A Rotary Peace Fellowship Social Change Initiative
Reports, studies and tools on how a warming world is already shaping children's health, schooling, safety and daily life across the Middle East, North Africa and India. Curated by hand, tagged by region and by what is hitting children where you are, and kept current.
Evidence Library
Every claim in the Handbook and Facilitator Guide traces back to something on this list. Tags are multi-select on purpose: one report can be global, about MENA, and about health at once.
Where the library stands today
Missing something? Suggest a resource (a short form that goes straight to the Fellow).
Toolkit
Built to be adapted, not just adopted: swap in your own country's examples, translate it, or fold single activities into a programme you already run.
For children and young people
Climate change explained simply across four real-life themes: education, health, safety and daily life. Hands-on group activities and a closing pledge, at one accessible reading level, with examples from across MENA and India.
For Rotaract, Interact and NGO volunteers
Everything needed to run a session: the evidence behind the Handbook, ready-made 45 and 60 minute session plans, and coaching notes for every activity, online and offline. No facilitation experience required.
For researchers and programme leads
The full research picture behind this initiative: literature review, regional comparison across MENA and India, and the case for treating this as a peacebuilding issue.
For organisations and partners
A concise two-page brief for organisations considering adopting or supporting this work, with what adoption involves and what it costs.
About the project
Climate change does not affect children the way it affects adults. Their bodies are still developing, they depend entirely on the adults and systems around them, and across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia they are growing up where climate risk is most concentrated: water stress, heat-driven school closures, displacement and disrupted schooling.
This project began with evidence and field work across both the MENA region and India, and every resource is built to be adaptable, not India content with MENA added as an afterthought. Country examples, case studies and activity framing can be swapped for local context wherever this is used.
Policy and advocacy professional with more than fourteen years in child rights, poverty and urban issues, including national advocacy roles at Save the Children India, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights and Miracle Foundation India. This initiative was developed and piloted with Rotaract and Interact clubs, combining academic research with field-tested community sessions.
Climate stress strains the same things that hold peaceful communities together: fair resource-sharing, cooperation, trust between neighbours. The Handbook and Guide give children and young facilitators practised experience in exactly those behaviours, listening, negotiating fairly, deciding together, not just information about climate change. Each activity is tagged to the Positive Peace pillar it exercises.
| Positive Peace pillar | Where it shows up on this site |
|---|---|
| Acceptance of the rights of others | Handbook theme "Safety": who gets water first when there is not enough; the pledge activity. |
| Good relations with neighbours | Facilitator Guide 45-minute plan: the shared-resource negotiation game; displacement resources in the library. |
| Free flow of information | This library itself: evidence in one place, tagged, open, with a citation on every card. |
Three pillars named well, rather than eight gestured at. Mapping to be confirmed against the final Handbook.
Pilot & Evidence
This page fills in after the first session: two or three attributed observations from facilitators, and one honest paragraph on what did not work. Photos only with written consent; no child is identifiable.
One real pilot with lessons learned is worth more than three hypothetical ones. This block is deliberately empty until then.