Semi-arid youth on the road to COP30
The Semi-Arid Platform of Latin America is a network of organizations present in 10 countries, dedicated to articulating efforts to secure rights, strengthen resilience and promote sustainable development in the continent’s semi-arid regions. With the of the International Land Coalition (ILC), it emerged in 2012 from an exchange of experiences between organizations in Argentina’s Chaco and Brazil’s Northeast.
Since its foundation, the Platform has been a catalyst for international exchange and cooperation between the peoples of Latin America’s semi-arid regions. In this context, rural youth have become the protagonists of a set of actions that began in 2019 with the “Youth and Agroecology” approach.
With many partners, various actions were carried out that developed the sense of collective and articulation of more than 300 young people from different countries: Youth and Agroecology Exchange (2019), the Knowledge Internship Program (2020-2022), and the DAKI-Youth Training Program (2023). In this process, two Political Charters (2019 and 2024) were discussed and published, establishing the seed of a Latin American Youth Network for the Semi-Arid as the fruit of these different processes.
In 2025, together with the Sabiá Agroecological Development Center, in partnership with the Climate Observatory (OC) and with the of Terre Des Hommes Suisse (TDH), we will take another step with the “Semi-Arid Youth” training trail: a training course for rural youth in Latin America, which will combine online training and face-to-face exchanges, in preparation for COP30.
The project seeks to strengthen the networking and advocacy strategies of young people in decision-making spaces, ensuring that their voices echo and their messages reach global discussion processes, with the aim of generating commitments to climate justice and agroecology, in a way that is contextualized to semi-arid realities.
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Training trail: SEMIARID YOUTH AHEAD OF COP30!
THEME: Strengthening Rural Youth in Latin America’s Semi-Arid Regions
OBJECTIVE: to train and strengthen rural young people up to the age of 35 on issues related to coexistence with the semi-arid region and political advocacy, in preparation for COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE (BILINGUAL):
- Period: June to November 2025
- Duration: 6 months
- 4 virtual modules
- Climate Justice and Territory
- Coexistence with the Semi-Arid and Agroecology
- Advocacy and Political Incidence
- Operation of COP3O and Network Action
- 2 virtual meetings per module: always on Thursdays
- On-site exchange: August 2025 (subject to availability)
- Complementary activities + product for COP30: Preparation of aPolicy Paper for COP30, digital campaigns and replication of knowledge in the territories.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
- 100 young people actively participating in the activities
- Representativeness of the Semiarid Platform’s focus regions
- 10 young people taking part in COP30 and other events
- 1 collectivepolicy paper for COP30
- 4 replicable modules and 1 virtual library
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
We invite your organization to mobilize the youth to take part in this formative trail. And to help mobilize them, we suggest inviting 05 young people who:
- Demonstrate the ability to multiply the knowledge acquired;
- At least 50% women;
- At least 50% are rural youth, from traditional communities, indigenous peoples, and/or black and brown people.
Young people must fill in the application form individually by 20/06.
We are counting on you to take part in this initiative and strengthen the links between rural youth in Latin America!
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