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The Why of Innovative Volunteerism
To bring impact to scale under the changing climate, we need innovative approaches that leverage the most significant asset of societies, human capital. Africa’s biggest asset is its youthful population, over 60% of the entire population. This biggest asset needs to be leveraged to drive climate action solutions that create wealth opportunities for the youth and the entirety of society.
These youth are the most significant non-state actor constituency that Africa needs to lead in investing in operational-level actions that operationalize the many policy provisions Africa has to unlock tangible solutions from them. Tapping into their energy, tech savviness, and creativity to be the primary implementers of Climate action across the continent is an innovative approach to bring impact to scale. But to do this, we need to think about how they can be inspired to usher themselves to action and groom themselves to be selfless in driving solutions looking at the lives touched by their solutions, not only at self-enrichment.
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