What is Water?

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Programa de las Naciones Unidas por el Ambiente
PNUMA
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UNEP

• Trabaja escencialmente con los gobiernos. También
  con ONG, universidades, jóvenes y niños y otras
  agencias de la ONU
• Trabajo con jóvenes a partir de 1985.

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QUE ES TUNZA?

• TUNZA significa to treat with care or affection
• Niños menores de14 años, jóvenes entre 15 y 24
  años
• Activities focus on
• International Youth Conference
• Global Youth Gatherings
• Awareness raising
• Social networking on facebook and twitter,
  uniteforclimate

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TUNZA ACTIVITIES International Childrens
conference

• Tunza International Childrens Conference in
  Nagoya, Japan
• Sensitizes children to environmental issues e.g.
  climate change, biodiversity
• Outcome Commitments,
• regional action plans
• Junior Board- 6 children from
• 6 regions

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International Childrens Painting Competition

• Held annually since 1991
• For children aged 14 and below.
• Has a different theme each year
• This year about 26,510 children from 88 countries
  sent paintings
• Winners receive cash prizes and fully paid trip
  to attend the International Childrens Conference.

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TUNZA International Youth Conferences

• Children and Youth Conferences, August 2009.
• The Conference brought together 700 participants.
  The theme of the conference was Climate Change -
  Our Challenge! The Conference resulted in a
  petition to world leaders and an action plan for
  promoting individual actions on climate change.

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TUNZA YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL

• Represent youth in 6 regions Africa, Asia and
  Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America and
  the Caribbean, West Asia
• Advises UNEP on best ways of involving youth
• It is made up of 14 advisors and includes
  indigenous youth
• Elected at the International Youth Conference

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Other Related Issues

• United Nations declared 2010 to be the
  International Year of Biodiversity
• Celebration of life on earth and of the value of
  biodiversity for our lives
• International Biodiversity Day is on 22nd May and
  we are inviting children and youth around the
  world to participate in the activities

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Plant for the Planet The Billion Tree Campaign

• Promote reforestation encourage the planting of
  more trees
• Children and youth in schools can participate
• In Kenya, tree planting sessions are organized in
  April and November
• The Billion Tree Campaign to date has planted 10b
  trees in 172 countries

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World Environment Day (WED)

• WED stimulates worldwide awareness of the
  environment and encourages political attention
  and action
• Whatever you do, tell us about it. We will post
  your activities on the Tunza website and make it
  part of the Wide World of WED map.
• Rwanda is the host of WED 2010
• The link for WED is http//www.unep.org/wed

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TUNZA PUBLICATIONS

• Tunza magazine
• Written by young people from all over the world.
• You can contribute to the magazine quarterly
• You can read the magazine on www.unep.org/tunza/yo
  uth/Publications/
• Childrens series
• UNEP has produced 7 series so far
• Topics include forests, plastic, climate change,
  pollution,
• Mainly in 3 languages English, French, Spanish

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TUNZA Global Youth Gathering

• Gathering takes place every two years in
  Nairobi
• Held during the Governing Council
• For 50 youth to review UNEP activities and
  influence decisions

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RESUMEN ACTIVIDADES ALC
Subregiones Reuniones -Caribe -Mesoamérica -Andi
no -Mercosur Listas Lista Tunza y lista
GEO Oficinas Oficina Regional para América
Latina y Caribe ORPALC

• Particularidades
• Procesos Regionales, Subregionales y Nacionales
  de participación juvenil en temas ambientales.
• Relación con la red GEO de ALC
• Relación con ORPALC

http//www.pnuma.org/tunza_talleres06-09/index.php
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RESPONSABILIDADES TYAC 1) Asistir al PNUMA en
mejores formas de comprometer a los jóvenes. 2)
Promover el compromiso de los jóvenes con
PNUMA. 3) Facilitar los inputs de los jóvenes en
foros nivel local, nacional, regional e
internacional . 4) Contribuir al desarrollo de
publicaciones de PNUMA. 5) Cumplido el mandato
proveer resumen detallado a sucesores y
consejos. 6) Establecer lineamientos para el
cumplimiento de responsabilidades.
http//www.unep.org/tunza/youth/AdvisoryCouncil/ta
bid/3771/Default.aspx
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CONTACTS

• ALONSO
• alizaraz_at_hotmail.com
• _at_ajlizaraz
• FLORENCIA
• florencia_caminos_at_hotmail.com

NETWORK www.unep.org/tunza