As part of the Programme agreement for Young people as stakeholders in the future (Jade), the team in charge of coordinating, implementing and monitoring the programme’s projects met at GRET headquarters from 5 to 9 September 2022. This one-week workshop provided time for discussion, learning and sharing for the team members based in France and in the various countries of intervention. These five days were also an opportunity to train all the participants on key subjects and methods identified at the start of the programme.
The first annual workshop had been held in Dakar in December 2020. This second session took place in Nogent-sur-Marne, on the side lines of GRET’s annual internal seminar and General Assembly, bringing together all of the Programme agreement’s international teams. The subject of the workshop this year was “Ecological transition in training and professional integration projects”. This was the focus of three days of training delivered by Guillaume Quelin, Climate projects manager in charge of developing and rolling out GRET’s Climate strategy. The first part of the training concentrated on understanding the challenges related to the key concepts of the green economy, and the second focused on the use of analysis grids and pedagogical methods to identify and raise awareness on these challenges. The objective was to strengthen teams’ skills in terms of climate change and the green economy, as applied to training and professional integration projects.
Photography training was also provided, and concluded with the production of photos or videos on the subject of ecological transition, aimed at young people. The teams became familiar with communication tools and methods, and combined the two high points of the week by cross-referencing the knowledge acquired in the two training sessions. The workshop ended with an assessment and reflection with a view to phase 2 of the Programme agreement. Preparation of this second phase will begin in the coming months.
Launched in July 2020 and funded by Agence française de développement, the Jade Programme agreement is a pilot programme introducing reflection on youth as a transversal development subject. The programme, which includes ten projects in six countries – Guinea, Haiti, the Republic of Congo, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal –, is designing and testing pertinent, innovative procedures to support young people in their overall integration (economic and professional, social and civic, environmental and climatic). Young people are considered as stakeholders of change, and no longer as simply beneficiaries of development actions.
