DRAFT WESSA Strategic Review Narrative Report June 2022

Educate Our Education and Training will become more intentional to foreground human rights and civic power, community priorities and participation, and agency and advocacy. This is how we aim to implement our education and training programmes.

FOCUS AREAS OF DELIVERY – OUR THEORY OF CHANGE The golden thread of WESSA’s work is based on education and advocacy with the aim to inspire, drive and support action. Further to this, the emphasis of our work is based on people, environmental justice, and the opportunity to positively change lives by promoting and supporting action for a healthier planet.

Rethink

In Schools

Three step approach:

• SLT: Training to create an enabling environment. Climate leadership training. • Educators: Content knowledge, Training and skills. Change Education Training. • Students: Change Projects (Climate Action; Biodiversity and Habitat Integrity and Reducing Pollution) and activism campaigns.

Redevelop WESSA Youth Alumni Network:

With Youth

• Create the biggest active network of youth advocating and acting for a healthier and sustainable planet. • Become a national coordinating body for youth climate and environmental campaigns/activists/groups • Provide training for youth • Create active networks, capacitate these networks to go out and advocate

We will be visible and vocal, constructively critical and scientific and objective in our calls to action.

We already do this well and will continue to excel at this with materials and approaches developed to fit the new strategic themes.

We will design, mobilise and implement action projects that deliver outcomes aligned with our thematic areas.

In Community New approach • Risk responsive and reactive to opportunities to community priorities. • Our focus and intention: Women! Being environmental and climate champions. • Develop a new training programme for the empowerment of local women within this space and out thematic areas. • Simplifying messaging. • Engage people in the frameworks. • Intention: create more accessible spaces for people to participate, for them to understand policy and frameworks etc. • Hold our leaders accountable • Create the ‘Protect Your Community’ WESSA Training Through Policy New

We are already working in the fields of education, training and conservation projects. A renewed focus area for us will be the emphasis on advocacy and its role in addressing persistent problems of biodiversity, pollution and climate threats.

With Corporate SA New • More longer term and working with partners. • Create ‘WESSA 50 Shades of Green’ Certification/Eco-label - Create/raise interest - Virtual Reality Journey in their boardroom - Training at all levels of their company

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