About #YouthBaton

The Project

SustainableEnergy is in cooperation with local partners in Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Mozambique running the project YouthBaton - Youth take the Baton for a Green Future, on how youth can make a difference in terms of climate change.

The projects aims to obtain experience in loosely organised and short-term partnerships between well-established civil society organizations and youth groups. The four countries will be divided in two teams that will each run four campaigns on four different themes related to climate change.The teams will document their campaigns – both the planning, execution and results – through social media posts with specific pre-set tags. The dashboard collects the tagged posts from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube and thereby documents all parts of the campaigns.

The Project Background and Aim

The project applies an innovative approach to explore new ways of reporting and documenting using social media. In order to communicate and share experiences across borders, the project has developed a Social Media Dashboard building on specific social media. The dashboard collects certain tagged posts from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube and thereby documents all parts of the youth campaigns from planning to lessons learned after implementation.

Finally, the project wish to investigate how to strengthen dialogue and sharing among partners in different countries using the Social Media Dashboard developed for this project.

The project is funded by Danida’s Innovative Partnership Fund and will run from May 2014 to May 2016.