The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has urged young green entrepreneurs to take advantage of funding opportunities available to them to propel the growth of their businesses. The climate-based organisation brought together dozens of climate-related businesses carefully selected from all parts of the country to equip them with first-hand information on how […]
The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has organised a workshop for the departmental heads in the Asante Akim North Municipality Assembly of the Ashanti region. The engagement sought to build the capacity of the departmental heads towards the mainstreaming of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the implementation plan of the Asante Akim North […]
The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has organised a workshop for the departmental heads in the Asante Akim North Municipality Assembly (AANMA) of the Ashanti region. The workshop was themed Mainstreaming Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Interventions in the Assembly’s Implementation Plans as the two bodies seek to provide solutions to energy crisis. It […]
On March 10th, 2023, the C4C Team ignited environmental awareness among the young students of Nsonyameye Basic School in Asante Akim Municipality. The event aimed to deepen the students’ understanding of the environment, its significance, and their role in safeguarding it.The team encouraged the students to share their perceptions and personal connections to the environment. […]
The Strategic Youth Network for Development has advised financial institutions in Ghana to only fund environment-friendly projects to protect the environment as the world grapples with climate crisis. This achieves the rationale of the ‘No Go Policy’, which explains that banks’ financing policy for projects and programmes may have dire consequences on the sustainability of […]
Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has held an inception meeting in Accra to officially kick-start its capacity-building-driven programme for 25 young green entrepreneurs. Developed in 2021, the programme aims to position Young Green Entrepreneurs (YGEs) as catalysts for promoting and developing the country’s rich renewable energy resources for sustainable economic growth, contributing to improved […]
In a proactive move to assess the implications of the proposed new bill by the Government of Ghana, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working within the Natural Resources and Environmental sector came together in a two-day stakeholders’ consultative meeting. Organized by EcoCare Ghana, in collaboration with the Strategic Youth Network for Development and the KASA Initiative, […]
SYND Ghana has initiated a forest restoration project in Agogo to revive 200 hectares of degraded forest at Nsonyameye. This project is led by Prince Yaw Yeboah Okyere.The first phase of the project encompasses 5 hectares of land. The primary objective of the project is to restore the land to its original ecological state using a […]
Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has reiterated calls for banks to thoroughly screen projects before financing them in the quest to conserve biodiversity. It emphasised that if banks keep to the ‘Biodiversity No Go Policy’, which requires financial institutions to conduct environmental risk assessments of project proposals, “screening out” high-risk ones as they may […]