This project aims to address gaps in community-level climate resilience and social cohesion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project focuses on issues disproportionately affecting youth, including the nexus of economic, environmental and social instability contributing to youth disenfranchisement and unsustainable emigration, and especially targets the emerging environmental drivers of migration. To address these gaps, IOM will support young people, with a particular focus on women and girls, to engage in environmental protection and improvement practices, through participatory initiatives and community mechanisms. The project will first conduct groundbreaking research and training on the nexus of outmigration of youth, the environment, climate resilience, gender and social cohesion, to build an evidence base and increase the capacities of national and local government officials. Building upon the research and stakeholder training sessions, the project will then select both central and peripheral at-risk communities and engage youth in gender and environment-oriented solutions, including providing pilot funding for concepts designed by the youth themselves. These pilot activities aim to re-engage the youth and further empower them to become agents of sustainable change in their communities, through a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach.