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Stage 4: Adjustment to Youth
Development Policy Strategy
(Fig. 2.6)
The final phase focuses on adjustments to youth
development policy, strategy and actions to
enhance the capacity and resilience of youth to
adapt to climate change in small island communities. Mechanisms were created that adjust to, or
make changes (change enablers) to processes,
policies and strategies to empower and build the
resilience of youth to take action to adapt and
develop sustainable livelihoods. This method is
divided into two areas: (a) change enablers leading to youth empowerment and (b) change
enablers leading to adaptation.
Stage 5: Linking Youth Development
Outcomes to the Broader Conceptual
Framework (Fig. 2.7)
This step was analysed through data collected via
the review of literature, case studies from the topdown TCMP and YEEP projects and the bottomup JEMS Capacity Building Project and the
Global Climate Strike Movement, interviews,
FGDs and Participatory Mapping exercises.
Model SIDS Used to Develop
the Conceptual Framework: St
Vincent and the Grenadines
The field research to develop the framework was
implemented in St Vincent and the Grenadines
(SVG) in the Eastern Caribbean. SVG, like other
SIDS, are particularly vulnerable to climate
change and its effects. SLR, changing precipitation and rainfall regimes, changes in tropical
storm and cyclone frequency and intensity,
increasing air and sea surface temperatures,
changes in atmospheric chemistry and melting
mountain glaciers are some of the phenomena
and disruptions related to climate change (Gomez
2013). SVG is a member of the region’s economic and political sub-grouping the OECS,
comprising the Windward and the Leeward
Islands and of the larger regional group, the
Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The island
is located between 13° 05’N, 61° 15’W in the
South Eastern corner of the Caribbean archipelago, north of Grenada and south of St. Lucia and
comprises one main-island (St. Vincent) and
thirty-two small islands and cays (The
Grenadines) and as a whole comprises 150.3 sq.
miles. The largest island St. Vincent is mountainous with steep shelves from its origin as a volcanic region while the islands of the Grenadines
form an archipelago with little agricultural activity and instead relies on tourism. The country’s
population is predominantly of African descent
and is estimated at 109,991 (Government of St.
Vincent and the Grenadines 2012), comprising of
56,419 males and 53,572 females, of which
91.9% live on mainland St. Vincent. It is estimated that over 45% of the population is designated as a youth. The mountainous interior of the
island has forced 90% of the population to live on
a narrow coastal belt of land 5 metres high and
5 miles inland. Due to the high population density, housing settlement areas are now extended
on lands that were designated for agricultural
purposes and on slopes of central mountain
ranges, along hilltops and in old riverbeds
(CARIBSAVE 2012).
Summary
The purpose of the Chapter was to review in
detail the literature surrounding the impact of climate change on youth in small island communities by exploring the skills and knowledge
required by young people to build resilience to
adapt to the impact of climate change. The review
was conducted within the relevance and application of the top-down and bottom-up approaches
to CCA in small island communities.
The findings from the literature review show
that there is an acceptable body of knowledge on
the vulnerability and adaptation of SIDS on the
impact of climate change. However, the literature
on the effect of climate change on youth is minimal. Only one paper was on the impact of climate
change on children in SIDS in the Eastern
Summary
Stage 4: Adjustment to Youth
Development Policy Strategy
(Fig. 2.6)
The final phase focuses on adjustments to youth
development policy, strategy and actions to
enhance the capacity and resilience of youth to
adapt to climate change in small island communities. Mechanisms were created that adjust to, or
make changes (change enablers) to processes,
policies and strategies to empower and build the
resilience of youth to take action to adapt and
develop sustainable livelihoods. This method is
divided into two areas: (a) change enablers leading to youth empowerment and (b) change
enablers leading to adaptation.
Stage 5: Linking Youth Development
Outcomes to the Broader Conceptual
Framework (Fig. 2.7)
This step was analysed through data collected via
the review of literature, case studies from the topdown TCMP and YEEP projects and the bottomup JEMS Capacity Building Project and the
Global Climate Strike Movement, interviews,
FGDs and Participatory Mapping exercises.
Model SIDS Used to Develop
the Conceptual Framework: St
Vincent and the Grenadines
The field research to develop the framework was
implemented in St Vincent and the Grenadines
(SVG) in the Eastern Caribbean. SVG, like other
SIDS, are particularly vulnerable to climate
change and its effects. SLR, changing precipitation and rainfall regimes, changes in tropical
storm and cyclone frequency and intensity,
increasing air and sea surface temperatures,
changes in atmospheric chemistry and melting
mountain glaciers are some of the phenomena
and disruptions related to climate change (Gomez
2013). SVG is a member of the region’s economic and political sub-grouping the OECS,
comprising the Windward and the Leeward
Islands and of the larger regional group, the
Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The island
is located between 13° 05’N, 61° 15’W in the
South Eastern corner of the Caribbean archipelago, north of Grenada and south of St. Lucia and
comprises one main-island (St. Vincent) and
thirty-two small islands and cays (The
Grenadines) and as a whole comprises 150.3 sq.
miles. The largest island St. Vincent is mountainous with steep shelves from its origin as a volcanic region while the islands of the Grenadines
form an archipelago with little agricultural activity and instead relies on tourism. The country’s
population is predominantly of African descent
and is estimated at 109,991 (Government of St.
Vincent and the Grenadines 2012), comprising of
56,419 males and 53,572 females, of which
91.9% live on mainland St. Vincent. It is estimated that over 45% of the population is designated as a youth. The mountainous interior of the
island has forced 90% of the population to live on
a narrow coastal belt of land 5 metres high and
5 miles inland. Due to the high population density, housing settlement areas are now extended
on lands that were designated for agricultural
purposes and on slopes of central mountain
ranges, along hilltops and in old riverbeds
(CARIBSAVE 2012).
Summary
The purpose of the Chapter was to review in
detail the literature surrounding the impact of climate change on youth in small island communities by exploring the skills and knowledge
required by young people to build resilience to
adapt to the impact of climate change. The review
was conducted within the relevance and application of the top-down and bottom-up approaches
to CCA in small island communities.
The findings from the literature review show
that there is an acceptable body of knowledge on
the vulnerability and adaptation of SIDS on the
impact of climate change. However, the literature
on the effect of climate change on youth is minimal. Only one paper was on the impact of climate
change on children in SIDS in the Eastern
Summary