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FES Asia's Regional Climate and Energy Project 

and their most-trusted partner The Green Youth Labs Vietnam organized The Young Energy Summit in Danang back in August 2024. It marks the pinnacle of a transformative three-year journey of the Green Youth Labs project, funded by the German Government’s International Climate Initiative (IKI). The project, subtitled “A Training Programme for Innovation and a Socially Equitable Energy Transition,” aims to harness the creative potential of young people to develop innovative low-carbon model projects and introduce them as future leaders to a low-carbon transformation of society. The Green Youth Labs project aims to engage young people in low-carbon production and climate-friendly energy at local, national and international levels. There are more than 100 young alumni of the project, 30 from the north of Vietnam, 30 from the south and 40 from the centre, including representatives from various public and private sectors. The summit brought these together with international youth delegates from Germany, Bangladesh and the Philippines. As part of the event, they also participated in a field trip to four renewable energy sites and this video story is one. 

WATCH and READ more: https://asia.fes.de/news/heeding-the-voice-of-youth-for-a-just-energy-transition.html

Trade Unions and Workers' Voices

There is no democracy without trade unions and that is why unionists and workers join hands today to highlight and promote a fairer and more sustainable yet democratic future of decent work for all workers regardless of their colors of collars. 

Every May Day, workers and unionists gather to voice out how they have made their workplaces more democratic or wish to have such workplaces to be more sustainably democratic. From North to South and Southeast Asia, where FES Asia shines a spotlight on and empowers trade unionists and workers from all across the region, they come forward to showcase their equal participation at workplaces, their involvement in decision-making process, how their voices and plights are heard in order to consequently improve their job satisfaction, productivity and overall well-being. 

https://asia.fes.de/news/trade-unions-and-workers-are-here.html

Gender Justice in Asia: When Care Work is Shared.

Care work is an integral part of the women’s lives in Asia. Women in the Asia- Pacific spend on average four times more time on paid and unpaid care work compared to men. When we speak of inspiring inclusion, we should also see how we can deconstruct the traditional gender roles with regard to care work, especially the unpaid domestic care work that are shouldered mostly by women in Asia. Therefore, with this communication campaign on care work, we would like to highlight how balanced domestic care work could look like. The conversations on unpaid domestic work usually dwell upon the fact that women bear the burden of it and therefore are suffering from time poverty. While family functionality often relies on women providing unpaid care work, there are families in Asia, who try to balance and distribute domestic care work between men and women equally in the household. We would like to highlight those stories to inspire inclusion. And in order to do that we need stories that are realistic, relatable and empathetic. 

Watch and read more about this campaign on the International Women's Day: https://asia.fes.de/news/when-care-work-is-shared.html

Drawing from the theme of IWD 2024 (“inspire inclusion”),

this short film was created by FES India with the aim of including more women in leadership positions in India. The short film documents the aspirations of women across the country by interviewing them. The reasons for a low female labour force participation rate are also documented by speaking to economists and gender experts. The film also creates awareness for policy makers on the high aspirations the youth (particularly women) have in India which need to be met.