 So thank you everyone for joining. I know it's late. I know it's also late in the day. So without any further ado, let's start today's session. So you think this is a responsive policy. To this session, we're looking to that advocacy angle that you find in achieving SDGs in Bangladesh. And we present three specific case from three youth speakers who has joined us today. And the main idea of the session is to start a discussion point between participants in Bangladesh and participants abroad to figure out different entry points, as I mentioned, to solve different challenges. So next slide, please. So as you know, we have nine years left to meet the agenda 20 to 30 targets. And interestingly, by 2030 alone, the 1.9 billion young people around the world are projected to turn 15 years old. That's a huge number. And the youth are going to carry the burden. And the future is in terms of achieving different areas in the climate sector or the water sector, whichever sector you talk about, there are the four runners of that particular year. So 90% of the youth are currently residing in the developing countries. And unfortunately, unfortunately, in terms of climate action and climate change, they're going to face the brunt of it. So the reason I'm saying fortunately is because we're still hopeful this youth have the power to bring about changes in their respective countries. And with a little bit of help from Aldeck who is present in this conference, maybe it's a way forward they can take and figure out how to solve those challenges. So next slide. So to give you an overview of the SDGs in Bangladesh. So I want you to focus on two specific SDGs we're going to talk about today. So for SDG 13, climate action, as you can see from the slide, we have somewhat achieved the targets for Bangladesh. But coincidentally, for SDG 5 and SDG 6, significant challenges are still remaining in achieving those particular targets. And regardless of achieving SDG 13 for climate action, as you are all aware, climate change is changing every year with multiple problems coming up. So it has a numerous cross-cutting problems that are created in those other SDGs. So all SDGs are must work in cohesion in order for us to achieve those particular targets. So next slide. So to give you a context for Bangladesh, Bangladesh currently ranks seventh on the vulnerability index. And over 4 million people lack access to basic water and sanitation. So 2,000 children, for example, die every year due to diarrhea. And unfortunately, also in the different hotspots of post-mobiles of Bangladesh, women and girls are carrying the burden of this unforgiving changes. So as I mentioned earlier, SDG 6, SDG 5 and SDG 13 must work together because climate impacts have a significant effect for the water and sanitation in Bangladesh. At the same time, as I mentioned earlier, it has a huge impact on the women and girls in Bangladesh. So with that in mind, we have invited two youth speakers who would be presenting two-unit case study. But before that, I would like to welcome my colleague from ICAD Jennifer Cudding to run you through the session objectives and give you an overview of our youth programs. We run from water, then you can. Jennifer. Thank you, Adnan. Hi, everyone. So Shohil, I think we should go to the next slide. So as Adnan mentioned, sorry, I'm not using the video option because my internet is very unstable here. So the aim of this session is to highlight whatever learning we have from the climate change sector, especially in terms of the challenges that youth face and what could be the possible solution to the existing problems and also at the same time, the new emerging problems that will come in the future. So this session is actually aimed at SDGs and we will talk about the three SDGs as Adnan mentioned, but we have to find a holistic approach in finding the answer. And as we know that youth are more interested into the activism part and in advocacy. So what we aim to look at is how youth can be included in different parts of the decision-making process. And in this case, by the decision-making process, we mean to say from the local level at the community level and to the policy process of the country. So from local to national and to the global level. So we are not leaving anyone behind. We are taking into consideration everyone's opinion and what they want to see change in terms of climate change. So at the same time, we are thinking about what innovative solutions could be generated. So if we give youth the opportunity to showcase whatever they want to do, I think there is a big platform for the youth these days, especially sectors who are working in the climate change area. For example, NGOs such as WaterAid and academic and research institutions like ours, ECAD. What are the challenges that remains in terms of innovating the solution, whether they're not getting any fund or whether they're not getting any opportunities. Those are some of the points that we want to talk about today. And excuse me. So at the same time, what we can learn from each other. And this can happen from local youth. For example, youth in the coastal area and youth in the northern area, what they can learn from each other. And also youth in the urban areas such as Thaka and Chittagang in Russia. And what they can learn from each other. And at the same time, when we talk about the global level, can we learn something from the cross-cutting issues and how youth are changing the phase of climate change problems in different LDC countries and in the global north. That's what we aim to do in this session. Shohal, next slide. So as Adnan mentioned, we have three really bright young speakers today. And they will focus on the three different SDG, SDG-6, SDG-5, and SDG-13. And the first participants will be from, excuse me, from the, sorry, Adnan. So the participants will be from three different streams of the training program. For example, from the Youth Climate Lab, we have one speaker from the Water AIDS, Water and Climate Youth Advocate Training Program. We have another advocate who will be showing, we will introduce them to you. And lastly, we have another training program. It's called Jaukhana. It's the first ever women's only training program in Bangladesh, focusing on empowering STEM students on climate and wash issues. So without any further ado, I would like to invite our first speaker. Shohal, next slide please. Zarif Oeshik, thank you for joining us. So Mr. Zarif will speak about SDG-6 and his project and he will share a short video while he is presenting. So without any further ado, Zarif, the floor is yours. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone. Before we begin, I'd like to introduce myself. I am Zarif Oeshik. I have completed my graduation in urban and rural planning from Kulna University. Kulna is the third largest city in Bangladesh, by the way. So besides my planning profession, I am a youth advocate of Water AIDS, which has brought me here today in this session. And I'll be talking about SDG-6. Next slide, please. Next slide. Next slide, please. Thank you. So I expect that you have heard that Dhaka city has many slums, right? In the maps, you can show the cluster of the slums. To be more specific, Dhaka city has more than 5,000 slums, which is almost 30% of the total population. In here, youth collects water for their household from a common source or a shared source as only 8.1% of slum households has piped connections. This statistic stands for less water supply, right? Next slide, please. And we know that less water supply means less collection. Less collection results in no self hygiene, no sanitation, especially for the youth, which leads to adolescent disease. And of course, there is long queue. Long queue means no time for education. In general, younger gets harassed in these long queues. So question will arise at this point that how less is the supply? Next slide, please. Well, 30% of the slum population have access to water supply of water supply and sewage authority. In short, VASA, a Bangladesh government agency responsible for water and sewage in Bangladesh. So only 30% has the access. So do you think this is shocking? Let me share another statistic with you. Slum dwellers pay 30 to 80 Dhaka per thousand liters, where meter connections cost only 6.34 per thousand liters. Surely there's something wrong. Next slide, please. Are we saying that Dhaka has less water? In this case, I have a video to show you. Stanley, next slide and play the video, please. In the urban area, leakage in taps is common. It may occur that what could a drop make difference. Let's find out. If we consider a single drop per second from a leaking tap, in one hour it will be 1.69 liters. Eventually, 13.50 liters during the idlest time of the day, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. or in eight hours. If two toilets have the same problems of leak tap, then it is almost 27 liters of water in just one night from a single flat. So, three flats will produce 81 liters of water from the leaking tap. According to the World Health Organization, between 50 and 100 liters of water per person per day are needed to ensure that most basic needs are met and few health concerns arise. Three flats in Dhaka city are wasting the same amount of water in just one night, by which a person can meet his or her daily needs. Just imagine how many flats in Dhaka city have a tap leakage problem and for how many years it is continuing. If we fix the problematic taps or tighten them after every use, it won't take more than five minutes. This simple act is saving much more water than we can't even imagine. SDG6 is targeting to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation by 2030. But, Professor Benjamin Sovakul from Orhus University said, there will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we're doing today. So we have to act quickly and as they say, charity begins at home. In this scenario, stop water wastage at home. Fixing the leaking tap would be a great start. By doing this, we can play our part in fulfilling the target of SDG6.4 which is, by 2030, substantially increase water use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of fresh water to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity. Water scarcity will rise if water wastage is not prevented. Our youth has a vital role to play in the coming days to build a better world, to contribute to the noble cause of SDG6. But there are always challenges while doing greater things. What are these challenges and how can we overcome them? So, I have made this video after I noticed the problem and the numbers in it. The message of the video is quite simple. There is a vast amount of water wastage without even our realization. And we often talk about the solutions, but there are many barriers in implementing simple solutions such as lack of educations, trust, and obviously there is a lack of platforms and there are many more. So, can you help us figure it out? In this point, I am giving the floor to the next youth advocate. Thank you so much. Thank you, Zaryf. So, before we go into our next speaker, I just want to summarize that there are multiple issues related to water in Bangladesh. Different parts of Bangladesh have different water issues. For example, the coastal belt, we're struggling with salinity intrusion due to sea level rise. At the same time, in the northern parts of Bangladesh, there are problems of drought. So, we as a nation are facing different water crises in different areas. And as you see that even though there are youths who are trying to solve different problems, there are challenges. How do you solve challenges in some areas, right? So, Zaryf came up with this idea about solving the water crisis in the urban areas, but there are different challenges. And for the feedback session, for the discussion session, we would like to hear your ideas. Hence, can you help us figure it out on maybe you have different solutions in your country which we can implement in Bangladesh. So, without any further ado, we'd like to invite our next speaker. Next slide, please. So, it's a great pleasure to introduce Joy Chakma. She'll be presenting on her work as a youth activist and she will speak on SDG five. Joy, whenever you're ready. Jujubeh Kumore, Monangan Joy, HACBF 15 Conference of Haudhau at Teferi Namur Basul and Gawmar Pusila. So, hello, everyone. I'm Joy Chakma. My pronouns are she and her. And my identity is I belong to Chakma's community. And I'm also a graduated Jaukhuna trainee. I'm working as an intern at Watering and I'm studying in chemical engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. And I'm one of the founding members of Beyond the Hills. Next slide, please. Beyond the Hills, basically, Beyond the Hills is a nonprofit initiative to promote, preserve and mainstream rich and diverse knowledge, culture of indigenous communities. There are 54 indigenous communities in Bangladesh who live in hill areas, which is known as Choctagram Hill Tracks and in plain lands. There is a thought that circulates in our country that indigenous communities live only in hill tracks. And for these reasons, for these reasons we have created Beyond the Hills that we want to tell others that indigenous communities live beyond the hills. And our aim is not to leave anyone behind and give importance to the welfare of the indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Next slide, please. So for now, let's take you all to Choctagram Hill Tracks where I grew up as an indigenous individual. So Choctagram Hill Tracks is the only extensive hilly area in the country and home to the one third of the total indigenous population. It consists of three districts that are Rangamati, Khabratri and Bandogal. Among 54, 11 indigenous community live in hill tracks. In Choctagram Hill Tracks, the customary laws and the unique law systems are managed by both traditional and the state officials protected by constitutions. Back when Choctagram Hill Tracks was ruled by the British colonizers, the 1900 regulation was the most important legal instrument which has now corrected several times by the government but now CHT Accord is the most important than 19 regulation. According to the World Bank report, in Choctagram Hill Tracks, the poverty rate is 65% whereas the national poverty rate is 23%. And the indigenous people often face difficulties such as unemployment, education, lack of health and infrastructure. And another thing added to the list is climate change. Next slide, please. As Choctagram Hill has, climate change has hit all over in Bangladesh. It can be said CHT has become a hotspot for climate change and the indigenous people are closest to the environment. So they are the forefront of the risk of climate change. The heritage, livelihood and food supply are almost everything depend on nature and land. Because of climate change, the temperature has risen up. And for these reasons, water crisis has become more severe than ever. And for this, there is a possibility more conflicts can occur in this region. The whole ecosystem has built up. The water system, the water streams are drawn up. Besides the natural causes, there are some manmade devastations such as illegal storm extractions that has not only put an end to the biodiversity but also causes problem through the food supplies of the indigenous communities. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. As climate change is affecting mostly on water resources, wash management is becoming more and more hard for the indigenous people. And to be important, to give importance, indigenous women are becoming more and more vulnerable because of this wash management systems and they become more vulnerable than the menstruates. So the STG-5 is not getting fulfilled because of menstruation, hygiene management, mismanagement, and shit-about effects. The menstruation, the menstrual hygiene management is not happening in safe and convenient manner due to lack of water. Indigenous women of all ages, especially youth and adolescent girls, are in living risk because of the lackings of awareness and informations about menstruation. In adequate access, lack of transportation, lack of roads into this region, NGO interventions are seemingly very low and not sustainable in the long run. So the targets, next slide, please. So from the STG-5, the targets I'm really trying to say is the targets that are not getting fulfilled are 5.2 because the menstruation is often leveled as a taboo. And for this reason, the Indigenous women get exploited physically and mentally. The target 5.5, inaccessibility of reproductive rights and health, Indigenous women of all ages become vulnerable to reproductive health issues. The target 5.6, the menstruation is holding back Indigenous women to pull the flowers than the means and counterparts for which being non-active in decision-making and leadership. Next slide, please. As we can see, there are many things to consider and think to let STG-5 getting fulfilled in Chittaganghildrex. So I want you all to not work for us, but work with us and stand with us Indigenous communities through your suggestions and help and let us achieve STG-5 in Chittaganghildrex. I want to say thank you all for listening to me patiently till now. Thank you very, excellent insight and thank you for representing. It's really important when we're talking about inclusive representation, we want to share the idea and the statement that everyone should be included when we're targeting in achieving STGs and for the greater part of climate action. So without any further ado, I'd like to invite our third speaker. She'll be talking about STG-13 and the importance of inclusive of STG-5 and STG-6 as well. So Anika, without any further ado, please. The floor is yours. Thank you Adnan Bhai. Hello everyone. I hope everyone is well in. I am Tavia Tasnim Anika. I have completed my graduation in Forestry and Environmental Science from Shahjala University of Science and Technology. I'm also a youth advocate and climate volunteer and currently working as your climate lab program associate which is a program based on youth activities in different type of climate action. Next slide please. So for my study purpose, I have been living in SEALED for the last five years and as a youth advocate, I am currently working with our people, with our youth in Chunamganj district which is beside SEALED district. So let me first describe something about what our areas are, what are their geographical characteristics. How are some unique wetlands and it is highly rich with its biodiversity. Our basins are large bowl shaped depressions and these 80% of our areas are located in the north-eastern part of Bangladesh. So houses are basically surrounded by Indian hill range like Asham, Tripura, Mijoram, et cetera and what happens in the monsoon. Extreme precipitation occurs in Indian hill range and our basins receive a huge amount of water directly coming from the upland and then the flash flood heats Chunamganj, the flash flood heats our area. So flash flood and pre-monsoon flood are the two major climatic problems in our region that the people of power face every year and the frequency of flash flood and pre-monsoon flood is increasing year by year. Next slide please. Okay, so during flash flood or pre-monsoon flood the women and the youth of power people face a lot of problems. Problems like the first one that in my observation is skin disease like fungal attack or rashes. They are very common among children and other women and the second problem is waterborne disease like cholera, diarrhea, food poisoning, typhoid, et cetera. This type of waterborne disease outbreak like an epidemic in this time or time period. So the second problem I observed in our area is lack of drinking water, which is a very big problem there. As water level rises when the flood comes, the water also come into their houses. So all the tube boils in our region get submerged during flood and there happens the lack of drinking water. Talking about youths in our region they generally migrate from the affected area as when flood attacks, floodwater stays for seven to eight months long. So they must find a job to support the family as there is nothing to do for them in the house for like six to eight months long. This is the reason behind dropping out from education which is very common in our villages. They drop out from education in very young age. Young girls are forced to marriage and boys usually move to big cities or it seems that they are helping their fathers in fishing in a boat. So these are the some problems that they face. There are so many problems. These are actually causing the depression, the frustration among youths in our area. Next slide please. So as a youth, I am looking forward to bringing some real change by sharing my knowledge and some advanced techniques that I have learned from different type of workshops or my academic background. And also I am learning from them the local adaptation techniques and encouraging them to implement all the local adaptation techniques that they have already. So the first one I am trying to introduce is rainwater harvesting, which is very effective and very feasible in our region because the precipitation rate in our region is high. And the second thing I'm trying to introduce in our villages is floating garden. Though floating garden is a very new concept in Bangladesh, but in so many places, floating garden has been implemented successfully. So this could be an alternative way to live for the how region people. And I'm also spreading awareness among adolescent girls and women about hygiene and sanitation. The last thing I'm trying to in trying is to increase youth participation in different climatic action by collaborating with the village youth organization. I believe that the youths of village can bring new ideas, new thoughts to be implemented in their own region. Next slide, please. So as a youth while working, I have some advantages. Like whenever I go to the community, vulnerable community, they are more comfortable talking to me and the youth, vulnerable youth that are in how region, they are more comfortable also. They can express better as I am also a youth, but there are also some barriers that we as a youth face all over the world, I believe. The first one I want to mention is lack of collaboration. I know that there are many youth that are working individually, researching individually, but I guess if we collaborate and make an effective bond and like working for one common goal that would bring much more positive change to our country or like other vulnerable countries. The second thing I would mention is lack of institutional support. If anyone is from like background, technical background or want to participate in different type of climate action, they are not getting proper institutional support and managing fund to initiate action is very tough in our country or in any country, I guess. So here comes the financial barriers. And the last thing I would mention is lack of credibility. We youth are not judged properly, not judged equally as the other partners in different type of climate actions. So in SDG 13, it is stated that urgent climate action is needed. I believe that if youth like me and youth like Joey and Sarif and from all over the world, if we come together, share our knowledge and work as a group with a common goal, we can bring the changes. We can do a lot more creative climate action in this world. So these are everything from my side. Thank you for listening to me. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Anika. That was an excellent insight of the HAL region and right piece of that youth are struggling. And I think with the specific goal in mind, I think for each specific sector of the SDGs, we can help each other out. And with that notion and idea, we would like to hear from you, whoever is present today in this session, that what changes we can bring about to help this youth who are trying to bring about positive change in the particular community or in the society. So, Sakip bhai. Hi, sorry. I think my things were lagging a bit. It's okay. So we have been, people are joining in. So as we were saying, maybe perhaps if we do this as open discussion so that it allows for a lot of more people to give in some input, what we would recommend is that if you are making some comments, please try to turn on your video. I know for a lot of people, the internet bandwidth or equipment might not be right, but please do try and so at least people can see when you're making some comments. And for quite a lot of the other participants, if you're comfortable doing so, please raise your hand so that we can take some inputs from you. You can maybe make a few comments. If you have any questions for our youth speakers as well, feel free to raise your hand and we'll call on you for that. And if you're not comfortable opening your mic or you're not able to do so, then please also write on the chat box and we'll try and incorporate those into our slides and into our notes going forward. So as we just heard about the SDG5, what we were trying to think in terms of when we were designing the session is as we're sort of looking at completing the SDGs, having as much progress done within the agenda, getting all the goals and indicators to be met, as Adnan mentioned in the very opening, we have about nine years left in being able to complete those. We have a very short timeframe in goals that are not being achieved at all or any progress hasn't been done over the last few years anyways. But then there's also a little bit of time for us to be able to do things a little bit better, even if the goals are relatively on track in certain matters you might see in certain SDGs they're relatively on track. There's still time to be able to make those things a little bit better. How can we really make an impact in those areas? So if you look up on the slides here, I don't know whether we need to make it a bit bigger for everybody, thank you. So what we'd like to do as our youth speakers have gone through three of the SDGs that we find most pertinent for this session. So SDG5 for now, maybe if we could have a bit of a discussion that people would like to come in. We were sort of thinking about having a little bit of discussion about how we can make these issues a little bit more youth friendly, make it a bit more inclusive for youth to come through. So in particular for SDG5, what are some of the ways that people might be able to advise us, give us some tips and tricks, ask us a few questions about how to advocate for SDG5 and make it a bit more youth inclusive. So if there's any thoughts about that, maybe I'd ask people in the group to have a little think about that. And again, as our youth speakers mentioned, quite a lot of the challenges that they're facing at the community level, working at the grassroots, living in the communities and advocating for these SDG indicators and these goals. What are some of the challenges that maybe you are facing? There's quite a lot of first people in the room that I can see here that possibly are working within the communities themselves, either as part of organizations or within community groups yourself. So maybe if you'd like to share a little bit about some of the challenges that you're going through. And again, there are quite a lot of youth, I can see I know a few of the people in the group. So I can see there's quite a lot of youth yourselves who are very active. I know you're quite, a lot of you are engaged in various different activities. So maybe if you let us or even the rest of the group know a little bit about what are some of the advantages that you're finding? Working with other youth groups and other youth communities, what are some of the ways that you're able to really be a bit more flexible, a bit more innovative and a bit more creative? So in that respect, maybe if I will look at the chat list, I'm not seeing any hands being raised as yet. But again, maybe if you're taking some time to collect your thoughts, I see Dr. Prabhul, perhaps maybe you'd like to come in. Oh, thank you. My name is Prabhupada from Ipshachi.com, Bangladesh. We are working on climate change and relocation of climate displaced people and also community engagement even for raise the voice of climate change people for demanding the rights and advocacy with government. So as we are committed to engagement even, we're organizing on different human chain, memorandum distribution and memorandum greater through for the administration, your administration. So youth are the main key point of Bangladesh the backbone of Bangladesh depends on youth engagement. So if we are trying to engage with youth for engagement on the right human chain for protection, sustainable protection of the demanding embankment and also rehabilitation for re-value short affected or climate cycle affected people for sustainable rehabilitation. So we are trying to engaging people, youth people with community people for advocacy within the level for rise their voice against the social security strategy for young people. At that time, as we are focusing on youth for demanding sustainable rights echo with the displaced people or climate affected people we are trying to engage with youth and community people because youth are the most strong power for raise their voice but community people who are remote people in our area of Australia are not able to. So we are trying to engage of youth people for demanding the showing their knowledge of experience to the relevant stakeholder. So if we take any program with youth people we must focus on also what demand on community people if the community people able to raise their voice to youth people, youth people will distributing the knowledge distributing the power to rate memorandum greater or any other advocacy issue they have here to write a stakeholder for demanding their voice and if the right way of the voice ensure to the relevant stakeholder their program will be successful and rise of climate change affected or de-established people should be slightly focused to the right people and the program is implementing success. So I would like to maybe come back to you because we have a small bit of a discussion that we have in terms of trying to help youth groups think about what are the relevant stakeholders. So maybe after I've taken a few more interventions I'll come back to you if you could maybe pinpoint a few of the stakeholders that you feel are vital in terms of youth engagements and policy engagements that they should be engaging with but thank you so much for your intervention. I feel my colleague has tried to capture a few of your points. If there's anything additional please do feel free to raise your hand or put those in the chat. Anybody else that wants to come in at the moment? I'm not seeing any hands raised so I'd hate to call on people by name but I do know quite a lot of you personally so I will call you by name. So please raise your hand before I do so. Yes, we have a hand. That's the host. Hi, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Salman Saifullah. I work at the International Center for Climate Change and Development under the Youth Program and Climate Finance Program. So I'd like to address the question on how we can get better engagement of youth in terms of climate change and understanding development. One thing that I always try and emphasize on when I speak about youth is that we must try and take youth rather than a voluntary action than an incentivized action because currently youth voluntary inclusion is becoming a cliche. People take in youth because they're easy people to work with. They don't ask for much and that's leading to a bit of degradation towards encouragement. So I feel that if we could give a certain sense of ownership towards the youth that if you come work with us you're gaining experience, you come with work with us, you're gaining connectivity, you get networking and that allows for better youth inclusion in terms of development and in terms of LGG Cool accomplishment. That's how I feel. The other thing that I'd like to bring to the table is that youth are usually brought in as sort of a tick box exercise like feeling the quota that the organization or the program has quote-unquote youth involved but rather it's just on pen and paper. We must be able to give the youth recognition and voice that they require to actually hold a stake at the table. So I feel that that's something that we could look into. Thank you Sahil. You jumped the gun a little bit because that one would be more relevant on the SDG 13 but I hope my colleagues that are working on that one they've gone ahead and taken some notes and included that as well. But thank you for your intervention. So again, I feel that there might be a lot of people that might resonate with the final point where you're working with a lot of youth groups or again your youths yourselves working in a lot of stakeholder engagement and workshops or so but then it just feels like it's more of a sort of stakeholder tick boxing as they do. Did you consult everybody? Yes, we have a bunch of youth there. They were in the room, they heard everything we said but not really anything that they could really engage with. So maybe that's something that resonates with a lot more people in the group if somebody would like to come in with the point of that how do you think you might be able to include a lot more youth more engagingly give them a bit more participatory space within a platform getting them to give in a bit more of their inputs if anybody would like to come in with a few points or anything that you're thinking out loud. I realize we have a lot of Bangaliparticipants and it is quite late in Bangladesh but still stop them up on Bangladesh. Quite a lot of them are. Yeah. So any early comments or anything? Feel free to come in with some of the other SDGs. Yeah. I'm lucky. Go ahead. Now just reiterating your point any entry points that it would be lovely to hear from you for example the challenges. Yeah, Arusa, please. Sorry, I'm the one taking notes but I'll go since the first question hasn't really been answered. So the first question which is on the board that you can see is that is advocacy youth friendly and inclusive in terms of gender inclusion. So being part of this group what from personal experience I would like to say that Bangladesh hasn't reached a point yet where I think advocacy is a youth friendly and inclusive because besides just like counting a few organizations I think most organizations still have a very bureaucratic way of operation where I believe like my colleagues Saki Bhaya and like my colleague Shohal Bhaya has mentioned like the ownershipness giving youth a chance really because I have heard in so many places that you know they're taking youth advocates in but you know what do they do they just sit there and take meeting minutes but I feel like we have so much to offer because we see the world as it is today and you know we don't of course I'm not saying that the people who are older than us they of course have they might have more knowledge and experience however I feel like because we have a perspective of today's generation I think we need to hear more and we actually need to have that mindset that okay even if this person is this many years younger than me they still might have a better idea or a good idea so that is one and in terms of gender inclusion I think you know it will be a really big discussion I feel like being a girl and volunteering as a youth has a lot of barriers personally I haven't faced any because my family has been very supportive of me volunteering for any social cause or anything relevant to my likes or dislikes or hobbies but I know a lot of people who are my friends who weren't allowed to go and volunteer at a certain place because that person was a girl and they needed to go there alone and I'm just saying all of this in terms of Bangladesh still so please feel free I would really like to know from other countries what's the situation or scene there Thank you Arusa just before we get to you Khadija one second I know there's a couple of our colleagues in the call here at the moment that work on more sort of the global level platforms so maybe some of the points that Arusa just mentioned about raising advocacy at the global levels what are some of the ways that you're working on really trying to make those platforms and those spaces a little bit more inclusive for youth how do you think about engaging youth more globally because that's a much bigger task as well how do you get so many different countries and so many different youth communities together in one sort of coherent manner at the global level so maybe if you can have a little think about that I'll get to you I see a hand raised by Khadija Hello, I'm Khadija and I'm the founder of Women's Youth so we basically work with surrounding gender and with youth all four volunteers are youth so what I feel that we face particularly in Bangladesh and especially while working on surrounding gender is that we want like we always want more girls and women to come in and work in these matters and honestly there's this quota thing as well but what we fail to ensure is their security and their safety so what I have personally faced is that while working surrounding gender you face a lot of threats and it's not only about gender whenever you're working as a youth advocate you have to raise your voice against particular things there are always people who will not agree with you and that way what happens is that especially girls there are girls and women in Bangladesh they get very discouraged they feel threatened so I feel one of the things that we have to make sure we have to ensure is their security because nowadays we go on and try to preach that we have female members we have women working for us and with us but we do not ensure their safety so I feel one of the things that we need to focus on is ensuring their safety from now thank you thank you Kathisa that's a very good point in that and as well as you can see a little bit of the boxes at the bottom I think one of those topics that you just raised is something that we would focus as a priority in terms of youth inclusion because that's one of the things that has come up in quite a lot of the work that we've been doing in terms of whether the youth feel safe to be able to raise their voices and particularly for women and young girls whether the platforms are secure whether the societal mindset is enough for them to be able to raise their voices without any repercussions so I think that's something that resonates with a lot of youth activities that happen but thank you for bringing that forward I don't see any other hands raised so if there's anybody with another point any other feedback anybody from our global networks perhaps they want to talk a little bit about how they're bringing the advocacy issues up front making them more inclusive a bit more participatory anybody with some youth community experiences perhaps you'd like to come in with that I see my host is taking the hosting duties quite well would you like to come in again Shwyl? Hi I'm also part of the youth engagement program under the Penn State Sustainability Institute the club of Rome where we have recently started to do this program of trying to communicate and inform a network of a global youth platform where we have people coming in from global north, global south and we are trying to tackle the aspect of inclusionism through diversity and how we can go about it the one major aspect that we found out is that trying to infuse everyone in cannot be a generalized aspect that we require more youth we require more women we require more other gender but on that accord it requires a bit more best folk soft hand to address that because not every situation is going to be the same not every situation is going to be that easy therefore it is always required to have a certain sense of approach when inclusionism is talked about especially in youth and policy and climate change and especially as DGs so that is something that we are trying to bridge where with global youth and as well as global policy makers Thank you Shwyl So some global insights again I know there are others so please do let us know what are the thinking that are happening within the global networks because I know quite a lot of those ones have been working for quite an extensive number of years and this is an issue that is something that they have been tackling from day one so then this would be something that we would really like to be able to bring in how do we filter in these local experiences going up through the national to the regional as well as the global levels as well I see a hand from Pipa, Pipa Scott Hi thank you I'm UK based and just wanted to share like a personal experience I don't work a lot in advocacy but I do work in water and sanitation quite a lot as a consultant and I just wanted to share you know I'm here as an observer and learning but I also wanted to share a personal experience which was in the last year I've worked with youth and I can honestly say that it's like recognising the value of the youth voice recognising the difference in perspective and the strength of perspective and being able to be challenged and the impatience and not accepting the status quo recognising where I'd fallen into a status quo or recognise the kind of I'd fallen into a structure and having someone with a different energy and a different perspective engage that kind of lived experience for me has really transformed my kind of lobbying for youth inclusion and really really valuing that voice so I guess it's just a kind of like a celebration and what more support needed from is anyone who's genuinely recognised the value of the youth and the youth voice to continue to celebrate that and lobby for it and make sure that it's included in a really kind of lived experience way I think might be able to take us where there are these barriers of tokenism versus actual inclusion to really kind of stand up for that inclusion of meaningful voice thank you Thank you Pipa, I think that also resonates sorry, Adnan do you want to comment? No, it's okay so I just personally thank Pipa but just to carry on that conversation we're talking about SDG6 here as well so we from WaterAid Bangladesh we're working on water sanitation and hygiene but as we're trying to discuss here there are multiple issues regarding involving youth in those particular areas could you just share an experience from your end what is the scenario like in achieving or targeting youth on sharing the knowledge on SDG6 in the UK? Sure we're on to SDG6 here so very recently actually being in the UK there's been a focus on where I live in Scotland with pollution of water bodies of sewer so kind of untreated sewage going into the rivers which isn't something normally I work in places where there aren't sewers so this is a little bit new to my kind of field of expertise as well and it's just been incredible sitting with younger people at the table and the demand for climate justice is so fierce and so unaccepting of the status quo and I think not being stuck in the rigidity of how things are or how things have to be or the timelines of procurement and infrastructure and it's really easy to get kind of tied up in how slow things move and things like that and for me it's definitely the voice that is coming one of injustice and one of there's an urgency and there are times in the meetings that we're having trying to have these negotiations where I'm purposefully bringing that voice strong and loud and being like don't listen to the so-called experts in the room this is the voice you need to hear and just keep maintaining giving that platform for the demand for change but it's I'm loving it it's something I've always been supportive of but never had that kind of lived experience until recently and now it's something that I would actively and eagerly seek in any kind of work that I'm doing. Thank you so much Saki Boat if you want to continue Thank you. Just to one of the other points that Pipa had mentioned about how to break out of that tokenism I think that also relates with quite a lot of what we've been talking in some of the other sessions some of you have been attending some of the CBA sessions on locally led adaptation and the principles of that about how do we make these interactions and these collaborative actions more sustained and then again in terms of sort of breaking out just a token youth representative and a youth voice per agenda item or a meeting that we do I think the sustained action making sure that we're being collaborative not just when the events are happening not just when a big sort of global movement is moving forward but also making sure that these collaborative actions and these interactions that we're having with different communities and youth groups are sustained something that we do all the time between one meeting to the other making sure that these sustained actions carry forward so I think that's also something that's quite important so any other reflections on any of the other SDGs that we had I believe Zaryf had a question about how we can make sort of the awareness campaigns on SDG6 a little bit more relevant so as Pipa was talking about some of the activities that they've been doing in the UK about SDG6 and youth inclusion any thoughts from other people about how we could be addressing those issues and making those a bit more inclusive Dr. Prabhu let's see your mic Inclusion is most highlighting word now at present I want to share if we included the passionate disabled people in the main areas for youth engagement because passionate people most of many people many youth people are now passionate disability disabled people and government also trying to implement different programs for passionate disabilities and presently disabled person are most IT sectors are experienced IT sector through digital mobile digital laptop and other accessible dictionary so and that youth people who are disabled they are mostly dependent on digitalized systems so the main priority areas with inclusion for passionate disabled also included and and we are also in that youth as the power we are working on training on climate change issue through online and they are focused on some program they are focusing on their demonstration through pre-apprenticeship some embankment reconstruction they are working with the government department join the work and sometimes they are working on roof garden for practicing so if practically they will achieve this target they will implement this they will be more trust on youth and many should organization of Bangladesh should focusing on youth engagement and youth development related program for climate action within soon it should be urgently required Thank you Dr. Prabhupada I would like to pick on one point sorry Adnan would you like to go Sorry you are interrupting just in terms of inclusion for SDG-6 it is particularly hard for example accessible latrine for the person of visibility there are so many problems in the context of Bangladesh but we are trying from water to figure it out but however when it comes to inclusion it is becoming a buzzword but when you trickle down to the grass root level to figure out when you are singling out different people different groups of people having a set bit of solutions for each it is becoming difficult so that is why maybe some communities get left out but at the same time we are trying to figure it out so excellent point there in terms of bringing in youth for different sectors yeah this is also mentioned about that I want to share that recently Bangladesh Air2I program in the UNESCO WSIS WSIS prize for inclusion ensuring SIHR for youth on person with disability SIHR rights it is accessible digitalized digitalized practice SIHR rights for person with disability worldwide it is now highlighting and Bangladesh achieved the championship so you are doing the best that is good enough Sakip, on your point please just on that note then perhaps if I can get people to sort of think a little bit about inclusivity of youth in SDG 13 or any of the other points that have come up so far in the meantime just to pick up on a little bit of what Dr. Prabhul mentioned about the age that we are in right now dealing with a lot of the pandemic issues everything starting to become a digital as we can see this conference right now is digital otherwise it would have been in person here in Dhaka as originally intended so again there is quite a lot of youth people here maybe they would like to speak a little bit about some of the challenges maybe or some of the advantages that you have been having because of things moving into more of a digital forum in some of the activities that you are doing or what you are working with are these moves towards digital arenas becoming more challenging or you find it more advantageous for you perhaps maybe if people could come in with a little bit of comments on those and as Adnan mentioned about climate actions in your area maybe perhaps a little bit taking us towards SDG 13 what are some of the activities that you are seeing as impacts in your areas what are some of the ways that maybe the youth are being engaged in taking initiatives or giving quite a lot of thinking points if I could ask Vincent since you are a global participant here if you are there if you could share your insight sorry I am calling out or anyone else for that matter I think we have a few here as well if I had to call out name sorry Zainab are you in so yeah maybe I share something sorry for the background noise at my end I am not really quite pleased no worries so maybe I will share something about the quite which is the conference of youth organized every year before COP so this year since everything is going digital and remote so it is very difficult for the whole conference secretary to organize everything so looking into the possible opportunities which we have again we are going at some part we are organizing things virtually and then some things are again happening on-ground in addition to that maybe I will share some general comments on how we can make youth participation more inclusive it could be we have to identify how we can provide meaningful opportunities to youth and how we can make the youth participation more inclusive manner through a bottom up approach because in the global south or maybe the south region countries we have seen that there is a very common approach of the things being dictated by the higher authorities and young people don't have any say in the policymaking or they are not being incorporated in the planning process so it is very important to involve them through a bottom up approach and also to bridge that particular gap between knowledge and action through capacity building because willingness is out there people are ready to do their part and to add their part in the community but they don't know how so it is very important to bridge this particular gap through their capacity building, training mutual audit sharing and activities like that and I believe it is also very important to invite them and to listen what they are saying and to incorporate their voices in the policy dialogue and the whole process so that they don't feel like it is a very tokenistic approach and they feel like being part of that particular process and all these the points which I have mentioned could be incorporated into the process through a proper institutionalization because the things the way the things are happening right now there is no proper framework things are not institutionalized in our governments it is very important to provide them a platform to acknowledge their work which is being done and to provide them with the right opportunities through which we can foster this dialogue between a layman youth and the organization who are working on maybe STG13 or other STGs and the whole climate action process so these are like my two cents thank you Zainab I think that was very informative and I think I'll have a similar ask of you and maybe give you a couple of minutes to think and then come back to us later about the box at the sort of bottom of the screen there about what are some of the more key stakeholders some of the key actors that you would think at least at sort of organizing the national and regional and global levels that you should be sort of targeting as you say in being institutionalizing themselves within the national planning or even international treaties or the key actors that perhaps we should be looking towards as supportive or people that we should really be taking our voices towards so maybe I'll give you some time to think about that and then either you could write those on the chat or maybe I can circle back and get on to that are there any other thoughts about anybody else anything that we've sort of been discussing again let's be a bit more open about it we can be about any of the STGs that we have so far if you've gotten any sort of feedback from some of the work that you're doing the activities that you've taken if you'd like to ask a few questions to our youth speakers as well anything or perhaps our youth speakers themselves something some reflections that you're getting now while you're hearing some people in the group would any of our speakers like to come in and maybe make some comments I can go in reverse order of the speakers or I can pick by random sorry if you're there if you could just reiterate the challenges you are facing in terms of implementing SGG6 so that our other speakers can reflect on it thank you so much for giving me floor again in my experience like the first question is advocacy youth friendly and inclusive in terms of gender inclusion this is a yes I faced some problems while doing the worst like I remember the I was going to a household for collecting data for a water related project I was collecting data about their work for usage so that was a work day and I went to a household and I knocked and that was a work day so no male members were present at that moment so female members opened the door and when they see me a male person they feel a bit shy they are water usage related or any other related data they feel shy to talk with me that day I targeted I think I would I targeted I would collect 30 data from the different households and that day I collected none because most of them were facing the same issue so yes there is really a trust issue while implementing some projects thank you Zareef I think that is also something that not just in the sort of gender clash between youth and perhaps as a researcher taking data collecting some information or so but I think overall that was something that was again growing back from some of our experiences of one of the other sessions on youth about how the youth get credibility how do we build the trust of the system for the youth to be engaged in that sort of loops back to something that Pippo was saying about making that a bit more sustained it's very difficult to build that sort of trust in system breaking the sort of gender barriers breaking the sort of youth and seniority barriers if you are only doing it as a one-off activity and I think you know building that trust takes time something that you have to be doing over time sustainably doing it at every opportunity that you are able to give and then giving platform for people to really build up their capacities and give their inputs in a fair manner builds up the trust over time so I think that's a good point sorry, thank you should we ask one of the other speakers while maybe some people are getting their thinking together Joey would you like to comment? Yeah Joey if you are there, if you could share While working as an Indigenous woman the things that mean that I face there are not enough data for the Indigenous people in manifestation and as it is added that the youth ideas are not taken seriously and become and being a woman and also that added Indigenous women in Bangladesh and the security and equal opportunities are not presented the way it should that's what I really face when I work or try to collect the data so that's that's the point of view of mine I think again a chronic problem in almost a lot of developing country context is the lack of data there are lots of places where this data does not exist there's a lot of places where perhaps the data exists but it's behind some firewall or left in somebody's shelf that isn't disseminated publicly and then again as people that work in these projects researchers or project managers and NGOs we have to do the thing from scratch again so it could really you're not able to build on the good practices doing things from scratch so thank you for bringing that forward Dr. Prabhul, I'll come to you maybe just if I give the floor to Anika to maybe have some actually I focus on SDG 10 as global inequity SDG 10 it also related on climate changes and also for Bangladesh because people having coastal area and how area are facing inequality which are also related of climate change and we have sometime in research work and I also work on global inequalities and climate displacement or climate change affected people so youth also can also work on reducing inequality issue inequality issue for the future and the trust trust of the people is also most important issue in my experience in Chittagang Hilltrack of living in Chittagang Hilltrack I saw that the trust between indigenous people and other Bengali people and non-indigenous people is mainly a factor for not able to real data because the trust is main things as I experienced and also in if the youth the people who are talk about the youth people the data is not as if he take the community, local community people he can able to real data so trust of community people and trust also indigenous and Bengali is also the main factor for not obtaining real data in any area or any in Chittagang Hilltrack is the main reason for impact thank you that's quite right thank you Dr. Prabhal I think exactly that one of the issues is that you know if you're sort of lacking the essential foundations of trust and credibility then it becomes a bit difficult to really rely on the data that you might be collecting even if people are responsive and they're saying something you have to keep revising and again it comes back to the issue of whether we're really able to build on the good successes of projects and research that we have or are we having to do things from scratch yes I work experience in the hard to reach posterity and we always give the give the information to community readers then he help to be visited in nearby area who will be benefited who will be victim this is the main point at first we build the trust of community people then we will go to the field thank you Dr. Prabhal I know we'll come to Annika so just before I do I'll give you and Zainab a sort of the task that I would like in case of if you remember just sort of talking about the key stakeholders so please have a little think about that and maybe put that into the chat so that we can appropriately put those in the notes of the rapid tours Annika would you like to comment Annika I'm not sure if it's by internet or Annika's yes internet problem is it's already a lot go ahead I missed a lot of things but I have already mentioned that am I audible Annika go ahead I've already mentioned that I'm working with the youth of our area so I felt like the real scenario of those remote areas are not coming out they are actually suffering more and mainly the girls in there like they are literally forced to marriage which I think should become out and also also as they are not able to I think we can come back to Annika I think she's having yeah so we have members from women I think Khadija is here so just I wanted to throw a question like for the discussion so there are a lot of challenges I think as Joy mentioned like inclusivity is hard in terms of including Indigenous women in terms of achieving certain issues or solving certain issues so Khadija if you could just help us out on understanding how your organisations are playing a crucial part in achieving such problems if you're there yeah I am hi so I have not particularly worked with Indigenous community or Indigenous women as of yet but what we are focusing on right now is that we kind of gave up on trying to teach older people how to provide a more inclusive society that's like that's really hard for us so what we are focusing on is we're working with children we teach them inclusivity we teach them about like how there are no gender roles we teach them about other respecting other basically other genders and how they could basically we try to create an environment where they grow up to be more inclusive in nature so I feel that if we can actually focus on this the younger generation that we have right now particularly starting with children then we probably can have a better situation in the future and that would create a better environment for the youth and basically for everyone so I feel that it's never too late and it is going so changes take time it's going to take a lot of time so we should focus we should at least start now and focusing on children we should start teaching them all the things that we want in the future so that maybe we can have a more inclusive environment for everyone thank you so much I think it's really important at the same time it will take time but hopefully in the next nine years we can bring about positive changes in those localities so Sakib Bhai I think you had given to I think Anika just come back so maybe if we could just give it to her for a couple of minutes to finish her talk sure Anika the floor is yours I don't know if she's dropped out again Anika can you hear us I think internet issues it's fine oh I think she's having some issues sorry so just before we sort of go to the wrap up I think maybe if I can ask Zainab and Dr. Prabhu if they'd like to give us a bit of inputs into the key stakeholders that our youth participants in the call today should sort of aim for so Dr. Prabhu if I can give you a minute or two and Zainab I'll come to you for a minute or two thank you I want to about that key stakeholders key stakeholders because Indian then administration will be the main government's points for taking the information for activities so if we first highlighting the information or raise the program to Upojara administration they will they will send the news to district administration or central government and also sometimes there's some government department in Upojara level Upojara level and we also some sending the information to that office and also sometimes ministry of disaster management ministry of we sometimes send the information to them and ministry of other information like ministry of environment forest and climate change also the key stakeholder for us for taking the information taking the note according to the circumstances but if we want to the youth engagement ministry of youth also the main key stakeholders because there are some initiative for funding for youth in the field level which is always for the in Upojara I observed that Upojara youth department says that we have a fund but we cannot utilize because because of some initiative so if we if we if we establish the linkages with relevant department of government department or other sectors and just sectors like the different organization according to the condition it will the policies the demand will be fruitful and people take facilities for solve the crisis or solve the problem so I think again just sort of maybe one thing that I would advise for our youth participants in the call to not only think about the national level ministerial departments but also looking at some of the local government institutions, maybe some of the district and regional ones that you are sort of more able to go and approach municipal or city corporations there are 155 social security strategies in Bangladesh and then most of the things are lacking of information to youth people who are how they got the facilities of the social security strategies because you know in poichu also distributed so many social security strategies like youth or social development but also that due to corruption due to problem of the local administration but effective door communication should be required not because we sometimes you know Prasad also said there is a certificate but this was unknown thank you that actually brings up a very important point about certifications and permits so I think there is quite a lot that we need to be doing in collaboration with public sector at all different levels so that's a very important stakeholder to be looking at maybe just a couple of minutes to Zainab about sort of engaging with stakeholders what are you guys seeing as sort of important stakeholders and networks that you're trying to build maybe if you could do it in about a minute or two and then I'll hand over to Adnan yeah sure so some of the stakeholders which I could think would be the ministry there could be like ministry of climate change or maybe the local and provincial EPAs depending on the context of the government depending on the country again then the local governments are very important because again ministries are not working locally in the region so local government provide a context and provide a framework for whatever action we are going to take the formal and informal youth groups then who are better connected with the people especially the youth groups across the country they are very important to to be reached out and to be involved in the process, NGOs, CSOs and think tanks are again very important because they reach a gap where we need research and development tasks, they are better connected and they are they better know the problems of the local area because they are working at the grassroots level and they are better connected at the grassroots level with the local people it's very important not to ignore the entrepreneurs especially the social entrepreneurs because they are the people who identify the opportunities available to us to the governments to take action and to to work on those particular gaps which have not been identified earlier. Indigenous groups are very important because they are the main I would say the knowledge holders which could again make the process very powerful if it's done in a right way and then the local community is again not to be ignored because the local community particularly provides a context for every action we are going to take it's very important to involve them in a process so I can be there some of the stakeholders which I also share in a chat for your reference Thank you so much Zainab I think that was also very informative for people to sort of have their thinking around when they're sort of looking at what different activities they would like to be designing so I think that's really really informative, thank you so much with that I think our discussion portion is sort of over if there are any final comments or so if people would like to maybe put that into the chat and I'll hand over to Adnan for now, thank you Now before quickly going there, Zair if your hand is up if you want to share anything Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me the floor and I would like to add couple of points before we wrap up the challenges we face that I face in person that people don't take things seriously like they know that the water is limited but they don't take this seriously they hear the thing that yes okay we have fixed this okay then they forward, they move on and so on and again they also like to blame others like in this project in my leak tab project when I tell someone that you have to fix their leak tabs for the future they like to blame that the authority installed the wrong tab why did they do it in the first place so self initiative is less from their part and the fact is that water is limited in this case the people who has the less education like the slum people they know the value of water that the thing I see but yes they don't know that the fact that water is limited so thank you I would like to add that Thank you Zair, it's really important mindsets and people actions are really necessary to bring about positive change it's almost midnight in Bangladesh, thank you for sticking with us so far till now, so just to conclude we had some really good discussions and really good points coming in for the three different SDGs we presented today I think with those particular insights we'll be taking forward on our drawing boards from both ecad and water it on how to better improve the different issues or challenges we're facing in different areas of Bangladesh and maybe come up with an inclusive policy response in terms of achieving those particular targets with that, thank you so much for joining thank you to my colleagues at ecad thank you for being patient enjoy the rest of your evening thank you