Climate Leadership Fellowship
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About the Climate Leadership Fellowship

Climate change impact is ravaging the world. In Nigeria, severe cases of drought and desertification are ravaging parts of the north leading to conflicts from lack of water. Agricultural yields have been heavily affected causing high poverty rate. Extreme flooding, disease spread through contaminated water is reported in the south. The time is now to invest into a new generation of young leaders to lead change for climate action.

The Climate Leadership Fellowship initiated by Climate Smart Nigeria in partnership with Glow initiative for Economic Empowerment with support from Access Bank PLC is designed to provide expert training on climate change advocacy and leadership to a new crop of young Nigerian leaders to build national climate resilience. The 10-week program will welcome and empower 30 leaders with expert training to lead change for climate action, in turn, the fellows will adopt schools and teach climate change across Nigeria and implement a climate data policy in their community and on social media. All fellows will receive a climate education toolkit and a certificate of climate leadership.

Benefits of the program

Receive expert training from globally renowned climate activists
Be trained as a climate change educator
Receive a Climate Change Education toolkit to teach in secondary schools
Trained on how to implement a climate data policy
Join the climate soldier movement
Be inducted into the School of Climate Action
Gain access to free trainings and up skilling programs
Gain work experience in the area of climate leadership
Gain recommendations for fellowships or international trainings
Receive a Climate Leadership Certificate

Goal

In a year the CLF will train 20000 students in secondary schools and mentor 200 climate educators.
We estimate to train 140, 000 students as climate champions and 1, 400 climate educators in the next seven years.

WHAT PREVIOUS COHORT MEMBERS SAY

The CLF program is one of the best fellowships programs I have attended. The expert training helped me teach climate change to my students who has never heard the word climate before but now they can write, draw, sing, dramatize and talk climate change. The market community I engaged have asked how to partner with me to continue with the climate change campaign.
Permit me to say " CLF to the World"!

As the Communication Lead for Laudato Si Nigeria, the program has enhanced my communication skills in speaking to young people about climate justice and how they can take positive actions.

Through the CLF, I have learnt diverse methods of communicating climate change in simple but understandable way through the expert courses which deepened my understanding about the science, causes and effects of climate change, as a result, I have now launched a new initiative that will promote the adaptation of climate change impacts in Africa.

The Climate Leadership Fellowship has been a beautiful experience for me and has placed me at the frontiers of climate change activism. My period teaching the kids about climate change opened my eyes to how much practical change can be achieved if only we step out and get started. The skills I learnt during the expert trainings will be useful to me as I launch my renewable energy company.

This program includes two week intensive expert training on climate change for all select fellows
All fellows who complete the intensive training will receive the climate education toolkit
Afterwards, fellows will Adopt a School where they will teach climate change
Fellows will implement a climate data policy in the schools and communities where they will work and on social media
Fellows will be trained on how to teach using the provided resource
Fellows will teach climate Change using the toolkit in select schools for a four week period
Fellows will create climate change leadership clubs in the schools where they will work
Fellows are encouraged to demonstrate innovation in the school, community where they will work by carrying out small climate change project to drive home their teaching including implementing the climate data policy
Two outstanding fellows who demonstrate innovation in Adopt a school shall win NGN 50,000 each
Top 5 fellows will win the Climate Champion Award

Participants are expected to:

Commit 5 hours per week to the expert training and LIVE calls
Adopt a school and complete the four-week program teaching climate change in schools
Demonstrate innovation during the Adopt a School

Eligibility (who can apply)

Youth aged (22 – 35)

Graduated from University

Its OK if you're not a part of an organization

Demonstrated leadership for climate change and renewable energy

Passion to promote awareness for climate change

Selected applicants should be available and willing to teach climate change within their communities using provided toolkit, participate in the climate leadership expert training, submit a fellowship workplan and be available for all virtual meetings.

Part of a growing environmental/renewable energy organization or involved/interested in a renewable energy business (serving Corp members with interest in renewable energy can apply)

From any part of the world but resident in Nigeria

THE TEAM

Contact Information

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