The GYBN Capacity Building Workshop Asia 2018 has been officially inaugurated with a lightening of ceremony and a traditional prayer. We have been honored to have chief guest P. Raghuveer PCCF, distinguished guest Achalendar Reddy PCCF and T.S. Forest Academy director Kota Tirupataiah APCCF.
The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) is an international network of youth organizations and individuals from all over the world whose common goal is to prevent the loss of biodiversity.GYBN aims to represent the voice of global youth in the negotiations under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), raise awareness among young people of the values of biodiversity, and connect individuals and youth organizations in order to build a global coalition to halt the loss of biodiversity.
As the official major group for youth in the negotiations under the CBD, GYBN is committed to bringing the opinions and positions of young people into the political process; empowering young people to take action. Recognized and supported by the CBD Secretariat, GYBN seeks to inspire global youth and future leaders to work for the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity for a healthy environment and society.
As of January, GYBN has 280 member organizations, representing more than 500000 youth members from 150 countries worldwide.
To strengthen the capacity of young leaders to take action in support of National Biodiversity Strategies and Actions Plan (NBSAPs) and to contribute towards the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network is hosting a series of capacity-building workshops for ASIA, AFRICA and LATIN-AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN in 2018 and 2019. This is possible thanks to generous support from the Japan Biodiversity Fund, the European Commission, the CBD Secretariat, the African Wildlife Foundation, Engajamundo and the Telangana Forest Department.
The workshop for ASIA is being held in partnership with the Telangana Forest Department in Hyderabad, India, from the 14th to the 20th of October of 2018. Here, participants will take part in team building, networking and training sessions in international biodiversity conservation policy, mobilization, advocacy, campaign skills and project management to create or enhance existing projects that directly contribute to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the implementation of NBSAPs.
By the end of the Workshop in Saturday 20th, the participants from all the Asia sub regions will present a Position Paper, the work that their organizations have been doing at the sub-regional level and how this will contribute to the Youth Action Plan for Biodiversity post 2020 that they will develop.