11: Sustainable Cities and Communit

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Importance of Greener Infrastructure Connectivity

With the aim of boosting smart, clean and secure links in energy, digital, and transport and strengthening education, health and research...

Mobilizing investment for urban food agenda with youth participation

82 percent of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) population lives in cities. It is not the megacities that concentrate most of the...

Young People Fighting Against Climate Change

No one can deny the real threat that climate change poses to the survival of the planet. Several scientific research and studies,...

Voice for the Favelas

According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 11 million people in Brazil live in favelas. These favelas are urban ...

LIFT UP HER VOICE Challenge

What it means to be a woman in a world’s largest refugee settlement: "She was escaping fierce fighting in her home town of Bor Medina in...

The Road to Sustainable cities in Africa

Rachid Ennassiri is one of the 16 young leaders selected this year to attend the EDD Young Leader programme. He will speak in a high...

Developing Indigenous languages to achieve Inclusive Sustainable Development in Africa

February 21st marks International Mother Tongue Day, a day that the world celebrates the beauty of linguistic and cultural diversity....

It’s all about #Implementation of #SDGs!

The inaugural Young Leaders for Development Platform, is set to be launched at the European Development Days 2016 (#EDD2016) by...

Attending the Historic Sustainable Development Summit at the United Nations Headquarters

At at a number of youth events, anti-apartheid struggle icon Ahmed Kathrada always emphasizes that youth should not take our...

Agriculture: A Possible Solution to Youth Unemployment?

As we inch towards the upcoming Day of the African Child in June, I could not help but inch back to the popular version of the Agenda...