Empowerment for Climate Leadership - Newsletter (03)

Dear all,

In only two weeks we will all meet again in Arusha. We hope you are feeling pleasant anticipation towards our next and final reunion. We also hope that you are full of curiosity about the program we compiled for you with the help of your good ideas, helpful comments and attentive questions. May this newsletter give you some insights on what happened so far in and around our offices and the ECL-project team. Perhaps it also helps you a little bit to shorten the waiting period. Thanks to Sixbert for the excellent preparation meeting at "Alter Zoll" bier garden!

Best wishes!

Your ECL-Team

What are we working on at the moment?

• Marie strengthens ECL-Team: As Tanja wrote to you, she is unfortunately not taking her place in the ECL-program. Since it was too late to make an official call for participation again, Marie will take her place and join us for the Tanzania exchange phase spontaneously. She will be a participant and work as Judiths twinning partner but also support the Germanwatch-ECL-office team. Her tasks will include public relations during the exchange, program evaluation and being a contact person between the organization teams and the participants.
• Cofinance: We are still working on the cofinance issue. Unfortunately, the Erbacher foundation will not support the ECL-project even though they showed a lot of interest beforehand. We are now looking for new funders and writing applications.
• SDG-Sheets: The editing of your SDG-sheets is advancing slowly at the moment because of UNFCCC negotiations and the upcoming exchange. But we are eager to take big steps towards publication after our reunion.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: We were invited by the African German Youth Initiative (AGYI) to participate in the creation of a joint framework for M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) in the AGYI, which is a very interesting possibility for us to share our lessons learned from ECL within the weltwärts Begegnung funding line but also with other actors of the AGYI like ENSA and ASA. Moreover, Marie is supporting the ECL-Team to develop a good and effective M&E foundation for ECL.
• Events we attended: The Germanwatch ESD team took part in a national ESD congress called "WeltWeitWissen" from May 3rd-5th, which took place in Bremen. The conference was titled "Learning for transformation" and our Hand Print won a prize as an outstanding idea for an excellent and motivating tool for political engagement on several levels.