11: Sustainable Cities and Communit

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Jun 15, 20223 min

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...

Jun 15, 20223 min

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...

Oct 23, 20182 min

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,...

May 24, 20182 min

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 ...

May 20, 20184 min

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...

May 25, 20173 min

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...

Feb 22, 20176 min

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....

Jun 14, 20163 min

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...

Jun 9, 20163 min

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...

Jun 6, 20163 min

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...