Youth Eco Camp: Multi-Stakeholder Partnership and Environmental Leadership of Filipino Youth in Quezon Province

Environmental pollution is the greatest problem in the world. The youth as future carriers have the most at stake to resolve this dilemma and take the lead together with other stakeholders to change this harmful trend. Qualitative research which employs key informant interviews, observation, and document analysis captures the various angles to describe the nature of the youth eco camp, analyze the changes in the environmental leadership and propose community organizing and action to support the youth eco camp. NVIVO 14 was utilized to import the files, including the transcript of the KI responses, assist, and organize the coding of themes. The success of the youth eco camp is attributed to the collective effort and expertise of all stakeholders to achieve change and address environmental problems. The activities of the youth eco camp were able to develop and transform youth leaders’ environmental leadership which entails collaboration among people, empowerment, and inspiration that help youth leaders to become mentors and facilitators. Basic steps, ethics, and principles of community organizing and action were presented to continuously support the environment-theme and leadership-inspired program.