tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56234174513676283312024-03-18T11:18:27.442+03:00AYICC KENYAAYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-50769984429609630112023-11-30T20:24:00.002+03:002023-11-30T20:28:53.943+03:00 One Step forward, two steps back: Insights from the African Climate Week and Youth Assembly 2023 By Nolita Mvunelo, program manager at The Club of Rome and Christine Ogola, national co-ordinator – African Youth Initiative on Climate Change The African Climate Week (ACW) (4th – 8th September 2023) and its preceding African Climate Youth Assembly (AYCA) marked a significant AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-55537076581966524542018-06-29T09:11:00.015+03:002022-08-21T19:27:22.960+03:00FOOD SECURITY
FOOD PRODUCTION AND
CONSUMPTION, THE VERY
BASIS
OF OUR EXISTENCE.
Food security as an idea began just in the mid-1970s,
in the talks of food problems during a
period of global food emergency. The
underlying focal point of consideration was essentially on sustenance supply
issues of guaranteeing the accessibility and to some degree, the value of security
of basic foodstuffs at the global and
AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-90529945691692906122018-06-29T09:06:00.003+03:002022-08-21T14:37:21.210+03:00CLEAN WATER
1 BILLION OF THE TOTAL GLOBAL POPULATION HAS NO ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER
The importance of water cannot be emphasized further. The menace that has been water pollution affects and kills more human beings than any form of violence globally. This articulates the importance that water has on our lives. Sources of water that are drinkable are only shrinking, diminishing the already 1% that is AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-16018682276537945562018-06-29T09:00:00.002+03:002022-08-21T14:38:14.031+03:00CLIMATE FINANCE
CLIMATE FINANCE.
Climate Finance has been a core element of most climate change international agreements and was incorporated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [1992]. Climate Finance exists in the form of the developed countries pooling resources and assisting the less developed countries in dealing with effects of climate change. The consensus after the 2009 AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-19626487085482454782017-11-30T23:52:00.002+03:002022-08-21T14:42:28.826+03:00PRE-AU-EU YOUTH SUMMIT FOR VIHIGA COUNTY
VENUE: BLUE STAR HOTEL
DATE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2017
EVENT: PRE-AU-EU YOUTH SUMMIT FOR VIHIGA COUNTY
The aggression among the Vihiga youth was just what the AYP-AYICC team needed to jumpstart the youth consultations in the country. It could be agreed from the high turnout of energetic youth that Vihiga was a great choice. Since tit for tat is a fair game AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-16316119171572377612017-11-30T23:48:00.002+03:002022-08-21T14:40:32.018+03:00PRE- AU-EU YOUTH SUMMIT NAIROBI COUNTY
VENUE: YMCA CONFERENCE HALL.
DATE: 10TH NOVEMBER 2017.
EVENT: PRE- AU-EU YOUTH SUMMIT NAIROBI COUNTY.
From the county near the great Lake Victoria to the county in the Indian Ocean now we were in the city under the sun, Nairobi. It would seem like the morning showers would go ahead to threaten all the plans laid AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-52614709916378261522017-11-30T23:41:00.002+03:002022-08-21T14:44:45.114+03:00PRE-AU-EU YOUTH SUMMIT FOR MOMBASA COUNTY
VENUE: CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH.
DATE: 8TH NOVEMBER 2017.
EVENT: PRE-AU-EU YOUTH SUMMIT FOR MOMBASA COUNTY
The AYICC-AYP team arrived in Mombasa ready to vehemently engage the young minds of Mombasa on matters that were most important to them. This great expectation could be due to the fact that enthusiastic youth in Vihiga had AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-71067556147782488842017-10-31T23:33:00.002+03:002022-08-21T14:45:44.324+03:00Why The Future is Investing in Youth
#InvestingInYouthKE
Studies have shown that Africa seems to be experiencing something called a demographic bonus which simply means that it seems to have more young people than old people.The predictions also seem to indicate that by 2020 three out of every four Africans will be the age of 20years. This is proof that youth are indeed the future of Africa. It is for this reason that AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-51964038956191283772017-09-23T12:20:00.005+03:002022-08-21T14:46:43.774+03:00Trump Pulling Out of Climate Finance and What it Means for Kenya<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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This Post Was Originally posted on OYGKmag.com
For the past four years, I’ve been talking to my peers; trying to convince them that my career path [in Environment], is more than just planting trees. Well, I’ve come to the realization that most of the work I do revolves around trees. There’s no shame to this truth. Increasing forest cover is part of the country’s sustainable development plan Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-65633716440941234122017-06-26T00:13:00.001+03:002022-08-21T14:49:51.642+03:00THE ANGRY GODS
Why didn’t you the gods
warn us of these disasters when you were well aware of what awaited us?
Disasters that have consumed what remains of the potential offerings to appease
you. For a long time, we have lived in our land, fed of its soil and drank of
its waters. Life has been so good and comfortable that we never dared ask of
where the waters came from. Of course we knew you were the AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-72624331929974169112017-06-21T11:41:00.001+03:002022-08-21T14:55:47.244+03:00FROM MDGS TO SDGS, THE GHOST OF FOOD SECURITY AND IT’S THREAT ON NATIONAL SECURITY
It was the first time we got it right,
at least that is what we thought seventeen years ago when the world came up
with a road map to Sustainable Development. The Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) were received with mixed reactions depending on your understanding of
the process leading to the MDGs or how well you identified with the issues that
were to be addressed by the blue print. MDGs AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-33037428374040231712017-03-29T01:27:00.002+03:002017-03-29T01:27:56.941+03:00How African Youth Can Strengthen Accountability in Achieving SDGs
originally posted on OYGK magazine
As a Project Coordinator at the Environmental Club of the University of Nairobi,
we were involved in many activities around campus – projects which were
and still are, run entirely by proactive students. An NGO approached
our club patron and suggested an ‘Environmental Journalism’ project.
Well, the name was ours and we knew that the success of the projectAYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-56208265747499693212017-03-13T17:38:00.000+03:002017-03-13T17:38:00.678+03:00Why we should protect our water sources
1992 was a game changer for Kenya and the rest of the world who signed the Agenda 21 agreement and the Rio principles as it would see for the first time environmental issues being given the importance it deserved. The realization of the millennium development goals adopted in September of 2002 set the target as 10 of goal 7 as half by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-75687172083821932082017-02-27T13:37:00.000+03:002017-02-27T18:25:50.124+03:00NILE DAY WORKSHOP
22nd February was The Nile day,it was an interactive and a very
educative day.There was a healthy debate.a question asked by the common
mwananchi is "why should Kenya be involved in matters on the Nile?"this is because the
river Nile is not in Kenya!the fact is there is the river Nile and there
is the Nile basin where Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi just
to mention a AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-50091919765422812422017-02-14T13:36:00.002+03:002017-02-14T13:36:25.059+03:00A DWINDLE IN NATURE; A CALL TO ACTION- WATER IS LIFE<!--[if !mso]>
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AYICC Kenya members during the Writers workshop 2016
by Fredrick Ouma, Dolphine Magero
The writers’ workshop took place at the Institute of Climate Change, Chiromo campus. The forum which sought out to build capacity for the young writers emphasizing on their academic writing skills, was organized by the Africa Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) Kenyan chapter in collaboration AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-25369171189746614522016-11-28T17:18:00.003+03:002016-11-28T17:22:46.125+03:00Why Kenya should break free from fossil fuels!Follow the story with The Conservationist's Sight ...
Desertification has now spread into northern Kenya, rainfall shortages
in the past year caused famine across various regions of the country,
not to mention the past El-Nino effects and the recent heat waves that
were experienced by all. And now the ongoing torrential rainfall is set
to damage the crops of many farmers. All a result of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375371006933767949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-71574734316722435522016-11-28T14:14:00.000+03:002016-11-28T14:14:40.891+03:00
UNITED NATION ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY (UNEA II)
Report by: Tracy Kimathi
The United Nations held the second UNEA conference that took place on the 23- 27th of May at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme was “Delivering on the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Unlike UNEA-1, thee agenda included youth within the delegations, students from AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-31545057972635988592016-10-13T18:48:00.000+03:002016-10-13T18:48:59.063+03:00THE KENYA CLIMATE FINANCE AT THE COUNTY LEVEL.<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Report by: Tracy Kimathi
The United Nations held the second UNEA conference that took place on the 23- 27th of May at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme was “Delivering on the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Unlike UNEA-1, thee agenda included youth within the delegations, students from different universities as well as youth AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-8753353546384637662016-06-27T01:18:00.000+03:002016-06-27T01:36:15.724+03:00UNITED NATION ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY (UNEA II)
Report by: Tracy Kimathi
The United Nations held the second UNEA conference that took place on the 23- 27th of May at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme was “Delivering on the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Unlike UNEA-1, thee agenda included youth within the delegations, students from different universities as well as youth AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-7110364659705692102016-04-26T16:13:00.000+03:002016-04-26T16:13:05.162+03:00IT IS NOT YET TIME TO CHANGE THE LANGUAGE
By Fredrick Ochieng` Mbima
During the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio Conference in 1992, the language was that of disaster preparedness. Scientists had projected a world condemned by disasters due to an anticipated significant Change of the climate. The change whose cause was pegged on a significant increase in the global greenhouse gases due AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-21423113010172916482016-04-26T16:04:00.000+03:002016-04-26T16:04:01.254+03:00IT IS TIME FOR AFRICA TO BUILD ITS OWN CAPACITY
By Fredrick Ochieng’ Ouma AYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com367tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623417451367628331.post-72027016501187643452016-04-14T18:49:00.003+03:002016-04-14T23:38:07.896+03:00 A Letter To My `Old' Friend
By Paul Mutuku
To the `Mankind' planet
P.O.Box, 13milion hectares down, Annually
Planet Earth
Thro’
United Nations HQ, NY, United States
My dear old friend,
It is with much sadness that I write you this letter. Not that I usually do, but because of you, I am obliged to. I know it will find you well, even after making my thriving in our planet a living hell.
You remember whenAYICC Kenya Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16239206965201513138noreply@blogger.com2