Advancing Safer Communities and Environments against Disasters

(ASCEND Project)

Youth Eco-Camp: Start Young in Eco-Advocacy for Community Resiliency!

Basic InformationEvent: Youth Eco-Camp: Start Young in Eco-Advocacy for Community Resiliency!Date: October 29- 30, 2011Venue: Manguiring Elementary SchoolManagement Team:

Training Team – ASCEND Manila Training TeamSecretariat – ASCEND Project CAL Office, Envi-Youth LTC, Calabanga Youth Brigade for Environment Rescuing the Resources of Nature (CYBERTRON)

Target Participants:The Youth Eco-Camp aims to gather a 100 youth participants based on guidelines and qualifications as seen fit by the local ASCEND Project office. This includes but is not limited to ensuring representation from all barangays, existing youth organizations, gender and age brackets, and sectoral affiliations.

ObjectivesThe primary objective for the Youth Camp is to increase the awareness and organized participation of the Youth sector in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and prevalent environmental issues by providing a venue for the group to discuss and practice simple and relevant DRR knowledge and activities.

After the Youth Camp, the participants are expected to be able to:

Knowledge1. Define DRR and its importance to the community’s welfare based on basic concepts of DRR;2. Identify the linkages of addressing local environmental issues to disaster resiliency;

Skills1. Practice basic disaster risk reduction skills by engaging in small-scale mitigation activities

appropriate to the local community risks;2. Articulate key concepts and messages in disaster risk reduction by engaging in basic public

awareness activities;

Attitude1. Recognize the value of an active community-based disaster risk reduction program to their

family and community;2. Express commitment as a member of the local DRR-oriented youth organization by

participating based on personal strengths and limitations.

Outputs and Deliverables1. The training design will be produced by the training team based on ASCEND Project’s

consultations with the local youth organization.2. The implementation of the training design’s learning component will be facilitated by the

training team with the assistance of community facilitators and the partner youth organization.

3. The logistical needs of the youth camp, including the venue, accommodations, training materials, LCD projector setups, sound systems, and transportation will be secured by the secretariat.

Advancing Safer Communities and Environments against Disasters

(ASCEND Project)4. The field-learning component of the training design will be facilitated by the ASCEND Staff

with the assistance of the training team and local people’s organization partners.5. Project deliverables including a youth audit and a DRR campaign planning will be ensured by

the ASCEND Staff with the assistance of the secretariat.

Proposed Schedule

Saturday October 29, 201107:00 – 08:00 Arrival of Participants/

Registration/ Camp Setting-up08:00 – 10:00 Opening Program

Prayer National Anthem Opening Message:

ASCEND Message: CYBERTRON

PresidentOrientation / Program Design / House Rules / Expectations Check/ Tribe Assignment/ Accommodation

The house rules, expectations, sleeping accommodations and tribe assignments will be announced. Next, they will be given the youth camp objectives and training flow. Opening energizer – discussion – middle energizer – discussion closing – clapping exercise for conclusion.10:00 – 11:00 Basic DRR Concepts and

Introduction to Climate ChangeASCEND Staff/ Training Team/Secretariat

Participants will be given a crash course on basic DRR and introduction to Climate Change concepts. Each tribe will separate into their own breakout session with a teaching team. 11:00 – 12:00 Team-building Training Team/ASCEND StaffParticipants will engage in a series of team-building activities to build their respective tribes’ dynamics. Each tribe will engage in a name-familiarization game. They will then be tasked to design their tribal flag, and formulate their tribe’s cheer.12:00 – 12:45 LUNCH12:45 – 01:30 Rest/ Practice for Tribe’s Cheer01:30 – 02:00 Travel to Municipal Recovery

Facility Site at Bgy. Bigaas 02:00 – 03:00 Tree Planting03:00 – 04:00 Lecture-discussion on Solid

Waste Management04:00 – 04:30 Travel back to Camp04:30 – 05:30 Breakout Sessions: DRR/ CCA

& Ecosystem Management Each tribe will separate into their own breakout session with a teaching team. Their previous experience from the field trip will be used to explain the topic on Ecosystem Management.05:30 – 07:00 Rest/ Preparation for Cultural

Night07:00 – 11:00 Cultural Night

Tribe’s Cheer Competition

Advancing Safer Communities and Environments against Disasters

(ASCEND Project) Creative Presentation Games:

- Pinoy Henyo- Tag of War- Kadang- kadang- Pinoy Basketball

Creative Presentation: Participants will be asked to gather scrap materials from the Recovery Facility Site which they will use as props for their Creative Presentation. Presentations should be relevant to the camp’s objectives i.e. to raise Youth’s awareness on environmental issues, DRR and CCA and to recognize their roles upon addressing them.

Games: Participants are to delegate members of their tribes to represent in simultaneous game of Pinoy Henyo, Tag of War, Kadang-kadang and Pinoy Basketball. This activity aims to reconnect the Youth to our traditional games and expose them to recreational activities that use indigenous materials.

Sunday October 30, 201105:30 – 06:00 Wake-up Call/ Morning Exercise06:00 – 08:00 Breakfast08:00 – 10:00 DRR Hands-on: Knowledge and

SkillsThe second half of the hands-on activities is composed of concurrent knowledge and skills-building sessions for disaster preparedness. Participants will choose whether to attend a disaster preparedness and climate change seminar.

1. Disaster response seminara. First aid workshop (30 mins)b. Contingency kit workshop (30 mins)c. Relief delivery operations workshop (1 hour)

2. Climate change seminara. Climate change lecture (30 mins)b. Mitigation: solar bottle workshop (45 mins)c. Adaptation: disease control workshop (45 mins)

10:00 – 12:00 Amazing RaceTribes are to compete among themselves to solve a puzzle that contains DRR/CCA key messages. Challenges for every puzzle piece will be based on the activities conducted during the camp. This will serve as an assessment on how much participants have learned throughout the integration as well as to strengthen their team work. 12:00 – 01:00 LUNCH01:00 – 03:00 Closing Program

Closing messages Performances Awarding

o Best in Cheeringo Best in Sportso Best in Learningo Best in Hands-ono Special Awards

Commitment setting/ Invites for Organization Membership

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(ASCEND Project)Pack-up

03:00 – 05:30 Youth Audit