COVID-19, Youth and Informal Settlements: Engagement for Global Action Online Summit

WELCOME TO INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY 2020!!

Date: 12 August 2020, International Youth Day

Start Time :
8 am New York
3 pm Nairobi
8 pm Kuala Lumpur

Host Organizations

● Ministry of Environment and Urbanization of Turkey
● United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
● Balıkesir Municipality, Turkey
● Habitat Norway

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world’s most vulnerable people the hardest, including the one billion people living in informal settlements and slums worldwide. These areas are densely populated with inadequate water and sanitation, little or no waste management, overcrowded public transport and limited access to formal health care facilities. It is very difficult for people to follow many of the suggestions by the WHO such as socially distancing, and masks can sometime be an extra burden on already low incomes.

Youth play a critical role in the emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have been the first responders to this public health crisis. This Summit will review what has happened to date, lessons learned and best practices about the COVID-19 fight in the informal settlements globally including but not limited to the topics of slums, refugees and socially, politically and economically disadvantaged groups. The Summit will draw in experts from youth-led civil society, academia, local and national governments, marginalized communities, and other stakeholders.

UN-Habitat will also use this even to launch consultations on its Youth and COVID-19 Policy Brief, which outlines the challenges youth face, and what ways they have sought to overcome them and take a leadership role. The goal of the summit will be to chart a path forward to defeat the virus through supporting youth and community group action.

To Register go to: https://bit.ly/IYD2020-Event

Speakers

Opening Remarks (3pm – 3:45pm) GMT+3

Murat Kurum
Minister of Environment and Urbanization, Turkey

Gwendolyn Myers
Liberia National Youth Taskforce Against COVID-19

 

Yücel Yilmaz

Yücel Yilmaz
Mayor of Balikesir, Turkey

Maimunah Mohd Sharif
United Nations Under Secretary–General and Executive Director, UN-Habitat

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Yavuz Selim Kiran
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Isaac Muasa
Coordinator, Mathare One Stop, UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor Recipient (2018)

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Anna Skibevaag  
Board Member Habitat Norway

 

1st Session: Innovation and Technology for combatting COVID-19 in Informal Settlements (4:15pm – 5:00pm

Dr. Jemilah Mahmood
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health

Joshua Phoho Setipa
UN Technology Bank for the LDC’s

Ozcan Cikmaz
ViroLogic , Silicon Valley

Dr.  Stefan Germann 
CEO Botnar Foundation

Joshua Ogure 
Map Kibera

2nd Session: Youth-led COVID-19 Emergency Response – Best Practices (5:00pm to 5:45pm GMT+3)

Mohamed Arshad
Executive Director, Y-PEER, Somalia

Moses Omondi
Community leader, Kibera Emergency Response Team, Kenya

Johannes Fjose Berg
Habitat Norway

Rodah Ingashan
Wonderful Mothers, Mathare, Kenya

Leah Namugerwa
Youth-led COVID-19 Emergency Response, Uganda

Danilo Manzano
Co-Founder & Director, Dialogo Diverso, Ecuador

3rd session: It Takes a Community: A Multi-stakeholder Approach (6:00pm to 6:45pm)

Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond

Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond
Under-Secretariat-General and Special Adviser, UN 75

Prof. Dr. Almazbek Beishenaliev

Prof. Dr. Almazbek Beishenaliev
Regional Institute of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Yosuke Nagai
CEO / Founder, Accept International

 

Andrea Reimer

Andrea Reimer
Former Vancouver City Councilor, University of British Columbia

Hilda Nyareso Nyatete

Hilda Nyareso Nyatete
Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU)

George Gachie
UN-Habitat Participatory Slum Upgrading

4th Session: Local Governments Response to COVID-19 (6:45 to 7:30pm)

Ted Terry
Former Mayor of Clarkston, United States

 

Lisa Helps
Mayor of Victoria, Canada

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Dr. Caroline Karugu
Deputy Governor, Nyeri, Kenya

Facilitators

Opening Remarks (3pm – 3:45pm)

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Samed Agirbas
Global Youth Expert

Zümrüt Sönmez
Journalist – TRT World

1st Session: Innovation and Technology for combatting COVID-19 in Informal Settlements (4:15pm – 5:00pm)

Sloane Philips
Iterative Scopes/MIT

Ahmet Soguktas
UN-Habitat

Desmond Tutu
UN-Habitat

2nd Session: Youth-led COVID-19 Emergency Response – Best Practices (5:00pm to 5:45pm)

Lisa Stadelbauer
Canadian High Commissioner to Kenya

Raphael Obonyo
Global Youth Expert

3rd session: It Takes a Community: A Multi-stakeholder Approach (6:00pm to 6:45pm)

Yasmine Ouirhrane
AU-EU Youth Hub

4th Session: Local Governments Response to COVID-19 (6:45 to 7:30pm)

Douglas Ragan
UN-Habitat

Ahmet Soguktas

Mary Hiuhu
UN-Habitat