Building water sector youth leadership network in the Lancang-Mekong Region

The document describes a 2023-2024 project to create the Water Sector Youth Leadership Network (WSYLN) in the Mekong-Lancang Region. The initiative aims to move beyond volunteerism by building a network of practitioners, researchers, and community leaders to improve inclusive water governance. Key activities include reviewing existing youth networks, providing capacity-building training, and hosting regional consultation workshops to strengthen partnerships between youth, researchers, and policymakers.

• The project seeks to establish the Water Sector Youth Leadership Network (WSYLN), which will comprise a new generation of community leaders, researchers, and practitioners. The network's mission is to foster inclusive management and governance of water resources through joint actions, best practices, and knowledge sharing across the basin.
• The initiative is driven by the observation that while many youth-focused projects in the Mekong-Lancang Region emphasize capacity-building and awareness, they often struggle to maintain momentum once volunteer efforts end.
• The project's objectives include designing the WSYLN based on lessons from existing regional networks, improving the capacity of young professionals to lead MLC activities, and strengthening partnerships between policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.
• Planned deliverables for the 2023-2024 project duration include a synthesis report on existing youth networks and the needs of young professionals, training materials, proceedings from two regional consultation workshops, a short film, and the final design of the WSYLN.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Building water sector youth leadership network in the Lancang-Mekong Region. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4-weblmc-youth-factsheet-.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Building water sector youth leadership network in the Lancang-Mekong Region. 2023. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4-weblmc-youth-factsheet-.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023building, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Building water sector youth leadership network in the Lancang-Mekong Region}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4-weblmc-youth-factsheet-.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }