The ZWDP Water Towers Ambassadors Programme is a key action to implement the Children‘s Call to Action was launched with support of the Mountain Partnership at COP21 Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland 2021.
ZWDP is collaborating with UNESCO Alpine World Heritage Site Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch to develop and roll out the Water Towers Ambassadors Programme. See details below.
UNESCO centre is based in the town of Naters, Switzerland. The centre has an attractive educational programme for primary and secondary school level I in the framework of the project «Learning the Alps» (2013 – 2016). Main topics such as tourism, use of water, forestry, or mountain farming can be easily linked to the living space of the scholars, which is basic for successful learning. Beside the theoretical und conceptional foundations for the lessons, the material offers learning exercises with teaching comments, lecture notes, planning tools, proposals for excursions and project weeks.
The Ice2Ice Initiative draws together the Water Towers Ambassadors programme, Water Walks and Planetary Health Weather Station and together are the key building blocks of the Saving the Worlds Water Towers (SWWT) campaign, 2023 – 2033.
SWWT contributes to UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science and specifically goal 2 raising awareness ‘Educate the public and policymakers about why the cryosphere matters for ecosystems, weather, and communities worldwide’
Water Partnership Ambassadors Programme has five learning modules based around the 5 areas of critical importance to humanity and the planet.
Module 1. People Module 2. Planet Module 3. Prosperity Module 4. Peace Module 5. Partnerships
The first 2 modules introduces students to the interconnected and interdependent nature of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs (SDGs) through the lens of planetary and human health.
Modules 3 and 4 seeks to empower children and youth advocacy for sustainable development, and provides real-world opportunities for groups to engage in global discussions and events.
Modules 4 and 5 build on previous modules to support whole school, whole community action plans and research.
Students are able to participate in ‚Saving the World‘s Water Towers‘ Campaign‘ and share of local projects and experiences across the ZWDP network of schools around the world (Global Citizenship Education).
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