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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;