SHARING INNOVATIVE PRACTICES Project Proposal
WATER YOUTH NETWORK October, 2014
SHARING INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
Sharing Innovative Practices: Addressing the lack of concrete youth outcomes at water sector events The youth worldwide is progressively making its voice heard in the water world. However, once an event is over, there are little to none means through which the youth may continue engaged and active. The Water Youth Network (WYN) wants to change that. Our goal with this project is to emphasize and share youth innovative practices during international, regional, and local events by offering selected youth organizations and individuals a platform where they can expand their projects and collaborate with new partners.
What do we want? To maximize and optimize youth experience in water-related events. We want to effectively promote youth empowerment and show the added value of youth and their innovative practices. The project builds upon the founding pillars of the WYN: to connect; to create continuity between youth initiatives; to promote and support knowledge and encourage constant innovation; and finally, to facilitate and empower meaningful youth participation. Overall, the Sharing Innovative Practices project aims to:
a. Develop, share and disseminate knowledge; b. Support communication on particularly successful and innovative practices implemented by youth and their organizations; c. Connect local experiences to international events and vice versa; d. Follow up the future connection between the youth and promote their voice with donors, and multinational organizations.
The timeframe of the project will be of one and a half years (July 2014 - December 2015), with a possible follow up.
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How are we going to achieve this?
Creating regional organizing teams
Collecting innovative practices
Selecting projects in regional platforms
Presenting innovative practices at international events
Step 1: Defining strong regional organizing teams consisting of WYN members and partners in:
North America
Latin America
Africa and MENA (Middle East & North Africa)
Europe
Asia-Pacific
Step 2: Connecting the regional organizing teams to other regional and local organizations and collecting innovative practices.
We are going to identify young individuals and organizations active in the water sector that have implemented/are implementing innovative practices. This will enable local individuals and youth organizations to communicate about their activities and connect to international partners and events.
Step 3: Selecting projects for a regional database and for events on innovative practices.
A set of regional events is going to be organized by the teams. The main goal of those events is to serve as a youth platform for knowledge sharing, development and dissemination among (mainly) young people and organizations, which are the target audience of the WYN. Each regional organizing team will be responsible for preparing the youth-driven knowledge platform (event) in their region.
Step 4: Presenting the selected innovative practices at international water-related events in which the WYN is involved, therefore, strengthening the quality and representation of youth participation.
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Why get involved?
Knowledge sharing and development: Help other organizations and increase your knowledge by sharing innovative practices and lessons learned.
Standardize the diverse regional initiatives: Create a common path for the preparation of international events and strength the quality of youth participation.
Connect with others and strength collaboration: The collaboration between youth organizations is critical for the success of the proposed projects. By connecting and collaborating you will be able to expand your projects.
Present your innovative practices: The WYN can facilitate your involvement in youth platforms at international events.
Youth empowerment and involvement: We aim to show that, despite the complexity of the process, youth manages to work together in achieving a common goal: youth empowerment!
We look forward to your involvement!
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