Promoting Green Economies and Ecosystems based Approaches

Teens Uganda Backyard Garden for promoting Food Securities at Household Level

With the increasing youth numbers of over 65% in developing economies especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, experts and planners have reached a sloping point when it comes to ideas on how best to engage young people or youths to be conscious and responsible citizens in various disciplines. Today, sustainable development and the green economy are the new focus of research, education, and development in most countries earlier understood simply to be natural resources management and environment.

In today’s economy, young people are participating positively and contributing ideas towards development initiatives based on changes given the emergence of know-how and understanding of the importance of small actions of green towards protecting the environment. This is an important milestone especially considering that developing countries lag compared to the rest of the world in terms of technological capabilities, social protection, manufacturing, and political will.

In the developing economies like Uganda, the emergence of new problem diagnosis and solving techniques is a critical step that fosters the building up of local intelligence, creativity and innovation. Furthermore, their current steps are holistic and embrace a broad range of issues such as leadership, entrepreneurship, higher education, community development and outreach.

Bike Sharing project @ Makerere University operated by Uganda Sustainable Transport Network and by supported UN Habitat 

There is a growing recognition that we have reached a tipping point when it comes to ideas on how best to engage young people or youths to be conscious and responsible global citizens in various disciplines. Today, Teens Uganda engages in several promotional, advocacy and development programmes that highlight the important of involving young people in decision making processes on issues of sustainable development and approaches leading to green economies as a new focus of research, education, and development focusing on Renewable Energy, Food security and Ecosystems and Non-Motorised Transport.