Meet-and-greet 2

Meet-and-greet hosted by Joshua Amponsem (GAYO)

26 Sep. / 14:00 - 15:00

Hosted by
Joshua Amponsem
Meet-and-greets are a great way to get to know some of your fellow participants in a small informal space, chat with highly experienced adaptation practitioners and build your networks. Without an in-person conference, think of the meet-and-greets as a virtual coffee break, where you can ask direct questions of the people you want to talk to! In the last two years, participants at meet-and-greets have met new partners, collaborators, donors and friends!

About the host

Joshua Amponsem is a Ghanaian climate activist and the Climate Lead at the Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth. He has over 7 years of experience working with young people focuses on Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resilience Building. He is the lead author of the first-ever background paper on youth and climate change adaptation which provided a pathway for youth engagement in global adaptation efforts. He founded Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO), serve as a member of the Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG 7, and has been an Adaptation Fellow at the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA).

Joshua served as Business Development Manager to Challenges Group and provided business growth services to SMEs in the green sector – waste management, renewable energy and agriculture. He initiated locally-led projects like the Water for Adaptation and Sustainable Communities Project in sub-Saharan Africa and is championing the establishment of Youth Climate Councils across the Global South.

Funding Partners

CARE International works in 100 countries, helping millions of the world’s poorest people find routes out of poverty and achieve social justice.

https://www.care-international.org/

GRP is an inclusive and diverse partnership of organisations joining forces towards a world where vulnerable people and places are able to thrive in the face of shocks, uncertainty and change.

https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/

CJRF builds voice and power in the communities hit first by climate change. To survive and thrive on a warming planet they need voice, power, and the opportunity to innovate. CJRF helps these communities create and share their own solutions for resilience.

https://www.cjrfund.org/

Irish Aid invest in research that builds evidence on how poor people and countries can best adapt, reduce risk, and build their resilience to withstand future set-backs and disasters.

https://practicalaction.org/

Practical Action works with communities to develop ingenious solutions in agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. Then we share what’s proven to work with others, so many more people can change their world.

https://practicalaction.org/

GAYO is a youth-led gender-balanced advocacy organisation who work directly with local communities to reduce the vulnerability of groups that are at risk to climate impacts, through youth empowerment, skills development and public education.

https://greenafricayouth.com/

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

IIED is an international policy and action research organisation delivering solutions to sustainable development challenges. Working with partners across the globe, IIED links local priorities to global challenges.

https://www.iied.org/community-based-adaptation