Pakistan Youth Leadership Initiative (PYLI) Project
Timeline: 2024 - 2026
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OVERVIEW
The Water Aid Pakistan is launching a new youth leadership project called Pakistan Youth Leadership Initiative (PYLI). It is a three-year project led by British Council in partnership with Government’s Prime Minister’s Youth Development Programme, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Water Aid Pakistan, local CSOs and public universities. The project is co-funded by Qatar based Education Above All Foundation’s programme “Reach Out to Asia”.
The project will train 90,000 youth from universities and communities in the Global Citizenship Education, leadership, and Climate Action curriculum. These youth will then go out to their communities to carry out Youth Led Climate Actions (YLAs), be involved in policy dialogue and advocacy, participate in national and international climate events, and showcase their successful projects.
The YLAs will focus on the following five thematic areas:

• Tree plantation
• Water conservation
• Renewable energy
• Climate education in Schools and colleges
• Solid waste management

BACKGROUND
Pakistan is the fifth largest young country in the world and has largest generation of young people ever recorded in national history, 27% are aged between 15 and 29. Large disparities exist among the youth demographic, depending on gender, location, and socio-economic background. Pakistan is one of the five most affected countries by climate change in 21st century. The project will play a key role in creating an enabling environment for equitable inclusion of youth at local, national, and international levels of policy and decision making on climate action leading to implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation approaches.
OBJECTIVE
Young women and men in Pakistan are aware of social and ethical values, and respectful of diversity by taking inclusive and responsible actions to influence local, national, and global sustainable development agenda on climate action.
TARGET AUDIENCE
PYLI project aims to reach young people (age 18 – 24 years) present in rural and semi-urban areas across all four provinces of Pakistan with intersectionality of gender, age, education, socio-economic status, disability, and religion, as well as at-risk youth groups who are directly impacted by climate change and its negative impact on human lives, livelihood and ecosystems.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

• 04 public universities and 07 CSOs in Pakistan have increased capacity on implementing digital and global citizenship education and climate change education offers for young women and men.
• 11 master facilitators receive training on the nexus approach to climate change and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), enabling them to subsequently cascade their knowledge to 110 facilitators from NGOs and CSOs.
• 110 facilitators from CSOs and Universities are trained on nexus approach of climate change & WASH
• 32,000 young women and men are trained blended approach of PYLI and Climate Change & WASH
• 4000 youth led action projects are carried out from selected thematic areas and regularly monitored and reported

PYLI – TRAINING OF MASTER FACILITATORS (TOMF)
Individuals who are interested in participating in PYLI-Training of Master Facilitators (TOMF) are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to Water Aid Pakistan.
The initial training is scheduled in 1st week of October 2024.
The objective of this training is to:

• Develop understanding of master facilitators about Water Aid Pakistan - PYLI programme and the role of Water Aid Pakistan partner organisations in community engagement and climate change.
• Build the capacity of master facilitators to understand and deliver Water Aid Pakistan - PYLI programme learning framework.
• Understand Water Aid Pakistan - PYLI programme and climate thematic areas to deliver PYLI trainings to Water Aid Pakistan partner organisations.
• Support the project and the PYLI delivery partner/team in mentoring the PYLI volunteers in their community engagement and climate change work and implementing Youth Led Actions.
• Establish master facilitators’ community through networking opportunities

MASTER FACILITATORS PROFILE
TERMS OF REFERENCES (TORs)
Key responsibilities of the facilitator will include:
I. Develop and agree training plan for the Water Aid Pakistan – PYLI programme with Water Aid Pakistan.
II. Facilitate a minimum of four trainings (each training is of 5-days) per annum during October 2024 – December 2026” with Water Aid Pakistan partner organisations in Pakistan. The location of trainings include Quetta, Peshawar, Multan, Lodhran, Karachi and Badin.
Specific tasks include:

• Agree on Water Aid Pakistan partner organisations training design and programme with Water Aid Pakistan
• Facilitate agreed sessions during trainings.
• Review training with co-facilitator and Water Aid Pakistan
• Report writing
• Documenting workshop feedback forms
• Provide mentoring and support to new facilitators in cascading trainings.

The master facilitator is expected to submit a narrative report to the Water Aid Pakistan at the end of each PYLI training. The format of the report is to be agreed with the Water Aid Pakistan.
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) SUBMISSION
Please submit the following as part of your EOI by 23rd September 2024 via email to hrpakistan@wateraid.org with subject “Call for Master Facilitators - Pakistan Youth Leadership Initiative (PYLI) project”
Your submissions should include following documents:
1- Complete Application Form
2- Updated CV
3- Letter of interest

Apply By:

email to hrpakistan@wateraid.org