Leveraging Networks for SDG Action: RCE SDG Youth Challenge Youth for the Goals Ms. Brittany Hardiman, RCE Greater Western Sydney 13th Asia-Pacific RCE Regional Meeting 5 October, 2021

1. RCE SDG Youth Challenge
Youth for the Goals
BrittanyHardiman
Sustainability Education, PVCLearningFutures
Western SydneyUniversity
b.hardiman@westernsydney.edu.au
LEVERAGING
NETWORKS
FOR SDG
ACTION

2. RCE SDG YOUTH CHALLENGE: ‘YOUTH FOR THE GOALS’
• International, place-based initiative run annually that connects youth leaders working in their own communities to a
larger global platform.
• Each project is distinctive yet are all working towards a common goal which unites them under central SDG themes
+ SDG 4 and 17.
• Projects are led by youth for youth, with the aim to mobilise and educate on the SDGs through peer-peer.
2018
2019
2020-21
Sustainability Issue
Youth Lead or Leaders
Work on SDGproject
Connect and engage with youth
(plus teachers, parents and community)
Outputs – social, environmental,
educational

3. 56
youth-led SDG
Projects
21,000+
youth engaged through
projects
5,000+
non-youth engaged
through projects
12
countries represented,
majority Asia-Pacific
*over 4 years
RCE SDG YOUTH CHALLENGE: ‘YOUTH FOR THE GOALS’
Find all the previous RCE SDG Youth Challenge project reports (2018 – 2020) online - https://westernsydney.edu.au/rcegws/rcegws/international/sdg_challenge