CYMG & YPAN Certificate Of Participation

 

As a Founder of my NGO  Global Youths Alliance For Change and a member of CYMG , MGCY and now YPAN , I am open to learning more about my environment and governance 

Thank you 😊 YPAN

Dear participant,

Thank you for attending the MEA Bootcamp Continued: Understanding UNEA. We appreciate your engagement and commitment to learning more about international environmental governance.

Attached is your Certificate of Participation for completing the session. This certificate recognizes your involvement in the UNEA-focused capacity-building workshop organized by the Youth Plastic Action Network (YPAN) and the Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP (CYMG).

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Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensuring Safe Water for a Sustainable Future

Clean water and sanitation are fundamental human rights and essential pillars of sustainable development. SDG 6 aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. Safe water access directly influences health, nutrition, education, gender equality, and economic growth, making this goal central to global well-being.

Today, global water insecurity remains a critical challenge. According to UN Water, over 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, while 3.5 billion do not have safe sanitation services. Contaminated water continues to cause deadly but preventable illnesses such as cholera, diarrheal diseases, and dysentery—affecting primarily children in low-income communities. Climate change intensifies water scarcity through prolonged droughts, rising temperatures, and extreme weather, placing additional pressure on fragile water systems.

Progress requires a combination of strong governance, improved infrastructure, and community-led solutions. Expanding wastewater treatment, protecting freshwater ecosystems, and promoting efficient water use in agriculture—the largest water-consuming sector—are essential. Equally important is ensuring affordable access to toilets, hygiene education, and menstrual health resources, which particularly benefit women and girls.

Achieving SDG 6 demands coordinated action across governments, businesses, and communities to secure safe, sustainable water resources for present and future generations.

Gender Equality: A Foundation for Sustainable Development

Gender equality (SDG 5) focuses on ensuring that all people—regardless of gender—have equal rights, opportunities, and the freedom to live with dignity. It addresses persistent challenges such as discrimination, gender-based violence, unequal access to education and healthcare, and barriers to economic and political participation. Despite progress, women and girls worldwide still face systemic inequalities that limit their potential. According to UN Women (2024), at the current pace, achieving full gender equality may take nearly 300 years.

The goal emphasizes ending all forms of violence, eliminating harmful practices such as child marriage, and ensuring women’s full participation in leadership and decision-making. It also highlights the importance of unpaid care work, reproductive rights, and economic empowerment.

Promoting gender equality strengthens communities, boosts economic growth, and creates fairer societies. Achieving SDG 5 requires global commitment to laws, investments, and social norms that uplift and protect every woman and girl.

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Quality Education: Empowering Minds for a Sustainable Future

Quality Education (SDG 4) aims to ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education for all by 2030, while promoting lifelong learning opportunities. Education is a fundamental human right and a cornerstone of sustainable development, reducing poverty, advancing gender equality, and fostering innovation.

Despite progress in school enrollment, global learning gaps persist. According to UNESCO (2024), over 250 million children and youth remain out of school, and 70% of 10-year-olds in low-income countries cannot read a simple story. Conflict, poverty, gender bias, and poor infrastructure continue to deny millions a fair chance to learn. The COVID-19 pandemic further deepened the crisis, widening digital and socioeconomic divides.

Achieving SDG 4 requires investing in teachers, technology, and curriculum innovation, ensuring every learner has access to free and quality education from early childhood through adulthood. Emphasizing digital literacy, STEM skills, and climate education will prepare learners for future challenges.

Education transforms lives—it empowers individuals, strengthens communities, and drives sustainable growth. Achieving quality education for all is not only a goal but the foundation of a peaceful, equitable, and resilient world.

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Sources: UNESCO (2024), UNICEF (2024), World Bank (2023), UNDP (2023).

Good Health and Well-Being: Strengthening Health Systems for a Sustainable Future

Sustainable Development Goal 3 aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at every age. It focuses on achieving universal health coverage, improving healthcare quality, and protecting people from both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Significant progress has been made in reducing child and maternal mortality and combating diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Yet, inequality remains stark. According to the World Health Organization (2024), nearly half of the world’s population still lacks access to essential health services. Non-communicable diseases—such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer—account for over 70% of global deaths, while mental health and pollution-related illnesses are growing challenges.

Health is the cornerstone of sustainable development. Without strong health systems, progress in poverty reduction, education, and economic stability falters. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgency of building resilient healthcare systems and ensuring equitable vaccine access.

Achieving SDG 3 requires greater investment in primary healthcare, disease prevention, mental health, and clean environments. Universal access to affordable medicines and trained health workers will ensure that good health is not a privilege—but a fundamental right for all.

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Sources: World Health Organization (2024), United Nations SDG Report (2024), UNICEF (2024).

I got feature in my work on the newspaper special thanks goes to Journalist YANJU UWALA for the interview

    

I got feature in my work on the newspaper special thanks goes to Journalist YANJU UWALA for the interview 

*INTERVIEW: Our Youth Needs To Venture More Into Technology For Development – Oluwabimpe Pereira, A Digital Expert*

 https://nationalreports.com.ng/2025/10/25/interview-our-youth-needs-to-venture-more-into-technology-for-development-oluwabimpe-pereira-a-digital-expert/

Transforming Food Systems for a Hunger-Free Future

Zero Hunger (SDG 2) is the second goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), established in 2015. Its core mission is to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. It also aims to promote sustainable agriculture, strengthen rural livelihoods, and protect ecosystems that support food production.

According to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (FAO, 2024), over 735 million people currently face chronic hunger. Conflicts, climate change, inequality, and volatile food prices continue to disrupt food systems, especially in vulnerable regions. Malnutrition now includes undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity—revealing deep inequities in access to healthy diets.

Hunger undermines health, learning, and productivity, trapping families in cycles of poverty. Children who suffer malnutrition experience lifelong disadvantages that limit their potential. Achieving Zero Hunger is therefore essential for human development and social stability.

Ending hunger requires transforming global food systems to become inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. This involves investing in smallholder farmers, empowering women, promoting climate-smart agriculture, reducing food waste, and expanding access to land, credit, and markets. Social protection programs like school feeding and cash transfers also play a vital role in improving nutrition.

Without stronger global commitment, hunger will remain a major challenge. Achieving SDG 2 demands coordinated policies linking food security, nutrition, and climate action—ensuring no one is left behind.

Reference

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024.

United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 2 – Zero Hunger.

World Food Programme (WFP). Hunger Map and Global Report on Food Crises, 2024.

World Health Organization (WHO). Nutrition and Food Systems Fact Sheet, 2024.

UNDP. Human Development Report 2023/2024: Breaking the Cycle of Hunger and Inequality