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Youth climate councils aim to locally combat climate crisis

Marianne Dhenin

September 12, 2022 |

Prism |

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Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

Through the San Antonio Mayor's Youth Engagement Council, students network with municipal officials, conduct research, and complete community-based projects to help them develop policy proposals around issues such as the climate crisis. Participants have organized workshops and collected food and hygiene donations to support vulnerable residents and say serving on the council has provided them a venue to work on issues that are important to them.

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Empowering female journalists for leadership roles

Noah Aderoju

September 09, 2022 |

Media Career Development Network |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

The Female Reporters Leadership Programme trains Nigerian journalists to step into leadership positions and encourage more coverage of issues affecting women and girls in their newsrooms, with instruction and mentorship around leadership skills, sexual and gender-based violence, criminal justice and more. The initiative has trained 74 fellows so far, and more than half of participants surveyed were promoted or took on additional responsibilities at work after completing the fellowship.

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How Liberia's frontline health workers are protecting us all

Peter Yeung

September 06, 2022 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Liberia

Liberia's community health worker program taps residents of rural areas to receive training in disease surveillance and basic health care, creating a network of on-the-ground professionals to report potential outbreaks before they begin to spread. The program has contributed to more rapid treatment of malaria cases, with 71 percent of cases treated within 24 hours in 2021, and has significantly increased the number of rural residents with access to care.

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Brothers Empowered to Teach: 'Planting seeds for that next generation'

Jan Risher

August 28, 2022 |

The Advocate |

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Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Brothers Empowered to Teach provides a paid fellowship to train Black men to be teachers. The organization focuses on the development of the whole person, from character building and life skills to teaching experience. They have placed over 170 people in classrooms since its inception, providing visibility and representation for young children to see people who look like them in careers they may not have thought possible for themselves.

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Communities getting 'smart' on climate change

Cayte Bosler

August 16, 2022 |

Adirondack Explorer |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

New York’s Climate Smart Communities program helps municipalities work to reduce local emissions by awarding them “points” for completing climate-conscious actions such as installing charging stations for electric vehicles or designating space for solar infrastructure. Each participating community forms a local task force to oversee its environmental efforts, and many receive technical assistance and support to help them apply for grants and coordinate documentation.

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Program guides Tohono O'odham toward national park careers

Caitlin Schmidt

August 10, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

As a part of the Arizona Conservation Corps’ Indigenous Communities Program, young adults from the Tohono O'odham Nation are working at national parks across Southern Arizona to build experience for careers in the National Park Service. The crews do restoration work, inventory resources, and educate the public and park visitors on the sites’ significance.

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The Democracy Deficit

Ravi Agrawal

August 09, 2022 |

Foreign Policy |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: France

In response to the yellow vest movement, France decided to experiment with "open democracy" by convening the French Citizens Convention on Climate, which asked 150 randomly-selected citizens to consider ways for the country to curb greenhouse gas emissions. With the help of more than 100 experts, the convention developed 149 recommendations that were used as the basis for France's most ambitious climate legislation proposal to date.

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Corps member's media advocacy helped construct Ayegbami's road taking lives

Nurudeen Lawal Rahaman Abiola

July 26, 2022 |

Legit.ng |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ayegbami

After an impassable road cut the community of Ayegbami off from business and cultural opportunities, a corps member with the National Youth Service Scheme chose to tackle the issue as his Community Development Service project. Through media advocacy and direct outreach to relevant officials, the community was able to get the government's attention and the road was reconstructed with a new bridge to control erosion, allowing the local economy to rebound.

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Two Cities Took Different Approaches to Pandemic Court Closures. They Got Different Results.

Alec MacGillis

July 19, 2022 |

ProPublica |

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Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

To curtail the societal ripple effects of prolonged court closures, Kansas' Sedgwick County courtrooms reopened with precautions just four months after initially shuttering due to COVID-19, and later brought in retired judges to help work through the court's backlog of cases. The Wichita court was able to perform more criminal jury trials at the height of the pandemic than other cities and actually saw homicides decline in 2021 as the nationwide murder rate climbed.

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How to provide IDPs with housing? Solution: restoring abandoned buildings

Alice Smahina

June 28, 2022 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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Response Location: Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk

Ukrainian community members, migrants, businesses, and organizations banded together on Second Home IF, a grassroots project to renovate an empty dormitory at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas as temporary housing for people displaced by the Russian invasion. The dorm now houses 50 people, and the project is being replicated in other parts of the country.

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