can have conversations and be on board in the decision making processes, the adaptation processes. And also there was two questions. One question was regarding someone was asking if they are a startup, how do they get funding in the Marie Claire responded by telling them that they are being in the young space gives us opportunities where we can get different funding. They are finding opportunities out there but many young people do not have access to them. So through young or you're able to get these opportunities that you can access funding and also as a country at the national level, we have the NAP so you can approach the government, whereby you can reach out to them and be persistent if you need funding for a project you are executing. And also connecting with NGOs, whereby they have funding knowledge and how to get grants so you can decide to have a build a branch of the NGO and have a local team which can help assist the NGO in implementing the objective. And then there was also a question regarding how youths are not homogeneous. So how do we, how do we deal with that diversity and the solution was we reach out to them and talk to them and try to explain to them. We just reach out to them and communicate to them the message and and also yeah that's it basically what we got from our breakout we didn't manage to finish we needed to come back here. Yeah, but it was an interesting session. Go to you immediately. Go to you immediately. Thank you very much Yuzha. Thank you very much Yuzha. Unfortunately due to internet issues we did not manage to hear from Eldad or from Louie in our room. Louie's got his hand raised so I will just, if he is able to quickly share something now as he was not able to before. Yeah, thank you very much. Do you get to me? Hello. Hello, we can hear. Hello, we can hear. Okay. I am Louie. I am from Burundi, a country which is located in East Africa. I am excited to participate in Burundi during this week's press with the program. In the last days, mainly in April, there has been the rising waters of Lake Tanganyika, which is dotted in the floating where people lost their properties, such as houses, home materials, farms, etc. Due to that, people from Gatrumba and Kajaga were obliged to move from those areas to other places which are far from the lake. And around 50,000 people were affected according to OEM. The document is available, you can search on internet and then you can get it. The main causes are no comprehensive statistical standards allowed to occupy surfaces which are dangerous for human beings, even who are not mobile on the programs which could endanger their life in occupying those dangerous places. Also due to the pollution caused by industries and surrounding mountains, we are aware the water from rivers that surrounds the lake goes immediately in the lake. They go immediately in the lake because there are sea trees under the mountain. We should note that Lake Tanganyika is the deepest lake after Lake Baikal, which is the first in the world. That is Tanganyika is the second lake which is deeper after Baikal. Tanganyika Lake also is the lake which has a freshwater that you can wash and drink without effects. Also it is the first one which has a diversity of species that you cannot find elsewhere in the world. We can understand by that that it is an international property that should be protected. As an activist on the ground, we have, I heard here of stereo programs that would allow anything continuous as they are. Even victims are being helped in providing some materials for their location. It is not enough and I would suggest this. People should be sanitized on the programs that could endanger their life in inspecting the norms faced by the government, training on some effects that could arise by organizing conferences and teaching in the community on how the environment should be protected by calling their attention. What also it does should be careful and be the first one to take into account that issue by fixing measures to be respected in preventing problems in advance. As an activist on the ground, we have hope that things will change due to the information people are getting and due to strategies which are being used in order to prevent those programs. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I would just very briefly share my contribution from the second breakout room, but we're short of time so I'll just keep it brief and then hand back to Josh. So, similar to some of the synergies and discussions that Lisa's group had in breakout room one. Despite the fact that we had contributions from Bangladesh, from Cameroon, from the Middle East, from the Philippines. One of the key things that came out in terms of barriers was capacity building and knowledge and the importance of investing both time and financing into capacity building for young people, particularly on disaster response and resilience and how this can feed into their ability to contribute to local governance. Particularly on the example we had from Bangladesh, we had a success story of the impact of successful youth capacity building and training exercises. And the way that this brought about inclusive and gender balanced groups of young individuals who were able to overcome generational cultural barriers to gender inclusivity and engagement at the local level, which was a really interesting and positive success story. Another key barrier we had was age and the way that age is often a marker of respect in cultures all over the world this came up from multiple geographical contexts. And we looked at the way that that meant that sometimes it can be harder for young people to meaningfully engage if they are not supposed to culturally raise their voice and have their opinion voiced in circles where age is a matter of respect and younger people are not supposed to have their voices heard. We had a very good example from Syria though where the Syrian crisis, perhaps brought about new opportunities in young people raising their voice as the crisis, allowed some cultural norms to be subverted and for young people to have more of a voice and more respect in terms of their voice as a result of the crisis. And perhaps we can see that in places which are on the front lines of climate change too in humanitarian crises. And we also had a very good example of a barrier from the Philippines in which many of the youth councils are often delegated topics that are considered suitable for young people or considered more fun, but they're not given the serious topics. So again, we're seeing that there are youth engagement structures in place, but often they're tokenistic or reduced to what young people are supposed to be knowledgeable on. So I guess there were questions raised about people not valuing young people's expertise. We also had a lot of success stories in terms of the ability of young people to galvanize and rally together and the success of training when it was invested in. And like Lisa said, we didn't have time to hear from everyone and I'm sure there were even more fantastic contributions and I hope we can keep these conversations and dialogues going offline after the session. And I'll pass back over to Josh. Thank you very much. Thank you, Emily and thanks everyone. I've been trying to make notes and sharing my screen so everyone can see what we got out of the breakout rooms. Thanks a lot to the speakers for sharing this insight with us from the work you do. And just a few things to wrap up the session where I find very, very interesting is one of the point that came out really looking at windows of opportunities during crisis and using that as a moment to really enhance the voice of young people in policy at the local government level. And I know that this works because in those moments, there has to be action, there has to be mobilization, and it's really a lesser time to look at gender or cultural or age. Those barriers is really moments where everyone wants to focus on how do we move forward and really encouraging sort of seeing this as a solution as a way of increasing spaces. The issue of funding are very important and great to hear a sort of young girls experience of mobilizing finance for youth startups. Also, mentioning that the youth adaptation network at the global sense on adaptation is also looking at launching a youth adaptation fund or solutions challenge, which will be launched in September. So something to keep your eyes on. And there are a couple more finance for youth programs that are coming up these days. Still very smaller tickets, not a big funding that you can actually sort of do really a lot of projects with and we still need more of that. So something for us to rally on. And really I cannot sort of express the excitement to see the point on investing time and finance into capacity building for response at the local government level knowing that this is CBA and most of the people here and the communities we work with are dealing with sort of climate hazards on everyday basis. And if you want to really enhance community based adaptation and locality action. This is essential. So thanks everyone really helpful for us from young girls side from green Africa youth organization and the youth adaptation network and I hope everyone here. And these are very good points for us to take back to the work we do and try to expand on these to really conclude the session that was going to open the mentality again. And one more time, you can scan this QR code or go to menti.com and use the code 8715. And then I will share my screen again for one final question. And then we can wrap up. So the question we want to ask to finish the conversation today is for you to share with us sort of one where that summarizes your key lessons from this session. And I think people already started answering before I go here. So here we go. One way that describe your lesson from this session, and we already have motivating informative adaptable. And please go ahead, get to menti.com use the code 8715 8998 and bring that forward. When I see the word aggressiveness, I'm not so sure what that really means. And to what extent the aggressiveness of young people should go and what part of that keeps us safe. And maybe in CBS 16, we would want to look at security and safety of young activists at community level when they do the activism. But really good to see that as well. Unity inspiring encouragement. Please keep your inputs coming. And because it would be great to get these word cloud as a summary of this session, something we can always look at to see what we got out of the youth inclusion track, a CD 15 so please go to menti.com and use the code to bring your answers to this word cloud. And I'm going to allow folks to be able to to join and bring your great so more coming in I see unity, strong in diversity, also, common experiences that is great. Please keep it coming. And I hope you all have the, you can access menti.com. Thank you so much. I can't wait people to come and I see a question to me from Daniel Robin on the if there's already info on the youth adaptation fund. There's nothing public yet. But once there is something, I'm going to make sure to circulate it through the, the, the participant list for for CB 15, particularly on you, so that you have access to it. I will circulate that and I think that there are a couple of funding that are already out, which are you led, and I will try to circulate that via email to everyone who registered for this session as well. Because I think there are three different funds that are out for you, particularly you forecast small tickets but very useful for community weight so I will circulate that around. We all also work together in creating more of such funds within our institutions and organizations and the donors we work with to create more funds which are very, very targeted for for young people. Great. So, I think I like what I see now with the word cloud encouragement being one big word in the middle with more inputs coming in. Thanks a lot everyone. It was really nice having this session together with all of you. Our time is up. We are still I think some a minute or two over the time but thanks a lot. I'm really looking forward to having you in tomorrow's session, which will be the youth policy jam, and that will focus mainly on COP 26, which will happen in Glasgow this year, and looking at 26 years of COP, what has been achieved. What is the aspiration of young people when they think about COP, and what does this mean for community weight. So if you think of this global climate conversation, knowing that adaptation and resilience. It's a big part of COP 26 and the advocacy towards COP 26. What does this mean for community weight. So please do well to join that session. See you tomorrow, same time as today's meeting, and it will be led by VSO together with Gail, the youth adaptation network, and young girl as well, who is very strong in the engagement at the UNFCCC. Thanks everyone, and we're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Thanks. Bye bye.