Towards a climate resilient society for all

Objectives

Our project aims to unleash the power of digital communication and social media to inclusively represent needs and interests of disadvantaged groups in the process of policy formulation, implementation and policy feedback.

This will be done through a combination of self-production by the target groups as well as co-production by relevant professionals and other social groups.

Furthermore, the training sessions will equip the participants with skills e.g. access information, design collective climate actions, to design effective pathways and actions to co-develop climate change adaptation and build collective resilience.

The programme activities consist of a launch, a workshop, an international seminar, two social media campaigns, and two policy dialogues. The specific objectives of the events are:

Curate, showcase and share good practices in using social media for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.
Train and advocate a co-learning process between citizens and professionals in policy making, sciences, and media communication for climate actions.
Highlight proven mechanism for inclusive use of social media in climate change adaptation and resilience building.
Harness the benefits of social media and digital communication for disaster risk governance and mainstreaming climate change adaptation.

Outcomes

Emerging good practices for inclusive use of digital communication and social media are curated and demonstrated, with clear mechanisms for policy influence identified.
Key stakeholders for inclusive communication and social media are identified, whereby the roles and contributions of youths, the poor, women, and socially disadvantaged groups are highlighted.
A group of diverse participants in Thailand, Vietnam, other ASEAN countries and Bangladesh trained with skills and tools for collectively creating digital content, developing digital campaigns on social media for building climate resilience.

Register to join our programme

Programme activities

1

Join our programme

Date: Friday 12 November 2021

Time: 14:30 GMT+6 (Bangladesh) / 15:30 GMT+7 (Thailand, Vietnam) / 9:30 CET

Duration: 1 hour

Online Programme:

Trailer
Opening by Dr. Nguyen Hong Quan, Director of Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED)
Keynote by Niall O’Connor, director SEI Asia
Objectives and collaboration by Dr. Long Hoang
Presentation by Nguyen Minh Quang, Director Mekong Environment Forum (MEF)
Presentation and video screening by Dr. Uthpal Kumar, Delta Research Initiative
Discussion facilitated by Dr. Long Hoang

Dr. Nguyen Hong Quan, Director ICED
Daud Jibon Das, Khulna Regional Director, Caritas Bangladesh
Nguyen Minh Quang, Director MEF

2

Improve your skills

Date: Friday 19 November 2021

Time: 14:00 GMT+6 (Bangladesh) / 15:00 GMT+7 (Thailand, Vietnam) / 9:00 AM CET

Duration: 2.5 hours

Platform: You will receive a Zoom link after registration

Move and inspire people through effective climate stories

Background

The Asia Pacific region is experiencing unprecedented growth in mobile technology penetration, social media, and citizen’s access to a wide array of digital platforms.

This impressive development offers a great opportunity: Social media and digital platforms allows to reach out to, and interact with millions of audiences in ways and speeds unimaginable to someone living twenty years ago.

We believe, and are convinced that inclusive use of social media and digital platforms offer transformative, oftentimes disruptive power to boost climate adaptation and resilience, for individuals and for the societies.

Objectives

Supporting our target groups with producing high quality social media content and ensuring their message gets through, to encourage actions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Who is it for?

Participants from different regions in South and Southeast Asia, from Vietnam and Thailand to Bangladesh who are working with our target groups: women, youth and the poor.

The entry requirements for the participants are basic skills in English and writing, and having or willing to use social media for promoting inclusive climate change adaptation.

In this training workshop you will:

Find your story;
Write your own inspiring social media post;
Gain and sharpen journalistic skills on reporting climate change challenges;
Use the strengths of social media channels and platforms to promote media products internationally;
Engage with your audience and drive them to action.

Activities and outcomes

The participants will create a social media post, and they will be inspired to create photos and video footage for three stories on Nextblue and one compilation video to be screened at the policy dialogue seminar in December.

All produced outcomes will be used as much as possible in our follow-up social media campaign.

Preparation

Find a photo that captures the work you do and holds an interesting water or climate story / anecdote that you can share.

Trainers

Joep Janssen (Founder Nextblue), Long Hoang

Expert speakers

Do Ha Thu (filmmaker), Namrata Acharya (journalist)

Workshop programme

Session I: Introduction and setting the goals for social media production (75 min)

Session 1.1: Introduction to trainers, project, participants

Opening remark from project representative
Introduce participants with photos and chat box
Presentation: Storytelling and media production activities in the project
Presentation: Working on topics of gender equity, poverty and youth empowerment

Session 1.2: Media production activities and objectives

Assignment: Shaping goals and narratives for personal projects through a Google form with questions and a breakout group discussion
Project and assignment for inspiration and discussion by expert speakers Ms. Namrata Acharya and Ms. Do Ha Thu.

Break (5 min)

Session II: Technical training on using storytelling for inclusive social media (40 min)

Session 2.1: Building the foundation for storytelling (15 min)

Session 2.2: Creating your own story (15 min)

Five assignments for creating a social media post as a personal outcome
Present your message

Session 2.3: How to ensure your message gets through? (10 min)

Social media network
Examples of social media campaigns that changed the narrative for climate reporting
Creating a social media campaign

Session III: Discussion and share information about disaster and climate change (30 min)

Highlighting water and climate issues and solutions in Vietnam, Thailand and Bangladesh
Participants share their own experiences
Explaining the next steps

3

Create your own story about climate resilience

Kick-off meeting: Tuesday 21 December 2021

Time: 14:00 Bangladesh / 14:30 Myanmar / 15:00 Thailand, Vietnam

Duration: 1 hour

Platform: Selected participants will receive the Zoom link by email

Programme:

Introduction
Assignment and examples
Timeline and guidance for media production
Discuss your initial ideas
Q&A session

Deliverables participants on Deadline 7 January 2022:

3 Photos with captions
1 Article of 500 words written in English
1 Short video interview with a community leader
Additional short video clips

Final outcomes:

Short documentary containing all video materials by the participants on Nextblue YouTube channel.
Articles by the participants published on Nextblue stories.
Social media posts on partner channels and Nextblue Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

4

Engage in advocacy Vietnam

Date: Wednesday 12 January 2022

Time: 14:00 GMT+6 (Bangladesh) / 15:00 GMT+7 (Thailand, Vietnam) / 9:00 AM CET

Duration: 1.5 hours

Platform: You will receive a Zoom link after registration

5

Engage in advocacy Thailand

Date: Tbc (Third week of January 2022)

Time: 14:00 GMT+6 (Bangladesh) / 15:00 GMT+7 (Thailand, Vietnam) / 9:00 AM CET

Duration: 1.5 hours

Platform: You will receive a Zoom link after registration

6

Create impact through stories

Date: Tbc (Friday 11 February 2022)

Time: 14:00 GMT+6 (Bangladesh) / 15:00 GMT+7 (Thailand, Vietnam) / 9:00 AM CET

Duration: 1.5 hours

Platform: You will receive a Zoom link after registration

Programme: Invited expert speakers will discuss the articles and video productions made by our participants. AND you'll be able to watch the short documentary 'Towards a climate resilience society for all'.