At Global Action Plan Netherlands, our programmes combine personal and sustainable development, as we believe that they go hand in hand. With over 20 years of experience, we train and empower professionals to run our programmes themselves (train-the-trainer) and we support them in this journey through coaching. It is our mission to create an increasingly growing positive impact and long-lasting change.
The Green Empowerment Movement (GEM)
With this project, we are reviving the Eco Teams Programme, an action programme based on peer coaching to promote environmentally conscious behaviour in households and organisations, which GAP-NL successfully ran in the 1990s and early 2000s.
GEM focusses on three impact areas:
- Empowerment (with topics Inner compass, Time is on your side and Healthy thoughts)
- Conscious Choices (with topics Good food, Travel light, Endless energy, Digital detox, Clean air and water, Unstuff, Waste no more)
- Positive Footprint (with topics Natural footprint and Social footprint)
How it works? We train coaches to design and implement behaviour change campaigns based on these impact areas. To support these GEM coaches, the programme provides a toolkit that includes a step-by-step action plan, fact sheets, action lists, questionnaires, and spot checks. GAP-NL guides these coaches throughout the entire process through one-on-one coaching sessions.
In December 2024 we trained the first group of 10 coaches and in June and September we will train another 20 coaches.
