The White Paper for International Voluntary Service 2011-21, created through a participatory process over 18 months and involving over 100 organisations, was at the basis of the analysis for this application. This project is issued from a review of the White Paper in 2016 and the Plan of Action 2017-18 it seek to provide new skills in the field of environment and sustainability whilst taking into account ways that the network can tackle poverty reduction and health promotion issues through the continuation of the IVS Against Climate Change campaign which was set up in 2015 as a banner to highlight the actions of different IVS networks on environmental sustainability, and to emphasize the contribution of IVS to the attainment of the SDGs. The project incorporates 5 phases: • Visibility/networking: Conference on the Role of IVS and Climate Justice including a Forum on this subject in UNESCO, Paris April 2018. Different visibility events on each activity and the 70th anniversary celebrations of CCIVS though 2018• Workshops: practical and theoretical work 1 Bio-construction in Ecuador June 20181 Sustainable Food Production in India November 2018• Follow-up system: monitoring, impact measurement, online campus for 30 local projects in Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Final Online interactive panel meeting with the Steering team to close the project.• Online Results: Global communication campaign. Collecting the impact measurement results and the reporting of the process from the local projects and diffusing them internally and externally• Sustainability: inviting external stakeholders to follow the process and to become engaged with the organisationsThe aim of this project is to empower the partner organisations and the IVS movement (and in turn other organisations/ young people/communities who wish to follow the results of the project) to start the pathway (or to strengthen their organisations) towards the implementation of sustainable youth led initiatives in local communities around the globe. The project unites formal and non formal education through the work with a University expert in Bio-construction and cooperation with Universities for visibility events and Impact measurement correlation. The objectives of these initiatives is to work towards Climate Justice and the attainment of the SDGs whilst focusing on two concrete areas which can create the seed for change - Bio-construction and Sustainable Food Production.
This project is developed based on the direction of the White Paper for International Voluntary Service (IVS) 2011-21 and the Plan of Action 2017-18 of the CCIVS. Considering the network’s objective to tackle poverty reduction and health promotion, the project sought to provide partners and stakeholders with new skills, experiences and resources in the field of Sustainable food production and Bioconstruction. Under the IVS for Climate Justice campaign (http://ccivs.org/ivsforclimatejustice) the project bought together different IVS networks and engaging volunteers with local communities to work on grassroots projects that combine manual work and awareness raising actions, including climate change, carbon offset, environmental sustainability, protection of ecosystems, water and soil management and conservation.The aims & objectives of this project were to:• develop IVS organisations’ youth workers and trainers capacity of acting as multipliers in their regions and in their organisations• raise awareness of the work of the IVS network on Climate Justice and towards the attainment of the SDGs through providing spaces and data for visibility and networking on an international & local level• strengthen participation in the global IVS network and connection between organisations who may also make part of different networks who would not normally work together and with external stakeholders• strengthen cooperation between the formal and non-formal education sectors• enable IVS organisations to use monitoring & impact measurement tools• create inclusive environments for young people with fewer opportunities from local communities, integrating them in the follow-up actions of the project• revalorise traditional / alternative farming and construction techniques• stimulate the development of innovative follow-up processes with online and offline tools which will remain in place once the project is over• raise awareness about the effects unsustainable food production and housing and their contribution to Climate Change In order to reach the objectives, the project incorporated the following five phases:Visibility and networking: Conference (21 - 25 April 2018) on the Role of IVS and Climate Justice including a Forum ‘Just Volunteers: The Transformational Power of International Voluntary Actions for Climate Justice and Freedom of Movement’ in UNESCO. It included different visibility actions on each activity, the project was one of the core activities during the 70th anniversary celebrations of CCIVS through 2018 - 2019. Thematic Workshops (practical and theoretical) on:Bioconstruction in Quito, Ecuador (8 – 17 June 2018)Sustainable Food Production in Kundapur, India (16 - 25 November 2018) Follow-up system: monitoring, impact measurement, tailored online follow-up for 30 local projects in Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe by the experts. The online interactive platform and meeting acts as the closing event of the project within the consortium. Online Results: the Global Communication Campaign progressively promoted the project milestones results and advocated for the impact of IVS local actions, including the workshops outcomes, good practices of the local actions, impact measurement results, etc. Sustainability: this phase invited external stakeholders and local communities to use and promote the toolkits and the MOOC developed, continue the partnership dynamics and develop new funding strategies, keep conducting the impact measurement to evaluate their local projects and monitor their quality. It’s important to highlight that the project unites formal and non-formal education through the cooperation with the Technological University of Santa Fe (Argentina). Moreover, the consortium represents a large diversity of regions and the IVS networks, , including the SCI, ICYE, NVDA, Alliance and the African platforms.