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Asia-Pacific Region. Post Covid-19: Building Back Better Through Youth-Inclusive Solutions

April 9, 2021

9 April 2021, New York. – The 10th ECOSOC Youth Forum’s Asia-Pacific Regional Session (‘Asia-Pacific Region. Post Covid-19: Building Back Better Through Youth-Inclusive Solutions’) took place on April 8th online. The event was co-led by Asia Pacific Interagency Network on Youth (APINY) and Asia-Pacific Youth Caucus, Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) and co-organised by

Youth Are Key In Fight Against COVID-19

March 29, 2021

Author: Raphael Obonyo, Public Policy Analyst As COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to wreak havoc around the world experts predict that African countries could be hardest hit. But African youth are not sitting idly by waiting for the worst to come; throughout the continent, they are hard at work providing solutions to help reduce the spread of

Africa’s Digital Economy: Opportunities and Obstacles during COVID-19

March 29, 2021

This blog post is part of a series where Portulans staff perform a more in-depth analysis of countries and regions covered by the Network Readiness Index. Digital is the keyword of the COVID-19 crisis. The Africa Report notes that in the past few months, “digitizing has moved from a good to have, to a survival game-changer in what has

Update: Final version of the Policy Brief: Youth, Cities and COVID-19

March 15, 2021

Update: Final version of the Policy Brief: Youth, Cities and COVID-19 Urbanization is the engine that propels the world towards prosperity in the 21st century and youth are its engineers. Youth are society’s most essential and dynamic human resource. There are more people under the age of 30 today than ever before, totaling over three

UN-Habitat’s latest podcast episode explores life in a Nairobi slum during COVID-19

HabTalk Podcast Celebrates Youth in the Informal Settlements on the Frontline of COVID-19 Fight

February 7, 2021

UN-Habitat’s Doug Ragan went to meet young people working for the Mathare Environment Conservation Youth Group to hear how they are helping local people stay safe, healthy and optimistic. The Group’s coordinator, Isaac Muasa, a winner of UN-Habitat’s Scroll of Honour award, describes the main challenges facing the community during the pandemic such as unemployment

Youth-led COVID-19 response with UN-Habitat nominated for UN Secretary-General Award

January 27, 2021

Videos Reposted from UNHabitat.org website 19 January 2021 – As soon as the first COVID-19 cases were discovered in Kenya in March last year, UN-Habitat turned to the youth-led groups in informal settlements and slums to partner on the response. By International Youth Day on 21 August, over 2.5 million handwashes had been done at

Launch of Consultation on Youth, Cities and COVID-19 Policy Brief

September 4, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 has intensified the pre-existing challenges faced by young people in their day to day lives. Ranging from unemployment to lack of access of resources and services, there has been an increasing need for policies that will urgently address these issues. Because of this UN-Habitat has developed a Policy Brief on Youth,

Call to Action: Urgent Request by Youth for Support To Fight COVID-19

August 20, 2020

The newly formed Youth-led COVID-19 Emergency Response Coalition has launched call to action while at the same time announcing its over 1,500,000 hand washes as part of its #KomeshaCorona campaign to stop the spread of the corona virus in the informal settlements and towns of Kenya. “We are proud to announce this milestone,” states Coalition

COVID-19 and Youth in Informal Settlements

August 5, 2020

Register Now 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 York3 pm Nairobi8 pm Kuala Lumpur Host Organizations ● Ministry of Environment and Urbanization of Turkey● United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)● Balıkesir

COVID-19 in Africa: How Youth Are Stepping Up

July 3, 2020

This is a shortened and slightly updated version of a post by Alcinda Honwana and Nyeleti Honwana, which first appeared on the SSRC’s Kujenga Amani blog The African continent has, thus far, fared comparatively well in the pandemic, with just under 400,000 confirmed infections and about 10,000 fatalities at the end of June 2020. Even so, the heavy economic, social, and emotional

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