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| Young People |
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Although the proportion of young people in cities is growing rapidly, few studies take into account the diversity of and views on their urban experiences. This is an examination of the lives, capacities, and agencies of urban youth in the developing ...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 104, Type of publication: Book
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| Youth 21: Building an Architecture for Youth Engagement in the UN Sytem |
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The Youth 21: Building an Architecture for Youth Engagement in the UN System report explores how youth have been historically engaged within the UN system. The report highlights both the challenges and the successes of youth’s engagement, and buildin...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Youth Empowerment for Urban Development |
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The approach of UN-Habitat’s Youth Empowerment Programme is to explore and demonstrate how youth-led initiatives can make a significant and unique contribution to accelerating the drive towards sustainable urbanization and achievement of the Millenni...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| ICT, Urban Governance and Youth |
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The ICT, Urban Governance and Youth is the fourth report in the Global Youth-Led Development series. The report aims to develop a conceptual framework to accommodate rapidly changing dynamics in three areas of urban development: the demographics of t...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Urban Youth and Sport for Development |
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The potential of sport as a tool for development is being harnessed by a range of organizations across the world. The United Nations has argued that “well-designed sport-based initiatives are practical and cost-effective tools to achieve objectives i...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| State of the Field in Youth-Led Development |
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Informed by earlier findings from a web-based survey of youth-led development initiatives, this report analyzes data derived from UN-Habitat Urban Youth Fund projects. It focuses only on registered youth-led groups, drawing on application and monitor...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Experiences and Lessons from the Urban Youth Fund Grantees in Africa and Asia |
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Informed by in-depth case studies of 13 youth fund funded projects, it analyzes experiences and lessons-learned from these projects. In contrast to the first two reports, it is having a more in-depth focus on a few selected projects. The reader is en...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Lessons and Experiences from the Urban Youth Fund |
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The Urban Youth Fund – Lessons and experiences is the fifth report in the Global Youth-Led Development series. Informed by in-depth case stories of youth fund funded projects, it analyzes experiences and lessons-learned from these projects. In contra...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| The UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund - 2011 |
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Is your organization led by youth aged 15-32 years? Is your organisation working on innovative and sustainable projects that will improve your community and the lives of young people? If YES, your organisation could be eligible to receive a grant! Do...
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Year: 2011,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Youth and Prosperity of Cities: Summary report |
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The African Urban Youth Assembly held in Abuja, Nigeria in July 2011, provided youth, youth groups, and development practitioners engaged in social, political and economic dimensions of youth work and urban development the oppotunity to discuss and e...
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Year: 2011,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Youth Development in MENA Cities |
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Using data collected from a desk study and the State of the One Stops evaluation report (UN-Habitat, 2009), this publication will argue that the demographic “youth bulge” which is primarily happening in the developing world and increasingly in cities...
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Year: 2011,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Detailed Programme of the World Urban Youth Assembly March 2010 |
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The World Urban Youth Assembly will be launched on March 19, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, three days prior to the beginning of the Fifth session of the World Urban Forum. This format provides youth with the opportunity to discuss and debate issues...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Messenger of Truth Programme Brochure |
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As a response to the marginalization of urban young people, UN-HABITAT launched the Messengers of Truth Programme in 2004 in Barcelona. The Programme aims to highlight how the arts can help address urban youth empowerment and employment; urban peac...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Ideas To Action |
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This report represents the findings of two parallel surveys: a survey on Youth and Harmonious Urbanization and one on Youth-Led Development.
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
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| Mapping Urban Youth-Led Development |
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This report contains the results of an inventory, or mapping, of youth-led initiatives undertaken during the inception phase of the Opportunities Fund. The inventory was conducted to identify and assess existing organisations and initiatives that wou...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
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| The UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund (French) |
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The Fund supports urban youth in developing countries. It aims to advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda by providing small grants of between USD 5,000 and USD 25,000to youth-led projects piloting innovativ...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| The UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund - 2010 |
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The Fund supports urban youth in developing countries. It aims to advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda by providing small grants of between USD 5,000 and USD 25,000to youth-led projects piloting innovativ...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| The UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund (Spanish) |
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The Fund supports urban youth in developing countries. It aims to advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda by providing small grants of between USD 5,000 and USD 25,000to youth-led projects piloting innovativ...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| The UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund (Portuguese) |
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The Fund supports urban youth in developing countries. It aims to advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda by providing small grants of between USD 5,000 and USD 25,000to youth-led projects piloting innovativ...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| State of the Urban Youth 2010/2011: Leveling the Playing Field |
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This report is based on data from UN-HABITAT’s Global Urban Indicator Database, as well as surveys of, and focus group discussions with, selected representative groups of young people in five major cities located in four developing regions: Rio de Ja...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 86, Type of publication: Book
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| Urban Entrepreneurship Programme: May 2008-Jan 2009 Status Report |
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The Urban Entrepreneurship Programme was developed after a study tour of four East African countries to scope out common and best practices suitable for replication. The study indicated that there are a suite of interventions that must be tailored ...
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Moonbeam Brochure November 2008 |
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The United Nations World Youth Report 2007 states that youth make up 25 per cent of the global working-age population, but account for 43.7 per cent of the unemployed. In the Africa region, 27 percent of youth are neither in sc...
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Opportunity fund Brochure |
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During the 21st session of the Governing Council that oversees the work programme and budget of UN-HABITAT, member countries in 2007 passed a resolution calling on the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT set up a special fund to help young people living...
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Global Partnership Initiative |
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The greatest threat youth face today is exclusion and marginalization from decisions that affect them. Unemployment, crime, HIV/AIDS, neglect by the authorities and often abandonment to their fate because of various forms of discrimination top the li...
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Youth entrepreneurship & empowerment |
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The year 2007 has gone down in history as the year, when for the first time half of humanity was living in towns and cities. In just a generation to come, this figure will rise to two-thirds of all human beings as the world witnesses the fastest rate...
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Environment and Urbanization |
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This paper summarizes the outcome of an international conference on addressing the issue of urban youth in conflict with the law in Africa. It discusses the most effective responses to youth crime and violence which centre on prevention and inclusion...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 12, Type of publication: Book
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| Urban Crime Prevention and Youth at Risk |
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This Compendium has been compiled to accompany the Workshop on Strategies and best practices in crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk in the context of the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justi...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book
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| Strategy on Youth at Risk in Latin America |
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The goal of this document is to make evident the situation of young people living at risk in Latin America and to propose policies to face this problem.
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 36, Type of publication: Book
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| Global Campaign on Urban Governance: Youth, Children and Urban Governance |
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This policy paper forms part of UN-HABITAT’S Global Campaign on Urban Governance. The Campaign fosters the implementation of the Habitat Agenda goal of achieving sustainable human settlements in an urbanising world. Improving urban governance has bee...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 91, Type of publication: Book
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| Strategy paper on Urban Youth in Africa |
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This strategy paper has been developed in the context of UN-Habitat’s Safer Cities Programme, and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). It forms part of UN-Habitat’s work on urbanization, the inclusive city, the problems of urban yout...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 87, Type of publication: Book
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| A better childhood in the city |
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The special needs of children and young people have to be part of urban development and planning - from the beginning and not as an afterthought. Children and young people must be listened to. They must be allowed to take an active role in the commun...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 11, Type of publication: Book
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| Unheard Voices of Women |
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This video looks at problems of water and sanitation faced by women and young girls living in slums in some parts of the world namely Dar es Salaam(Tanzania),New Delhi (India) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
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Year: 2004,
Video format:, Type of publication: Video
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