Objectives of the Project • Prepare youth for leadership roles in their institutions, communities and cities through intensive training and imparting transversal skills. • Facilitate understanding of innovation and cutting age sustainable practices by industry leaders as well as grassroots initiatives. • Impart knowledge on the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) of business and enable learning through the example of sustainability initiatives. • Develop competencies in young people to integrate sustainability in thought and practice in any field and vocation. The primary focus of LEADearthSHIP is on strengthening the following three dimensions: • Emphasis on the ‘individual’ by imparting 21 century relevant skills • Enhancing domain knowledge and competencies on leadership • Sustainable development and exposure to real life examples of sustainability initiatives by businesses as well as civil society organizations through field visits. Sustainable Development Goals are at the heart of LEADearthSHIP and rigorously follow Goal 3: Good health and well-being; LEADearthSHIP Quality education through non formal modes of education; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation through projects which are based on WASH; and Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth through empowering women, of SDGs. Structure of LEADearthSHIP Program LEADearth Fellowship The LEADearth Fellowship is the mainstay of LEADearthSHIP and provides the Fellows with resources and financial support to work on a key environmental or social project. They are mentored into relevant skill- sets and domain knowledge and taken on field visits showcasing examples of sustainability initiatives by corporate houses and civil society organizations. The 30 Fellows, selected through a rigorous selection process from Delhi-NCR, are awarded the ‘LEADearth Fellowship’. At least one student is selected from each of the core group of colleges for the fellowship program. Each applicant had to conceptualize a sustainability project/campaign in line with his/ her skills and expertise that would directly or indirectly impact the excluded and marginalized communities. The first stage has applications from across India where 60 applicants are shortlisted for personal interviews based on written application out of which 30 students are selected as LEADearth Fellows through personal interviews. In the current session, a week long residential orientation program including sessions on sustainable development, leadership, CSR, conflict resolution, team work and project management brought top 10 projects from the pool of 30 projects was selected for funding and implementation and was further undertaken. Through these projects implemented by the TERI-Genpact Fellows are expected to reach out to the following Target groups: • Women/adolescent girls with low income backgrounds or low levels or no education • Young people with physical disabilities Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 209 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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