Youth in Urban Development - WUF 3 Dialogue Series

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World Urban Forum Dialogue Series Youth in Cities

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About For Empowering By With

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Development

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Youth in Urban

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Youth in Urban Development: Bringing Ideas into Action

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“Young people are not only the leaders of tomorrow; they can play a leading role in the development of their communities today. Let us hope that their good works today blossom into lifelong commitments that will benefit all the world's people.”

full and effective youth involvement in society and in decision-making

12 Lessons Learned from Children’s Participation in the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children, Youth and the Millineum Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation,

Nothing for us, Without Us: A Youth Led Starter Kit

Youth in Urban Development: Bringing ideas into action

The needs of children and youth, particularly with regard to their living environment, have to be taken fully into account. Special attention needs to be paid to the participatory processes dealing with the shaping of cities, towns and neighborhoods; this is in order to secure the living conditions of children and youth and to make use of their insight, creativity and thoughts on the environment.

enhancing the engagement of youth

Global Partnership Initiative on Urban Youth Development in Africa

Global Partnership Initiative for Urban Youth Development (GPI

Youth Strategy Strategy for Enhanced Youth Engagement

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World Urban Forum Youth Committee

“The capacity for progress of our societies is based, among other elements, on their capacity to incorporate the contribution and responsibility of youth in the building and designing of the future. In addition to their intellectual contribution and their ability to mobilize support, they bring unique perspectives that need to be taken into account”

United Nations World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000

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consistent, committed youth-adult cooperation at

every level

“For your country, If you plan for a year – sow paddy If you plan for a decade – plant trees

If you plan for a future – nurture youth”

Proverb quoted in National Youth Policy of India, 1992

4.4.1 Peer-to-Peer and Mentorship

… the use of same age or same background educators to convey educational messages to a target group. …. Peer educators work by endorsing “healthy” norms, beliefs and behaviors within their own peer group or “community”, and challenging those that are “unhealthy”.

Mentorship

What Works in Youth Participation: Case Studies from around the World

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Team Peer Leader (youth) Adult mentor
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Peer Learners Peer

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Mainstreaming and Youth-Led Development: Two paths to youth inclusion and engagement

broad-based support, resource allocation, and interpersonal connections.

broad-based support

interpersonal connection

resource allocation

6.1.1 Broad-based Support

6.1.2 Resource Allocation

6.1.3 Interpersonal Connections

quality relationships learning objectives

oriented and trained

6.2.1 Broad-based Support

6.2.2 Resource Allocation

6.2.3 Interpersonal Connection

Kwayastut Multidisciplinary Art Studio

Friendship Underground

KAYA Recording Studio

End the Silence of Violence

6.3.1 Broad-based Support

6.3.2 Resource Allocation

6.3.3 Interpersonal Connections

Good Governance: Making Age Part of the Equation - An Introduction

Youth for Youth: Piecing Together the Peer Education Jigsaw, Second International Conference on Drugs and Young People, 4-6 April 2001

ntegrating Children’s Rights into Municipal Action: A review of progress and lessons learned

Youth with Influence: The Youth Planner initiative in Hampton, Virginia

Get out!: Push your boundaries

Drug education: approaches, effectiveness and delivery

Action planning competencies during adolescence and early adulthood

Creating better cities with children and youth: A manual for participation

Children, Youth and Media

Around the World: An Overview of Trends & Issues

What Works in Youth

Participation: Case studies from around the world

Effects of a theory-based, peer-focused drug education course , 68

Children's participation: From tokenism to citizenship

Youth in Governance: Supports and Resources Are Critical Components for Youth Success.

Peer-Planned Social Activities for Preventing Alcohol Use Among Young Adolescents Journal of School Health

Building Communities from the Inside Out: a Path Towards Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets

Extracurricular activities: Beneficial extension of the traditional curriculum or subversion of academic goals?

Drug Education in Schools: What Young People Say Connexions, Dec 96/Jan 97,

The one stop youth information resource centre.

Nothing for us, without us: A youth-led development starter kit

Capable Cities in British Columbia: Key Informant Report; Engaging Young People in Leadership and Decision Making

Youth Driven

Child and youth friendly cities dialogue paper WUF III

Growing up in Cities: Are Municipalities in B.C. Child and Youth Friendly: A summary of Municipal Youth Engagement Survey

Growing up with Expectations: Better Understanding the Expectations of Community Partners in Participatory Action Research Projects

What work requires of

schools: A SCANS report for America 2000

Blueprints for thinking: The role of planning in cognitive development

Get Out! the Pilot Year: 2005-2006 A Youth Engagement Initiative of the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

Centre of excellence for children's well-being: Youth engagement

Youth-led development: Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history

). Report Of The World Conference To Review And Appraise The Achievements Of The United Nations Decade For Women: Equality, Development And Peace

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 1997

Youth and the Millennium development goals: Challenges and opportunities for implementation

World Youth Report 2005: Young people today, and in 2015

HABITAT Agenda

UN-HABITAT And Youth: Strategy For Enhanced Engagement

Global partnership for urban youth development: Environmental entrepreneurship program evaluation

Enhancing the engagement of youth in the work of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Youth (15-24): Integrating a Neglected Constituency Children & Youth: A Resource Guide for World Bank Staff

). Analysis of One Stop Youth Centre Space

Youth and the state of the world

YOUTH IN DECISION-MAKING: A Study on the Impacts of Youth on Adults and Organizations

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