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Mural Creation Training of Young Mothers in Mlango Kubwa, Mathare

UPD: The Mural created by Young Mothers and Graffiti Girls has won a Special Award at the art competition by the Digital Art for Climate (DA4C). To see this and other climate artists’ artworks, please visit the Initiative’s website www.digitalart4climate.space. *          *          * October 2021, Nairobi, Kenya.

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UN-Habitat celebrates youth skills for the Creative Economy for International Skills Day

15 July 2021 –  World Youth Skills Day, being celebrated today, celebrates the importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship. UN-Habitat is celebrating World Youth Skills Day and the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development through enhancing the artistic skills of youth by building their entrepreneurship capacities and

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Livelihoods Creation in Mathare Informal Settlement emPlastic Recycling Programme Design Thinking Workshop and Business Development

Livelihoods Creation in Mathare Informal Settlement: Plastic Recycling Programme Design Thinking Workshop and Business Development

Following the establishment of the Mathare Plastic Recycling programme in September 2020, UN-Habitat in partnership with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) and the International School of Kenya (ISK) organized a Design Thinking workshop  on 25th May, 2021 at the Nairobi One Stop Youth Centre that led to the training of 7 Mathare youths. The

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

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

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

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One-Stop Plastic Recycling in Mathare

Reprinted from Plastik Rafiki Through a collaboration between Plastiki Rafiki, the International Office of Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Human Settlements (UN-Habitat) Youth and Livelihoods Unit, the “One Stop Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group (MECYG)” recently received Plastiki Rafiki injection and extrusion molding machines in order to process collected plastic waste into new products.

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COVID-19: When Virus Landed, We Lost Our Jobs And Livelihoods

AUTHORS BRIAN AMBANI (More by this Author) ALBERT MWAZIGHE (More by this Author) Summary Thousands of Kenyans who have lost their jobs and are counting on the stimulus package to revive the economy. The National Treasury has indicated that the 2020/21 budget is aimed at prioritising employment creation, youth empowerment, supporting manufacturing activities, enhancing health

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Unlock The Blue Economy For Job Creation

Efforts by Kenya to tap the unexploited potential of the maritime industry, commonly known as the ‘Blue Economy’, came into sharp focus recently when a youth gathering in Mombasa raised concerns over the delay by the government in creating an integrated policy framework to chart a way forward. The conference was a follow up to

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The Global Slums – A Permanent Poverty Pandemic

Specialist in communicable diseases at the Department of Public Health Ernst K. Rødland recently described the conditions in the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos as follows: “Very many people are gathered in a small area where there is a general lack of health services, poor water and sanitation conditions, many cases of various diseases, poor

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