1. Capacity Building Program for 20 Environmental leaders:

This phase will targeting an environmental under-graduate and fresh graduate self-motivated dynamic youth, those environmental leaders will be selected from different disciplines related to the environment as well as familiar with climate change such as (Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering and Agriculture) and this leaders must be activists members of the environmental initiatives such as the Zaro waste MENA (http://www.zerowastemena.org/) and Arab Youth Climate Movement (http://www.aycm.org/).
The capacity building program will consist of100 hours training programe. The main topics that the capacity building program will focus on 4 Environmental Initiatives, for example Climate Change, Local Green Production, Projects & Initiatives Design, Project Management, Report Writing, Presentation Skills, Advocacy, Communication Skills, Media Production and Video Making.

The purpose of capacity building is to provide environmental leaders with the necessary skills to equip them better to ensure the improvement of their performances that they may respond better to environmental challenges and to carry environmental strategies so they may work together with their local communities to come up with relevant initiatives ideas under the supervision of NATUF. The environmental leaders will be motivated to consider environmental principles including climate change and Local Green Production. The environmental leaders will receive orientation sessions about the project to be followed by the capacity building training to provide them with the necessary skills that will help them implement their future projects.


2. Environmental Initiatives:

Motivate and supervise the targeted Environmental leaders to carry and implement 4small initiatives:

NATUF will motivate and supervise the targeted youth to carry out and implement 4 initiatives in different environmental disciplines jointly with the local community organizations. The beneficiaries will apply the acquired knowledge and skills and design the initiatives based on environmental assessments; this will be achieved via motivating the youth to reflect the gained knowledge and skills through practicing a environmental assessment for local environmental issues and challenges and to come up with proper ideas that meet their local environmental issues.
Initiatives, for example Climate Change, Local Green Production, Projects & Initiatives Design, Project Management, Report Writing, Presentation Skills, Advocacy, Communication Skills, Media Production and Video Making.

The purpose of capacity building is to provide environmental leaders with the necessary skills to equip them better to ensure the improvement of their performances that they may respond better to environmental challenges and to carry environmental strategies so they may work together with their local communities to come up with relevant initiatives ideas under the supervision of NATUF. The environmental leaders will be motivated to consider environmental principles including climate change and Local Green Production. The environmental leaders will receive orientation sessions about the project to be followed by the capacity building training to provide them with the necessary skills that will help them implement their future projects.


2. Environmental Initiatives:

Motivate and supervise the targeted Environmental leaders to carry and implement 4small initiatives:

NATUF will motivate and supervise the targeted youth to carry out and implement 4 initiatives in different environmental disciplines jointly with the local community organizations. The beneficiaries will apply the acquired knowledge and skills and design the initiatives based on environmental assessments; this will be achieved via motivating the youth to reflect the gained knowledge and skills through practicing a environmental assessment for local environmental issues and challenges and to come up with proper ideas that meet their local environmental issues.

NATUF Project Management team through coordination, coaching and mentoring will assist and follow up the youth hand by hand throughout the designing of the initiatives until its finalization as a focus project that might be expanded in future to be part of a mega solution for one of the major environmental challenges.

Four small scales initiatives will be funded, where each initiative will be awarded 525 USD; total of 2100 USD will be granted to 4 small scale initiatives that would be carried by the youth who will implement the initiatives under supervision and follow up of NATUF. The small initiatives will include variety of activities and events including local green production, recycling, environmental documentary films, environmental public awareness, environmental advocacy, radio program episodes and newsletter productions; the process will strengthen the youth capabilities to manage future projects due to the experience exchange with NATUF and local communities. The youth will document, report, and evaluate their initiatives where the final initiatives reports will be submitted to NATUF for the project documentation, media coverage, and final evaluation purposes.

1. Training course
This program includes 100 hours of training spread over 8 weeks at a rate approximate 12 hours of training per week. The training program consists of two parts:
? Climate course
This course (62 hours) including 15 hours course about Environmental sciences as introductory to the climate change course, this include the main concepts of Environment and pollution , and integrate these concepts with the climate change concept and this includes workshops and case studies , the climate change course explores the science of climate change. Students will learn hothe climate system works; what factors cause climate to change across different time scales and those factors interact; how climate has changed in the past; how scientists use models, observations and theory to make predictions about future climate; and the possible consequences of climate change for our planet. The course explores evidence for changes in ocean temperature, sea level and acidity due to global warming. Students will learn how climate change today is different from past climate cycles and how satellites and other technologies are revealing the global signals of a changing climate. Finally, the course looks at the connection between human activity and the current warming trend and considers some of the potential social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change. Also, adaptation techniques and mitigation of the effects of climate change on the local and international level.
During each week of this course, participants will utilize essays, multimedia, other websites and online discussion forums to explore a facet of climate science. A weekly case study will focus on contemporary research on some aspect of the climate system.