To ensure a fast and concrete operationalization of the African Youth Climate Hub, the Foundation will leverage its new Centre for Environmental Education, where the ground basis of the “physical component” of the Hub are established.

The yearly gathering of the Hub will be organized at the Centre for Environmental Education, based in Morocco (Rabat). This key event will be configured in a transparent and truly inclusive manner, gathering representa- tives of the Youth but also representatives of all major stakeholders involved in the Hub’s operations (business partners, national and local governments, civil society actors, academia, etc.). The gathering will happen after the completion of a cycle of e-learning courses (different cycles will be elaborated: 1, 3 ,6 ,12 months courses, involving Youth and other stakeholders, on specific thematic etc.).

This key event will be configured in a transparent and truly inclusive manner, gathering representatives of the Youth but also representatives of all major stakeholders involved in the Hub’s operations (business partners, national and local governments, civil society actors, academia, etc.).

A special attention will be dedicated to gender equality to ensure a balanced representation of men and women. To foster overall inclusion, a special attention will also be paid to balance different profiles of countries from all the subregions of the African continent.

The agenda and program of the yearly gathering will be designed in a fully collaborative manner, by the Youth and for the Youth, to secure maximum ownership of the initiative by the Youth, meaningful empowerment as well as leverage their perspective and innovation.
Preparatory, Youth-led multi-stakeholder workshops (both face-to-face and remote) will be organized before the yearly gathering, to mobilize collective intelligence in the process of designing the agenda of the gathering.

The stakeholders invited to join the preparatory process will be identified amongst the most active participants to the activities of the Hub (young people carrying largely voted best practices, companies having already provided concrete support to youth-led projects, etc.).
When establishing the agenda of the gathering, the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection (Secretariat of the Hub) will foster visible and concrete synergies with other relevant UN and non-UN initiatives and processes

During the gathering, Young African Climate Leaders representing collective dynamics, identified through the Hub will have a special role to advocate and share their experience with other young people and also key actors from the private sector, officials and civil society leaders.