Climate Change, Climate Justice & Net-Zero Transitions
Zero in Condotta.
December 2023
Climate change capacity building for Italian non-profit organisations.
Zero in Condotta is a project funded by AICS (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation), conceived and organised by Fondazione Punto Sud, CESVI and partner organisations, with the aim of providing tools and new spaces for dialogue among actors in formal education, informal education and the third sector for the design and promotion of climate change mitigation actions.
Green Growth Generation contributed to the project by delivering the first two modules of the capacity building programme — six online sessions held between November and December 2023 — addressed to 19 Italian non-profit organisations active across the national territory.
The Zero in Condotta project
Zero in Condotta was created to build new skills and new spaces for exchange among civil society organisations, third sector operators and actors in formal and informal education — building a national network of subjects capable of acting effectively on the climate crisis.
The capacity building programme is structured in three modules:
- Module 1 — Climate change
- Module 2 — Specific tools for awareness-raising, advocacy and engagement
- Module 3 — Development and management (delivered by other project partners)
Green Growth Generation designed and delivered the first two modules, for a total of six online sessions.
The training programme — six online sessions
Module 1 — Climate change: causes, risks and strategies
The first module opened the programme with an assessment of participants’ prior knowledge on climate change, followed by a structured exploration of:
- Causes and risks of climate change — from global scale to local implications for non-profit organisations
- Mitigation and adaptation strategies — scientific and policy tools for addressing the climate crisis
Connection between scientific knowledge and the capacity for concrete action by civil society organisations
Module 2 — Advocacy, community engagement and campaigning
The second part of the programme addressed civil society mobilisation and engagement techniques and the tools needed to design and deliver effective awareness-raising campaigns:
- Advocacy and lobbying — how to positively influence decisions at political and institutional level
- Community engagement — strategies for involving stakeholders, decision makers and local communities
- Campaigning — designing functional and measurable awareness campaigns on climate topics
Exchange of good practices among participating organisations — sharing experiences, ideas and sustainable strategies already active across different territories
Outcomes achieved
At the end of the programme, the 19 participating non-profit organisations achieved concrete and measurable results:
Scientific climate competencies — acquisition of a solid understanding of climate change and mitigation processes, verified through a final knowledge assessment test.
Advocacy and campaigning skills — development of practical abilities to influence policy decisions, design effective campaigns and actively engage stakeholders and decision makers in environmental policies.
Community engagement capacity — development of tools to promote sustainable environmental policies and ensure the adoption of concrete climate action initiatives at local level.
Exchange networks — creation of connections between diverse organisations for sharing experiences, good practices and replicable strategies across their respective territories.
Why capacity building programmes matter
Capacity building programmes like Zero in Condotta represent a fundamental step in equipping individual actors and organisations with the resources and skills needed to be effective agents of change in the climate crisis.
They offer the opportunity to:
- Develop new knowledge and increase awareness of the climate crisis
- Acquire practical tools for collective action at local and national level
- Build exchange networks for sharing experiences and best practices among diverse organisations
Green Growth Generation makes its expertise available to support and guide profit and non-profit organisations, public administrations and communities towards the environmental and social sustainability that is increasingly necessary today.