27 February 2023, Nairobi. – UN-Habitat’s Sister Neighborhoods program is an initiative aimed at fostering youth empowerment and capacity building in impoverished communities worldwide. The program seeks to achieve these objectives through knowledge exchange programs which promote job training and arts and culture. By doing so, it advances the programme goals but also supports the
18 October, 2022, Nairobi, Kenya. – This sunny afternoon in the very heart of Nairobi, Fondation Botnar representatives visit Mathare, one of the biggest informal settlements in Kenya. Fondation Botnar is recognized for their mandate to improve the health and wellbeing of young people living in cities around the world. Organised by UN-Habitat, Mathare Roots
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 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
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
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,
Nairobi, 26 August 2020—Kenyan football star Victor Wanyama has partnered with UN-Habitat to provide face masks to inhabitants of two of Nairobi’s informal settlements to protect them against COVID-19. So far, some 7000 masks have been distributed. Through the partnership, the Foundation of the Kenyan born footballer Victor Wanyama and UN-Habitat agreed to support communities
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
Dear Journalists, We would like to invite you to a briefing on Monday, 27 July at 8:30 am NY time, ahead of the release of the Secretary-General’s brief on COVID-19 and Cities which will be published on Tuesday, 28 July at 00:01 a.m. The briefers will be the Executive Director of UN Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif and the
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
