Global Changemakers Asia Youth Summit

17-23 July 2011

Thế Hệ Xanh Việt Nam là mạng lưới các cá nhân, tổ chức thanh niên có chung mối quan tâm đến các vấn đề môi trường, sẵn sàng học hỏi và thay đổi vì một cuộc sống bền vững. Bằng nhiệt huyết và hành động của mình, Thế Hệ Xanh thúc đẩy giới trẻ và cộng đồng Hiểu về biến đổi khí hậu và thực hiện Hành động xanh. Thế Hệ Xanh hoạt động dưới sự điều phối và hỗ trợ của Trung tâm Sống và Học tập vì Môi trường và Cộng đồng (Live&Learn), cùng hợp tác với Oxfam, Hội đồng Anh, CARE Quốc tế tại Việt Nam, Đại sứ quán Phần Lan và các tổ chức, cá nhân chung nhiệt huyết.

Để nhận tin từ Thế hệ Xanh, các bạn hãy đăng ký tại website www.thehexanh.org và Google group http://groups.google.com/group/thehexanh

Vietnam Green Generation Network (The He Xanh) is a network of youth organizations and individuals who share concerns and are willing to learn and take action for a sustainable way of life. With motivation and enthusiasm, The He Xanh promotes youths and community to be Aware of and Act to address climate change. The He Xanh is supported and coordinated by Live & Learn for Community and Environment in cooperation with Oxfam, British Council, CARE International in Vietnam, Embassy of Finland and like-minded organizations and individuals.

To subscribe to Green Generation news and updates, please visit the website and Google group.

W: www.thehexanh.org Fb: www.faceboook.com/thehexanh GG: http://groups.google.com/group/thehexanh
E: greengeneration.viet@gmail.com; thehexanh@livelearn.org
T: + 844 37185930  F: +844 3718649

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Thế Hệ Xanh Việt Nam (Vietnam Green Generation Network) là mạng lưới các cá nhân, tổ chức thanh niên có chung mối quan tâm đến các vấn đề môi trường, sẵn sàng học hỏi và thay đổi vì một cuộc sống bền vững. Bằng nhiệt huyết và hành động của mình, Thế Hệ Xanh thúc đẩy giới trẻ và cộng đồng Hiểu về biến đổi khí hậu và thực hiện Hành động xanh.

Thế Hệ Xanh hoạt động dưới sự điều phối và hỗ trợ của Trung tâm Sống và Học tập vì Môi trường và Cộng đồng (Live&Learn), cùng hợp tác với Oxfam, Hội đồng Anh, CARE Quốc tế tại Việt Nam, Đại sứ quán Phần Lan và các tổ chức, cá nhân chung nhiệt huyết.

Global Changemakers Asia Youth Summit

17-23 July 2011

Global Changemakers is a British Council funded global youth network of social entrepreneurs and community activists from 112 countries worldwide. Its mission is to empower youth to catalyse positive social change, something which it achieves through:

1. Learning & Teaching: Global and regional summits, community and personal capacity building supported by free online curriculum
2. Doing: Individual and group projects address key global issues and facilitate joint working and create shared values: currently supporting 111 projects in 63 countries
3. Advocacy: GCM community is represented at high-level events

There are currently over 700 Changemakers and more than 200,000 young people involved in Global Changemakers activities each year. Since its inception at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in 2007, Global Changemakers has organised and run over 15 regional and global youth workshops across the world – in Amman, Beirut, Cape Town, Doha, Harare, Rio de Janeiro and London, among others. Global Changemakers have been invited to participate in World Economic Forum events in Cartagena, Dar es Salaam, Sharm el Sheikh, Cape Town, and Davos, the Clinton Global Initiative, G20, UN World Climate Conference, Women Deliver, and the launch of the World Bank’s Youth Anti-Corruption network.

What is the purpose of the Asia Youth Summit?

The AYS will select and bring together 60 young social entrepreneurs and community activists from across Asia for a five-day summit which will:

• Improve participants’ knowledge, insight, and exposure to key economic, political, and social issues in Asia and globally
• Improve participants’ ability to design and deliver projects by giving them the concrete tools and skills they need to amplify their work
• Support intercultural dialogue among young people from across Asia
• Serve as a platform to exchange knowledge, ideas and best practices of what works most effectively in the Asian context
• Grow and sustain the network of Global Changemakers in Asia

How will participants be selected?

On 1 April 2011, an online call for applications will go out on www.global-changemakers.net asking social entrepreneurs, community activists and volunteers from Asia and the UK aged 18-24 to submit a written application and 2-minute YouTube video detailing their track record in community work and how they plan to contribute to the network activity and wider impact if selected. Together with local staff and Global Changemakers from previous summits the applications will be evaluated and, considering the quality of the applications as well as geographic, thematic and gender balance, 54 candidates from Asia and 6 from the UK (with a strong Asia connection, e.g. migrant background, residence in Asia, project work in the region) will be invited to attend the summit and join the Global Changemakers network.

What is the format and timing for the event?
The event will take place 17-23 July and will consist of five full days of training, workshops and capacity building with experts and facilitators, as well as visits to local community projects. Global Changemakers alumni will function as peer facilitators.

What are the intended outcomes?

During the summit, participants will work in issues-based groups (e.g. environment and climate change, social entrepreneurship, education, human rights), to develop plans for Regional Action Projects (or RAPs) aimed at raising awareness of key issues facing Asia. Within a month of the summit’s conclusion, the groups will submit their proposals to the programme team, and 3-7 RAPs will receive funding to continue.

In addition, the participants brought into the network at the AYS become eligible to apply for individual grant funding and support. They will also join existing workgroups collecting knowledge, ideas and best practices and share their ideas and experience with the wider Global Changemakers community.

Further questions about Global Changemakers or the Asian Youth Summit?

Please contact globalchangemakers@britishcouncil.org or visit www.global.changemakers.net