Empowering the future: Children voices and actions on Climate Change Education in Mozambique

This project takes an interdisciplinary and participatory approach to bring Mozambican children's voices to the fore in the fight to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Mozambique is one of the countries most affected by climate change in Africa, due to its vast sea exposure through its 1,600-mile-long coastline. This awareness has led to the development of national policies aimed at increasing the country’s resilience to climate shocks. However, these remain vague about the role played by schools, mostly focusing on infrastructural resilience. This is problematic: schools are in charge of significant sections of young people’s learning – so offer the potential to impact significantly on those elements of behaviour that may be required to change to reach climate targets. This study bridges the gap by producing policy-ready insight with children rather than about children: substantial and sustainable change will only happen if strategies are developed collaboratively.

Research Team: Dr Francesca Salvi, University of Nottingham; Dr Elena Colonna, CoMeDia - Comunicação, Media e Diálogo