Through Their Eyes: Climate change and economic inequality in the MENA region

Save the Children have spoken to over 50,000 children across 6 continents, including over 8,000 children across different countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, to find out what they think about climate change and economic inequality, as part of the Generation Hope campaign. In the Middle East and North Africa region, Save the Children, UN ESCWA and UNFPA joined together to hold a Regional Hearing, speaking together with 44 children in 12 countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabic, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

This booklet aims to support young people’s participation in climate action and decision-making, and to raise the voices of the children we spoke with, to decision-makers. It includes adolescent friendly language on the climate crisis and the different agreements and plans that governments have developed to try and tackle it. The booklet is informed by what children told us about their experiences, the climate action work that they are already leading on, as well as the support they have requested from decision-makers, and their recommendations for furthering climate action in the region.

 

 

ويتمثّل الهدف من هذا الكتيب في دعم مشاركة الشباب في العمل المناخي واتخاذ القرارات، وإيصال آراء الأطفال الذين تحدثنا معهم إلى صانعي القرار. وقد صيغ الكتيب بأسلوب ملائم يتيح للشابات والشبان الاطلاع على أزمة المناخ، وعلى الاتفاقيات والخطط المختلفة التي وضعتها الحكومات لمحاولة التصدي لهذه الأزمة. ويستند الكتيب إلى ما أخبرنا به الأطفال عن تجاربهم، وأنشطة العمل المناخي التي يتولون بالفعل قيادتها، فضلاً عن ما يطلبونه من دعم من صانعي القرارات، وتوصياتهم لتعزيز العمل المناخي في المنطقة.