WWF Youth Leadership Online Course Development

Youth will inherit the environmental legacy of today's decisions and will be responsible for shaping the future relationship between humanity and nature. Over 40% of the world's population is under 25, so already their lifestyle choices have a huge impact on our planet.

Empowering young people to be leaders of environmental action and spokespeople for sustainability is an important way to drive positive change today and is essential to ensure that the action sustained for generations to come. WWF-UK seeks proposals from suitably experienced providers to produce an online youth leadership training course for 16-25-year olds.

The course, through a process of self-reflection exercises, will help guide young people to understand what kind of 'Changemaker' they are. In a similar style to a personality test, a young person working through the course will answer various questions about themselves to land on a 'changemaker identity'.

Our expectation is that video outputs will be hosted on YouTube and embedded into the Youth for Our Planet website, which will signpost to further relevant resources should young people wish to explore the topic further. The videos will involve interactive elements and ask that young people respond in the comments with their own personal reflections.

All elements of the training course should also be adapted as an offline toolkit in order to open access to the training to communities with limited access to the internet, and to allow structured groups of young people (e.g. scout troops) to undertake the course together under supervision from local staff or youth leaders. Please refer to the attached briefing document for full details about this project, and instructions for responding. In your response, please indicate whether these are acceptable or whether you would wish to propose any alternative terms.