Name: Yvonne Maingey Country: Kenya Region: Africa To take up the commitments of my regional director and coordinate a youth page on the ROA newsletter and the ROA website. To produce a media report on the GYR and send it to my local media. To facilitate a workshop on the MDGs (Using Wondy's presentation) and carry out in my school and other schools within Nairobi. To make contacts with government officials (with help from ROA) and find out if they have any strategy on involving youth on the implementation of the MDGs. To organize training workshops within my school and local committee on media, involving people and fundraising (Using resources gained from this GYR) To perfect my French and encourage other English speaking youth organizations that I am in contact with to do the same in order to help bridge the gap between Anglophone and Francophone Africans during the next Tunza Conference(Bangalore).

Name: Jessica Kamugira Mbabaz Country: Uganda Region: Africa To follow up on what used to be "The Environment Club" of secondary schools working together in Uganda. To speak to local government officials, students and my community on their role in the implementation of the MDGs.

Name: Neema Mbeyu Country: Kenya Region: Africa To write articles and send it to media houses and to contribute to newsletters on the MDGs.  To mobilize young people and organize a workshop for young people, sensitizing them on the MDGs and how they can be involved more especially university students and youth organizations. To push for the MDGs to be included in the agenda of the International Environment Youth Summer Camp which I am helping to organize in August 2005. To organize debate sessions in high schools centered on MDGs and the role of students. To find out ways in which my AEO for Youth sub-region can be involved in the implementation of the MDGs and empower other Young people in Eastern Africa.

Seeka Gueye Country: Senegal My project has already started. I am training 50 youth between 12 and 16 years to take care of the environment. In Senegal, our main problem is waste and we have mobilized ourselves to have clean up campaigns in Dakar. We also do awareness building in our community on the need to have a clean environment.

Housseini Harouna Saslou Country: Niger Region: Africa My project is to mobilize my fellow scouts in Niger to have a tree planting event to check the advancement of the desert. We will also organize clean up activities. I will organize debates on the consequences of the desert and to encourage people to plant trees as well as provide information on the importance of trees.

Anta Mbuya Mahunda Country: D.R. Congo I will work with my group to sensitize people on the need to have a clean environment and not to throw garbage everywhere. We will also lobby our government to create waste management and recycling plants.

Name: Mirella Daurer Country: The Netherlands Region: Europe To set up working groups at my faculty, which will advise our law sections on how to include SD (Sustainable Development) in the existing class lectures. To make sure that the working groups have gathered enough information by October this year to present it to all sections. To give a workshop about the MDGs at the campus of my university. Status as of May 2005 I have linked up with eight people that supported the idea of including SD and we picked 5 concrete classes together that we will work on. The next step is that we get together in small teams to implement the idea. I am organising a national clean-up competition between students for the introduction-period. Though it was not a commitment, I decided to come up with this new project.

Name: Lars Rosendahl Appelquist Country: Denmark Region: Europe To organize a youth seminar for 50 young people in Tanzania about poverty eradication and sustainable development in cooperation with Tanzania Youth Coalition. To organize a workshop in Denmark about youth involvement and sustainable development in Tanzania. Status as of May 2005 Nature and Youth and Tanzania Youth Coalition have organised a youth seminar about sustainable development and poverty eradication in Morogoro, Tanzania. The seminar was a great success, especially due to the great planning of Humphrey Polepole and his team in Tanzania Youth Coalition. About 50 young people from all over Tanzania and additionally 4 people from Denmark and 2 from Kenya participated. The seminar was a combination of lectures by experts and group discussions.

Name: Mihaela Hristova Country: Bulgaria Region: Europe To organize an open discussion with my university colleagues on the MDGs. To increase awareness about MDGs among young people. To recruit new members in my organization. To put information about TUNZA and MDGs in the website of my organization.  To reach out media and get people acquainted with the GYR by inspiring youth to participate in similar events.  To spread information about the Bangalore Conference by encouraging other youth to apply for the Conference. To gather my team and discuss some possibilities for designing a project on one of the MDGs.

Name: Zeren Erik Country: Turkey Region: Europe To organize trainings at the local level focusing on raising public awareness on MDGs. I will organize extra sessions about the MDGs in parallel with other activities. To give lectures on the MDGs at the university. To put pressure on the government to include youth in the delegation for MDGs discussion in the Special UN Summit later this year.

Name: Nicole Meyer Country: Switzerland Region: Europe To make arrangements that the exhibition "Seeds of Change" is shown at any university. To provide the CD with the panel on it to everybody of this conference that is interested. To give two lectures on the MDGs and one on youth involvement in UNEP. To organize an event at the World Environment Day in Zurich. To continue the discussions with the local authorities to establish a youth parliament in my town. To write a paper for my university about youth participation in communities.  Status as of June 2005 The exhibition "seeds of change" and the corresponding film "a quiet revolution" (a UNEP, SGI and earthcharter co-production) will be shown in the last week of march and the first week of april in 2006 at the ETH (technical university of Zurich) in the main hall (where it may reach up to 12'000 students and thousands of professors and staff). Further more it is part of an international conference on sustainability with scientists and students from all over the world. I gave a lecture on UNEP and youth involvement in a university class about sustainable development. We organized an event for the World Environment Day in Zurich as part of the activities of the city of Zurich. We organized a "treasure hunt" in the old town of Zurich where we showed different treasures (meaning green spots or animal life) in the city to demonstrate how the fauna and flora adapt to the condition in a town. It was a great success with many people visiting and taking part in the contest that we organised with questions about the "treasures". I'm writing the paper for my university not about youth participation but about how one can measure the people's well being in a community.

Name: Tomislav Tomasevic Country: Croatia Region: Europe   To organize one workshop about sustainable development. To organize one workshop about MDGs. To implement one initiative on MDGs. To publish one article about MDGs. To write a letter to government to include me in the governmental delegation for UN GA Millennium Summit & 5.

Name: Palfy Adrienn Country: Hungary Region: Europe To involve more young people in sustainable development and MDGs activities. To discuss these issues with the leader of the Hungarian Red Cross. To make contact with the Hungarian Minister of Environment and Water on youth participation in the MDGs. To teach young people about the MDGs in my school. To speak to the director of my school to have environmental lessons two times each month.  To give a presentation about GYR 2005, Nairobi, in my town. To make a report with the local television.

Name: Marina Mansilla Hermann Country: Argentina Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To translate into Spanish the script, "Time To Set". To promote the "Tunza" folder and a programme for children, youth and the environment. To organize at least one workshop on environmental issues and UNEP's strategy for young people.  To provide support to the second phase of the GEO for youth project in Argentina.  For example, a training. To coordinate the national participation for the next World Youth Congress(Scotland, 28th July - 8th August) by working closely with government  bodies.

Name: Lorena Gudino Country: Mexico Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To continue with GEO for youth process in Mexico and Latin America and Caribbean.  To continue with the organization for the World Youth Water forum in Mexico 2006 and preparatory process through GEO and all networks and NGOs where I had participated.  To continue with capacity building process on youth participation and decision making at the national and international level in my organizations (Mision Rescate, Scouts, Red Ambiental Juvenil, Red Ambiental Scout, etc). To empower young  people on the implementation of sustainable development To promote capacity of young people at national level by sharing information with them on the MDGs and to work with them to develop local action projects. To promote the capacity building and youth participation in UNEP's processes through the World Youth Scout Network.

Name: Tonia Skeete Country: Barbados Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To implement an environmental awareness programme for the youth of my region. To share information that could assist youth from other regions in achieving environmental sustainability. To design and introduce an HIV/AIDS awareness programme for my country. To lobby for the increase participation of youth in decision making processes for Caribbean youth.

Name: Nelly Paredes Country: Peru Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To continue educating children and young people of my country, who live around Ventanilla's Wetlands in Lima, capital city of Peru about the environment. To continue representing an environmental youth group of Peru (Comite Ambiental Juvenil CAJU  - Peru) where we are working voluntarily  to increase an environmental consciousness  in children and young people of Peru.) Status as of June 2005 In coordination with a very important program in Peru: "Peruvian Program on Climate Change and Air Quality" (PROCLIM). CAJU-Peru organized different seminaries to capacitate teenagers, young people and adults, and training workshop in Climate Change. We coordinated 15 seminaries groups some of them were held in universities, institutes, NGO's of Lima. Implementation of GEO Handbook for youth at National level. In exactly 19 regional focal points. Each focal point did a workshop with a GEO handbook and invited different organizations of the community: public and private institutions, schools, universities, NGO's, etc. In 5th June Environment Day. This year we organized together with National Environment Council The Banner Quest 2005 to promote great banners with recyclable paper, plastics materials. This activity was part of the main environmental activity as Second Cycling of Lima. The same celebration has been taken in Villa Rica City, Chimbote and Tarapoto.

Name: Camila Argolo Godinho Country: Brazil Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To organize a seminar to evaluate the implementation of the MDGs (Coordinated and organized by youth). To organize with my organization a youth forum on the MDGs. To organize and coordinate peer to peer education through the internet. To monitor the implementation of World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond especially regarding the environmental area and share the information with other youth, my government, and international organizations. To write at least one article for the TUNZA Magazine. To help on the editorial process of at least one issue of the TUNZA Magazine.

Name: Juan Victorio Rognone Country: Argentina Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To make contact with as many youth indigenous organizations as I can in Latin America and the Caribbean. To organize some lectures about MDGs goals, sustainable development and climate change for young people, inviting some Argentinean experts to make presentations. To organize a sustainable development lecture for primary school teachers.  Name: German Areas Gutierrez Country: Nicaragua Region: Latin America and the Caribbean In March, to finalize with the rest of Central American groups, the GEO for Central American youth. To promote the capacity building manual in my region, using it as a tool for environmental education in urban and rural areas. To work as a volunteer in projects of social impacts on the most needed communities of Nicaragua and also maintain contacts with other youth in Central and Latin American guys to strengthen the union that Latin American youth, we have always had.

Name: Analiz Vergara Country: Ecuador Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To officially start the GEO for youth process in Ecuador. To work to increase the participation of Ecuadorians in UNEP's activities and conferences/retreats. To create a database of Ecuadorian youth environmental organizations. To continue the recycling campaign in my school and share the experience locally. To work in cooperation with other youth from the region. To find out about Ecuadorian MDGs report. To involve /identify indigenous groups in Ecuador to include them in the processes. Status as of May 2005 GEO for Youth Ecuador is beginning to take form. A meeting with the Ministry of Environment to get institutional support is to follow soon. Hopefully the project will start in the next months. The creation of a database of Ecuadorian youth environmental organizations is expected to be made a part of the GEO for Youth Ecuador process. I have continued to develop a paper-recycling campaign in my school and exchanged the idea with other students from schools in my city. We are also planning to implement some of their ideas in our school. I have given talks in my school and another school in my city about the role of young people in sustainable development as well as the MDG's, the Tunza Strategy, and the opportunities to participate in UNEP's activities. I've also been invited to give a talk in another city in Ecuador. I tried convincing young environmental indigenas leaders to apply for the Conference in Bangalore.

Name: Kenneth Ochoa Country: Colombia Region: Latin America and the Caribbean To develop a publication on youth works in my country, Colombia - and GEO for Youth Colombia. To engage children and young people to participate in UNEP conferences and activities and to help prepare them to become the next generation of environmental leaders. To present to my community, the activities of my NGO and the MDGs in order to inspire them to become involved in sustainable development issues and the MDGs. To work with Scouts of Colombia in order to reach more young people and strength them through capacity building workshops for young leaders.

Name: Alexander Way Country: Canada Region: North America To work towards to select North America for participation in UNEP events in a transparent way.

Name: Kate Davenport Country: USA Region: North America To continue working with other youth in my locality to build awareness and create peer to peer tools for sustainable consumption. To continue working through my organization to facilitate and implement environmental enterprise initiatives at a local level in order to build stakeholders capacity to provide income-generating opportunities that aim to manage natural resources and environmental protection.  To continue to consume in a more sustainable manner in my own lifestyle.

Name: Mirza Delibegovic Country: USA Region: North America To carry out a workshop on MDGs for university and college students. To develop a course on sustainable consumption for young people in the US. To create and coordinate peer to peer education initiative for young people on the link between sustainable development and the MDGs. To participate in World Environment Day Conference in San Francisco and help organize awareness raising event.  To train on sustainable development through free University  in  the US.

Name: Lucia Wellington Country: Australia Region: Asia and the Pacific To design a workshop to give to teachers and students on sustainable consumption and ecological footprints to coincide with World Environment Day.

Name: Phirapol Phonphanitc Haroen Country: Thailand Region: Asia and the Pacific To launch "South East Asia Youth Environmental Network." To try to connect this network in the South of Thailand, which currently is having a religious problem with Malaysia.

Name: Alan Wu Country: Australia Region: Asia and the Pacific   To work on five school-based educational sessions on GEO for youth. To translate three essays from each Tunza magazine we receive from UNEP and send for publication in my local Chinese newspapers.  To develop orientation packages for new TYAC members.  To develop a database of youth organizations in Australia jointly with Lucia. To communicate with ROAP to help develop a South Pacific Youth Environment Network.

Name: Ranjan Baruah Country: India Region: Asia and the Pacific To organize and  conduct a workshop/seminar on youth and MDGs. To write more articles related to TUNZA activities and get published in newspapers and magazines. To organize popular talk in schools (at least five) about TUNZA, environment and the role of children. To start a regular campaign on youth and sustainable consumption in colleges/schools.

Name: Catherine Candano Country: The Philippines Region: Asia and the Pacific To run a national Filipino Youth Conference on the MDGs. To exact project commitments from conference delegates on MDGs. To run action project on MDGs contest for Filipino Youth, for Project Seed Money. To compile youth feedback on MDGs issues for Philippines and share with academic/research/policy agencies as a form of participation. Document outcomes of GYR and present to /lecture at national Filipino Youth Conference, youth networks in Asia and Filipino youth organization.

Name: Waranya Roekpooritat Country: Thailand Region: Asia and the Pacific To launch "South East Asia Youth Environment Network."

Name: BoYoung Rhim Country: Korea Region: Asia and the Pacific To help in facilitating Korean Youth Network with the involvement of at least ten grassroots environmental organizations, and involve the Network in UNEP Youth Programmes.  To organize workshops on environmental security and MDGs and mobilize youth to share best practices. To continue publishing the Tunza magazine in Korean. We already formed an editorial group of young people from several grassroots organizations.  So, I will be the coordinator for youth editor groups and provide information to those who are interested in UNEP and environmental issues.    To make the Korean youth editors voice heard through UNEP structure like Children/Youth unit.

Name: Xing Guo Country: China Region: Asia and the Pacific To promote free education in the countryside of China. To strengthen the solution of sand  storm in Asian countries such as China, South Korea and Japan

Name: Mohammad Abu Musa Country: Jordan Region: West Asia To involve more youth and societies in the UNEP activities. To try to talk to the government so it supports such activities. To introduce the MDGs to the youth. To try to work with ministry of education to start to publish and educate students about MDGs. To try to involve in a youth parliament found in Jordan.

Name: Hanan Rajab Country: Bahrain Region: West Asia To publish stories funded by private organizations in joint with other youth speaking about desert creatures' life having lots of environmental principles and concepts for children.  To involve as much youth as possible into working together trying to allocate main reasons why are west Asian's Youth so backward in the environmental issues and global movements, and try to come up with a report to ROWA in order to find the best solution. To continue my work in the environmental citizenship program in Bahrain Women Society, empowering women and men in the capacity building issues, and environmental awareness.

Name: Zainab Kadhim Country: Kuwait Region: West Asia To have a survey about how involved youth can be when it come to promoting environmental awareness. To propose a workshop in my school and community on the MDGs.

Name: Ahmed Alhammadi Country: Qatar Region: West Asia To get five youths to join and participate in our center and use them as possible candidates for the TYAC.  To create and publish a flyer to introduce youth to the MDGs and attempt to distribute the flyer through schools and youth organizations. To find a way to continue to participate in environmental programs after moving to my new location.

Name: Lara Saad Country: U.A.E Region: West Asia   To create awareness in my company on the MDGs and environment issues in the region by creating a company environment newsletter. To create a regional youth network and hold a youth conference by June 2005 under UNEP ROWA.  To hold a workshop for youth on MDGs. To hold a workshop on capacity building and importance of environmental issues in the country. To work with my regional office on having a youth section for their newsletter. To have a radio interview and discuss the outcomes and experiences of the GYR.

Name: Kaajal Kumar Country: Fiji Region: Asia and the Pacific To build a network for young people here in Fiji. I would like to have a network that empowers young people to do practical things in our country. Status as of May 2005 A core group of 8 youth people working on the commitment has been formed We (the core group) have collected so far a database of 50 youth NGO and are working with them. We have visited about 7 schools that were affected by the recent landsides due to heavy rain in Fiji in Navua and Suva area. The core group did car wash for 3 days to raise money and brought drinking water and some second hand clothes for affected people. Furthermore, we distributed copies of Tunza Magazine. The core group also took part in the national youth day celebrations. We collected information on what environment problems are young people facing in Fiji and how we as young people can overcome this problem. Still working on: A Pacific Island Network, main obstacle is lack in funds. A MDG puppet group, to travel around in rural areas educate on MDG. A regional youth environment forum for Pacific Islands.

Name: Aerfen Aftab Country: Canada Region: North America To get involved in the World Environment Day celebrations by organizing an event on the theme of 'green cities', Status as of May 2005 I have been involved in organizing an event at the World Environment Day celebrations in San Francisco in June 2005 as part of a series of events we are calling the Youth Track. My organization, the Youth Roundtable on the Environment, is proud to be representing Canada at this important event and to be collaborating with the US youth organizations on this. CNN has committed to covering the Youth Track. The idea is to build the capacity of young people to participate in policy making especially around urban issues.