Environmental Literacy Programme

The Environmental Literacy Programme (ELP) by EasyZambia (EasyZed Initiative) is a youth-led commitment designed to tackle the growing challenge of environmental ignorance, poor waste management, and limited youth participation in climate action within Livingstone and across Zambia. The programme recognizes that a lack of environmental awareness among young people contributes
significantly to unsustainable consumption, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

The initiative’s core objective is to equip children, adolescents, and youth with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to act as environmental stewards in their communities. It focuses on three key pillars:

(1) Education and Awareness: Delivering interactive learning sessions in schools and communities on topics such as climate change, waste management, biodiversity protection, and sustainable living.

(2) Youth Empowerment: Building youth capacity to design and lead local climate action projects, fostering leadership and community engagement.

(3) Practical Action: Integrating clean-up campaigns, tree planting, recycling workshops, and ecoinnovation challenges as hands-on learning experiences.

The target beneficiaries include students, out-of-school youth, and community members aged 10–30, with a focus on those in under-resourced urban and peri-urban areas of Livingstone. Finally, in 2027 consolidation, monitoring of behavioral change, and replication will be carried out in other provinces through the JEHU Innovation Hub network.

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