MYCJN in partnership with WildAsia is proud to bring you the Environmental Sustainability Leadership Symposium 2009. Read on more on how you can participate here.

PROGRAMME GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The Environmental Sustainability Leadership Symposium aims to:

• Empower 30 Malaysian youth by providing them with the necessary tools and skills to become independent sustainability leaders capable of building capacity among Malaysian youth, able to function as peer educators in their own communities, and inspire a greater environmental awareness and responsibility in others.
• Establish a core of effective climate advocates who will be able to facilitate synergy and coordinate various chapters of the youth climate justice network.
• Facilitate the formulation and planning of several strategic climate change related projects where participants of the symposium will answer the call to action by putting their own ideas to work using the tools and resources that have been introduced during the symposium. These initiatives will be varied, incorporating the use of diverse medium with different scopes, to communicate urgency and advocate for bold and just climate policy.
• Prepare and enable a delegation of 10 Malaysian youth, identified as potential leaders, to be part of the Global Youth Climate Justice movement at the COP 15 negotiations in Copenhagen. At the negotiations, the delegation will observe and monitor theinternational process and provide the Malaysian youth perspective during various workshops and panels.From this learning experience, the delegation will be responsible for communicating the outcome of the negotiations to other Malaysian youth as well as analysing the best way forward to prepare for the 2nd commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

PROGRAM DATE

• 28th August - 30th August 2009.

SESSIONS

• Media boot camp for effective campaigns and exploiting new media
• Fundraising
• Organisation, management, recruitment and sustainability
• History of the green movement in Malaysia and moving forward
• Project management skills
• Brainstorming on action plans
• Catalysing agents of change

PARTICIPANT & APPLICATION PROCESS

• Malaysian citizens aged 18-30 on 27 August 2009.
• Be of Malaysian citizenship.

• An application form will be available on-line.
• Applicants will be required to demonstrate their experience and skills to win a place at the Symposium, provide reference support, and outline a strategic climate change related project which could be carried out after the Symposium.
• The selection panel will convene to pick the 30 best applicants.
• Applicants will be notified by email or phone call.

APPLICATION FORM

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PARTICIPATION FEE

Details on the participation fee will be updated soon.

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