11 min

EP7:The COP27 Sharm-El-Sheikh Series:Damilola Bolagun on building capacity for the youth around SDGS Hali Hewa Podcast

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Welcome to the seventh episode of the COP27 Mini Series for Hali Hewa Podcast with your host Abigael Kima. 

Throughout COP27, we will be doing a mini-series interviewing people from across the globe on issues that matter to them as the negotiations progress. 

Damilola is a passionate youth, thought leader, lawyer and international development consultant with over five years’ hands-on experience in advisory service provision, collaborative research, youth-led advocacy, facilitation of participatory processes, and a track record of meaningful impact on youth, communities, and institutions inclusion in sustainable development affairs. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Sustainable Development Network (YSDN), an organization that works with youth and change-makers in championing research and innovative grassroots actions on the SDGs

In this episode, Damilola shares his experience working with youth to build their capacity and skills around what they can do to implement the SDGs within their community. He also talks about how youth engagement at the COP process has improved over the years and gives recommendations of what can be done better.

He signs off the show by sharing the two things that will make this successful a COP.

Enjoy the show!

Welcome to the seventh episode of the COP27 Mini Series for Hali Hewa Podcast with your host Abigael Kima. 

Throughout COP27, we will be doing a mini-series interviewing people from across the globe on issues that matter to them as the negotiations progress. 

Damilola is a passionate youth, thought leader, lawyer and international development consultant with over five years’ hands-on experience in advisory service provision, collaborative research, youth-led advocacy, facilitation of participatory processes, and a track record of meaningful impact on youth, communities, and institutions inclusion in sustainable development affairs. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Sustainable Development Network (YSDN), an organization that works with youth and change-makers in championing research and innovative grassroots actions on the SDGs

In this episode, Damilola shares his experience working with youth to build their capacity and skills around what they can do to implement the SDGs within their community. He also talks about how youth engagement at the COP process has improved over the years and gives recommendations of what can be done better.

He signs off the show by sharing the two things that will make this successful a COP.

Enjoy the show!

11 min

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