SAYEN

SAYEN organizes capacity building programmes to help youth to understand sustainable development issues, challenges and efforts through participating in ongoing projects and initiatives. All projects organised by SAYEN include capacity building as one of its component. Also, there are specific capacity building opportunities for individual youth as well as representatives of youth organizations associated with SAYEN. Few such programmes include:

SAYEN Meets
SAYEN regional meet is organised once every year with the objective to review last year activities and plan for the next one-year. Strengthening SAYEN, networking and sharing experiences and opportunities are some of the other objectives of the meet. The meet is hosted by one of the SAYEN National Focal Points (NFP) in their respective countries and jointly organised by SAYEN Secretariat and UNEP.

5th SAYEN Regional Meet Report 2007 draft

National and local meets are part of the SAYEN initiatives undertaken at the country level respectively.

CEE along with UNEP, Bayer A.G., Ministry of Environment and Forests and several other partners organised the Tunza International Youth Conference 2005 at Bangalore, India. Over 140 youth from about 50 countries participated in a week long conference, discussing the role of youth in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Participation in capacity building programmes of other organizations
SAYEN representatives also participate in various capacity building programmes of other organizations.

Follow up Programme
I have taken a class regarding environment from what I experienced in Annamalai University in three days camp. So I did it in my university. Please tell me about any other module or programme conducted by you so that I will able to be more aware on environmental issues. One thing we have done is that here, we have taken the pledge to make our university campus polythene free.
Rabi Das, Berhampur University
Orissa (via e-mail)

Mr. Gopal Kumar Jain and Ms. Aparna Susarla, Programme Officer, CEE attended National Level Talent Identification and Exhibition

(NATIEC-2008) organised by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Sriperumbudur and National Service Scheme (NSS), Annamalai University from 9th to 11th January, 2008 at Annamalai University, Annamalainagar.

About 500 youth including 250 NSS students representing various states of India and 250 NSS students from Annamalai University attended this programme. In addition to this, around 100 youth volunteers were also involved. The participants were divided into 5 groups and each group attended the orientation session on ‘Environment and SD.

The programme was very successful. Many of the NSS students found the session very interesting and made a commitment towards saving the environment. The module was replicated by some of them at their colleges and they have got a good response.

SAYEN was represented at the SAARC National Meet and National Youth Festival organised at Chennai. At the SAARC Youth Meet, attended by youth from all the South Asian Countries, Mr. Gopal Kumar Jain took a session on Environmental Issues in South Asia and Role of Youth.
Internships
Internship is one of the key capacity building opportunities provided to the individual youth by the SAYEN Secretariat. Internships provided by CEE are an opportunity for the youth to gain knowledge and hands-on experience in sustainable development. The programme offered since 2003, can be taken up by the Youth either as a part of their curricula or to gain work experience on projects related to sustainable development.
Young graduates while starting their career or higher education or for whom it is an academic requirement, join us as interns. The period of internship could range from a month to a year.
CEE provided two types of internship opportunities:

Need based-internship: Youth based on their interest on any Sustainable Development issue;location;duration can apply for this internship
Structured fixed term internship: SAYEN announces this as an “International Internship”, conducted during a fixed term of the year, around a specific issue.

During internship, youth are involved in particular tasks such as research project, action project, development of communication media and materials and/or documentation activities of an on-going project.
Youth interested to apply for internship can download the form, fill and send it to sayen@ceendia.org. It may take about a month to finalise the internship project and location.

internship application form

Internships at CEE are currently being sought after by many students and young development professionals. The database of internship applicants is uploaded on the web and being updated regularly.
A special internship is provided by UNEP, the SAYEN Parent organization, to one youth representative once every year, as SAYEN internship at UNEP.