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How the Youth can scale up Adaptation solutions in Africa,

African Youth Are Driving Climate Adaptation- Now We Must Accelerate!!

Africa’s youth are not just vulnerable to climate change,they are essential to the solution. With the right tools, financing, and support, young people have the capacity to scale adaptation efforts that are practical, local, and transformative.

To realize adaptation goals as fast as needed, we must invest in key areas where youth already lead and have proven impact:

1. Localizing Climate Literacy

Youth can lead education programs that translate climate science into local languages, cultural traditions, and everyday realities empowering communities to act with urgency and understanding.

2. Driving Innovation and Tech Solutions

Young people are using mobile applications, digital mapping, and low-cost technology to improve agriculture, strengthen early warning systems, and enhance water management.

3. Creating Scalable, Youth-Led Businesses

From upcycling plastic waste to producing organic compost, youth-led green enterprises are turning climate adaptation into livelihoods and into scalable models for community resilience.

4. Mobilizing and Organizing Communities

Youth have strong organizing power mobilizing through social media, sports, art, and grassroots movements. This builds momentum for behavioral change and community-level adaptation.

5. Advocating for Inclusive Climate Policy

Young people are engaging with local and national governments to push for inclusion in climate decision-making, budgeting, and policy implementation ensuring that adaptation efforts are grounded in people’s real needs.

6. Leveraging Networks and Peer Learning

Youth adaptation networks such as those supported by the Global Center on Adaptation—enable cross-border learning and rapid replication of successful grassroots models.

7. Accessing and Influencing Climate Finance

Through training and strategic partnerships, youth can unlock grants, micro-loans, and climate finance to fund and expand their adaptation initiatives.

8. Leading Nature-Based Solutions

Young people are restoring ecosystems planting trees, greening schools, and protecting rivers proving that low-cost, nature-based strategies can deliver high-impact results.

✉️ A Youth Communiqué to Global Leaders

This was presented by African youth to H.E. Ban Ki-moon and the former President of Senegal ,kenya Climate  change committe , during the Intergenerational Dialogue organized by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) in Nairobi.

It was a great honour for livegreat foundation to be part of the contribution  and  call on global leaders to recognize us as drivers of change, not just passive recipients of it. We are ready, we are capable, and we are already leading the way. What we need now is targeted support, inclusive policy, and urgent financing to scale adaptation at the speed of the climate crisis.