15 a) Encourage the media, youth organisations, in partnership with national and international organisations, to produce, exchange and disseminate information on environmental preservation and best practices to protect the environment; b) Train youth in the use of technologies that protect and conserve the environment; c) Support youth organisations in instituting programmes that encourage environmental preservation such as waste reduction, recycling and tree planting programmes; d) Facilitate youth participation in the design, implementation and evaluation of environmental policies including the conservation of African natural resources at local, national, regional and international levels; e) Develop realistic and flexible strategies for the regeneration of forests; f) Initiate intensive actions to prevent the expansion of deserts. Article 20: Youth and Culture 1. States Parties shall take the following steps to promote and protect the morals and traditional values recognised by the community: a) Eliminate all traditional practices that undermine the physical integrity and dignity of women; b) Recognise and value beliefs and traditional practices that contribute to development; c) Establish institutions and programmes for the development, documentation, preservation and dissemination of culture; d) Work with educational institutions, youth organisations, the media and other partners to raise awareness of and teach and inform young people about African culture, values and indigenous knowledge; e) Harness the creativity of youth to promote local cultural values and traditions by representing them in a format acceptable to youth and in a language and in forms to which youth are able to relate; f) Introduce and intensify teaching in African languages in all forms of education as a means to accelerate economic, social, political and cultural development;