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Child and Youth Friendly Cities

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Day / Time Tuesday, June 20th / 13:30 - 15:30


Event Description
A child and youth friendly city is one that supports all aspects of a young person's development, including self-efficacy, education, recreation, the experience of cultural harmony and a sense of connection to urban environments. This event examines urban youth issues and looks at how the Centre for Urban Youth Development, under the Global Partnership Initiative, is seeking solutions to issues of youth in the urban environment. These include policy and planning to preserve and design urban environments, such as creating-safe spaces for play, recreation, relationship building and capacity building; educating peers on safety, health and wellness related matters, including crime prevention, food security, and unemployment; and improving local access to natural resources and municipal infrastructures.


Session Language

English

French


Speakers

Darcy Varney, Director-Special Projects, Children, Youth & Environments Center for Research

S. Ananthakrishnan, Chief-Partners & Youth Section, UN-HABITAT

Ndwiga Kariuki. Director, Social Services and Housing, City Council of Nairobi


Host Organization

One Stop Youth Information Resource Centre


Host Organization Description

One Stop Youth Centre is a centre for urban youth development initiated United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat) and City Council of Nairobi through Global Partnership Initiative concept Established in 2003, One Stop Youth Information Resource Centre has been designed to address the following * To provide career and employment opportunities to young people so that they can have more access to the job markets * To promote and empower the youth with relevant information and skills on urban environment development, employment, health, and ICT * To assess urban youth needs and reduce youth vulnerability especially those residing in the urban areas by initiating programs that addresses their plight and those of others Its operations are governed through partnership with Youth, Youth Serving Organisations and Youth Led Organisation and are holistic in nature.


Website

www.eya.ca

www.eya.ca

www.onestopyouthcentre.org

www.unhabitat.org

www.nairobicity.org

www.eya.ca/wuf

 

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Date and time of the session:

 

Child and Youth Friendly Cities

One Stop Youth Information Resource Centre


Tuesday 20, 2006 13:30-15:30

Key Highlights

  1. Estimated no of participants: 90
  2. Stakeholder group representation at the event: n/a
  3. What were the expected objectives: To discuss how children and youth, draw from their marginalization to improve their urban communities; To focus on how child and youth participation in the context of local government and local governance; To examine the involvement of child and youth in creating livable cities.
  4. What did the networking event achieve: It achieved to bring in the mayor of Nairobi city to talk about how cities and be friendly to children and youth. Also, a city to city partnership between UN-HABITAT, One Stop Youth Centre and Oslo Youth Council was signed to enhance cooperation of youth exchange programs between Oslo and Nairobi

2. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII?

  • Lack of youth representation and participation in local authorities affairs.
  • Lack of local authorities to mainstream and work with child and youth
  • Lack of community ownership in development of cities

3. What were the main points raised by panellists and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generated as a result of the discussion?

  • The focus needs to shift from what and if to how do we want to involve our youth and children
  • Local authorities should set precedent and work with communities to ensure ownership of cities
  • Young People need to be able to vote so that they can get their peers on board local authorities through the electoral process
  • Resource both human and financial need to be provided and tapped to find solutions to slums upgrading

4. What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality?

  • Ensuring that cities all over have their youth engagement strategies for working with young people
  • Local authorities having their youth advisory boards and be willing to share and give up power
  • Nomination of youth into as local authority representatives
  • Policy and planners should allow mixing of generations and offer interaction space for every one

 

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