BKMC Annual Report 2023
We are excited to share that the Ban Ki-moon Centre 2023 Annual Report is out! Check out our progress on tackling climate adaptation, global citizenship education and SDG implemention, and empowering women-youth for our planet & its people! Big appreciation to our Board and all our partners who worked with us to contribute to a better future for all!
We are excited to share that the Ban Ki-moon Centre 2023 Annual Report is out! Check out our progress on tackling climate adaptation, global citizenship education and SDG implemention, and empowering women-youth for our planet & its people! Big appreciation to our Board and all our partners who worked with us to contribute to a better future for all!
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LEADERS<br />
COUNTRIES<br />
PARTNERS<br />
The program was made possible through the<br />
generous financial support of our board member<br />
the RELX Group and was carried out in partnership<br />
with the MCI Management Centre Innsbruck and<br />
their summer school program. This year, the summer<br />
school’s focus lay on “Entrepreneurship for Sustainable<br />
Development”. Additional expert workshops<br />
coordinated by the <strong>BKMC</strong> focused on the topics of<br />
marketing, sustainable businesses, and fundraising<br />
and resource mobilization, further developing the<br />
scholars’ skill sets. As the final outcome, each scholar<br />
implemented their own SDG Micro-Project over a<br />
6-month period, identifying a problem within their<br />
local community and working towards a sustainable<br />
solution.<br />
The SDG Micro-Projects carried out by this year’s<br />
scholars with the support of seed funding ranged<br />
from awareness raising about cervical cancer through<br />
community outreaches in Rwanda to capturing<br />
mental health stories through photography in<br />
Kenya, as well as training young people to build<br />
with local construction materials for disaster risk<br />
reduction in Burkina Faso. The projects addressed<br />
15 different SDGs and reached over 1,040 people in<br />
local communities directly.<br />
©<strong>BKMC</strong> / <strong>BKMC</strong> Global Citizen Scholar Che Myra Ndum from Cameroon with beneficiaries of her SDG Micro-Project.<br />
GLOBAL CITIZEN SCHOLARSHIP<br />
Goal:<br />
Highlight and train young changemakers from<br />
various African countries to accelerate and scale<br />
their SDG efforts.<br />
Key Partners:<br />
RELX Group, Management Center Innsbruck<br />
(MCI)<br />
The Global Citizen Scholarship Program empowers<br />
young and active global citizen-leaders committed<br />
to the SDGs who can profit from valuable educational<br />
opportunities, such as short-term academic<br />
training, multiple expert workshops, and peer-to-peer<br />
exchange, supporting the development of an SDG<br />
Micro-Project.<br />
In <strong>2023</strong>, the <strong>BKMC</strong> granted 15 scholarships to inspiring<br />
and outstanding young changemakers from Benin,<br />
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,<br />
Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, and Zimbabwe.<br />
©<strong>BKMC</strong> / Zoom screenshot from the Scholarship kick-off event.<br />
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