ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network working with more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development.
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network working with more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development.
Young people in urban environments face challenges related to safety, security, and well-being due to complex and poorly understood urban systems. The lack of adequate youth engagement and empowerment, as well as the insufficient capacity of local actors to address these challenges, has limited opportunities for youth-driven innovation and sustainable systemic change.
Read more Read less● 17 City officials/staff of Bandung City received capacity development ● 2 new cities (Baguio and Naga, in the Philippines) selected and secured confirmation from the cities through a Memorandum of Understanding ● 3 youth hubs established with youth hub maintenance plan ● Conduct of the Global Convening event in October 2023 with all program cities and cities from the Global Learning Network ● 1 advocacy event conducted last March 2023
Read more Read lessThe program focuses on improving safety, security and wellbeing of youths in urban environments. Additionally, the program aims to better understand urban systems and their influence on relational safety and wellbeing, build capacity within these systems, enable youth innovation to solve key challenges and trigger system-level changes for safer urban environments. The project has 6 main components: Component 1: Building System Understanding – engaging with urban actors to understand safety predeterminants in their urban context using systems thinking. Component 2: Capacity and Empowerment - to develop skills and local capacities in young people and municipalities through participatory training and bridge building to establish structures for meaningful youth engagement. Component 3: Innovation & Youth-Driven Action – to establish an innovation incubator to enable young people ideas to address key safety challenges selected in Component1. Component 4: Systemic Improvements & Scale – to foster preconditions of system change for safer urban environments even after the program ends, hoping that the improvement overflows from participating cities to neighboring ones. Component 5: Annual Review, Upgrade and Engagement with New cities - to review the approach, identify weaknesses, strengths and using the lessons learned, upgrade the approach and start engaging new cities to go through the whole process while maintaining activities in the current cities. Component 6: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning – to have a MEL approach informed by systems change theory and the relational wellbeing approach that will ensure that programs outcomes are measured from a bottom-up approach and is fit for context.
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