When: 25th June 2026; 12:00-1:00 P.M. (IST)
Where: Virtual Event
Event Type: Participation by Invitation
The “Voices of Practice: A Series on Meaningful Community Engagement” is an initiative by the Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) team of the NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Change and co-led by our Public Advisory Board to empower researchers and practitioners to integrate CEI principles into their work. Aligning with the centre’s goals of co-production, advocacy, and thought leadership, the series aims to create a space for learning, reflection, and dialogue to ensure research remains grounded in community realities and genuinely community owned.
Session | 5:
Title: From Grassroots to Global – How Youth‑Led Community Action Shapes Climate and Policy Change
Join us for the fifth session in this series with Sohanur Rahman, a leading youth climate justice advocate from Bangladesh and Executive Coordinator of YouthNet Global. A survivor of climate disasters growing up in a vulnerable coastal context, Sohanur has built and led one of South Asia’s strongest youth‑led movements, connecting community realities with national and global policy spaces.
Drawing from his experience mobilising young people, influencing parliamentary decisions, and representing community voices at global forums such as COP and regional climate platforms, Sohanur brings a powerful practitioner’s perspective on how grassroots organising, lived experience, and sustained advocacy can influence systems and policy outcomes.
Thematic Focus:
- Real‑world examples of how youth‑led and community‑led action has influenced national policy decisions and climate commitments.
- Insights into building and sustaining community movements that translate lived realities into advocacy and institutional change.
- Reflections on challenges of meaningful participation, power, and representation of communities and young people in policy spaces.
- Lessons from climate justice work in Bangladesh and South Asia on linking local action with global advocacy.
Whether you work in community engagement, research, advocacy, climate action, or programme design, this session will offer grounded insights into how community‑driven movements create pressure, shape narratives, and contribute to long‑term systems change.
Come explore what it looks like when community and youth voices move from the margins to the centre of decision‑making and what it takes to make that influence meaningful and lasting.
Join us on 25th June at 12 P.M (IST) for an exciting and valuable conversation.
