The Leadership Development Program (LDP) is one of CAN’s cornerstone programs that aims to strengthen its national and regional nodes and build professional leadership within the network. The LDP recruits fellows that have the potential to become leading climate change activists and invests in developing their skills through trainings, mentoring and other capacity building activities. As CAN works towards solving the climate change problem, it requires the strong involvement of its members and nodes on the national and regional level. The LDP enhances the network's capability to engage on a national and regional level to meet the vision of a “One Global CAN”.
Using specific criteria, CAN will select a small group of leading activists from the different regional CAN nodes around the globe to become LDP fellows each year. CAN International will work together with each of the fellows and their respective node secretariat to build an annual work plan for the fellow on how to move their national/regional work forward. This work plan would be aimed at implementing CAN’s global strategy on both the national and regional levels.
Therefore, fellows will closely liaise with the node coordinators to help implement CAN’s global strategy on a national/regional level by sharing information, supporting members, developing national/regional strategy, conducting national/regional activities, strengthening the governance of the node, and any other task that would help improving leadership skills for the fellow, as well as strengthening the national and regional work of the node.
Specifically, the program aims to:
- Help to build the technical and leadership skills within the national and regional nodes to strategically influence the national, regional and international climate policies, and contribute to the CAN's global strategy in addressing climate change.
- Invest in the future leadership of the CAN network, through broader active participation in CAN’s policymaking processes, information gathering and sharing, and advocacy efforts.
- Strengthen coordination within the regional nodes and with CAN International.
