Success Stories
African Climate Mobility Initiative (ACMI)
Led by
ACMI, UNICEF, Migration Youth and Children Platform, Greenwall Foundation, Bosch Foundation
Scope
Regional (Africa)
Stakeholders targeted
African youth, especially those from vulnerable backgrounds
Youth rights in focus
- Right to clean, healthy and sustainable environment
- Right to seek asylum
- Right to decent work
Main objectives
- To enable African youth to design solutions to climate
mobility, with a focus on green skills - To empower African youth to engage with climate
policy-making, with a focus on capacity-building for the
38 - Conference of the Parties (COP), a key UN conference on
climate change
Key outcomes
- 8-9 youth finalists presented their proposals at the COP27
pavilion - Connected platform for youth collaboration across Africa
- Recognition of the intersections between different youth
rights
Success factors
- Strong public- and private-sector partners, including
institutional support - Inclusive and meaningful youth engagement
- Science-policy apparatus
- Prevalence of climate mobility vis-a-vis youth rights
- Prior experience of the Migration Youth and Children
- Platform with the Youth Innovation Award
Challenges
Resource constraints among youth constituencies, and lobbying partners to provide resources to address the gap
Lessons learned
- The importance of a collaborative process
- Bridging the gap between science, policy and advocacy
- The intersection of different youth rights
