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We believe that delivering a better communication tool is one way to communicate the message of climate-related issues to the younger generation, particularly VOCALists, in order to inspire our youth to use their voice for a greater cause.
Pitch Your Voice, a Project VOCAL flagship initiative supported by EcoKnights has published the environmental interactive playbook curated by our very own youth groups — KakaCacau, The Planet Prodigy, and The Rimba Project 2.0.
With this effort, we sincerely hope that these tools will be very beneficial to a group of young people as a kickstart for them to recognise their responsibility in caring for our Mother Earth and beginning to make a difference for a better future.
Let’s start taking climate action by downloading these playbooks now!
KaKaCauCau – The Adventures of Little Drop in Malaysia — Playbooks for Kids About Water
The Planet Prodigy – ForEd: Forest Education for Primary Schools Environmental Awareness — Activity Modules
The Rimba Project 2.0 – Jom Kembara Hutan (Hanging Around The Forest) — An Environmental Playbook Focusing On Forests in Malaysia
The Adventures of Little Drop in Malaysia — Playbooks for Kids About Water
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ForEd: Forest Education for Primary Schools Environmental Awareness — Activity Modules
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Jom Kembara Hutan (Hanging Around The Forest) — An Environmental Playbook Focusing On Forests in Malaysia
Please enter your email below to download the playbook.
We believe that providing a good communication tool is one way to convey the message of climate-related issues to the younger generation especially VOCAList in order to empower our youth to use their voice towards a larger cause. Our latest project highlight in Pitch Your Voice is an interactive yet helpful playbook that acts as a learning tool with better communication in climate change.
*Please play the drumbeats, VOCAList*
Introducing to our youth groups from Pitch Your Voice lineup: KakaCacau, The Planet Prodigy & The Rimba Project 2.0!
The KakaCaucau Eco Hub is a varied group with backgrounds in interior design, media journalism, and environmental education. In Malaysia, there is a scarcity of easily accessible environmental information platforms.
This group internally “kacau” (mix and work together) to create more eco-contents and externally “kacau” the community by sharing and promoting the information. Within their goal of “Reconnecting Us for Sustainability,” they hope to raise awareness about current challenges and eventually develop a community that cares and acts for the environment.
TPP, or The Planet Prodigy, is an entirely student-run environmental organisation based in Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Science. Through environmental advocacy, they hope to build bridges between communities. They believe that by raising environmental awareness through social media, environmental education, and community and stakeholder engagement, they can encourage more students, youths, and communities to care for the environment.
TPP offers its members and participants a learning platform to help them improve their perspectives, perceptions, and sense of social responsibility toward the environment.
The Rimba Project 2.0 is a continuation of the initial Rimba Project, which began in 2014. This project is run by Universiti Malaya and is led by Dr. Sarah Razak. Its goal is to promote biodiversity and build a community that values the natural world. The name Rimba Project is derived from the Rimba Ilmu Botanic Gardens of Universiti Malaya, where “Rimba Ilmu” means “Forest of Knowledge” in Malay.
Their prior activities have included guided walks in Rimba Ilmu Botanic Gardens and BioBlitz, one of the nature education outreach programmes.
We hope to connect these youth groups to a larger network, as well as provide visibility and opportunities for them to grow in their respective grassroots climate action movements. We know from their credibility that these local youth groups are already working harder on the ground to address the various aspects of climate-related issues today.
Stay tuned for more information from our side. In the meantime, sign up to be a VOCAList for free to gain access to capacity-building programmes, events, and roundtables aimed at empowering youth to lead environmental advocacy in future generations.
Project VOCAL is calling for all youths in Malaysia who are currently working on grassroots, on-the-ground work tackling climate issues to submit your project proposal to us!
Pitch Your Voice is Project VOCAL’s next capacity building activity, which is a mentorship program that aims to elevate and enhance the work of our youths!
If a majority of your team/group/organization members are within the age of 18-35 years and your current work focuses on (1) Deforestation, logging or tree planting, (2) Climate education, (3) Water-related issues, (4) Air-related issues, or (5) Waste Management, we want to hear from YOU!
Project VOCAL is hosting the ‘Pitch Your Voice’ mentorship program to elevate the work of youth members in Malaysia who are currently tackling issues relating to climate change topics. From this mentorship program, the selected youth members will gain opportunities to directly engage with our ensemble of sustainability experts and youth ambassadors to bring their voice towards a larger cause.
Project VOCAL is also looking for existing or new policies in Malaysia that could be improved or implemented to address these issues. We recognize that there are a lot of existing local youth groups and youth organisations who are already working on the ground to tackle the different aspects of climate-related issues today, hence, we are looking at enhancing these work in accordance with relevant policies.
Overall, the main aspiration for this mentorship program is to mobilise and enhance these grassroots level initiatives, led by groups of young people who may need additional support e.g. on (1) funding opportunities, (2) experts consultation and interventions, (3) manpower assistance, as well as (4) capacity and knowledge resources. Additionally, this program will also amplify their work through strategic partnership and networking with relevant stakeholders, policymakers and decision-makers.
Note: The funding opportunity provided under this ‘Pitch Your Voice’ mentorship program is solely provided to the selected youth group(s) in order to meet the objectives of Project VOCAL under GEF SGP. Hence, this is not a grant/sub-grant by the funder of Project VOCAL initiative.
We encourage you to read the (1) Call for Submission Information Pack, (2) Narrative Proposal and (3) Budgeting Template documents before applying. You may find the full documents below.
Submission documents MUST include the following:
Open Call to Submission
Winner announcement
Orientation and Induction with The Grantees & Mentors
2 Round of Consultation Weeks
Announcement of Successful Youth Groups
Playbook Hackathon with Deria team
Playbook Submission
Closing Ceremony & Presentation to Government Agencies by the Grantees